MEMORIAL MIDDLE SCHOOL
Memorial Middle School helps all students become well-rounded, engaged and productive citizens
through rigorous and relevant learning experiences and strong relationships.
FACULTY & STAFF
RELATIONSHIPS
FACULTY & STAFFTdtke
Memorial Middle School faculty and staff are committed to establishing and cultivating rapport and relationships with our students that will allow them to feel confident in the risks they take in learning. The faculty and staff recognize that in order to grow and develop into the strong, creative adults they are meant to be, students need to feel both challanged and supported by the adults around them. We strive to be those adults who know our students and are able both to support and challenge them.
Genuine relationships between the student and the teacher are based on only on knowing something about the child’s interests, but it also involves knowing the child’s learning styles and preferences. For students to engage fully in challenging learning, they require increased levels of support from the people around them.
RIGOR
Learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity. It is the quality of thinking, NOT the quantity.
FACULTY & STAFFTdtke
Our teachers use a proficiency-based grading system to report on students' progress toward content mastery and Habits of Work for more than a year. This shift allows parents and students to distinguish how their work habits differ from their grasp of the content standards.
Students and parents can monitor growth toward standards through our online grading program, JumpRope.
RELEVANCE
Learning in which students apply core knowledge, concepts, or skills to solve real-world problems. Relevant learning is interdisciplinary and contextual and is meaningful to the student. A relevant curriculum is one in which students can see the connections between themselves, the curriculum & the content.