Yuma Middle School

 If Yuma Middle School is to be an exemplary school the staff, parents, students, district, and community must embrace collaboration to maximize student achievement. Through this partnership and a clear sense of goals, the result will be a positive learning environment in which each student will gain the essential skills to become a vital, productive citizen in the global community.

• Accept responsibility for their learning, decisions, and actions
• Develop skills to become a self directed learner
• Set goals in order to achieve a minimum of one year’s growth and close the learning gap
• Be considerate of others: teachers, staff, fellow students, visitors, etc
• Engage in and give their best effort to academics and extra-curricular activities in order to become well-rounded individuals in the school and community

• Have high expectations for all students and self
• Places student learning, growth, and success above all else
• Are positive role models
• Communicate effectively with students, parents, community, and district
• Provide a safe environment of respect, trust, and open communication throughout the learning community
• Share ideas; collaborate in individual teams as well as in school wide teams to ensure learning for students and staff
• Share in decision making
• Promote the schools vision and values through continuous efforts to increase achievement
• Have a commitment to continuous improvement
• Establish positive relationships with parents and communicate openly with parents whenthere are problems
• Get to know the students
• Involve parents in the education of the students
• Celebrate learning
• Empower students to handle life situations

• Staff stimulates active engagement on the part of the students through a rigorous curriculum and high expectations
• Staff Recognize and provide for individual interest and differences
• Curriculum and instruction are clearly stated for each grade level and content area.
• Student progress is closely monitored, and intervention is provided for students who need additional assistance
• Teachers understand and can articulate in advance of teaching the achievement essentials students are to hit
• Students are informed regularly about those essentials in terms they can understand, in part through the study of the criteria by which their work will be evaluated and samples of high quality work.
• Students can describe what essentials they are to hit and what comes next in their learning
• Classroom teachers can transform those essentials into dependable assessments that yield accurate information
• Classroom assessment information is used both by teacher and student to revise and guide teaching and learning
• Feedback given to students is descriptive, constructive, frequent, and immediate, helping students know to plan and improve
• Students are actively, consistently, and effectively involved in assessment including learning to manage their own learning through the skills of self-assessment
• Students actively, consistently, and effectively communicate with others about their achievement status and improvement
• Teachers understand the relationship between assessment and student motivation and use assessment to build students success and confidence rather than failure and defeat

• Provide a positive home environment that supports all students’ physical, social-emotional, and academic needs
• Support teachers’ high expectations of all students
• Communicate directly with classroom teachers any academic concerns
• Support the vision of Yuma Middle School