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CASE 42st Annual Convention
DATE - TBA
Expecting and Delivering Excellence in the
Middle Grades
School Name:
Jenkins Middle School
School Location and Contact Information:
6410 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80923(719) 328-5300
School Demographics:
SubgroupsAm. Indian = 1%Asian = 3.4%Black = 5.4%Hispanic =
16.7%
White = 66.8%ELL = 2.2%FRL = 25%
Enrollment is 961
School Achievements:
2007 Middle School Science Bowl 1st place in
RegionalCompetition
2007 Jenkins Jazz Band Official Performer for the MidwestClinic,
An International Band and Orchestra Conference
2008 Rock Band Club Jenkins Teacher submitted and wasawarded
grant to support low performing students.
2009 8th Grade student chosen to attend and attended aStudent
Leadership conference
2009 and 2010 Janus Student Art Buying Program at CherryCreek
Arts Festival - $500 grant
2010 Developing Power Library School for 2010-2011
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2010 8th Grade Student 1st place directed research
projectthrough Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Junior
Programand 3rd in National Competition.
7 Art Students published in Arts and Activities magazines.
Place annually in the Science Olympiad, Regional Math
Competitions, BOB, Science Bowl, Young Problem Solvers andother
academic competitions.
Please Share 2-3 concrete strategies that can be used by other
middleschools to replicate your schools success.
Our school has become a model of success because we have
focusedon strengthening our Tier 1 instruction in every classroom,
every day.We believe that student achievement is directly related
to the qualityof instruction and therefore we have focused all our
site-basedprofessional development over the last two years on a
laser-focused
vision of highly engaging instruction. An ongoing cohort has
keptprofessional development going all year long. We have
dedicatedtraining and time to improving our PLC work, improving
instructionalleadership and increasing the effectiveness of highly
engaging, well-planned instruction.
Strategy #1: Improving Tier 1 Instruction with Highly Engaging,
Well-Planned Instruciton
Jenkins Middle School has created a unified school vision of
instruction
through collaboration with all staff. Our research into
supportinggrowth in our subgroup areas revealed what we term the
80/20dilemma. Research demonstrates that 80% of the work being done
inmost classrooms is being done by only 20% of the students.
Workingcollaboratively, the staff developed a unified standard of
what highlyengaging instruction would look like. Out of this work,
we establisheda 15 point look for form used during classroom
walkthroughs todocument the occurrence of our selected
strategies.
The vehicle for our change has been the model called Teaching
ForExcellence, which is a training offered through Peak Learning.
The
school site has been trained over the span of three years on
examplesof High Engagement during all phases of instruction in the
classroom.This training culminated in a week long institute this
summer.
Strategy #2
Another strategy this year has been ongoing staff development.
Wehave endeavored this year to have five characteristics that
define ourstaff development. It is focused, immersive, intensive,
long-term and
