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Chimacum Middle School is committed to high academic achievement and life skills development in a safe environment. We promote students' investment in realizing their potential by providing a variety of learning and teaching strategies as well as assessment opportunities. Our school is a diverse family of learners which provides a transitional bridge between elementary and high school.

Agreements
Chimacum Middle School
Our school is comprised of:
• Grades 6 - 8
• Appropriate age-related activities and traditions
• Flexible classroom configurations and alternatives

High Academic Achievement
Our standard for High Academic Achievement includes:
• Striving for personal best
• Demonstrating measurable progress in the Essential Learnings
• Quality completion of assigned tasks
• Standardized test results in 50th percentile or higher

Life Skills Development
We agree Life Skills Development includes the following:
• Goal setting
- academic
- personal
• Citizenship/Community Service
- environmental
- social
• Manners
• Life skills to develop
- Integrity: To act according to a sense of what's right and wrong
- Initiative: To do something because it needs to be done
- Flexibility: To be willing to alter plans when necessary
- Perseverance: To keep at it
- Organization: To plan, arrange, and implement in anorderly way; to keep things orderly and ready to use
- Sense of Humor: To laugh and be playful without harming others
- Effort: To do your best
- Common Sense: To use good judgment
- Problem-solving: To create solutions in difficult situations and everyday problems
- Responsibility: To respond when appropriate, to be accountable for your actions
- Patience: To wait calmly for someone or something
- Friendship: To make and keep a friend through mutual trust and caring
- Curiosity: A desire to investigate aseek understanding of one's world
- Cooperation: To work together toward a common goal or purpose
- Caring: To feel and show concern for others
- Courage: To face and not withdraw from difficult challenges

Safe Environment*
We maintain an environment free of weapons and verbal, sexual and physical harassment within our drug-free zone.

Learning Strategies
We provide opportunities in:
• Remediation*/Reteaching to reach mastery
• Special Needs
- Special Education*
- Enrichment*
- Title 1*
- Highly capable*
• 7 Intelligences
- verbal/linguistic
- math/logical
- bodily kinesthetic
- musical
- interpersonal
- intrapersonal
• 14 Habits of Mind
- Persistence
- Managing and Decreasing Impulsivity
- Listening with Understanding and Empathy
- Cooperative Thinking
- Flexibility in Thinking
- Metacognition
- Accuracy and Precision in Thought and Language
- Sense of Humor
- Questioning
- Activating Prior Knowledge
- Taking Risks
- Using All the Senses
- Creativity
- Wonderment
• 4 Learning Styles
- Sensing-Thinking Learners (ST)
- Intuitive-Thinking Learners (NT)
- Sensing-Feeling Learners (SF)
- Intuitive-Feeling Learners (NF)

Teaching Strategies
We agree to provide quality programs which shall include a variety of teaching strategies:
• Grade level/Self-contained*
• Direct Instruction*
• Cooperative Learning
• Blocking
• Integration
• Teaming
• Theming
• Skill Grouping
• Exploratory Options
• Performance Based
• IEP's (Individualized Education Program)

Assessment Opportunities
We provide a combination of assessment tools
• S.S.T. (Student Support Team)*
• ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills)*
• WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning)*
• Parent conferencing w/ Teacher / Student*
• Progress reports*
• Report cards*
• Mastery level achievement
• Performance-based Assessment
• Scoring guides/ Rubrics
• Portfolios
• Self-Assessment
• Special assessments
• Vocational counseling
• Benchmarks / E.L.'s (Essential Learnings)
• Remediation/Reteaching to reach mastery

Diverse Family of Learners
We recognize our family of learners to include:
• All students - special needs, regular education and highly capable students
• Staff
• Parents
• CommunityTransitional Bridge
We acknowledge the dramatic changes taking place during young adolescence
• Intellectual
• Ethical
• Physical
• Emotional / Psychological
• Social
Staff, students and parents will provide guidance and support while allowing opportunities for exploration, self-discovery and confidence building.

*Essential Foundations