Carson Middle School
Eagles don't just survive. We THRIVE!
Eagle Culture and Student Opportunity
A culture of high expectations enhances the belief that all students can learn, progress, and achieve.
School leadership promotes a safe, secure, and orderly learning environment.
Postsecondary readiness is a shared responsibility of all schools and affirms the value of education to all students.
School Culture and Environment
What does this look like at Carson Middle School?
Education for all Students
Carson Middle School- All School Read 2022-2023
Update 2022-2023 CMS All School Read
One of the observations notices by teachers through data analysis, classroom culture, and student feedback was the fact that students essentially had lost, or do not, find time to sit and read. This simple task of reading, reflecting, and discussing a book has become antiquated in today's fast paced digital society. So... every individual in our building made a commitment to read "The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez" a story of a young (military child) moves to a new home town he finds he has a secret ability to communicate with animals- ultimately saving his home town, and Nestor finding stability in his own life. This process took place in ACCESS period during second semester and without fail had a tremendous impact on Reading skills and interest- evident by Illuminate ELA Growth data that showed growth in every ELA classroom this year!
2023-2024 Student Feedback and Planning Click Here!
ELA 6th
Growth 16.0 points
ELA 7th
Growth 11.8 points
ELA 8th Grade Growth 4.8 points.
Fall 2022 to Spring 2023 Illuminate Testing % Correct Growth.
AVID- Student Perspective of the AVID program
2022-2023 Update! AVID Elective Student Measurement- All AVID elective students will be measured based on an Attendance, Behavioral, and GPA rubric. Goal- AVID Students attain 92% higher attendance rate, represent less than 5% of student behavioral data, and have a Semester cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher (including a 2.0 or higher in one stretch/advanced class).
● 2.86 GPA
● 93.4% Attendance
● .09% Behavioral incidents
Carson Middle School is a Safe Place to Learn and Grow.
PBIS System: FLIGHT
Flight Crew is another way for students at CMS to demonstrate positive behaviors that build leadership and high expectations for all students. In addition creates and sustains a healthy/safe environment for all students. Each day a student walks into CMS they have the opportunity to receive FLIGHT recognition resulting in student celebrations, awards, and unique opportunities!
ACCESS: Essential Skill Learning
School Safety- Giving Students/Staff Ownership of School Safety
School Safety is a priority at Carson Middle School. All staff and students regularly review drills, protocols, and expectations of our Standard Response Protocols (listed avbove). Each year a parent committe is also selected to work with administration to discuss communication, systems, and overall safety of students in the school. In addition, our students have a voice.... This Point of Confusion document (below) was created in an AVID classroom demonstrating the "buy" in from students on their own safety questions. Each year all students work on this document in their ACCESS class to have discussions on how best to keep each other safe in the case of a challenging event occuring at CMS.
Our Students Explore who they are Today to Dream about the Future.
YouScience
YouScience Interest Inventories are used on a semester basis to help guide conversations in classrooms, our staff Professional Learning Community planning meetings, Pathway programs, and community partnerships to determine scheduling, course offering, guest speakers and student Capstones.
Career and Technical Education
2022-23Course Catalog - CMS draft.pdfProgress Update 2022- 2023:
● All elective course requests at 80% capacity based on student course selection data.
● August 2022- New elective course seating capacity/per student request ratio. Eight new courses offered= 350 classroom seats/401seats filled. 115% full capacity.
● March 2023- Course offering Link for 2023-2024. Exploratory design for sixth grade students. Pathway design for 7th and 8th grade students.
Student Guide Parent/Teacher Conferences
We have two confernce periods during the year: October and February. During the February conferences students share their growth not only by grade reports, but ultimately explaining their strengths/weaknesses, how they learn, and next steps they have to improve. this template is used to help prepare our students for these presentations.
Eagles in Action/Student Voice
New Update 2023-24-
Eagles in Action will be an extension of the work we started in 2021 through our ACCESS period, Success Conversation and Essential Skills school wide focus. Students in this program will build and DEMONSTRATE leadership, essential, and PWR skill sets in a variety of settings in and out of the classroom. Students will set a goal, build collaboration with staff/mentors to complete the goal, and then use their skill sets/knowledge to present their work in a capstone/portfoliio presentation at the end of the school year. This presentation event will coincide with parent learning walks and our end of the year celebrations.