Initiatives

Family Involvement Nights

Every month, a team led by our Parent Engagement and Community Outreach Coordinator, Gabriela Navarro, facilitates various workshops focusing on welcoming parents and family into our school community. Previous workshops have covered topics such as the SchoolMax Family Portal, helping your child with homework, Common Core Mathematics, assessment awareness and literacy, school budget overviews, immigration resources, homelessness resources, and many others.

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Middlebury Interactive Literacy

This after-school initiative was created to provide intensive, technology-based, enrichment in literacy skills for students in our ESOL program. Teachers in this program facilitate a blended learning environment consisting of both online and in-class activities. Students use a software, called Middlebury Interactive, that assesses their current level of language proficiency and then through the use of quizzes, games and other online activities the program aides students in reaching higher levels of language proficiency. According to the company's website, the program's modules "allow students in grades 4 through 10 to learn the fundamentals of academic English while completing projects that relate to English Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics and Science."

Mathematics Tutoring

Each week a team of our trained mathematics teachers facilitate a standards-based extra-curricular workshop to reinforce topics and concepts currently being taught in our school. These workshops focus on small-group and one-on-one instruction with a high level of differentiation to meet each student at their level.

Chromebook Purchases

Through the use of Title I funds, Hyattsville Middle School continues get closer and closer to a one-to-one ratio of chromebooks to students each and every year. Students continue using these chromebooks for group activities, collaborative projects and individualized learning opportunities.


Robotics Technology Class

Previously offered as a district-wide after school opportunity, our robotics club has been transformed into a robust, technology-rich, elective course that focuses on teaching 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration. Students participating in this course will work through the design process and develop an action plan to solve a real-world problem from within their community.