What are our goals?

This project is designed to focus on middle grades teachers and assisting them to become highly qualified, appropriately licensed, highly knowledgeable about and pedagogically skilled in effectively instructing students in literacy, mathematics and science.  Another goal is to ensure that Principals have the instructional leadership skills to help them work more effectively with teachers to help students master core academic subjects. 

The specific goals and objectives focus on implementing a sustained, scientifically-based professional development program that will address the following goals:

1. To improve middle school teachers’ and administrators’ leadership, attitudes, knowledge, skills, and abilities to become highly knowledgeable about and pedagogically skilled in effectively instructing low performing students in literacy.
   


2. To improve middle school teachers’ and administrators’ leadership, attitudes, knowledge, skills, and abilities to become highly knowledgeable about and pedagogically skilled in effectively instructing low performing students in mathematics.
   


3. To improve middle school teachers’ and administrators’ leadership, attitudes, knowledge, skills and abilities to become highly knowledgeable about and pedagogically skilled in instructing low performing students in science.
   


4.  To create structures utilizing teacher leaders in sharing acquired effective instructional practices with other faculty that leads to successful education of low performing students.