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It's Summer, What Are You Reading?

Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:24

We welcome all Main Street Middle School students, faculty and staff to participate in our summer reading blog.

Watch the video below for a reminder on how to use the blog. Click on the link below to start blogging!

2013 Scholar Leaders

Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 June 2013 10:37

On June 3, 2013 at a ceremony held on the campus of Norwich University, Emily Bashara and Lexie Drew pictured with their teacher advisers Lauren Chabot and Don Taylor, were recognized as Main Street Middle School's 2013 Scholar Leaders.

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This award is given annually and is sponsored by the Vermont Association for Middle Level Education and the New England League of Middle Schools. Congratulations to both Lexie and Emily for this recognition!

Vermont Foreign Language Association Poster Contest

Last Updated on Monday, 29 April 2013 10:58

Congratulations to our students Amanda Adams and Amber Pagani! On April 10, Amanda and Amber were honored at the Statehouse in Montpelier for their work in the 2012 Vermont Foreign Language Association Poster Contest. More than 200 students from across Vermont entered this year’s contest and made posters on the theme “Many Languages, One United Voice”. Amanda and Amber were among the 9 students who won an award, taking third and first place in the Middle School division.

The students and their families were greeted by Gov. Peter Shumlin and numerous Vermont representatives and senators. Gov. Shumlin also used this occasion to sign the Foreign Language Professionals Proclamation recognizing the importance of foreign language education.

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MSMS Newspaper

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 14:17

Dear MSMS community,

The first edition of our student-run newspaper is finally available!

You will find it under the Co-Curricular tab on this Web page and linked below.

Take a look and let us know what you think. Don’t forget to take our survey (Monthly Poll, bottom of the right sidebar) and choose your favorite name for the newspaper.

MSMS Newspaper - First Edition

Student Artwork

Last Updated on Thursday, 31 January 2013 10:22

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Emma Harter

Grade 6

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Sophie Currier

Grade 6

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Together Everyone Achieves More

Our faculty at Main Street Middle School is divided into collaborative teaching teams who meet daily to discuss curriculum, instruction, assessment, and their students in order to ensure student success. Even though the teams may look different structurally, they each work toward the same goals and objectives for student learning.

The Vermont Middle Grades Task Force spent the past three years examining research, studying practices, and evaluating national documents on effective middle level education. As a result of this work, Vermont middle schools now have a specific document called Middle School Is Not A Building.

This document outlines the essential goals, elements and practices for creating appropriate learning opportunities for adolescent students in Vermont.

Below are the specific task force goals related to curriculum, instruction and assessment to give you an idea of the work at hand and the nature of our middle school experience for students.

All middle level learners participate in challenging, integrated, real world, standards based curriculum that promotes conceptual understanding, 21st century skill development, and knowledge acquisition.
Instruction is engaging, personalized, and differentiated to meet individual student learning needs.
Student learning is measured by appropriate assessments, resulting in continual learning and high achievement.
Organizational structures and a school culture of high expectations enable both middle level students and educators to succeed.
Relationships for learning create a climate of intellectual development and a caring community that includes having an adult advocate for each student.
Ongoing family and community partnerships provide a supportive and enriched learning environment for each middle level student.
A supportive, safe, and healthy learning environment advances learning and promotes overall student and educator well being.
A democratic system of continual collaboration by all stakeholders allows for authentic student voice and a shared vision to guide decisions.

Early adolescence, ages 10-15, is a unique time of life, one filled with extraordinary potential, excitement, and challenge. The rapid and dramatic development that occurs during this stage of life – intellectual, socio-emotional, and physical – prompts students to ask rich questions about themselves and the world around them.

--Penny Bishop, Co-Chair of the Vermont Middle Grades Task Force and Director of Middle Level Teacher Education at the University of Vermont

It's Summer, What Are You Reading?

2013 Scholar Leaders

Vermont Foreign Language Association Poster Contest

MSMS Newspaper

Student Artwork

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