2018-19
Annual School Performance Report Beaver Lake Middle School
Beaver Lake Middle School 25025 SE 32nd Street, Issaquah, WA 98029 (425) 837-4150 https://www.issaquah.wednet.edu/beaverlakems Principal Stacy Cho
Mission Beaver Lake Middle School is a center for continual learning. We appreciate, respect and celebrate individual and group success. This school has a place for everyone.
Welcome Involved parents and community members enrich our school and make it a premier middle level learning institution. Thanks for making a difference!
Teacher Experience Teacher’s with
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Teacher Experience data for the 2018-2019 National Board School Year 61.7% Certification will be available via OSPI at a later date.
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Average Yearsat: For complete school data, please visit OSPI’s website Teaching washingtonstatereportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us Teachers with Master’s/Ph.D
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OSPI Data State testing is required by state (RCW 28A.230.095) and federal law. The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), enacted in 1965, is the nation’s national education law and shows a longstanding commitment to equal opportunity for all students. On December 10, 2015 President Obama reauthorized ESEA as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). These state and federal laws result in middle school students being regularly tested by the State to assess their progress as they move through school. State tests at the middle school level which fulfill the federal Every Student Succeeds Act include the following: • Smarter Balanced Assessments (SBA): English Language Arts (ELA) and Math tests (6-8) • Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science (WCAS): Science test (8)
District Report For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/ annual-community-report/ The Issaquah School District believes in seeking continual feedback from a broad and diverse range of constituents regarding their experiences with the District and their neighborhood school. See the Community Polling Study site at www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/polling for more information and survey results.
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Highlights We sustained our status of a King County Level Three Green School. All 6th graders take the TechSmart class in combination with physical education and health. They have the choice of either taking a specific music elective (band, orchestra, or choir), or taking the directed exploratory program. In directed exploratory, students take one trimester of 6th grade boot camp where they focus on transitioning to middle school and developing leadership skills, one trimester of STEM sampler with hands on projects in our CTE lab, and one trimester of physical education. Our 7th and 8th graders had an opportunity to participate in our new CTE electives of Robotics, Design and Modeling, and Makerspace. They were able to create their own pull toys, hands on games for students with fine motor challenges, and created amazing works of art to share as gifts in our makerspace class with the 3D printer and ShopBot. Spanish is also available for 8th graders to take as a year-long elective. Beaver Lake students’ state assessment scores in Reading, Writing, Mathematics, and Science are consistently among the highest in Washington State. We started a CORE program for a selected group of seventh graders, where we partnered with the
Sammamish YMCA to offer outdoor experiences for our students once a month on the weekend. Through our Bulldog Bonus Time Advisory Period, all students at Beaver Lake Middle School participated in SEL lessons this year through the second step curriculum. The CORE group of students were able to apply their thinking and life skill development while participating in challenging activities such as rock climbing, snowshoeing, and canoeing. This was also our fourth year of implementing WEB (Where Everyone Belongs), which is an orientation program allowing 8th grade students to be leaders for a group of 6th graders as they transition into Beaver Lake Middle School. Each year, our 8th grade Orchestra, Band and Choir students perform at Disneyland, and this year, we had very positive feedback from Disney and they shared our students were classified as one of the elite groups! We are so proud of our students. We continue to highlight our students each month through our Most Valuable Bulldog Program where students are nominated by school staff to receive an award highlighting our Life Skills. Students also receive Buddy Barks for exhibiting our expectations of “Being Accountable Respectful Kind and Safe”. Each trimester, we partner with our PTSA to supply a celebration for all of our students at lunch.
What’s New This year’s ASB theme was “Kindness is an Action” and our students demonstrated that theme daily! We focused on the Positive Behavior and Social Emotional Support at Beaver Lake Middle School. Our staff spent this year learning about student ACES, and we developed our common Beaver Lake Behavioral Expectations, that we are calling “Buddy Barks”. Students at Beaver Lake will “Be Accountable, Respectful, Kind and Safe” We are the Beaver Lake Bulldogs. Our annual school performance this year was Willy
Wonka Jr. Our students sang and danced in three performances over two days, treating the huge crowds to a truly entertaining production! It was great to have parents and current students assist with the backstage crew, lights and the sound boards. We had Beaver Lake Middle School Students participate in our State Geography Bee and National Spelling Bee as well as the PTSA sponsored Reflections Program. As we continue to keep the safety of our students and staff a priority, this year, a new vestibule was built so that we could control the entry into our building.
Improving Student Achievement The MATH 180 Courses are yearlong electives for middle school students who are enrolled in our Common Core Math Classes that might need additional support to meet standard. This is a comprehensive system of support with whole-class, small-group, and individualized learning. Group instruction focuses on developing mathematical reasoning, communication, and problem solving while the technology-based activities focus on highly adaptive, individualized instruction and practices. Through mindset lessons and contextualized learning, MATH 180 provides an environment for fostering perseverance as students witness that their efforts do matter. Selected students will take MATH 180 as one of their electives. Beaver Lake Middle School offers Open Library, Monday through Thursday. The purpose of Open Library is to provide a structured and quiet atmosphere for homework completion with the support of a certificated teacher. We have implemented Learning Lunch where students can eat their lunch and work on missing assignments or make up assessments. Students can be referred
by a teacher or choose to attend on their own. This Learning Lunch is staffed by a paraprofessional and students have access to computers and textbooks to complete work. We have created a PAWS (Productive Accountable Work Space) space, that is staffed full time by a paraprofessional. This room allows students the opportunity throughout the day to have extended time on assessments, have a quieter room for working, to deescalate, have access to laptops, or to take a break if needed. We have a food and snacks available for any student who comes to school hungry and needs something to eat. This multi-purpose space supports the whole child at Beaver Lake. Our teachers continue to create common assessments and are focusing on writing student growth goals to monitor student learning. We are focusing on reasoning skills with our students across the grade levels. Our staff has engaged in conversations about how we are going to provide multiple opportunities for our students to show proficiency.
Extra-Curricular Activities Yearbook Club, Art Club, Jazz Band, Robotics Club, Geography and Spelling Bee’s, Math Club, Green Team, Sewing Club, Engineering Club, Game Club, Rubik’s Cube Club, Safe Place and Chess Club. Athletics include, softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, cross country, track, and wrestling. We participated in a Unified Sports Kickball tournament with the other middle schools. There are opportunities for students to be managers of these teams as well.
Assessment Two tests given to middle school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science—help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
Smarter Balanced Assessment The SBA is a test that measures students’ progress toward College and Career readiness in ELA, literacy and math. The SBA consists of two parts: a computer adaptive test and a performance task. Writing is included at every grade level and students are asked to solve multi-step, real-world problems in math. Performance tasks ask students to determine an array of research, writing, and problem solving skills. The SBA results describe student achievement (how much students know at the end of the year). Results are reported in two ways: scaled scores and achievement levels. A scaled score is the student’s overall numerical score used to illustrate their current level of achievement. Based on their scaled scores, students fall into one of four categories of performance called achievement levels. Levels 3 and 4 represent Meeting or Exceeding Standard and an “adequate or thorough” understanding of the learning standards. Levels 1 and 2 represent Not Meeting Standard and reflect “minimal or partial” understanding of the learning standards. The Grade Level Total ELA and Grade Level Total Math charts on the right-hand side of the page indicate the percent of students in sixth, seventh, or eighth grade who met or exceeded standard in ELA and Math on the SBA compared to the percent of sixth, seventh, or eighth grade students who met or exceed standard districtwide.
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WCAS The WCAS fulfills the federal requirement that students be tested in Science once at the middle school level. The WCAS measures the level of proficiency students have achieved (what students know and can do) based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The WCAS assesses all three dimensions of the learning standards (Science and Engineering Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts). The numbers on the chart represent the percentage of students in grade 8 who met or exceeded standard on the NGSS compared to the percentage of students in grade 8 who met or exceeded standard districtwide.
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