2016-17
Annual School Performance Report Beaver Lake Middle School
Beaver Lake Middle School
25025 SE 32nd Street, Issaquah, WA 98029 (425) 837-4150 http://connect.issaquah. wednet.edu/elementary/ beaver/ Principal Stacy Cho
Welcome Involved parents and community members enrich our school and make it a premier middle level learning institution. Thanks for making a difference!
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.
Demographics Grades: 6-8
Teacher Experience Enrollment: 843 94.9%
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Teacher’s with National Board Certification
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OSPI Data In March 2014, the U.S. Department of Education declined to renew the state of Washington’s conditional Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver for schools receiving Title I, Part A funds. This decision affects all schools in Washington State, which are now subject to the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Washington is the only state that has lost its waiver and must revert to NCLB standards and timelines of assessment. For schools and districts to be considered succeeding under NCLB, schools must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. For schools to meet AYP, 100 percent of all students, regardless of special needs or English language mastery, must meet proficiency standards. Beaver Lake Middle School met AYP this year. For complete information about the Issaquah School District’s assessment data, highly qualified teachers, annual yearly progress, and state NAEP (of Educational Progress) results, please visit the state’s online district report card.
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District Report For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/annualcommunity-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.
Highlights Beaver Lake Middle School received a Washington State Achievement Award for High Progress. Our Green Team helped guide our school to becoming 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 where students take one trimester of visual arts (painting/drawing, arts/crafts, sculpture), one trimester of industrial arts (woods, metals, and drafting), and one trimester of physical education. 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. Students in an elective Leadership Development class are responsible for planning, coordinating, and leading numerous school programs involving over 180 students per year. The class focuses on producing student leaders who lead by example and make Beaver Lake a place of cleanliness, enjoyment, and school spirit. The class is a model for youth leadership programs in Washington State. We had several events this year where our students partnered with Pine Lake Middle School to participate in philanthropic activities. What an incredible SOUPer Bowl Food Drive effort! Beaver
Lake and Pine Lake middle school students collected food items for the Issaquah Food and Clothing Bank. We also participated in a Strong For Sam Volleyball tournament. This was our second 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.
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. The READ 180 course is an elective we introduced during our third trimester this year to support
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students that might need additional support to meet standard in ELA. It follows the same model as our Math 180 courses and selected students take READ 180 as one of their electives.
This year’s ASB theme was to “Create your own Masterpiece” and our students did just that! We were blown away with our students’ abilities in athletics, academics, service hours, and musical talents.
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 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 and Buddy is our live bulldog mascot.
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 certificated teacher and students have access to computers and textbooks to complete work. 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.
Our annual school performance this year was Shrek the Musical. 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. Mrs. Gianforte created a Beaver Lake Middle School Art show, where our students were able to showcase their fantastic creations for our community to come and view. We had Beaver Lake Middle School Students participate in our State Geography Bee and National Spelling Bee.
Extra-curricular Activities Yearbook Club, Art Club, Jazz Band, Scratch Club, Robotics Club, Geography and Spelling Bee’s, Math and Science Olympiad, Drama Club, BEE club, Sewing Club, Game Club, and Chess Club. Athletics include, softball, soccer, volleyball, basketball, cross country, track, and wrestling. There are opportunities for students to be managers of these teams as well.
The Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBA) is a state-mandated test that measures students’ progress toward College and Career Readiness in English Language Arts (ELA) / Literacy and Math. The SBA replaced existing tests in English and Math in the spring of the 2014-2015 school year. The tests are given as part of Washington State’s education reform efforts which began in 1993 and involve annual state-specific tests for students in grades 3-8 in ELA (SBA), Math (SBA), and Science (MSP) and then again in high school (SBA in ELA and End of Course assessments in Math and Biology). The SBA consists of two parts: a computer adaptive test and a performance task. Writing is included at every grade level and students
For a few schools the 2016-2017 Smarter Balanced Assessment results in English Language Arts and Math were suppressed by OSPI. For information from OSPI on test suppression rules, please visit OSPI at http:// reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/TemplateDetail. aspx?domain=SBAC&schoolId=1458&repor tLevel=School&year=2016-7&gradeLevelId= 6&groupLevel=District&waslCategory=1&ch artType=
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are asked to solve multi-step, real-world problems in Mathematics. Performance tasks ask students to demonstrate an array of research, writing, and problem solving skills. The SBA results accurately describe student achievement (how much students know at the end of the year) and are reported in two ways: scaled scores and achievement levels. A scaled score is the student’s overall numerical score. These scores fall on a continuous scale (from approximately 2000 to 3000) that increases across grade levels. Scaled scores are used to illustrate students’ 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 Standard” and reflect “adequate understanding” and “thorough understanding” of the learning standards. Levels 1 and 2 represent “Not Meeting Standard” and reflect “minimal understanding” and “partial understanding” of the learning standards.
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Two tests given to middle school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP)—help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
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The MSP is an exam developed and mandated by the state; it replaced the state’s original annual exam, the WASL, in spring 2010. The MSP measures what students know and can do on the 2009 science standards. Next year the MSP will be replaced by the Washington Comprehensive Assessment of Science which will measure what students know and can do on the Next Generation Science Standards. MSP scores show the learning level of each student as compared to the state’s expectations for a well-taught student at that grade level. The numbers on the chart below represent the percentage of students who meet or exceed standard.
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