Developmentally Responsive
Alderwood Middle School is striving to become Developmentally Responsive.
We are committed to creating small learning communities of adults
and students. Our school is centered on providing stable, close
and mutually respectful adult-student relationships that support
intellectual, ethical and social growth. Families and the community-at-large
are viewed as partners in the education of our children. We welcome
families and are committed to keeping them informed, to developing
their expectations and skills to support learning, and to providing
opportunities for participating in decision-making. We will use
the community as an extended classroom by linking community energy,
expertise and resources.
Our work will be guided by the following beliefs:
- Students will be organized in small learning communities characterized
by stable, close and mutually respectful relationships.
- Students will have access to comprehensive services to foster curiosity,
exploration, creativity and the development of social skills.
- Students will be provided a wide variety of instructional strategies
to encourage curiosity, exploration, creativity, and the development
of social skills.
- Students will be provided a curriculum that is socially significant
and personally relevant.
- Students will be afforded opportunities to explore a variety of
topics and interests in order to enhance their identity, to discover
and demonstrate their own competence, and to plan for the future.
- Students will have opportunities to voice their thinking by asking
questions, reflecting on experiences, developing rubrics, and participating
in decisions.
- Alliances will be forged with families to enhance and support the
well-being of students.
- Students will have opportunities to develop citizenship skills.
- Students will have opportunities to engage community resources
and expertise and to use the community for real-world applications
of their learning.
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