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Principal: Dr. Michele Condon
Assistant Principal: Adam W. Smith
School Hours: 8:05 a.m. to 2:50 p.m.
Grade Levels Served: 6 thru 8
Description:
The goal of any great school is to help its students achieve. Bernard Middle School takes this goal seriously.
In September of 2003, students, families, community members, and staff celebrated the long-awaited opening of the brand new Bernard Middle School. With this opening came the opportunity for everyone to take part in determining what was important for the success of each Patriot. How exciting it is to be involved in this new beginning! To focus the efforts of the Bernard community- hundreds of student, parent, and staff surveys were collected to determine the expectations, hopes, and dreams that everyone had for our new school. The faculty worked together to compile this information and found that there were many common threads weaving together the picture of our ideal school. Among these was the belief by all that Bernard should be filled with challenging learning experiences, a safe environment, and supported by a professional staff that communicates openly and freely with students, parents, and the community.
We have taken the ideas of everyone involved in the Bernard family to form the building blocks for our new school. As with any structure, Bernard Middle School needs a clear blueprint to guide its formation. We believe that our mission will provide a strong foundation, our vision will serve as the tools needed to build upon that foundation, and our students, families, and staff will be the cement that brings it all together. We are proud to be among the first Patriots, and look forward to forging ahead in our plan for a school of successful learners.
Mission Statement:
The mission of Bernard Middle School is to provide a safe, supportive, respectful, and well-informed learning environment with high expectations for all students while ensuring that each student will learn and achieve.
Vision Statement:
The Bernard Middle School community envisions a school in which students, parents, staff and the community will work collaboratively to reach our mission by:
* Ensuring a safe and caring learning environment,
* Increasing open and on-going communications among all stakeholders,
* Expanding our opportunities for school-community participation,
* Providing all students with high quality learning experiences based on best practices,
* Monitoring each student's progress and addressing individual needs,
* Demonstrating a personal commitment to the academic success and well-being of all students,
* Developing a respectful and engaged community of learners.
Building Goals:
Goals 2007 - 2008:
Bernard Middle School will continually strive to make improvments in the following areas:
* Increasing student achievement by utilizing assessment data to guide instruction
* Improving the reading, writing and mathematics skills of all our students, through all content areas, by utilizing research-based best practices
* Teaching and reinforcing civility and respect among the Bernard School community
* Increasing school safety by practicing and assessing crisis procedures and monitoring and analyzing student discipline data
* Expanding communication among our stakeholders by utilizing technology and analyzing the effectiveness of parent-teacher conference delivery
* Developing plans to address learning needs and monitoring the progress of students who are not achieving
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