Our School

Strategic Plan

Reading Plan

Pelion Middle School — where caring people, academics, the arts and athletics connect—is to prepare students for successful transition to high school as they work towards becoming productive 21^st century graduates.  We will accomplish this mission while serving as a center for community learning.

 Therefore, we will:

• Provide opportunities to develop talents, interests, and skills through choices from a comprehensive system of 21^st Century learning experiences in the arts, academics, and athletics.
• Ensure the rigor of academic core courses to improve the success of all students.
• Provide opportunities for students/staff to develop and practice leadership and citizenship skills.
• Use data to drive decision-making.
• Use innovative, standards-based instructional strategies to promote active student engagement, personalize learning, and ensure that our students are learning sophisticated 21^st century skills, knowledge, and attitudes.
• Develop a culture of caring, support, and responsibility among all stakeholders.
• Engage family and community in the school environment through a variety of learning and participatory activities to promote lifelong learning.

Our students will leave Pelion Middle School as self-directed, creative, collaborative, caring, and plurilingual learners who are on  a path to flourish in high school and beyond in a global, competitive 21^st century. Therefore:

• Our schools serve as a center for community learning.
• Our students are engaged in self-directed, collaborative, high quality learning experiences that will prepare them for high school curriculum and continued life-long learning.
• Our school culture fosters the development of leadership and citizenship skills.
• All stakeholders accept responsibility for the learning of our students.
• Each student receives the personal support necessary to reach his or her goals through a caring environment that advocates for students and works to eliminate barriers to learning.

• The district will increase the percentage of students who are progressing on-time with the requisite skills for success at their current grade levels.
• The district will implement strategies to improve equity in high-level coursework.
• The district will implement strategies to improve performance in high–level coursework.
• The district will improve the conditions that lead to student success in each school by utilizing a system of advocacy for each child that facilitates healthy social and emotional growth. 

Pelion Middle is proud to partner with the National Paideia Center to provide our teachers and students with opportunities and strategies to access complex texts and participate in conversations around those texts. In 2022, Pelion Middle School became a Paideia Seminar Certified School. 

Each school year, our students participate in community seminars that will take place during their Advocacy class, as well as participate in more academic-oriented Paideia seminars in all of their courses.

By participating in these Paideia seminars and utilizing supporting activities and strategies, our goal is to help our students feel a sense of belonging AND to help our students better access complex texts and become more comfortable with academic conversations. 

Each collaborative planning week this school year, students took part in a week-long study of a text during Advocacy. Students have talked about concepts such as belonging, place, community, family, and more, through a variety of texts, including maps, picture books, poetry, artwork and more.

What is Paideia? 
Paideia is active learning—fostering critical and creative thinking through Paideia Socratic seminar, intellectual coaching, and authentic action.

Paideia is high quality education for all—preparing children of all backgrounds, in all kinds of schools, to live up to their full and resonant potential.