Our Mission
To prepare students for a globally competitive environment in which students graduate college and career ready while fostering principles of responsibility, service, respect, compassion, international-mindedness within an academically challenging educational framework.
This model is used by Benteen Elementary, Whitefoord Elementary, Dunbar Elementary, Toomer Elementary, DH Stanton Elementary, Burgess-Peterson Academy, Parkside Elementary, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle, and Maynard Jackson High School.
This model is used by Benteen Elementary, Whitefoord Elementary, Dunbar Elementary, Toomer Elementary, DH Stanton Elementary, Burgess-Peterson Academy, Parkside Elementary, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle, and Maynard Jackson High School.
International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum is a globally recognized leader in the field of international education. IB programmes encourage students, age 3 to 19 years, to be active learners, well-rounded individuals and engaged world citizens. Founded in 1968, IB programmes are offered by more than 3,000 schools in 139 countries to approximately 845,000 students. Today, the community stakeholders are committed to establishing the IB Middle Year Programme (MYP) at our school. Our school is focused on ensuring that all the students reach an ever-increasing standard of academic excellence, despite the socioeconomic, interpersonal, and familial challenges that many community students (and their families) face. The surrounding communities have demonstrated unprecedented support for King Middle School and Maynard Jackson High School. We believe the IB MYP will help in closing achievement gaps within our school community. |
What is the MYP?
The MYP is the International Baccalaureate's Middle Years Program, (in England that would be Programme!) The MYP is for students in 6th through 10th grades. We have IB Candidate feeder elementary schools and at the 11th and 12th grades at Jackson HS. The King MS and Jackson HS programs are part of a K to 12 continuum in our neighborhood schools.
As teachers, the first thing we do is organize your student's sequence of lessons. We also plan using the same guidelines from sixth to tenth grades. We want to create an intelligent flow of instruction. Then we design concept based units to deliver instruction in meaningful chunks. Each unit includes an emphasis on one of our three big concepts, holistic education, communication skills, and internationalism. We often talk about the "student profile." This refers to a list of the characteristics we help you to foster in your students. The qualities include being principled, open-minded, caring, balanced, inquiring, and knowledgeable. We try to encourage kids to be thinkers, communicators and risk-takers. We want to set them up to be lifelong learners. |