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Malabar
Middle School
Curriculum
Units
A
basic belief that guides the Malabar Middle School staff
is that all students can learn. The primary goal of the
staff is to create a learning environment that addresses
the uniqueness of the individual student encouraging each
to participate in his or her own learning. The staff further
maintains that greater student success will be ensured through
the integration of a comprehensive arts curriculum into
the school environment. To further this latter agenda, many
teachers at Malabar have been trained in Comprehensive Arts
Education and are now acting as mentors for the other teachers
at the school. Additionally, joint planning time has been
arranged to support collaboration among the teachers. There
is considerable community support for the Malabar Middle
School and a history of collaboration with businesses in
the city of Mansfield. The school is technologically upgrading
itself through Ohio SchoolNet funding and plans to make
the Internet accessible to students in 1997.
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As one of the first steps
toward school reform the Malabar APS Leadership Team redesigned
the school schedule in an effort to provide collaborative planning
time for all teachers, included the arts teachers. This involved
a tremendous change in the composition of existing teaching teams
and was a huge school reform step on the part of the principal and
teachers.
Following the reorganization
of the schedule and teaching teams the teachers of Malabar determined
that "Looking Beyond Yourself" would serve as a theme
for all five years of the APS program and that during the first
year the school would focus on community. The teaching team identified
concepts within this theme and worked collaboratively to design
and implement curriculum that integrated these concepts through
the arts into the other disciplines.
Malabar Demographic
Information:
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Grade
Level
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Total
Number of Students
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Percent
on Free or Reduced Lunch
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Student
Demographics
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Total
Number of Faculty
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Faculty
Demographics
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Urban,
Suburban, or Rural
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6-8
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831
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65%
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44%
African-American,
66% Caucasian
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66
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10%
African-American,
90% Caucasian
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Urban
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