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Evidence Binders
Evidence Binders are a place for our community, district, schools, teachers, students, and families to celebrate successes and reflect on growth. We curate our stories in a way that helps us preserve a legacy of investing in people. Systems help us maintain an enduring commitment to highly effective paradigms so all members of our learning organization are able to unleash their potential.


1.1 - Principal & Coordinator Development
The start of the 23-24 school year brought with it a significant leadership transition at MMS as we welcomed a new principal, assistant...


1.2 New and Ongoing Staff Learning
We are committed to ongoing learning and growth. New staff members receive two days of training in learning and modeling the 7 Habits...


1.3 - Family and Community Partnerships
At MMS, we seek to embed the highly effective practices of the 7 Habits in all that we do. In addition to explicit teaching, through...


2.1 - Direct Lessons
At MMS, we kick off each new school year with The First Eight Days. This focused time gives us an opportunity to examine our paradigms,...


2.2 - Integrated Approaches
In addition to providing direct lessons during our daily DEN time, staff work intentionally to embed the practices and principles of the...


2.3 - Service Learning
Service learning expands every year at MMS. While many of our student clubs have been service-oriented for years, all MMS students now...


3.1 - Physical Environment
With input from our student body and staff, our Student Culture LEAD team designs, creates, and maintains a physical environment that...


3.2 - Social-Emotional Environment
Every student, staff, and family member is a welcomed and valued component of our MMS community. We begin each day in our DEN, which is a...

3.3 Leadership Events
Every year, students at MMS play a greater role in planning, leading, and reflecting on our classroom, school-wide, and community...


4.1 - Staff Lighthouse Team
To facilitate shared leadership and decision-making, all of our staff are encouraged to participate in our Lighthouse and/or Action Teams...

4.2 Leadership Roles
Leadership roles at MMS are constantly evolving based on school needs and student ideas, interests, and strengths. While students apply...


4.3 - Student Voice
We take pride in fostering personal responsibility in our students by allowing them to express their voices in many ways here at MMS....


5.1 - Individual Goals
Through the years, we have worked to put systems in place to support individual goal development and attainment. The process of the 4...


5.2 - Team Goals
Members of each department collaborate to develop an annual WIG that is aligned to one of our school-wide Leadership, Culture, or...


5.3 - Aligned School WIGs
At the beginning of the 23-24 school year, MMS staff had the opportunity to participate in the Leader in Me Academics 1 Impact Journey. ...


6.1 - Leadership Portfolios
Over the course of the last few years, we have refined our approach to student leadership and self-reflection with the creation of...

6.2 - Student-Led Conferences
To showcase student learning, MMS hosts two formal Student-Led Conference events, one in the fall and one in the spring. These...


6.3 - Empowering Instruction
At MMS, we believe the best way to foster growth and development in students is to allow them to take the reins of their own education. ...
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