School Highlights

Richfield Middle School is located in Richfield, Minnesota, a first-ring suburb just south of Minneapolis. Our community is mostly residential and very supportive of our schools. Our boundaries are, roughly: Highway 494 to the south, Highway 62 to the north, Xerxes Avenue to the west, and Cedar Avenue to the east.

We are a 6th through 8th-grade middle school organized into grade-level teams themed around Richfield parks. We offer a variety of specialized services such as Gifted/Talented, Special Education, DLI (dual language immersion in Spanish), ESL, and Reading and Math tier classes.

In addition to the core academics (math, language arts, science, and social studies), exploratory classes are offered to each student. These opportunities broaden the student's perspective on the world of learning and expose them to new ideas and skills. Exploratory classes also serve to spark student interest in subjects that they may take as electives in high school. RMS exploratory classes include health, physical education, STEM, choir, band, Spanish, art, industrial technology, FACS and photography.

Title I

Overview

Title I is the U.S. federal government’s largest education program to support public schools. The purpose is to support learners in meeting the state's academic standards. Title I programming supplements our regular education programming. Students are selected to receive Title I services based on a number of factors, including performance on standardized tests, classroom assessments and teacher recommendation. The funds are used to provide academic support to students who attend Richfield Middle School, Sheridan Hills Elementary, Centennial Elementary, Richfield Dual Language School and Richfield STEM School. These students must have been identified as needing assistance in meeting grade-level expectations.

All of our Title I schools use Title I funding in a schoolwide model. In a schoolwide model, Title I funds are used across the whole school, supporting and supplementing state and local funds to improve the education of historically under served students. Title I funding must always supplement and never supplant the regular education program at school.

A percentage of the Title I funds at a school are used to support parents with involvement in their child’s education. Schools provide opportunities for parents to learn how to support their children in their school work and to be involved at the school through volunteering and decision making opportunities. Schools assist parents by removing barriers to involvement.

You can view our school report cards on the Minnesota Department of Education's website.

Other Uses for Funds

Other Uses for Title I Funds

A percentage of the Title I funds at a school are used to support parents with involvement in their child’s education. Schools provide opportunities for parents to learn how to support their children in their school work, to be involved at the school through volunteering and decision making opportunities and they assist parents by removing barriers to involvement.

Some ways Title I funds may be used to support parents include:

Translate school information into a family's first language
Provide interpreters
Host activities to teach families how to help children learn by building their capacity
Support for understanding student assessments or the curriculum in use
Provide transportation to academic meetings and/or school activities
Provide childcare for school meetings and/or activities
Offer parenting classes (e.g. Voices United)

We also allocate Title I funds to:

Provide training to administrators and teachers
Help special populations of students, including those attending non-public schools and students/families experiencing homelessness

Your Rights

Parent/Guardian Rights

As a parent/guardian, you have the right to:

know the qualifications of your child’s teacher
know when your child has a substitute teacher for more than four weeks and the qualifications of the substitute teacher
know how your child’s school is rated on state test scores
expect regular communication with your school in a language that you can understand
work with other parents and staff to develop a school-level parent compact between the school and its families
help plan how money for family involvement should be spent
work with teachers, parents and the school principal to develop your school’s family involvement plan
ask for a meeting with your school principal or your child’s teacher at any time

School Improvement Plan

Summary of the RMS School Improvement Plan (SIP)

Literacy: 80% of students or higher will score a 3 or higher using a common interdisciplinary argumentative writing rubric associated with ELA writing anchor standard 1 (Write arguments to support claims in an
analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.)

Math: From 2022 to 2023, RMS Math MCA proficiency percentages will improve from 22.7% to 27.7% by
facilitating meaningful academic discourse, using the cooperative learning strategies defined by the CPM curriculum, and implementing the tenets of backwards design with standards-based rubrics and
assessments.

SEL: Increase overall number of minutes of student attendance by 20% from SY22 to SY23

Area of Focus	Key Strategies	Activities
Math	Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments. RMS teachers will implement the CPM curriculum to elevate student voice and increase academic output.	Classroom walk-through data Fall, Winter and Spring in alignment to secondary practice profile. Systematic review of student achievement data (grades, unit assessments, NWEA) by RMS administration and BILT.
Reading	Departments and PLCs will continue developing and norming standards-aligned, common rubrics designed to assess personally relevant, real-world, discipline-specific writing tasks that serve to provide evidence of student learning. Departments will report out a summary of data and findings through BILT team leads 3x/year.	Walk-through data (3x per year in alignment to secondary practice profile). We will monitor progress of this goal by observing/monitoring PLC process (including looking at student work protocols); share out through BILT at end of each quarter (1-3 or 2-4).
SEL	Full implementation of Levels of Violations Full implementation of Out of School Suspension process Review of Behavior Violations MTSS Behavior matrix Conscious Discipline	Walk-through data (3x per year in alignment to secondary practice profile). Monthly review of student behavior data (minor and major).

Area of Focus

Key Strategies

Activities

Math

Effective teaching of mathematics facilitates discourse among students to build shared understanding of mathematical ideas by analyzing and comparing student approaches and arguments. RMS teachers will implement the CPM curriculum to elevate student voice and increase academic output.

Classroom walk-through data Fall, Winter and Spring in alignment to secondary practice profile. Systematic review of student achievement data (grades, unit assessments, NWEA) by RMS administration and BILT.

Reading

Departments and PLCs will continue developing and norming standards-aligned, common rubrics designed to assess personally relevant, real-world, discipline-specific writing tasks that serve to provide evidence of student learning. Departments will report out a summary of data and findings through BILT team leads 3x/year.

Walk-through data (3x per year in alignment to secondary practice profile).

We will monitor progress of this goal by observing/monitoring PLC process (including looking at student work protocols); share out through BILT at end of each quarter (1-3 or 2-4).

SEL

Full implementation of Levels of Violations
Full implementation of Out of School
Suspension process
Review of Behavior Violations
MTSS
Behavior matrix
Conscious Discipline

Walk-through data (3x per year in alignment to secondary practice profile).
Monthly review of student behavior data (minor and major).

Family Engagement Plan (English) (Spanish)
Family-School Compact for Achievement (English) (Spanish)

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