Victory School for the Gifted and Talented and Italian Immersion is a proud GE Foundation Demonstration School! We are one of just 10 Milwaukee Public Schools elementary schools to become models for putting students on track to career and college readiness as new GE Foundation Demonstration Schools.<\/p>\n
The schools will develop innovative ways to put the rigorous Common Core State Standards into practice. The Common Core State Standards define what students learn at each grade \u2014 and research has shown the standards will help make U.S. students competitive with counterparts around the world.<\/p>\n
Forty-two eligible schools were invited to apply for the chance to be named an MPS GE Foundation Demonstration School. The teaching staff at all applying schools participated in the development of the application and the Milwaukee Teacher\u2019s Education Association (MTEA) has been a strong partner in development of the Demonstration Schools.<\/p>\n
The schools feature a mix of standards and practices focused on high levels of success and achievement:<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Public Schools\u2019 Comprehensive Literacy Plan and Comprehensive Math\/Science Plan are aligned to the Common Core and the district has utilized portions of a five-year, $20.4-million GE Foundation grant to develop the Math\/Science Plan and to help support or fund more than 80,000 hours of training for thousands of teachers.<\/p>\n
A portion of the GE grant dollars will now be used to provide additional support to the 10 GE Foundation Demonstration Schools, including the creation of common planning time for teachers to work together to move students forward. New teaching positions have also been created for the schools, aimed at making relevant connections between curriculum and students\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n
As the schools develop innovative and successful strategies, other schools from across MPS \u2014 and perhaps across the nation \u2014 will be invited to visit the school and adapt the strategies to their own classrooms.<\/p>\n
The GE Demonstration Schools project reflects the Milwaukee Board of School Directors continued efforts to build ways in which the district uses a combination of innovative efforts and proven best practices to push forward efforts to engage broad sectors of the community to support student learning.<\/p>\n
The announcement of the project comes as MPS and schools across the state are holding themselves to new, higher definitions of success in the soon-to-be-released Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction school report cards. The new school report cards will reveal that schools across the state have more work to do to fully prepare students for college and careers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must raise the bar to measure progress toward college and career readiness. Our students and families deserve it,\u201d MPS Superintendent Gregory Thornton said. \u201cAnd we know that the Common Core State Standards are the way to get there. We\u2019ve been putting them into place since 2010 \u2014 and now, thanks to the GE Foundation, we\u2019re developing models that will show all of our schools the very best ways to use the Common Core to raise student achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cResearch shows that the Common Core State Standards are the way to make sure students in the U.S. are competitive with their peers around the world. We are honored to work with Milwaukee Public Schools to develop models of how to put the Common Core into practice,\u201d said Kelli Wells, program director for U.S. Education at the GE Foundation.<\/p>\n
The 10 schools are: Browning School, Clemens School, Curtin School, 53rd Street School, Fratney School, Kagel School, Milwaukee Sign Language School, 95th Street School, Pierce Street School and Victory School for the Gifted and Talented.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe staff in these schools has the chance to be on the cutting edge of developing opportunities to advance teacher collaboration and improve student learning,\u201d stated MTEA president Bob Peterson. \u201cI am confident this effort will play a critical role linking educators, parents and students in meaningful ways that support our students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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