Family and community engagement, proudly bilingual students and teachers, and our historic home on Milwaukee’s southside define Hayes Bilingual School’s identity within the Milwaukee Public Schools family.

At Hayes Bilingual School, the student experience includes:

• Exploring creativity in full-time art, gym, and music classes.
• Developing STEM skills in our school’s two technology laboratories.
• Becoming bilingual, biliterate citizens.

All Milwaukee Public Schools implement the Ambitious Instruction Plan and Common Core State Standards.

Ambitious Instruction Plan

The Milwaukee Public Schools Ambitious Instruction Plan recognizes and celebrates that our students come from many cultures and backgrounds. This plan focuses on high-quality, culturally appropriate teaching and learning. Our goal is to ensure that every student develops reading, writing, and math skills in ways that are meaningful to their individual lives and experiences. Our staff works together to understand each learner and find appropriate ways to assess and improve their progress. We then make sure that students can apply what they have learned in productive ways in school and in their community.

Common Core State Standards

The curriculum in Milwaukee Public Schools is based on Common Core State Standards. These standards were developed with teachers, school administrators, and experts to prepare all children for college and the workforce.

Curriculum

Bilingual Dual Language Learning

Families join our school community from Milwaukee, Mexico, Venezuela, and elsewhere. Hayes Bilingual School students proudly embrace their first language while learning another through our unique approach to Bilingual Dual Language instruction:

• English-language learners begin their literacy journey in K3 or K4 bilingual classrooms where teachers deliver 90 percent of academic content in Spanish, consistent with many Bilingual Dual Language programs.
• By the end of fourth grade, our students receive fifty percent of their instruction in English and fifty percent of their instruction in Spanish. This 50/50 approach continues through eighth grade.
• Our graduation goal for all students: bilingualism, biliteracy, and an appreciation for all cultures and communities.

Math/STEM

Students build math knowledge, develop mathematical skills, and grow in confidence as they progress through a standards-based curriculum.

Starting in K4, Hayes Bilingual School students learn the scientific method and use this process to engage in math and science lessons and prepare for the annual school science fair.

Older students engage in hands-on STEM projects and learn to use new technologies in our Project Lead The Way Engineering Laboratory and school technology laboratory. Every student has access to a mobile computing device.

Reading/Language Arts

Literacy is the foundation of every lesson in every subject, and reading proficiency by third-grade completion is the goal for all students. By the time they have completed eighth-grade at Hayes Bilingual School, some students will read, write, and speak Spanish and English.

Special Education

MPS serves all children with disabilities, including cognitive, emotional, hearing, learning, physical, speech, and vision disabilities. The school’s special education teachers, regular education teachers, school social worker, school psychologist, and administration work together to meet students’ needs.

If you think your child has special education needs, ask your child’s teacher or principal for an evaluation. For general questions about special education or specialized services, please call (414) 874-8493.