Mentoring<\/h2>\n
Mentoring is offered to students in grades six through eight. Mentors for middle school boys are provided through Own It Mentoring.<\/p>\n
PEARLS<\/h2>\n
This weekly program for MSLS students supports youth identifying as girls in developing skills for their personal and professional growth. Participants enjoy enriching activities that build their confidence, support healthy relationships, and help them achieve their dreams. Students who are involved make more positive decisions, lead lives they can be proud of, and help build stronger, healthier communities.<\/p>\n
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)<\/h2>\n
To promote positive student behavior and improve learning, MPS uses a system of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n PBIS is a three-tiered approach that begins by teaching expectations and encouraging collaboration and consistency in classrooms. Teachers and students co-design agreements and routines that align with three districtwide expectations: \u201cBe Safe, Be Respectful, and Be Responsible.\u201d<\/strong> For students who need more support, higher tiers offer structure, interventions, and follow-up to address specific concerns.<\/p>\n After years of use, MPS and other districts across the country are reporting higher student achievement, improved school environments, and fewer classroom disruptions and student suspensions.<\/p>\n Together with next-door Morse Middle School, our campus is the site of the largest green schoolyard redevelopment ever for MPS. The Reflo project on our shared grounds removed more than 191,000 square feet of asphalt to create a space the size of four to five typical green schoolyards. Our redesigned schoolyard provides natural areas for learning and play with multiple outdoor classrooms. (MSLS families and friends can hold picnics in the new green space, too!)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Milwaukee Sign Language School (MSLS) offers enriching programs that support our students’ academic and personal growth.Learning Journeys Learning Journeys are educational field trips for all MPS students that are designed to take what students are learning in the classroom out into the real world. These annual opportunities aim to expand students\u2019 career awareness (K4\u2013grade 3) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"Redeveloped Schoolyard<\/h2>\n
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)<\/h2>\r\nPBIS<\/a>\u00a0is a joint effort between Milwaukee Public Schools\u00a0Office of Family Services and the Milwaukee Teachers\u2019 Education Association to effectively reduce classroom disruptions and student suspensions through a school-wide systematic tiered-intervention approach. Data shows that schools that implement PBIS with fidelity see decreases in disruptions and suspensions and increases in student achievement.\r\n
Project Lead the Way<\/h2>\r\n
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Project Lead The Way<\/a>\u00a0(PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S.\u00a0STEM education is at the heart of today\u2019s high-tech, high-skill global economy. For America to remain economically competitive, our next generation of leaders \u2014 the students of today \u2014 must develop the critical-reasoning and problem-solving skills that will help make them the most productive in the world.\u00a0The PLTW curriculum is founded in the fundamental problem-solving and critical-thinking skills taught in traditional career and technical education (CTE), but at the same time integrates national academic and technical learning standards and STEM principles, creating what U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan calls one of the \u201cgreat models of the new CTE succeeding all across the country.\u201d PLTW was recently cited by the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a \u201cmodel for 21st century career and technical education.","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mps.school\/msls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}