Designed for learners ages 11–16, the IB MYP spans the sixth through tenth grades. Students who begin the program in middle school will complete the programme at Casimir Pulaski High School during ninth and tenth grade.

MYP Curriculum

The MYP curriculum framework at Pulaski High School:

• Integrates IB Approaches to Learning (ATL) and State of Wisconsin academic standards.
• Provides a broad, balanced education that includes at least 50 hours of instruction/year in every subject area. Students choose six of eight subject areas: language acquisition, language and literature, individuals and societies, sciences, mathematics, arts, physical and health education, and design.
• Incorporates a Personal Project in tenth grade.
• Can be adapted to meet an individual student’s needs and abilities.

Students who complete the MYP coursework and Personal Project (tenth grade) are ideal candidates for Pulaski’s IB Diploma Programme (DP) and IB Career-related Programme (CP).

MYP Personal Project

The MYP Personal Project encourages sophomore students to practice and strengthen their Approaches to Learning (ATL) skills: communication, research, self-management, social, and thinking. Over the course of the personal project, students connect classroom learning to personal experience and develop their own lifelong learning interests as they:

• Participate in a sustained, self-directed inquiry within a global context,
• Generate creative new insights and develop deeper understandings through in-depth investigation,
• Demonstrate the skills, attitudes and knowledge required to complete a project over an extended period of time—including 25 hours of time outside of school,
• Communicate effectively in a variety of situations,
• Demonstrate responsible action through, or as a result of, learning, and
• Appreciate the process of learning and take pride in their accomplishments.

Families can join their MYP scholars to reflect on and celebrate this remarkable accomplishment during Pulaski’s annual personal project exhibition.

Grading/Assessment Criteria

Milwaukee Public Schools has an online gradebook system (Campus) so parents and students can access grades. Continuous monitoring of student progress is available through Campus Parent Portal. Printed interim reports with comments and snapshot grades are sent to parents/guardians every four to six weeks. Printed semester report cards are sent home in January and May. The IB Approaches to Learning (ATLs) are highlighted in discussing the student’s academic progress and students are regularly asked to reflect on their own perception of their strengths and weaknesses while preparing for written reports.

Milwaukee Public Schools use the use standards-based grading scale, which consists of minimal (MI), basic (BA), proficient (PR), and advanced (AD) which are converted into a value of 1-4 and then translated into the traditional A, B, C, D, and U grades for report cards and transcripts. See the chart below.

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*Final letter grades are an average of all the entries over the course of the grading period. Pulaski High School uses the IB Approaches to Learning (ATL), incorporated in the Campus report card for all subjects.

The ATL Skills Reported Are:

• Communication
• Research
• Self-management
• Social
• Thinking

Student’s progress toward mastery of these ATL skills is indicated with the following criteria:

• Exceeding (4): The student consistently and effectively works above grade level learning objectives.
• Meeting (3): The student independently works at grade level.
• In progress (2): The student asks for minimal teacher support to meet grade level learning objectives.
• Limited progress (1): The student requires significant teacher support and has difficulty working towards grade level learning objectives.

Additional documents and how-to guides are available to help families learn more about the IB MYP, campus portal, and more.