Clients - Barren Middle

Barren County Middle School, a school we began working with in 1997, was interested in helping its teachers with curriculum mapping and alignment to instructional standards in each subject area. The Collaborative began implementing its Lesson Plan Xpress program with the school to assist teachers with curriculum mapping and alignment to state and local standards. The goal is to help teachers build an instructional culture that gathers ongoing evidence of student learning. Teachers are then better able to adjust instruction to meet the needs of individual students based on that evidence.

In 1999, Barren County Middle School was named a " School to Watch " by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform, due in large part to the school's implementation of one of our whole-school reform initiatives - Different Ways of Knowing (see Kentucky's Enduring Principle: All Children Can Learn). Its principal, Michelle Pedigo, was named the 2000 National Middle School Principal of the Year.

In 1997, a comparison of Barren County Middle School's test scores to all other middle schools in the state, ranked the school 101st in Kentucky. In 2000, after three years of our work there, the school was ranked 26th in Kentucky.

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