Save Meadows Upper Elementary School

Why Meadows is awesome for Avondale.

Meadows Unique 5-6 Configuration

• Brings together children of diverse backgrounds with a variety of ethnicities, academic abilities and socio-economic levels from the four K-4 elementary schools in the district.
• Provides opportunities to form friendship and bonds with children they will attend middle and high school with.
• Exposes children to their first rotational-class academic setting providing a great stepping stone/bridge from elementary to middle school
• Preadolescences provides a unique opportunity for programming that teaches leadership skills and character education and shapes the academic culture for the years that follow.

Meadows Enriched Learning Environment and Activities

• Offers a homeroom teacher within a small group of team teachers
• Offers band, choir, explorative music classes, computers, art, physical education, and advanced math classes in addition to the core curriculum.
• Science rooms have science labs.
• Before and after school clubs (18 this year ) including Future Problem Solvers, Tech Team, Band Clubs, and Theatre Club to name a few.
• Combined monthly activity nights for 5th and 6th graders.

Meadows is a Leader in the State

• Meadows became an official Leadership School this year
• Only 4 other schools in the state are Leadership Schools
• Finalist for the MASB "Excellence in Education Leadership Award"
• Sprint Character Education Award (Pending)
• Stephen R. Covey, international leadership expert and consultant has invited Meadows staff to present with him at the Oakland ISD conference at the end of this month.
• Sean Covey approached Meadows about making a film about their implementation process
• Neighboring schools have called and visited Meadows to observe their Leadership Program
• NCA accreditation audit last year recommended Meadows grow the Leadership Program throughout the district.
• Local area businesses have expressed interest in exploring partnership possibilities with Meadows

What is a Leadership School

• Students are trained in the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and devote time to relationship building, strength recognition and leadership skills.
• Children identify their own strengths and are empowered to be leaders in the school and district
• Teacher training that includes the study of The Leader in Me, by Stephen Covey, Classroom Instruction that works, by Robert Marzano, and Ron Clark's The Essential 55
• Teachers meet collaboratively in Professional Learning Communities, learn leadership habits and emerge as leaders themselves.
• Teachers facilitate learning of standardized curriculum, personal leadership skills and positive socialization

**Please click on and view THE LEADER IN ME videos at the above website location!

Benefits of Becoming a Leadership School

• 100% of Meadows students and staff participate in leadership activities
• Renewed, energized, enthusiastic teaching staff
• Teachers working in a collaborative, cohesive, proactive manner meeting students needs
• Character education/leadership themes embedded in the curriculum creates a strong foundation for school culture
• Students are empowered to take ownership of the learning process, set goals and chart their own progress
• Students are given the building tools and motivation for a lifetime of learning and are taught universal life skills.

Results of Becoming a Leadership School
• Reduced discipline problems
• Greater parent satisfaction
• Soaring student self-confidence
• Improved school culture
• Increased teacher pride
• Refined focus on 21st Century skills
• Creates a culture and curriculum based on principles of effectiveness.
• Increase academic performance.