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Niskayuna outlines middle school redesign with new teams, scheduling test and transition events
Summary
District staff presented a multi-year plan to reconfigure middle schools, including three-teams-per-grade staffing, pilot block scheduling, daytime music ensembles, transition mixers for students, and staffing/transportation planning tied to the 78 and 56 building timeline.
Niskayuna Central School District staff on Feb. 24 presented progress on a multi-year middle school redesign that will reassign grade configurations, pilot new schedules and host student transition events ahead of the district's facility changes.
The steering committee's work focuses first on repurposing the 78 Building as a grade-6 site next year, with broader reconfiguration and facility work targeted for the 2027-28 school year. District staff described four standing subcommittees (academic programming, scheduling, student and family agency, and staff agency) that meet monthly and feed recommendations to the steering committee.
District leaders said the academic plan calls for three full teams at each of grades 6, 7 and 8 to create smaller "school-within-a-school"…
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