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Jacksonville Middle School proposes STEAM-focused 'house' schedule with built-in intervention
Summary
District leaders presented a master schedule for Jacksonville Middle School that would group sixth–eighth graders into five-class 'house' teams with 80-minute blocks split into 50 minutes of content and 30 minutes of intervention; administrators said no current positions would be eliminated and an accelerated track could lead to an associate degree.
Jacksonville Middle School staff on Monday outlined a proposed master schedule that would group students into five-class 'house' teams designed to reduce hallway congestion, coordinate bathroom and intervention time and create a direct pathway into high-school career and technical education.
Gail Biggs, principal at Jacksonville Middle School, said scholars would be clustered into cohorts that rotate among four core classes and one CTE class, with exceptions for PE, art and music. "One of the things that we want ... is a pathway to success," Biggs…
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