Here at NW Junior High School, we are looking to provide a culturally and historically responsive teaching model. This initiative is a supplementary driver for the development of improved rigorous and relevant learning experiences for NW Junior High School students. The goal is to increase student interest, improve student engagement, and positively affect student achievement.

The following are the beginning steps to meet this goal:

• Expanding culturally responsive approaches across Content-Curriculum by offering guidance, resources, and curriculum adaptations to our middle school teachers, and modeling ways to teach such content.
• Develop a Culturally Responsive Teaching Committee that will ensure the quality and delivery of curriculum, projects, initiatives, and services primarily to content area classes at the 7th and 8th grade levels.
• Gather student, teacher, and parent feedback.
• Assess & Identify resource materials and best practice models
• Develop opportunities within the curriculum, such as project-based assessments that will foster self-identity, and inquire into important questions like how the cultural and ethnic identities of our students have contributed to a greater understanding of world history.
• Support in expanding the offering of culturally responsive literature, history, art, music, and science at the Middle School level.
• Increase opportunities for students to put into action what they have learned outside the classroom, such as conferences, lectures, forums, exhibits, dialogues, and research & development initiatives led by our school.