Citadel+Middle+School

Citadel School Middle School Citadel Middle School is located at 1265 Citadel Drive in Port Coquitlam. On a slope overlooking the river, it has excellent views towards Mount Baker. The school was built in the early 1990s as a Middle School, and follows many of the precepts of the 'Middle School Model' including interdisciplinary teaming, advisory exploratory and transitions programming, and varied instruction. The school's mission statement found in their Action Plan for Learning is as follows “Working together, our mission is to provide a safe nurturing and responsive environment that meets the unique developmental needs of early adolescents”. The school has a [|staff]of 19 core teachers, 4 explorations teachers, 4 student services teachers, 7 Special Education Assistants, as well as the Principal Glenda Speight, and Vice-Principal Andrew Corbould.

__Student Population__ Citadel Middle School serves a community that is diverse in terms of educational background and socio-economic level. In the 2010-11 school year, Citadel's teaching and support staff worked with a student population of 479 students (216 female and 263 male). According to the Ministry Student Statistics document, the population of ESL (13 students- only 10 of who receive direct service) and Aboriginal (2.7%-17 students) are quite small, though there is a diverse multicultural community. While 77 percent of students speak English in the home, that numbers has been in decline (from 80% in 2006) and there are speakers of Korean, Chinese, Cantonese, Persian, Russian, Mandarin, and Spanish. Citadel Middle has a high percentage of both learning disabled and gifted students, especially when compared with our neighbouring Middle School, Pitt River Middle, which in contrast has a higher ESL and Aboriginal population. (Pitt River Student Statistics). In the 2010/2011 school year a new district pilot program for gifted students at the grade 6/7 level called the Middle Ages Cluster Class (MACC) was instituted, drawing students from across the district, which accounts in part for the high level of gifted students in the population.

Numbers of Ministry Identified Students: As you can see from the table above over 18% of the students are designated with Ministry categories. According to the Action Plan for Learning, "This high percentage was recognized by the district and additional staff assigned to support students".
 * < Sensory Disabilities ||< 1 ||
 * < Learning Disabilities ||< 64 ||
 * < Behavioural Disabilities ||< 15 ||
 * < Other Disabilities ||< 15 ||
 * < Gifted ||< 53 ||
 * < Aboriginal ||< 17 ||
 * < ESL ||< 13 ||

__Student__ __Achievement__ The 2011 FSA Results show that 20% of grade seven students are not yet meeting expectations in reading, while 8% exceed them. Math is also an area of challenge, with 21% of students not yet meeting expectations. Literacy has been the main school goals in the last several years, currents goals are: 'to increase the number of students in all grades and subjects to fully meeting expectations in reading comprehension.' and 'focus on improving the success of boys in demonstrating their comprehension of reading material at grade level'. Data collected to track progress towards acheiving the school goal are posted in the Action Plan For Learning, This data show that there has been some improvement in literal comprehension through the course of the school year. Next year the school has chosen to continuing with their literacy goal, and have been looking at the work of Adrienne Gear, author of 'Reading Power' to implement these goals.

__Library Program__ Citadel Middle School Library has a librarian available 3 days a week for collaboration and library teaching. There is also a teacher assistant who staffs the library during daily lunch hours. The schedule of the librarian is flexible, though there often is a schedule of book exchange blocks made by the language arts teachers. In general the library is used for class research projects, especially during public speaking season or at the ends of units. Social studies and humanities teachers are by far the largest users of the library. The library has collection of 8,648 items, and an estimated value of $333,802.96. The largest and most often used sections of the library are the fiction section, the 700 - 799 section with 846 titles and 1,332 circulations, and the 900-999 section, with 1297 titles, though because many of these books were on hold in the library, statistics do not reflect their in library use.

__S__ __chool and Chosen Curriculum__ This school has six teams, four of which have three classes of grade six and seven. All of these twelve classes will be following the Ancient cultures curriculum during this coming school year. Each team organizes themselves differently in terms of platooning subjects so there are a varying number of teachers conducting these classes. Most Socials teachers in the school have chosen to deliver their social studies units by focusing on “Early Man”, “Mesopotamia”, “Egypt”, and “Greece”, though some social studies teachers choose to study Rome. Rome in particular provides some conflict with the grade eight Humanities teachers who teach a unit on the ‘Fall of Rome’. My goal in looking at this curriculum area would be to develop more resource based learning opportunities in social studies, trying to broaden the available resources to include sense-making using artifacts- as archeologists do. By providing students with information of how professional archaeologist draw conclusions about ancient cultures, we can help them develop information literacy skills in multiple areas.

__Selected data tables:__

Table 1. School goal Assessment data found in the Action Plan For Learning (Boys_Girls_data_school_grade_break_down_May_2011(1).xlsx)

Table 2. FSA Results for Citadel Middle School

Table 3. Number of classes with Ministry catagorized students entitled to IEPs from Ministry Student Statistics Report 2010/11. Table 4. Students enrolled in FSL, ESL, and Aboriginal Education Programs from Student Statistics Report 2010/11
 * **School Students Enrolled in Programs ** ||  ||   ||
 * || **2006/07 **
 * || **2006/07 **

** # ** ||  **2007/08 **

** # ** ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">2008/09 **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> # ** ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">2009/10 **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> # ** ||  **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">2010/11 **

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> # ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Aboriginal Students in Aboriginal || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">11 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">18  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">10  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">11  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">14  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> ESL || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">23 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">41  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">44  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">19  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">13  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> French Programs || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">464 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">453  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">465  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">450  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">479  ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Core French || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">464 || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">453  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">465  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">450  || <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-align: right;">479  ||

Table 5. Languages Spoken in the Home from Student Statistics Report 2010/11



Table 6.Collection Age Report Citadel Middle School Library