8^th Grade Promotion

Ceremony will be held at 10:00 a.m. in Simpson Hall on Thursday, June 13, 2013. 

Each student will be given 4 tickets to invite family members.  8^th graders should arrive no earlier than 9:30 a.m. to take their places for the ceremony. At the conclusion of the ceremony, students are dismissed to go home with their families.

Mountain Shadows Middle School staff highly values our commitment to building positive relationships and partnerships with the students, parents, and community.  We appreciate your interest in our quality of service and our “student-friendly” educational program.  The following information provides facts and data, but the underlying foundation is our accountability to our professional duties and the relationships we build every day.

We are continuing to improve our educational strategies each year.  We are a California Standards-Based school with a focus on student learning.  We have curriculum maps and common benchmarks in place for each of the core subjects to ensure consistency of content, and we are committed to differentiation of instruction and interventions to assist with individual learning needs.  Our teachers work in professional learning communities as a team to analyze data, build curriculum, develop assessments, discuss best practices, and provide intervention. 

We continue to refine and move forward with the four core foundations of Taking Center Stage Act II; academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity, and organizational structure and process.  Our Mission is clear that we are here to meet the needs of our students because our success is measured by their success.  We believe that it takes a strong effort on the part of the teachers, students, parents, and community to have a successful school, and we continue to take the necessary steps to improve our program.  Thank you for your support to our school.