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The GOAL
By the end of elementary, middle and high school … Every student by name meets or exceeds academic standards, and is fully prepared to make productive life decisions.

Lane monitors and addresses the VITAL SIGNS of Student Progress:

1. Student attendance in school and class.	Lane tracks each students attendance throughout the school day and awards those with perfect attendance in a student recognition assembly each quarter.
2. Student embracing & meeting high standards of learning, wellness and participation in a global society.	Lane provides opportunities to empower students through Student Government, Student Mentors and Student Conflict Managers. Lane engages students in rigorous academics through a partnership with Portland State University and the Learning Gardens Lab (LGLab). LGLab is a 13-acre campus where Lane Middle School and Portland State students and professors discover relationships between their academic subjects and their daily lives through direct experiences with seasonal cycles, energy flows and their diverse communities. LGLab is interdisciplinary, multi cultural, multi sensory and intergenerational. Growing food-and seeing everything in relation-enables a tangible connection between knowledge and health, between school and self.
3.Student meeting or exceeding standards in core subjects.	Lane is structured in three grade-level teams. Teachers stress high academic rigor by identifying the essential standards that provide students with opportunities that make learning beyond the classroom significant and relevant. Teachers work as a team at each grade level. They develop projects that suit the needs and interests of the balanced group of students in each class. A daily planning period allows teachers and support specialists to plan and develop curriculum and discuss student work and data. Lane's team-structure system allows for greater flexibility than many traditional programs.
4. Student participation in the arts, cultural and extracurricular activities.	Lane provides numerous enrichment courses which support the academics and cultural growth of our students. Courses include: Fine arts, Dance, Choir & Music, Media Technology, Physical Education & Health and more.
5. Students of all backgrounds and ‘circumstances’ demonstrate equivalent or accelerated achievement rates expected of all (Closing the “achievement gap” and accelerating learning for all).	Academic excellence is achieved as we give all Lane students a rigorous, comprehensive, academically oriented curriculum with continuous practice in critical and creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration, skill building and decision making. Leadership and student voice is achieved as we encourage our students to be active participants in the school community. We prepare students, both in and out of the classroom, to become responsible and active members of our school and community. Both staff and students participate in a collaborative leadership model that emphasizes informed decision making.
6.Student persistence to graduation (high school graduation rate).	Lane prepares every student for high school and assists each student in making the best decision for them during the high school application process. Lane hosts high school panel discussions of Lane alumni returning to talk to eighth graders, high school exploration days, and has multiple field trips to surrounding high schools to let students experience their next opportunity.
7.Student success at the next level (successful transition from grade-to-grade and preK-to-elementary-middle-high-to-post hs school opportunities.	Lane developed a Student Mentor program which trains upper classmates into positive leaders and role models for sixth grade students. Small groups of six graders allow a mentor to know each of their tyros during sixth grade orientation, a friendship which they nurture and follow up each month to give the transitioning six graders an ally and a friend throughout the school year.