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Hosford
2303 SE 28th PlacePortland, OR 97214
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Phone: 503-916-5640
Fax: 503-916-2637
E-mail: kbacon@pps.k12.or.us
School-created web pages: http://www.hosfordmiddleschool.com
School-brochure: http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools-c/profiles/brochure/Hosford.pdf
Grade levels: 6-8 MS
Principal: Kevin Bacon
About:
The Hosford mission is to provide a learning environment of strong academics and respect by fostering opportunities for student creativity, service and exploration in a community of lifelong learners. We draw from tools and strategies designed to meet the needs of all of our students. We know that students learn differently and need to be engaged in their studies. We are a neighborhood middle school that serves 530 students and draws from five elementary schools. Our student population represents a wide range of ethnic and national origins. Twenty-three languages are spoken in the homes of our students, and roughly half of our students receive free or discounted lunch. We were nominated for the National Title I School of the Year Award (2007) for exceptional test scores two years running. We also received the "Strong" rating from the Oregon Department of Education for the third straight year.
Focus options: *Spanish Immersion, *Mandarin Chinese Immersion. *See Curriculum components.
Before and after school programs
- Boys and Girls Club, Boys and Girls Basketball, Homework
Club, Chess for Success Club, Running Club, Dance Team, Yearbook Club, Mandarin Club, Jazz Band, Project Plus, Knitting Club, Future Hispanic Leaders, Student Council, African Club.
Community partnerships
- Burgerville (26th and Powell), Lauro Kitchen, Noho\'s,
Pizzicato (SE Division), Safeway, Portland Police Sunshine
Division, Chef Tucker\'s Patisserie (SE Hawthorne), African Women\'s Coalition, Catholic Charities, PSU Capstone, PSU Project PLUS, Portland Impact.
Student learning environment
- Hosford is a schoolwide Positive Behavior Support (PBS) School that is designed around a three-tiered prevention model that begins by establishing a "universal" whole school approach to defining, teaching and acknowledging student behavioral expectations.
- As part of this process, a predictable continuum of consequences for problem behaviors has been established, and a formal system for collecting and using data for decision-making has been developed.
- School-based teams apply research-validated instructional and management practices.
- As part of this process, a continuum of student rewards and opportunities for recognition has been established.
Curriculum components
- Interdisciplinary, mixed-grade structure emphasizing teamwork, student-centered, theme-focused instruction.
- Classes in all subject areas except social studies are mixed-grade groupings.
- Students from across all three grade levels are flexibly grouped into literacy blocks based on reading ability. They receive structured reading and writing lessons geared for their level.
- Language arts teachers use the Rewards and recently adopted EMC curriculum, along with a range of other supplemental resources, as the foundation of their instruction.
- Students are placed in math classes by ability irrespective of grade level. Teachers use Connected Math and College-Preparatory Math (CPM) curriculum across the spectrum of class offerings.
- High-school level algebra and geometry are offered to qualified students.
- One feeder school sends us approximately 30 students a year to continue the Spanish Immersion program they began in kindergarten. Another feeder sends us approximately 25 students per year to continue the Mandarin Chinese Immersion program they began in kindergarten. These programs provide the mandated middle-year instruction to the immersion students as part of two separate K–12 initiatives.
- Proficiency-based Spanish instruction is offered as an elective to grades 6–8, providing the opportunity for students to achieve advanced-language placement at the high-school level.
- Proficiency-based Mandarin Chinese instruction is offered as an elective to grades 6–8, providing the opportunity for students to achieve advanced-language placement at the high-school level.
- Other elective class offerings include PE, Beginning band ,Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Strings, Art, Ceramics, Computers, Drama and Legotech.
Staff
- Principal, Assistant Principal, Student Management Specialist, Counselor, Librarian, A combination of 25 full- and part-time classroom teachers, 4 Special Education teachers, 1 English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, 4 Educational Assistants, 2.5 Secretaries
Parent and family support
- Incoming 6th Grade Parent Night (Spring)
- Incoming 6th Grade Parent Orientation (August)
- Schoolwide Annual Ice Cream Social (August)
- Jumpstart Day (6th grade only first day of school)
Open House/Back-to-School Night (September) - Parent-Teacher Conferences (November)
- State of School Address (January)
- Monthly PTSA meetings
- Monthly Site Council meetings
- Title I Parent Compact/Family Involvement Plan
- Hosford staff encourage parent involvement in all areas of the school.
Special programs and features
- Talented and Gifted Program (TAG): This progam provides an individualized plan for identified students that enriches and extends learning in the classroom and beyond. District-level support is provided to schools to help meetthe goals.
- English as a Second Language (ESL): This program serves students who are not native English speakers, beginners through advanced.
- Advisory: This program and curriculum is the core of the
school climate, building unity and respect among all
students and staff. Students are assigned to an advisory
class that remains the same through grades 6–8. Advisory
meets first period, anchoring the start of each student's day. - Students with special learning needs are served through Title I, Resource Learning Centers and our Structured Learning Center-Behavior (SLC-B) program.
Statistics and test scores
- Report cards and AYP Scores
Oregon Department of Education school report cards - School Enrollment and Program Data
- Standardized test scores
Course syllabus
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