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Lane
7200 SE 60thPortland, OR 97206
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Phone: 503-916-6355
Fax: 503-916-2648
E-mail: klogan@pps.k12.or.us
School-created web pages: /schools-c/pages/lane
Grade levels: 6-8 MS
Principal: Karl Logan
About:
The Lane School community encourages social and emotional growth, academic success and respect for one another, inspiring every member of our learning community to meet the challenge of the future. 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.
Before and after school programs
- Portland Parks and Recreation operates a SUN (Schools Uniting Neighborhoods) Community School on the Lane campus. Programs include a variety of offerings for all ages. Our middle school clubs include: Homework Club, Science Club, Dance Club, Kick-It Club, Gardening Club, Movie Making Club, Fashion Design Club, Jewelry Making Club, Girls\' Group, Boys\' Group, Skate and Study Club, Cooking Club, Entertainer Club, Lotions and Potions Club, Lego Robotics Club, Comic Book Club, Leadership Club, Clay Club, Art Club, Ping Pong Club, Weaving Club, OLI, Web
Design Club, Guitar Club, Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement (OCHA), Board Game Club, Making Fashion Club, Basketball Club, Pirate Club, Making Media Club, Improv Theater Club, Bicycle Repair Club, Salsa Dance, Business Club, SES Tutoring, Dance Team, Cross Country Running, Track, Volleyball, Soccer and Basketball.
In addition, our school serves as a community hub, offering preschool ballet,Monthly Family Nights, Tae Kwon Do for Families, Knitting for Families and Theater for non-middle-school age youth. Lane Middle School provides daily student transportation via an activity bus.
Community partnerships
- We offer many programs through extended day partnerships with multiple organizations, including: Nike, Portland State University, Reed College, Oregon Children\'s Theatre, City of Portland, Portland Parks and Recreation, Multnomah County, Portland Impact, Student Support Services for Educational Success via Portland Impact, Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement (OCHA), Oregon Learning Laboratory for information Education, Oregon Robotics and Tournament Outreach Program, Girls Inc. of NW Oregon, Sylvan Learning Center, Advantage Point Tutoring, All Access Tutoring, Club
Z! Tutoring, AKA Science Oregon Health Career Center, Brentwood-Darlington Neighborhood Association, Lane School Based Health Center, Morrison Center and Oregon Parent/Teacher Association.
Student learning environment
- Lane Middle School partners with the University of Oregon and the nationally recognized Positive Behavior Support program. Focus is on communicating and teaching expected behavior. Prevention, early intervention and providing students with positive options is also a focus. Expectationsthroughout the school are that students will respect oneanother and work together.
- The Conflict Manager program helps students develop problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills. Students work together in groups, learning to understand and respect themselves and others. All-school mediation program includespeer helpers and adult mediators from the community whovisit school once or twice a week.
- The Student Mentor program works to develop and train 7th and 8th graders to be positive leaders and role models for our entire 6th grade class. Each 6th grader is partnered with a student mentor. Mentors organize and run the 6th grade orientation at the beginning of the school year and meet monthly with their mentees to teach specific leadershipand study skills.
Curriculum components
- 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. - Learning Gardens: A delicious partnership between LaneMiddle School, Portland State University and the City ofPortland has produced the Learning Gardens Lab (LGLab).LGLab is a 13-acre campus where Lane Middle School andPortland State students and professors discoverrelationships between their academic subjects and theirdaily lives through direct experiences with seasonal cycles,energy flows and their diverse communities. LGLab isinterdisciplinary, multicultural, multisensory andintergenerational. Growing food—and seeing everything inrelation—enables a tangible connection between knowledge andhealth, between school and self.
Staff
- Staff teams plan during one block period each day.
- The teaching staff at Lane is committed to a quality education for all students. They contribute in many ways to making all children successful and creating a rich learning community.
- Teachers work in dyad teams, integrating content standards in math, science, reading, writing and social studies. All teachers incorporate reading strategies to meet the individual needs of all students. The teacher/student relationship is fostered by transitioning students betweentwo core teachers (math/science and literacy/social studies).
- Nike and Portland Leadership Collaborative.
- Two Lane humanity teachers were recognized and selected to present at the National Council of Teachers of English conference. One Lane social studies teacher was awarded theDistinguished Teaching Achievement Award by the NationalCouncil for Geographic Education.
- Partnership with the National Writing Project.
Parent and family support
- Brentwood-Darlington Community Center.
- Teen Health Clinic.
- Families are encouraged to participate in Lane's PTA and
Site Council. - Science Fair.
- Curriculum Night.
- On-site Family/Community Coordinator.
Special programs and features
- Enrichment, Video Technology (Lane News), Art, Choir, Dance, Career Pathways, Computer Technology, PE, Health,Yearbook
- Science Bowl
- Student Planners: Each student at Lane receives a plannerfocused on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Plannersare used to keep assignments and provide daily communicationto families about the learning goals and homework at Lane.
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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