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MIDDLEBOROUGH MIDDLEBOROUGH
PUBLIC
HIGH SCHOOL
SCHOOLS
Paul Branagan
Principal
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (continued)
students with a better balance in regard to the use of
technology in the classroom. Additionally, our faculty
has implemented a new assessment program called, Star
360. This assessment tool allows our ninth-grade and
tenth-grade teachers to engage students in Mathematics
and Literacy in a pre, mid and post assessment to
monitor growth and achievement for our students.
START STRONG:
The Freshman Orientation program known as
“StartSTRONG” was a very successful summer program
with more than half of the incoming freshman
participating in the two-day program at MHS to help
them transition to high school. The program is
student-run with members of the junior and senior
classes involving incoming freshman with workshops,
activities and tours to begin their acclimation to the high
school career. Close to 150 student leaders led the charge
to welcome the Class of 2028 to the high school in
August, 2024.
SCHOOL-TO-CAREER:
The School-to-Career Program continues to provide a
variety of opportunities for students to become “Future
Ready”. This year, 165 students participated in a variety of
internships. From the very successful Fire Science
Program to elementary classrooms to local engineering
firms, and many more businesses and industries in and
around Middleborough. Students earned academic
credit while exploring careers of interest, and gaining
first-hand knowledge of what is required to be successful
in a particular career. Most internships take place outside
the Middleborough High School campus. In addition, 70
students participated in Early College courses with
Massasoit Community College earning both high school
and college credit simultaneously, therefore improving
their ability to matriculate into a 2-year or 4-year college
ater graduation.
NEASC
Middleborough High School has begun the planning
process for the decennial visit for our Accreditation,
which will take place in the fall of 2025. Our entire faculty
and staf have been working on two very important
documents as we begin the assessment process of our
school. The first document is our Vision of the Graduate,
which will give guidance to who we want our students to
be when they graduate from MHS. Additionally, our
faculty completed the important Self-Relection Report,
which was instrumental in the Collaborative Conference
Visit that the high school had in November 2023, which
will give an assessment of where our school is at currently
in regard to meeting the five NEASC Standards and more
importantly, where we want to go as a school as we
prepare for our Accreditation Visit in 2025.
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