Welcome to Wade Carpenter Middle School in Nogales, Arizona. We've earned a reputation for excellent teachers, a supportive community, and academic excellence. We serve sixth through eighth grades. We represent the growing Nogales Unified School District.
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A message from the Principal.
We want to share with you some important updates and dates for the month of February. Dr. Keith Young from AKY Consulting provided training to our Instructional Leadership Team and Administrative Coaching for Wade Carpenter Administration. We continued the focus on our writing strategies and how to improve our implementation in all classrooms. Our Early Release on February 12 will give every department the opportunity to present on the writing strategies being used at Wade Carpenter. Dr. Young and Administration completed walkthroughs of different classes to observe the instruction and focus on our writing strategies. The feedback from Dr. Young was shared with the entire staff at our January 29 Early Release.
A reminder that Galileo testing for ELA, Math, and Science will be taking place over the next few weeks. We will conclude Galileo testing with the Quarter Three Writing Prompts for all of our students on February 20 and 21. We are excited about the academic growth from our students in all of these critical areas. This is our final Galileo Test in preparation for the AzMeritTwo in late March and early April.
You are all invited to our second English Language Learner (ELL) Night on Thursday, February 6, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Our ELA Team will be sharing strategies on vocabulary and the Achieve 3000 online reading program being used here at school. These strategies are very important and will help our ELL students prepare for the End of the Year Arizona English Language Learner Assessment (AZELLA) taking place February 10 to 14. We need more of our ELL students to pass this test and show improvement so that we can earn the three additional points for ELL proficiency and progress. This will help us improve our letter grade.
Thank you for your support and let's continue to move forward and be ready for the AzMeritTwo test. Have a great February.
Roman Soltero
Principal/Director
Wade Carpenter Middle School