Family Compact
A Family-School Compact for Achievement is an agreement that parents, students and teachers develop together. It explains how parents and teachers will work together to make sure all students get the individual support they need to reach and exceed grade level standards.
The parents at Highland Park Middle School helped develop this Compact for Achievement. Schoolwide meetings are held each year to update the compact. Parents are welcome to contribute comments at any time.
Teachers, Parents, Students - Together for Success
In the School:
The 6th, 7th and 8th grade teams will wor with students and their families to support students' success in reading and math. Some of our key connections with families will be:
- Continually update Schoology with upcoming classroom assignments
- Update SPPS One Stop frequency
- Provide weekly communication via the Scots' Scoop, highlighting academic supports and services
- Offer FCC meetings with family learning opportunities targeted at the middle school student
- Ensure that students who are not proficient have access to support services
- Provide silent sustained reading time for all students
- Provide daily math review for all students
- Provide students with designated writing time
- Use rubrics to communicate current learning, expectations and guidelines
- Connect to the Behavior Expectation Chart
At Home:
Parents join staff to develop ideas about how families can support student success in reading and math. Families may have additional ideas to add to this list:
- Read at home with your student
- Have fun and explore math at home daily
- Check both Schoology and SPPS One Stop weekly
- Try to attend Conferences and FCC meetings
- Play word games with the new vocabulary words and find easy to use these words in family conversations
- No technology in their sleeping area
- Contact the classroom teacher, counselor or family liaison when you have a question or concern
- Monitor screen time at home
- Promote positive use of my student's ipad, ensure their ipad is charged daily
- Promote positive use of extra-curricular time outside of school
Activities to Support Partnerships
Conferences
- 10/23/25; 4-7 p.m.
- 12/11/24; 4-7 p.m.
- 3/5/26; 4-7 p.m.
Activities to support academics
- Interventions
- Flipside/after-school
- Student Assistance Teams (SAT) interventions and supports
Annual Title I meeting
- 11/24/25 at 8 a.m.
Family Community Connection (FCC)
- 9/29/25 at 6 p.m.
- 10/27/25 at 6 p.m.
- 11/24/25 at 8 a.m.
- 1/12/26 at 8 a.m.
- 2/9/26 at 8 a.m.
- 3/23/26 at 8 a.m.
- 4/20/26 at 6 p.m.
- 5/18/26 at 6 p.m.
Communication at HPMS
Highland Park Middle School is committed to communicating regularly with families about children's learning. Some of the ways you can expect us to communicate are:
- Scots' Scoop - a weekly email sent to families describing upcoming events
- Schoology, website, emails, phone calls
- SPPS One Stop - families and students can access current grades via parent portal
- Google slides announcements will be shared with families.
District Goals
Middle School Model
- The middle school model centers around a team of teachers and advisors who work together to meet the social-emotional and academic needs of a common group of students.
- Teachers from four core subject area (math, science, reading/writing and social studies) instruct the same group of students throughout the school day.
- Teachers, counselors, social workers and support staff work together to provide students with lessons that help them navigate peer conflict, friendship, bullying, stress and anxiety.
- Academics include challenging core and elective courses and college and career readiness programming.
- Every student is supported for who they are and who they hope to become by honoring and celebrating their culture, race/ethnicity and gender.
- Middle schools have strengthened English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum to include both Reader's and Writer's Workshop to 6th grade.
HPMS SCIP Goals
Reading
- The percentage of all students scoring proficient or higher in reading will increase from 4% points as measured by the MCA III Reading Assessment administered in April 2025.
- At least 68% (a return to goal reached pre-pandemic) of all students in grades 6-8 will achieve typical or aggressive growth in their composite scores as measured and incrementally monitored by fall, winter and spring FAST Reading assessment by May 2025.
Math
- The percentage of all students scoring proficient or higher in mathematics will increase from 4% points as measured by the MCA III Math Assessment administered in April 2025.
Schoolwide Goal
- At a baseline measure, 85% of students in grades 6-8 will take the Student Climate Survey Fall 2024 and in Spring 2025 with an increase of 10% in student satisfaction as measured by the overall score by June 2025.