“Linking Schools of Uncommon Commitment”
Who We Are:
The CMGPN provides middle grades educators with peer support and information to meet the academic, social, and emotional needs of young adolescents.
Strong Middle Schools Can:
- Help students to become motivated, caring, and dedicated individuals with the values and skills necessary for success in life.
- Prevent students from becoming disengaged and from dropping out.
- Give all students the academic skills they need to succeed in a rigorous high school program.
CMGPN connects educators across schools, districts, regions, and the state. We work together, share information, and support one another as we continue our unwavering commitment towards middle school excellence.
Our Mission:
To support a regional network of middle grades educators dedicated to sharing best practices where all students experience success and are prepared to meet the challenges for the twenty-first century.
The Network’s Purpose:
- Implement the 12 recommendations of Taking Center Stage-Act II.
- Provide opportunities for colleagues to help member schools become more effective places of learning.
- Share research and knowledge about young adolescents and their learning needs across school and district boundaries.
- Share successes and challenges of managing, operating and teaching in a middle school.
- Establish a larger learning community that shares professional development resources and opportunities.
- Share best practices for implementing state and national reform initiatives, and for preparing students for the rigors of high school and beyond.
Membership Benefits:
- Current updates on
- Legislation, Curriculum and Instruction, Assessment, Accountability and CDE Funding
- Legislation, Curriculum and Instruction, Assessment, Accountability and CDE Funding
- Sharing best practices
- Administrator-to-administrator and Teacher-to-teacher
- Administrator-to-administrator and Teacher-to-teacher
- Collegial support
- Addressing needs of new principals
- Providing opportunities for professional growth and dialogue among experienced administrators
- Expert Presenters on a variety of education-related topics
- Ready forum for solving common problems
- Site visitations of model middle schools
- Active dialogue with the California Department of Education
- Connections to California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) system support
- Collaborative voice in middle grades policy
Partnership Members Say:
"The greatest benefit in belonging to an educational partnership is the collegial relationships we have developed, the mutual support provided, and ideas shared.”
"The network has provided outstanding opportunities for dialogue with other principals regarding programs that are working to improve student performance.”
"As a new principal, this group was my lifesaver.”
"There are very few opportunities for site administrators that are comparable in quality to the professional access and content pedagogy that principals are exposed to through the networks.”
Join a Regional Partnership Network!
For more information, visit: California Middle Grades Partnership Network or contact the Middle and High School Improvement Office at: 916-322-1892.