Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District

EXCELLENT EDUCATION

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While much has changed since the days of the one-room schoolhouse, the recipe for excellence in education remains the same: set high expectations for students, actively partner with families, and attract and retain professional teachers and staff who dedicate themselves to helping each child unlock his or her potential. All students come to school with their own unique talents and gifts. The teachers and staff at the Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District seek to nurture not only these strengths but also their confidence and character.

While many districts provide the basics of fine arts, our schools continue to offer a full spectrum of opportunities for students. In addition to music education in grades 4K-4, we offer band, choir, and orchestra in grades five through eight. Art is taught at all grade levels.

Our instruction is grounded in research-based best practice. In addition to core academic areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, we provide a variety of additional courses for students at various grades:
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• Spanish instruction begins as early as grade four and continues with daily instruction in grades five through eight. Many of our students arrive at high school with foreign language credits already on their transcripts.  

• Our middle school has course offerings that include health and wellness, financial literacy, technology, career exploration, and counseling.

While we provide differentiated instruction within the classroom, sometimes our students need additional services for support for their unique learning styles:
 

• Learner Enrichment and Advancement Program (LEAP) seeks to identify students who come to the classroom with strengths that require different levels of service to continue to develop these areas. Often referred to as Gifted and Talented Programming, students and families develop a personalized LEAP Service Plan.

• Math acceleration creates an opportunity for students to earn high school credit while in middle school.  We have offered both algebra and geometry courses at the middle school level.

• Early intervention by specially trained staff is provided in both reading and math for students who are working to reach proficiency with grade-level standards. 

• Social and emotional learning and character education are incorporated weekly across all grade levels.

• Makerspaces are available on each campus and we continue to include STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) opportunities for our students.