For the 2006/2007 School Year

	Lakeside Middle School 10102 W. Charles Rd. Nine Mile Falls WA, 99026 340~4010 FAX: 340~4011 Principal: Jeff Baerwald Principal's Assistant: Kevin Simpson Secretary: April Denigan
The mission of Lakeside Middle School is to create a disciplined, integrated system where students develop the skills to feel, act, and think as a full-functioning human being.

Site Data Enrollment (October 2006) 429 Male 51.3% Female 48.7% Classroom Teachers 26 Average Years of Teaching Experience 13.8  Teachers with at least a Master's Degree 73.1% Average Daily Attendance 94.29%  Ethnicity: White 95.3%  Hispanic 1.6% American Indian/Alaskan Native 1.6% Asian 0.7% Black 0.2% Percentage Free/Reduced Lunches (May 2007) 27.7%  Students in Special Education (May 2007)  9.8% Students Involved In Extra-Curricular Activities Fall Sports (3) 149 Winter Sports (4) 286 Spring Sports (2) 136 Band/Color Guard 178 WASL Two Year Testing Trends   Lakeside Middle School State Average 05/06 06/07 05/06 06/07 Sixth Grade Reading 79.2%  67.5% 66.7% 67.8% Math 58.8%  51.6% 49.5%  49.5% Seventh Grade Reading 67.6% 76.8%  61.5% 68.5% Math 53.7% 65.2%  48.5% 54.4%   Writing 70.7%  55.8%  64.6% 68.1% Eighth Grade Reading 74.3%  71.4% 70.1%  64.7% Math 52.1%  61.9% 48.9%  49.5% Science 52.1%  51.0% 42.9%   44.4%

Dear Community, The 2006-2007 school year was filled with new challenges and great successes. We continued to implement many of the exciting and purposeful changes we have made at Lakeside Middle School. As a staff we are proud of the academic and co-curricular success our students experienced throughout the year. In late September through early October, our students began collecting pledges for our 8th Annual Fund Run. Again, our students collected over $15,000 in pledges. All money collected from the Fund Run is used to support all co-curricular activities at Lakeside Middle School. I would like to thank all of the students and community members who helped support us during this important fund-raiser. Throughout the school year our students successfully competed in academic and athletic competitions. Over two-thirds of our seventh and eighth graders were involved in athletics. The Lakeside Middle School band/music program had another successful year and continued to provide opportunities for students to perform in front of diverse audiences. In June, all eighth grade students were involved in a “We the People” showcase where they were judged on their expertise and knowledge of different constitutional issues. In February we held an Evening of Excellence assembly to formally recognize all of our honor roll students. Over 150 students were recognized for their outstanding academic accomplishments. Again, during this past school year, we continued our effort to recognize students for displaying the characteristics of the Eagle Pride Word of the Month. Hundreds of our students who displayed the Word of the Month were recognized throughout the year with a hall party pass that allowed them to go to the front of the lunch line and to receive free ice cream. Along with the hall parties, each grade level recognized students through their own Eagle Pride assemblies or end of the year celebrations. I would also like to recognize and thank all of our students and staff who participated in helping provide for an environment that will allow the “The Lakeside Way” to become the touchstone of our school – they have truly made a difference. Finally, the staff at Lakeside Middle School would like to thank all of you for another great year and invite you to come to Lakeside Middle School and be a part of the daily education of our students. We are looking forward to the year ahead of us and would like you to be a part of our successes and celebrations. Jeff Baerwald, Principal

School Improvement Plan

During the last few school years, the staff at Lakeside Middle School has been working to continue their own professional development in order to positively impact student learning. We have utilized our professional development days along with Thursday collaboration time to help us achieve our goals of improving teaching and learning. We are proud of the progress we have made and will continue to work diligently to provide the best education we can to all of our students.

During the past year the staff at Lakeside Middle School embraced “The Lakeside Way” as a touchstone for what we believe helps a person develop character. “The Lakeside Way” is characterized by three main goals and a mission statement. • Working Hard – Striving for excellence. • Doing the Right Thing – Striving for ethical behavior. • Being Yourself – Following your conscience instead of the crowd and striving to develop, not waste, your full potential for excellence and ethics. At Lakeside Middle School we strive to improve the well-being of ourselves and those around us.

The staff members that have been involved in our Meaningful Learning Team over the past year have shown a tremendous amount of dedication to student character development. As a group, the Meaningful Learning Team created “The Lakeside Way” in order to help students develop a stronger understanding of what a person of character is. We are excited about the changes we have made for next year and believe we will create a very educational, motivating, and safe environment for the students of Lakeside Middle School.

Along with the changes that have been made in our character education program, the staff has also maintained a professional focus on our three building goals. The goals call for improving teaching and learning in order to improve reading, math, and student motivation. Collaboration time throughout the year was dedicated to making progress toward meeting the goals.

The reading team has identified specific goals that need to be achieved based on current student performance. Through the identification of these goals, they have developed a staff tool kit to help all teachers become better teachers of reading. They will continue to review the data we receive from classroom, district, and state assessments to continually reevaluate and readjust their goals. Our students in all three grades performed better than the state average on the 2006 reading WASL.

Within the mathematics program, the teachers at Lakeside Middle School continue to create backwards design units to maintain close alignment with the state standards. The backwards design process is being used to align all subject areas. Through this process the teacher identifies the state standard they want to address, followed by how they will assess the student learning, and finally creating lessons to help the student learn and understand the state standards. The 2006 WASL scores demonstrated that the connected math program is continuing to help students increase their understanding in mathematics. As with reading, our students in all three grades performed better than the state average in math.

Finally, the staff at Lakeside Middle School would like to thank all of the parents and volunteers for their dedication to helping us make Lakeside Middle School a better place for kids.

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