A.L. Corbett Middle School, a 6th – 8th grade school, is located in the rural farming community of Wagener, SC. Our student body consists of approximately 230 students and 40 faculty and staff members. We strive to provide a safe, caring, and academically challenging teaching and learning environment through the implementation of our school’s Purpose and Direction.
- Our Purpose is to become a learning community with a safe environment that fosters engaged learners, involved parents, and dedicated teachers.
- Our Direction is to establish a supportive environment and engage every scholar in educational experiences in preparation for his or her next grade level.
We demonstrate our Purpose and Direction by providing continuous support and professional development for our teachers, by challenging all scholars to reach their full potential through the implementation of research-based best practices, and by providing opportunities for parents to support scholar learning by becoming involved in our school.
Our school is helping all develop the World Class Skills of the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate by creating a teaching and learning environment that is safe, caring, and academically challenging.
- To assist scholars in developing World Class Skills, we provide technology activities and project-based learning that promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration.
- We are providing our scholars with World Class Knowledge, to support the development of World Class Skills, by providing opportunities in Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Exploratory courses. These offerings will help our scholars become college and career ready. World Class Knowledge is also developed through activities in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Exploratory courses.
- Life and Career Characteristics such as integrity, self-direction, and work ethics are developed through character development activities, leadership and mentoring opportunities, and school and community service activities. Development of these characteristics will aid scholars in the development of World Class Skills.
Many programs and activities at A.L. Corbett support scholars academically, behaviorally, socially, emotionally, and physically. These programs and activities include acceleration and remediation opportunities. We offer interventions through Read 180, Math Intervention, Writing Boot Camp and dedicated intervention block for small groups in ELA, Writnig and Math, In addition, we utilize IXL and DreamBox to provide computer assisted instruction. Students are able to recover academic content through our use of Edmentum. We provide additional support and analyze data monthly through Professional learning Communities and Student Intervention Teams for academics and discipline. In addition, scholars are enrolled in Gifted and Talented and high school courses for content areas, foreign language, and business education.
A. L. Corbett scholars participate in other activities such as Academic Team, Junior Beta Club, Student Council, Aiken Challenge, Battle of the Books, Spelling Bee, Science Fair, and Health & Wellness Fair. We offer multiple opportunities for scholars, parents and the community to participate in activities throughout the year. A few of those activities are Math Night, Literacy Night, Coffee & Conversations with the Principal, Parent Teacher Volunteer opportunities, School Improvement Council, and Open House. We collaborate with faith-based organizations and other organizations such as Harvest Hope, March of Dimes, Golden Harvest, Aiken Regional Hospital Children's Hospital and Aiken Barnwell Mental Health. We provide a mentoring program, book clubs, Spirit Week, awards day programs, Honor Band, Career Exploration Day, monthly behavior incentives, ALCMS Shout-Outs, other educational field studies, and a variety of sports offerings. Our one-to-one devices allow teacher to support technology integration throughout their classroom and the media center.
We believe it is essential that each of our scholars learn the characteristics or traits they need to develop to be a productive citizen, scholar, and leader. As a Leader in Me School, we focus on buildiing our scholars as leaders through the use of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. The skills and characteristics we emphasize through this process are Habit 1: Be Proactive, Habit 2: Begin With the End in Mind, Habit 3: Put First Things First, Habit 4: Think Win-Win, Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood, Habit 6: Synergize, Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw. We also employ Habit 8: Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs. When applied appropriately, these habits and skills learned will help to ensure our scholars’ success now and throughout their lives. We are a community of leaders who value relationships, recognize worth and potential and strive for effectiveness in all we do. We commit to modeling and living the “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, defining and rising to expectations, and planning and executing with fidelity and being intentional.
A. L. Corbett Middle School continues to focus on increasing scholar achievement in all content areas, creating a safe and positive learning environment for all scholars and adults, and improving home-school communication and stakeholder satisfaction. A.L. Corbett will continue to focus on increasing academic growth throughout the school in all content areas on MAP and state assessments. Students will continue to participate in goal-setting conferences with the knowlege and understanding of their personal academic data and academic performance levels.
The faculty and staff at A.L. Corbett Middle School believe it is vital to build a culturally responsive and equitable school environment and establish positive relationships with our students , families, community, businesses, and faith-based organizations. Program and activities such as our Red Ribbon Week, Veterans Day Program, Black History Month Program, Women's History Month Program, the Wagener Tree Lighting and Christmas Parade, PTO family involvement activities, Health and Wellness Fair, Service Learning opportunities and Community Service activities help us to build these relationships.
The faculty, staff, parents, and communities of A.L. Corbett continuously focus on improving instruction to better prepare our scholars academically, behaviorally, socially, emotionally, and physically. Our Core Values of Commitment, Curriculum, Character, Community, and being Culturally Responsive will continue to foster a lion’s spirit of engaged learners, involved parents, and dedicated teachers!
We truly appreciate the support we receive from our community and district as we work to ensure that our scholars develop the World Class Skills they will need to become South Carolina high school graduates and life-long learners!
Ms. Nytia Kitchings, Chair - School Improvement Council
Mrs. Michelle B. Kennedy, Principal
