Berea Middle School is helping all students develop world-class skills and life and career characteristics of the Profile of the Graduate through our partnership with the United Way through our life-changing initiative On Track Greenville. This initiative pairs together many different organizations such as BellXcell, Prisma Health as well as Communities in Schools. We believe that strong community partnerships are imperative in providing the very best support for our students.
Our students have many opportunities for them to be successful and flourish in not just academics, but also socially. There are a plethora of activities such as the Robotics Club, Student Council as well as our Student Ambassadors program. Besides these clubs and organizations, there are also after school programs for our students. These programs have included additional enrichment opportunities such as tutoring and mentoring opportunities. One of those programs is Forward and Beyond Mentoring Organization who worked with students once a week on team-building, character education as well as STEAM projects.
We have had several accomplishments and recognitions in the past year that show that Berea Middle School is the place to be. Berea Middle School was one of two schools in the Upstate to receive the Hallways to Health grant. This grant has provided students and faculty the opportunity to come up with projects that promote a healthy lifestyle. Our awesome chorus group received an Excellent rating at the Carowinds competition. For the first time in years, Berea Middle School won the Campaign of Excellence for a great campaign where our faculty gave money for the United Way.
In order for our students to get the very best education and to prepare them for success, we firmly believe in professional development. We also want our teachers to be skilled in their craft which is why we provided many opportunities for professional development. 15 of our teachers attended the South Carolina Association of Middle-Level Education (SC-AMLE) Conference at Myrtle Beach, SC. We offered several sessions at school which included Mastery Connect Training, NearPod, FlipGrid, Google as well as extensive PD on effective Multilingual strategies for students.
We believe that parent involvement is essential in the success of students.. Our school has hosted various sessions to provide a strong parent/school connection. These sessions included tools to provide not only success academically, but also socially and emotionally as well.
At Berea Middle School, we believe that by “Building Relationships,” we are “Shaping Leaders” in every student.
Corey Collington, Principal
Stacey Ashmore. SIC Chair
