Outling our support services at FMS

Every year we receive many questions about how our staff supports the students here at Freeland Middle School.

Our middle level students are unique students who need supports in many areas including:

Social/Emotional Support

College and Career Readiness Support

Academic Support

Behavioral Support

and More!

It is our pleasure to support every child in these areas, and we want to make sure that as parents and students in our building you fully understand how we are supporting students at FMS.

We utilize lots of acronyms in education and below outline a few you may hear at FMS...

• MTSS - Multi-Tiered System of Support... this is just a big word that essentially means, "everything we do at school to support your child's diverse needs."
• PBIS - Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports... these are all the things we do to celebrate students at school, from assemblies, to daily incentive drawings; we strive to celebrate each student as often as possible. 
• SOAR - Show Respect, On-Task, Always Safe, and Responsible... these are our district wide expectations for behavior in each building. Our FMS theme this year is to make sure we are always "SOARing Above the Line".
• PASS - Positive Alternative to School Suspension... we have partnered with The Rock in Midland to provide this program as a resource for students who would normally be disciplined through an out-of-school suspension, and can instead attend a day or more of PASS to engage in behavior intervention which will help to make long term changes to negative behavior for the future.

When it comes to our behavioral and social/emotional supports for students, we make sure to utilize a variety of resources including counseling services, behavior intervention plans, and utilizing our PASS program, when appropriate. 

When it comes to our academic supports and college/career readiness, we offer a wide variety of supports including counseling services, college/career advisory training and mentoring, intervention classes for math and reading, differentiated instruction to meet individual needs, and various progress monitoring tools to truly know where our students are at academically. 

Our goal at FMS to live by the idea that no one student is the same. We believe that developing an individualized plan for students is always the best approach to their success at school! 

For information on our PASS program (Positive Alternative to School Suspension) take a look at this link!

For more information in regards to our supports, please review our Multi-Tiered System of Support outline, or contact Mrs. Wulff at wulffr@freelandschools.net with any questions! 

A new year, a fresh start, an exciting week.

Well, our middle school students made it through the first week, and had a great time last week! There were so many moments throughout the week that made me proud to be a Freeland Falcon. Our students did an excellent job settling into the routines of the middle school, and things are running smoothly.

Students are loving our lunch set up, and like that they have lots of variety in food and seating in the cafeteria!

Students are also getting used to their new classes, and doing many new things in their classes to work with one another, get to know their teachers, and utilize the technology we have available at school! 

Students are learning what it means to SOAR Above the Line at Freeland Middle School, and have posters and reminders all throughout the school to help them better understand our building theme! Students also walked to each of our shared spaces in the school to review our SOAR expectations for shared spaces in the building. 

And, a successful first week cannot happen without a great pep assembly! On Friday, we celebrated with the rest of the community as we prepared for our Clash for the Cure game. Students had a great time participating in many different activities that focused on building awareness around supporting those impacted by cancer.

What a great week to be a Falcon. Go Falcons! Go Freeland Middle School!