Inspiring Education, Bruce Schmidt Assistant Principal

Inspiring Education Bruce C. Schmidt Jr.

EXCELLENCE

" Excellence is not a skill, it is an attitude."

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Principal

Gordon Russell Middle School
503-667-7048
Bruce's Resume

PHILOSOPHY

" Administrators in our public schools must work to remove barriers to ensure success. We must support staff and students by developing a true learning community where a quality education can take place, students feel safe, and parents and community members feel welcome."

AVID

"AVID"

Advancement Via Individual Determination

AVID "60 Minutes" Video

AVID is a program designed to help underachieving middle and high school students prepare for and succeed in colleges and universities. Students in the program commit themselves to improvement and preparation for college. AVID offers a rigorous program of instruction in academic “survival skills” and college level entry skills. The AVID program teaches the student how to study, read for content, take notes, and manage time. Students participate in collaborative study groups or tutorials led by tutors who use skillful questioning to bring students to a higher level of understanding.

AVID BROCHURE

The high school AVID program is ideally a four-year program for students who have the potential to succeed in college prep courses. Such students demonstrate a desire to attend college. Upon acceptance into AVID, students must also enroll in college prep courses which will result in fulfilling entry requirements for most stateside colleges and universities. AVID is an elective class which meets during the regular school day.

PBIS

Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports

One of the foremost advances in school-wide discipline is the emphasis on school-wide systems of support that include proactive strategies for defining, teaching, and supporting appropriate student behaviors to create positive school environments. Instead of using a piecemeal approach of individual behavioral management plans, a continuum of positive behavior support for all students within a school is implemented in areas including the classroom and nonclassroom settings (such as hallways, buses, and restrooms).

Positive behavior support is an application of a behaviorally-based systems approach to enhance the capacity of schools, families, and communities to design effective environments that improve the link between research-validated practices and the environments in which teaching and learning occurs. Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support that improve lifestyle results (personal, health, social, family, work, recreation) for all children and youth by making targeted behaviors less effective, efficient, and relevant, and desired behavior more functional.