Educational Opportunities
Student opportunities for acceleration or remediation
Spearfish Middle School
District-wide opportunities:
- Kids Club – both acceleration and remediation
- Summer school – remediation
- Youthwise – both
- Driver’s Ed – grades 7-12 – both
- Alternative School
- College classes
- Advanced Electives
Building-wide opportunities:
- Spartan Learning Labs – remediation
- HIIT lifting program – both
- FLEX – both
- Science Olympiad – acceleration
- Knowledge Bowl – acceleration
- Drama Troupe – both
- Student Council – both
- Maker Space – both
- Robotics Competition – both
- Open Gym – both
- Spartans 4 Spartans – both
- START community service projects
- Digital library check-outs
- Spartan Tech Squad
Grade-level opportunities:
- All sports for girls and boys
- Running Club
- Dance
- Boys Science Day
- Girls Science Day
- Orienteering
- Dances
- Vore Buffalo Jump field trip
- Fishing Derby and Cook-out at Iron Creek
- Junior Achievement
- Football/sportsmanship interdisciplinary unit… culminating activity = paper bowl and potluck
Individual class opportunities:
- Swing Choir
- Jazz Band
- Honor Choir
- Honor Band
- All State Band
- All State Choir
- Solo Ensemble Contest – Band and Choir
- Individual lessons – Band and Choir
- Choir caroling in the community
- Community performances for both Band and Choir
- Before and after school help from individual teachers
- Redo – Retest
- Science teachers split students based on their knowledge and have one class enrichment and another intervention
- Choice Assignments- where students can chose how they want to demonstrate their knowledge gives students struggling a chance to show what they know and us to push higher level students
- Individualized reading goals based on ability
- Student choice in reading materials to reach a variety of goals