Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer Madison City Schools At the February 5th Board of Education meeting, the 2026-2027 middle and high school course offerings were approved. Madison City Schools (MCS) revises the course offerings annually making changes to our existing courses, adding courses, or removing courses to ensure that we offer a viable curriculum, innovative programs, and experiences that provide the greatest opportunities for our students to excel. Revisi

During the Spring semester (2026), Secondary Math Coaches created and led math community events to strengthen community-school relationships while families and community members engaged in fun math activities. The DoWEA PRISM grant, which was awarded to Madison City Schools in 2024, focuses on the initiative to improve proportional reasoning in middle school students. The grant project aims to advance students' mathematical proficiency, skills, and overall achievement while

Recently, our middle school teachers participated in OGAP training, and one theme echoed across every content strand: mathematics is a language. Like any language, understanding depends on consistent and meaningful vocabulary — not just introducing terms, but intentionally maintaining them across lessons, units, and grade levels. A perfect example appears when students learn to divide fractions. In middle school, we carefully teach students that dividing by a fraction means