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Madison City Schools 2026-2027 Course Offerings

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

Feb 64 min read

Madison City Schools 2025-2026 Course Offerings

Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer Madison City Schools At the February 6 Board of Education meeting, the 2025-2026 middle and...

Feb 7, 20254 min read

MCS Reaches 100 National Board Certified Teachers

Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer Madison City Schools In December, the National Board released the list of new National Board...

Jan 24, 20232 min read

Middle and High School Curricular Offerings for the 2023-2024 School Year

Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer and Career Tech Director Madison City Schools Each year Madison City Schools makes changes...

Jan 24, 20235 min read

Leadership, Learning, Resources Among the Focus of the MCS Accreditation Review

Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer Madison City Schools During the week of March 7, 2022, Madison City Schools went through the...

Mar 10, 20223 min read

Preparing Today for the Workforce of Tomorrow

Dr. Heather Donaldson Chief Academic Officer Madison City Schools Since Madison City Schools (MCS) became a district in 1998, we have had...

Feb 22, 20223 min read

MCS is Proud to Receive our 7th DoDEA Grant

Madison City Schools is excited to announce a 2019 grant award from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA)...

Nov 20, 20191 min read

Seal of Biliteracy Path puts Students on the Fast Track to Global Success

Every month, our Instruction Team hosts a public Instruction Committee meeting where we share the many areas of focus in Pre-K through...

Dec 21, 20182 min read

Accelerated Math Puts Math Learning On The Fast Track

Every month, our Instruction Team hosts a public instruction committee meeting where we share the many areas of focus in Pre-K through...

Nov 9, 20182 min read

Partners in Precision

Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, Superintendent Robby Parker had a goal of developing programs for our high school students to...

Oct 12, 20181 min read

Making the Grade in Instruction

Someone once said, “Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.” That is a guiding principle of the Madison City Schools Instruction...

Oct 12, 20185 min read

Going Beyond Traditional School With More Viable, Creative Course Offering

With Superintendent Parker’s vision and the steadfast support and input from the Board, district instruction team, and school staff, we...

Sep 10, 20182 min read

Madison City Schools 2026-2027 Course Offerings

Say What You Mean: The Power of Math Vocabulary

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

Equipping Secondary New Teachers for Success

Every year, Madison City Schools welcomes many new middle and high school teachers to the district. Some teachers join our district with decades of classroom experience from other districts and states; some are recent college graduates; and some come from entirely different careers. We are so excited to welcome our new teachers, and our district and schools work hard to equip them for success in sharing our instructional priorities and best practices through our New Teacher P