middle school / high school collaboration
As part of a nascent project here in Memphis and specifically at Craigmont, I'm looking for documented examples of collaboration between middle schools and high schools in the same area. Our beginning idea is to create a theoretical bridge between this middle school where I teach and the high school into which it feeds. It's right down the block, yet after working here for three years I do not know a single teacher there. The cultures are the schools are radically different, as is the quality of extracurricular programming (according to some observers). For example, the middle school has a chess club while the high school does not, and the high school has a debate club while the middle school does not. We hope that by creating extracurricular (and eventually curricular) bridges between the two schools, we can increase student/parent/teacher/administrator motivation and create a culture of excellence.Like I said at the beginning, I'm looking for documented examples of this sort of collaboration: any middle school clubs that attract high school students or vice versa.
