Hello Battle Creek students and welcome to your first year of Project SUCCESS! My name is Ginny and I will be working with you this school year on how to set goals and dream big for yourself. I have an exciting year planned and look forward to meeting you and talking about your plans and dreams for the future. Since Battle Creek is a new school for our organization, I look forward to learning more about your school and becoming a member of the BCMS community. Workshops are only once a month, so I encourage you to check our Web site to read about all the exciting things happening in the schools and the theaters around the Twin Cities. This is going to be a great year!

Here are just a few of the exciting things to come:

7th Grade – Goals

The activities and workshops designed for you this year center around goal setting and taking the necessary steps to achieve those goals. This can be anything from passing all your classes this fall to becoming a professional athlete. The sky is the limit! Also, be on the lookout for fun ways of getting the most out of theater experiences and what it really means to dream big.

8th Grade – Transitions

Activities and workshops in the 8th grade focus on making transitions and how you choose to handle and grow during those moments. We’ll talk about who you are now and who you hope to be in the future. We’ll talk about values and how those values guide you throughout your life. And we will definitely talk about high school and what it takes to have a successful high school career. 

Project SUCCESS is thrilled to be serving the students, staff and parents of Battle Creek Middle School. This new partnership is part of an initiative to expand into 5 new Minneapolis Public High Schools and Middle Schools and 2 new St. Paul Middle Schools.

At Battle Creek Middle School, Project SUCCESS offers the following programming:

• in-class, goal-setting workshops;
• opportunities for each student and their family to attend between six and twelve free theater events at 29 area theaters; and
• all-school fieldtrips.

At Battle Creek Middle School, students are organized into female or male academic academies. English, math, social studies and science and all elective classes (except concert band) are taught single sex. Teachers use strategies for teaching boys and girls differently and continue to use the latest research when developing lesson plans and classroom activities.

We utilize a daily middle school advisory program in addition to our 6 class period day and feature a monthly core value to focus on.

Battle Creek Middle School is a school of high standards-based, academic rigor that demands high performance and engagement from its students, challenging them with a quality instructional program delivered by dedicated faculty and staff. Pre-Advanced Placement classes prepare students for course work in regular and advanced high school programs, including Advanced Placement (AP) or College in the Schools. Teachers model effective learning through Professional Learning Communities. The focus in the PLC's is increasing student learning and achievement.

Students also have the opportunity of studying world languages, computer technology, music, physical education and visual arts as part of our many elective class options. BCMS is the only Saint Paul middle school to offer American Indian Studies classes, which include art and music, Ojibwe, and Lakota.