Professional Development School Network

Professional Development School Network
Howard County Public Schools

BURLEIGH MANOR MIDDLE SCHOOL

Address:
4200 Centennial Lane
Ellicott City, MD 21042

Phone:
(410) 313-2507

School Principal:
Barbara Hoffman

School Contact:
Elizabeth Disney; Michele Zurad

Towson Contact:
Barbara Maestas
bmaestas@towson.edu

DESCRIPTION OF THE SCHOOL

Burleigh Manor is a middle school located in Ellicott City, Maryland. BMMS is home to over 535 students and 50 plus faculty and staff members. Providing a well-balanced academic, fine arts, and enrichment program for its students ensures a successful middle school experience. The course of study at BMMS is challenging and rigorous, with numerous enrichment activities and opportunities offered to the students. The Burleigh Manor music programs are renowned throughout the county and the state of Maryland. They consistently rank highly in all competitions.

The CAP program at Burleigh Manor Middle School is designed to introduce students to positive tools for developing self-esteem, empathy, compassion, acceptance of diversity, conflict resolution and positive decision-making.

MISSION STATEMENT

Our belief is that school should be a place to learn. It should be a safe place that allows us to try new things and to improve on the old, a place to make mistakes and learn from those experiences. Burleigh Manor strives to achieve these goals every day.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COLLABORATION

• One of three schools in a multi-site professional development school for teacher candidates seeking certification in elementary in the Master of Arts in Teaching program.
• Burleigh Manor Middle School has joined with Hampstead Hill Elementary in Baltimore City to create a PDS whose goal is to share promising practices across school districts.
• This partnership allows the interns to complete an intensive internship in each school where the extensive internship will take place, prior to the final semester.
• Interns begin the first internship in August when the teachers return to school, learning about the students, the curricula, and the community.
• Following the initial intensive three-week block, interns spend three days per week in the classrooms full time and complete teacher preparation course work at the school sites.
• Interns spend the final two weeks of the fall internship in the classroom full time, working with each mentor to develop plans for the extended final semester.
• In the extended final semester, the professional development needs of the interns are cultivated throughout the two 9-week rotations, one at each of the school sites. The experience of the previous semester allows the intern to assume of extensive teaching responsibilities.
• On-site graduate courses are offered to the in-service teachers.
• School-based teachers serve on review teams for intern professional development portfolios.
• Interns implement an action research project with support from mentors. Interns at each school implement a service project for the school.

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