Academic Support

Special Education
If you are concerned about your child’s educational progress, skill acquisition or social skill development, exploring learning difficulties may be worth your time. Though every effort is made to improve student performance through regular education interventions and supports prior to considering special education or related services, this team will help guide those efforts to ensure an appropriate education for all.

If you have questions or concerns about any of the programs listed above please contact the Learning Specialist assigned to your child.

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Corrective Learning Programs

Corrective Reading/Comprehension
Hazelbrook Middle School offers students the opportunity to improve their skills in basic reading and comprehension. Through teacher recommendation, parent request, and/or past test scores, students will be placed in one of five different levels.

Utilizing a direct instruction teaching approach, students will be taught to mastery in specific skill areas proven to be essential for reading and comprehension. Students will move quickly through units of instruction that focus on the reading components necessary for the successful comprehension of high-content
reading material.

Students previously enrolled in this class have also enjoyed increased test scores on the statewide achievement exams taken in the spring. By becoming successful at skimming, analyzing written work, and using logic to draw conclusions, they are able to complete these tests much faster and with less anxiety.

Corrective Mathematics
Much like the Corrective Reading Program, Hazelbrook Middle School offers an opportunity for students to improve their basic mathematical operation skills. Students are selected for this class based on teacher recommendation, parent request and/or past test scores.

Students enrolled in this class will move quickly through units of instruction that focus on the essential components necessary for future mathematical challenges. Students will practice math facts, learn strategies to solve multi-digit problems, understand and manipulate fractions as well as think critically about ratios, percents, and complex equations.

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Success Program
We know learners will excel and thrive if they are provided with a safe environment focused on high academic achievement and personal growth. However, for students who demonstrate difficulty maintaining sufficient progress (academically and/or behaviorally) and have demonstrated the need for additional support and care, Hazelbrook Middle School offers Success. Success is intended to maximize the role of the educator in order to build positive relationships between students, peers, and adults.

With the focus on learning strategies, self-determination, and skill application, Hazelbrook’s Success class will help enrolled students experience success.

Students enrolled in Success will have the opportunity to benefit from:

• Instructional support through a licensed teacher and a student advocate
• Instructional and behavioral goal setting and tracking
• Direct instruction in learning strategies and social skills
• Small group attention
• Self-monitoring and discussion; and
• A continuing focus on character development

If you would like more information about Hazelbrook’s Success program, contact the Counseling Office at 503.431.5100 or the instructor, Chris Long at 503.431.5104 or by email at clong@ttsd.k12.or.us.

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Talented and Gifted
Hazelbrook Middle School is committed to an educational program that recognizes, identifies and serves the unique needs of all students, including the talented and gifted (TAG). Our district believes that there are many areas in which students may be gifted and we strive to meet their needs in both core academic classes and elective classes. The Tigard-Tualatin School District identifies students who are academically talented in math and/or reading and the intellectually gifted.

While TAG students are identified and special services provided, it is the intent of the district to group students in a heterogeneous environment as much as possible. It shall continue to be the intent of the district to minimize the labeling of students by ability and maximize the understanding and cooperation that results from heterogeneous grouping.

Students will arrive at Hazelbrook with their TAG designation intact and continue throughout their time here as TAG students. Students will be added to the program as test scores and their performance merit. We practice flexible grouping in our pullouts, meaning that TAG and high performing students will be included depending on the activity and teacher recommendation. Please access the HMS TAG Page for information and helpful links. Contact Amy Haaland, the Hazelbrook TAG Coordinator at 503.431.5123 or by email at ahaaland@ttsd.k12.or.us.

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English Language Learners

ELL (English Language Learner) Class is designed to help all students who do not speak English on a native level. Within this description are found various categories of students:

• those who do not speak English
• those who speak and write a little
• those who speak well, but write and read at a basic level
• those who speak, write, and read very well, but need to perfect grammar

This class deals with all levels, and in most classes, students of different levels are found. For this reason, we try to design lessons to help each one of our students as much as possible. For more information about the ELL program contact Jennie Movrich at 503.431.5147 or jmovrich@ttsd.k12.or.us

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