8th Grade

Welcome to the 8th Grade Experience

School Mission

To ensure all students and staff embrace active lifelong learning and become productive, compassionate citizens of the world through rigorous intercultural instruction.

Guaranteed Learner Experience

East students will experience a predictable learning environment where they feel safe, known as people who are validated for how they feel and what they know to be true while also engaged intellectually in a learning experience that presents them with a productive and appropriately rigorous yet joyful struggle.

MYP Curriculum

  • IB Learner Profile
  • MYP Year 3 Assessment Criteria
  • All 8 MYP Subject Groups
  • Approaches to Teaching and Learning
  • Criterion-based Assessments

MYP Community Project (Service as Action)

  • Groups/solo identify an authentic need in a community
  • Work with a faculty supervisor
  • Investigate, Plan, Take Action, Reflect
  • Project Extravaganza