Jardine Technology Magnet

Jardine embraces all our diverse students and has high expectations for each student to achieve to the highest level.

Jardine embraces all our diverse students and has high expectations for each student to achieve to the highest level.

As a Technology magnet, each part of the day integrates technology into the learning environment. The technology component involves students in their own learning through the utilization of an advanced technology computer lab, wireless laptop computer labs, technology classes, Palm Pilots, projectors, SmartBoards, and airliners.

Students at Jardine attend school from 7:10 a.m. - 2:20 p.m. All students wear uniforms consisting of white collared tops, blue bottoms and belts. Agenda-style planners are used as an organizational tool for the students to record assignments and as a form of communication between the home and school.

Jardine parents are always welcome in the school. Jardine students are to focus on their learning and we invite parents to become part of that process.

• Ms. Kristin Wells, 8th grade social studies, received a 2005 Golden Apple Teacher Award for her excellence in teaching.
• Jardine is a NASA Explorer School -- (the only NASA School in Kansas).
• The school bond construction was completed last year with new science classrooms and updated infrastructure.
• Jardine celebrates the diversity of their students and their families.
• Jardine placed third during the 2006-2007 school year in National Academic League.

Exit I-135 at Pawnee. Go east on Pawnee to Hillside.Go south on Hillside to Ross Parkway. Go east on Ross Parkway to Jardine. See Maps for all USD 259 locations.

Jardine Technology Magnet will provide a positive educational learning environment that challenges and supports all students to be successful learners. The staff will collaborate to ensure the academic success of all students.

Inspire
Jardine will strive to create and nurture personal relationships, built on trust. We will value each other’s cultures, traditions, and unique personalities. We will inspire students to believe in themselves and their abilities.

Engage
Students and families will have multiple opportunities to engage with the school both academically and socially through: Innovative classroom instruction and curriculum, NASA activities, After-School programs, Parent Academic Workshops (Read Sprint, Math Sprint), Leadership programs, National Academic League, Site Council, etc.

Challenge
All students, families and staff are challenged to perform to high expectations for  academic excellence and self-discipline. Students and staff will strive to model the 3-Rs:  Rights, Respect and Responsibility.

Each school has a site council, which is a group of parents, community members, business representatives, teachers and other school staff who identify, consider and discuss educational problems and issues at the school. Councils provide advice and counsel to the principal for evaluating state, school district and school site performance goals and objectives. Councils may also recommend methods that may be employed at the school site to meet these goals and objectives. Please call the school for more information on how to become involved in the Jardine Site Council and the PTO. They meet the 4^th Monday of almost every month.

• Flight Training after school: Focuses on study programs at each grade level for students who are earning less than a C in any of their core classes. They are scheduled two times per week with classroom teachers and includes goal-setting and record-keeping of academic progress on quarterly assessments, math modules and yearly assessments.
• ESOL classes for students who speak another language as their first language
• Nine-weeks Honor Roll breakfasts for students and their parents/guardians.
• Intervention math and reading classes in fine arts: Read 180 and Extreme in Language Arts – double block classes for both math and language arts
• Intervention classes built in the schedule to provide students more time to improve their reading, writing, and math skills.
• Parent involvement activities-- Math Sprint, Read Sprint, 8th Grade Transition Meetings, 5th Grade Transition Night
• NASA Explorer School: Brings science and technology learning experiences to Jardine through technology, partnerships and activities (Footsteps to the Moon, Distance Learning - Contact with Antarctica Scientists 1/10/06, Lake Afton Observatory Family Nights, Space Station Experiment Analysis 2007, Partnership with Kansas Cosmosphere, tracking the Space Shuttle missions, 2007-2008).
• Title I moneys provide staff development for teachers, instructional coaches who work with teachers and lead staff development, and supplemental services to provide tutoring to Jardine students to help them raise test scores and improve reading, writing, and math.
• Professional learning communities every week where teachers collaborate to analyze data, share effective strategies that work, and plan lessons.

• Sports (Intramurals and competitive: volleyball, basketball and track with well-qualified coaching)
• National Academic League
• After-school programs: 40-minute study period, off-campus activities through YMCA, supervised reading, technology, hands-on and physical activities available in building
• Technology utilized regularly in all classrooms to engage students in learning.
• Strong fine arts programs to connect students to school like vocal music, band, orchestra, leadership, art, technology, and physical education.
• Partnership with Boeing who provides books to students to promote reading, incentives to students to reward reading, and other educational items.
• Promotional activities to encourage students to read like recreational reading in all classes, “Got Caught Reading” bookmarks and free books for students who “got caught” by their teachers reading at appropriate times.
• All teachers are trained in Kagan structures (collaborative strategies) to increase student engagement.

Jardine School began its existence as a high school in the Planeview area. At that time the school was known simply as Planeview High School.

The City of Planeview was a wartime housing development built by the federal government in 1943 to provide residences for the thousands of workers who moved into Wichita to man the airplane factories. Within the span of one year Planeview had a population of 20,000 and was the seventh largest city in Kansas.

Schools were needed to educate the children of the aircraft workers, and four buildings were constructed: three elementary schools and six-year high school. These buildings, while adequate, were of temporary wartime construction with a lifetime expectancy of about ten years.

In June 1955, the Planeview area was annexed to the City of Wichita, and in 1955-56 the operation of the schools became the responsibility of the Wichita Board of Education. For two years Planeview High School continued to be operated as a six-year high school. However, with the opening of Wichita High School Southeast in 1957, grades 10, 11 and 12 were transferred to that school and Planeview became a regular junior high school with grades seven, eight and nine. At that time the name was officially changed to the William M. Jardine Junior High School.

Construction of a new building to replace the temporary structure was begun in 1957-58, and the new building was ready for occupancy in September of 1958. The building was designed by Hibbs, Robinson and Pettit, architects, and the total cost was $1,281,610. The capacity of the building was 850. During subsequent years a total of nine portable units were added.

Dr. William M. Jardine was an educator and author. He was president of Kansas State University and later served as president of Wichita State University. He was affiliated with agricultural research at Kansas State College in Manhattan and served as minister to Egypt. Dr. Jardine was author of numerous papers and bulletins on agriculture, economics and education.

In August 1988, Jardine was selected to house sixth grade students in a pilot middle school program. The following year, the explosion of middle level education emerged in USD 259 and all ninth graders were moved to high schools leaving seventh and eighth graders. In the fall of 1989, all junior high schools became middle schools (6-8).

On August 6, 1994, a memorial dedication was held on the campus. During the bicentennial Planeview Alumni Reunion, a granite monument was installed at the flag pole of William M. Jardine Middle School in fond memory of the faculty and students of the old Planeview High School, 1943-1957.

At the April 8, 1996 meeting, the Board of Education approved to dissolve the Jardine attendance area at the end of the 1995-96 school year, with students sent to Mead, Truesdell and Curtis, to create an Edison Junior Academy beginning with the 1996-97 school year at the site.

From A History of Wichita Public School Buildings, c 1997