Video: Plans Unveiled for Starkville Partnership School

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STARKVILLE, Miss.(WCBI)–A new relationship between Mississippi State University and the newly formed Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District is producing a new school.

At a location on the campus of MSU where you only see trees, a new middle school is expected to be built. 6th and 7th graders in the consolidated Starkville and Oktibbeha County schools are expected to get enhanced learning, and teachers will be prepared for future careers in a new way.

“I think educators everywhere realize that we need to do a quality job preparing our teachers to teach and enter in classrooms successfully,” said Dr. Lewis Holloway/Supt. SOCSD.

“We envision having MSU teachers education classes right there in the school. So that our faculty, our teaching class, then the pre service teachers and students in action. And then come back to class and talk about what they just saw,” said Professor Devon Brenner/MSU.

From somewhere in the wooded area new construction will take place and the new joint educational initiative will bring new technology and innovative designs.

“Teachers studying education can listen into those classrooms with ear, jacks and can see lots of instruction occuring without being obtrusive in the classroom,” said Lewis Holloway.

“In grades six and seven the , the middle school years being some of the hardest years for kids where kids often start to fall behind and if and if we can catch the in six and seventh grade, we can maybe prevent a lot of the dropout and things that plague our state,” said Professor Devon Brenner/MSU.

When completed this joint educational model is sure to be one copied by others.

“And we imagine that will have an impact across the whole state because then as they graduate after being part of this very powerful teachers ed model, they’ll go to districts all over Mississippi,” said Devon Brenner.

There is not a set date for construction. The 44 acre site for the Partnership School in on the MSU campus near the Highway 182 entrance.