Howard Middle School

Our Smithsonian Environmental Justice Scholars

In conjunction with Howard University our 6th-grade students completed the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals: Environmental Justice project where our scholars learned about the concerns of their community in order to communicate accurate, helpful, and trusted information about environmental justice.…

HU-MS2 Featured on The Today Show

In 2017, our school adopted the Summit Learning curriculum. A critical part of the platform is mentoring. Each student in our school has a mentor whose responsibility is check-ins, goal setting, and monitoring the overall health and well-being of their…

Students visited the HU School of Medicine 

As a part of our ongoing partnership with Howard University, our students visited the HU School of Medicine where they talked with medical students about what it is like to study medicine at Howard University. Our middle school students experienced firsthand…

DJ Drama @ HUMS2

Our students attended a seminar given by the Howard School of Business for Music. The seminar was given by Warner music and it was a Q&A with DJ Drama. Our students learned about the music business beyond singing and rapping.

STEM Content Hands-on Coding

Students in STEM class use manipulitves to learn how to code Scratch. The group project was to create code to move an object across the board. Students then coded scratch on the computer to test their programming.

Collaboration with Howard University

One of the benefits of being a part of the Howard University community is our middle school students can collaborate with professors at the university to enhance their learning experiences. These students performed experiments on desalination at the Howard University…