{"id":143,"date":"2022-05-03T13:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T14:57:47","slug":"rams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/rams\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-167\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-scaled.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/05\/UES-Spring-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-rsu-40-light-color has-text-color has-large-font-size\"><strong>Rivers Alternative Middle School<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>At the middle school level, our alternative program attempts to meet the students where they are at emotionally, socially and academically. Reconnecting students with learning involves building confidence, strengthening self-image and self-worth, building trust and holding them accountable for their successes as well as their failures. Through hands-on and community-based learning opportunities, we attempt to change our student&#8217;s perception of learning, intelligence and education as a whole. We strive to create and foster a small community of learners coming together to help themselves and each other succeed in school and in life.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/riversalternativemiddleschool\/home?authuser=0\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/riversalternativemiddleschool\/home?authuser=0\">RAMS Website<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <strong>for more information on the program and studen<\/strong>t <strong>experiences with RAMS.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are interested in obtaining a RAMS application, please contact the Medomak Middle School administrators or our RAMS teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Carpenter &#8211; RAMS Teacher Math &amp; Science<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lowell Jones &#8211; RAMS Teacher ELA\/SS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Program phone number 207-785-3125<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Staff emails are in the following format: firstname_lastname@rsu40.org<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the middle school level, our alternative program attempts to meet the students where they are at emotionally, socially and academically. Reconnecting students with learning involves building confidence, strengthening self-image and self-worth, building trust and holding them accountable for their successes as well as their failures. Through hands-on and community-based learning opportunities, we attempt to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsu40.org\/mms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}