JOHN W. PAISLEY MAGNET SCHOOL
The International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program

1400 Grant Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27105
Phone: 727-2775
FAx: 727-8315

Gary Cone, Principal
gccone@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Don Lail, IB Coordinator
dlail@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Simon Earle, Asssistant Principal
syearle@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Sara Fletcher, Assistant Principal
sefletcher@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

School Day: 7:55 a.m. to 2:40 p.m.
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John W. Paisley Magnet School offers a complete IB Middle Years Program (IB-MYP) for highly motivated students ages 11-16. The five-year curriculum, designed for students in grades six through ten, provides academic challenges and life skills appropriate to middle years students, preparing them to excel in the IB diploma program in grades eleven and twelve.

The educational program at Paisley combines challenging standards with creativity and flexibility, offering an approach that embraces and surpasses traditional school subjects. Instruction encourages inquiry and discovery, builds upon the natural curiosity of students, and supports the exploratory manner in which they learn most effectively. The accelerated, inquiry-based, hands-on curriculum improves achievement, enlarges students' capacity to solve problems, produces positive attitudes toward school, and increases students' self-confidence. While the program includes all elements of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study, it also focuses on the thorough study of the interrelation of academic subjects.

Paisley's magnet program encourages students to develop intercultural awareness along with a genuine understanding of their own histories and traditions. Students develop a personal value system by which to guide their own lives as thoughtful members of local communities and the larger world. Because communication is an essential part of the IB-MYP philosophy, Paisley places fundamental importance on achieving firm command of one's own language as well as acquiring conversational skills in at least one other language. Developing awareness of the media and competence in information technology is also part of the communications component of IB-MYP.