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grade-level PLC teams work to write,revise,and align Report of the curriculum maps, unit plans, and design lesson plans Quashnet School for all content areas. PLC teams meet twice a week throughout the school year and on early release professional days. Principal: Patricia DeBoer Assistant Principal: Timothy Rumberger We continually strive to improve instruction and student achievement. This was our fifth year using the Our mission at the Quashnet School, in Everyday Mathematics program. Through regular partnership with parents,families,and our community, progress monitoring,Child Study Team meetings,and is to promote academic excellence and character using a Response to Intervention model we were better development while supporting and celebrating all able to provide targeted instruction to meet the needs of students as they strive towards college and career each student. Small group instruction is a part of each readiness. We started the 2014-2015 school year with teachers' regular practice. We continued following a an enrollment of 531 students and ended the year with six-day cycle for our special subjects—Physical 525 students. Grades four,five,and six each had seven Education, Art, Music—including Band, Strings, and homerooms,and grade three had six homerooms. Chorus, Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), Library/Computers, and Research Skills. The 2014-2015 Quashnet School Council Students in the Library/Computer special participated members were: Principal Patricia DeBoer, teachers in coding and keyboarding skills. In STEM instruction Stephanie Manning and Margaret Morrison, parents focused on hands-on engineering tasks and 3-D Sarah Provencher, Colleen Fraser, and Kathleen printing opportunities. Quashnet School also launched O'Neill, and community member Jack Phelan. The a web-based world languages program using 2014-2015 Quashnet School PTO officers were Middlebury World Languages program for grades 5 President Amy Rullo, Vice-President Colleen Austin, and 6. and Treasurer Renee Geiszler, and Secretary QS Guidance Counselor Greta McCue. Integration of technology is an integral component to our instruction. Sixth grade students The Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in all benefited from a 1:1 iPad initiative. All teachers were core content areas of English/Language Arts, trained in using the iPad as an instructional tool. Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, along with Chromebooks were also introduced to students in all research-based best practice guide our instruction. We grades this year with the addition of Chromebooks carts focus on each student's academic growth. During the available to classrooms. Each homeroom is equipped 2014-2015 school year the computer-based version of with an interactive white board which allows for web- PARCC assessments in ELA and Mathematics were based interactive teaching and learning opportunities. administered in lieu of MCAS. Our goal is for every Quashnet School has two computer labs. Each student to score a 4 or 5 which is equivalent to the homeroom has at least one wireless laptop computer MCAS scale of proficient or advanced rating. As a for student use;many classrooms have multiple student school,57% of all Quashnet School students earned a computers. All homerooms also have a document Level of 4 or 5 in ELA. In Math,52%of our students camera which allows teachers to enlarge and project earned a Level 4 or 5. Fifth grade students at the student work as well as other instructional materials Quashnet School participated in the Science, onto the whiteboard. Web-based instructional and Technology and Engineering MCAS assessment. 68% leaming supports are utilized every day in our of our students scored in the proficient and advanced classrooms. We are grateful for the technology we categories. Quashnet School out-performed the state have in place that helps us to better prepare our students average by 16 percentage points. for success in the technologically-advanced 21st Quashnet Schoolteachers participate in grade- century. level professional learning communities (PLCs) to To promote a safe and positive culture in at the collaboratively focus on improving student learning, Quashnet School students have benefited from data analysis of student assessments, and review mindfulness education. Lessons were taught through a effective research-based instructional practices. These series of brief weekly lessons — 16 in total. The 131