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School. We monitor student success by establishing Report of the student goals and regularly conducting progress Quashnet School monitoring opportunities. Instruction is targeted and designed to meet students' individual needs. Each student participates in a What I Need(WIN)block for Mission Statement: literacy instruction. WIN blocks are designed to work In partnership with families and community,our with a homogeneous grouping of students who are mission is to promote academic excellence and working on the same targeted skill which includes character development while supporting and remediation and enrichment tasks.In an MTSS model, celebrating all students as they prepare for college and all students receive targeted instruction based on their career readiness,as well as,engage as active citizens. needs. Students who have not made the desired progress benefit from intensified instruction from a Quashnet School Council Members highly qualified staff member. MaryKate O'Brien,Principal Andrea Fullam,Teacher The Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks are Robin Geggatt,Teacher the basis for all curricula at the Quashnet School. Cathy Lewis,Parent Everyday Math 4th Edition is the primary tool for Tracy Fischer,Parent mathematics education.Lessons are broken down into three parts to help meet the needs of all students. PTO Members Teachers introduce the lesson with whole class Tracy Fischer,President instruction,provide independent work time,and small Jennifer Hagan, Vice President group instruction. Small group instruction allows for Robert Blackburn,Treasurer differentiated instruction and supporting student Carolyn Savage,Secretary achievement of the Massachusetts Learning Standards. Mark McGrory,Corresponding Secretary Science instruction is aligned with the state frameworks that incorporate the Next Generation Science The Quashnet School staff values all students and Standards.Teachers design engaging hands-on lessons provides quality education to approximately 488 from erosion, plate tectonics, marine life, forms of scholars in Grade 3 through Grade 6.During the fiscal energy, and the solar system for example. Quashnet year 2018,there were a total of 26 homeroom classes School participated in Project Life, a series of field representing six homerooms in Grades 3 and 6 with lessons taught in collaboration with Green Briar Nature seven homerooms in Grades 4 and 5. The average Center in Sandwich;Project Wet is an experiential day student to teacher ratio is 19:1.The faculty was forty- for our fifth grade students to study every aspect of four teachers strong, consisting of both regular water and conservation;in conjunction with Cape Light education teachers and special education teachers. Compact and Mashpee High School students,Quashnet Other professional staff included two adjustment students participate in an Energy Carnival consisting counselors, one guidance counselor, a part-time of approximately 25 energy-related activities.Learning physical therapist, a part-time occupational therapist, about the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,the United 1.5 speech and language therapists, and a school States and North America, the Age of Exploration, psychologist. MaryKate O'Brien was the Principal and Native American Studies, American Revolution, and Suzanne Avtges was Assistant Principal. Quashnet learning and applying the Five Themes of Geography School also values a team of ten paraprofessionals. are the major topics of study in social studies across the Together, we all work toward one goal which is to grades. provide students with a strong educational foundation which builds on students' primary instruction and All Quashnet students participated in the prepares students for the challenges of the middle computer-based Next Generation MCAS in grades and high school. At Quashnet School we value Reading/ELA and Mathematics.Grade 5 students only the whole child by supporting academic achievement, are administered the Science Technology/Engineering social and emotional growth, and by fostering civic MCAS which is a paper and pencil assessment. The responsibility in all students. results of these standardized tests help us evaluate our curricula against state standards, instructional A Multi-Tiered System of Support,MTSS,is the strategies, pacing, and in meeting individual student instructional framework followed at the Quashnet 150