Annual School Report Card ­ School Year 2016­2107

Waits River Valley School, Grades K­8 Carlo"a Simonds­Perantoni, Principal

6 Waits River Valley Road E. Corinth, VT 05040 Telephone (802) 439­5534 Fax (802) 439­6444

WRVS HOME & SCHOOL COMPACT [Compacts are voluntary agreements between families and schools.]

Our School envisions the “highest level of success for every student.” To accomplish this, parents, teachers, and students need to work together in a spirit of coopera#on and collabora#on. The following are agreed upon roles and responsibili#es that we, as partners, will carry out to support student success in school and in life. As a Teacher, I will: • Carry out the following responsibili#es to the best of my ability: • Teach classes through interes#ng and challenging lessons that promote student achievement. • Endeavor to mo#vate my students to learn. • Have high expecta#ons and help every child to develop a love for learning. • Communicate regularly with families about student progress. • Get to know my students and encourage families and students to share out­of­classroom interests, issues, or circumstances that may impact and influence student learning and success. • Provide a warm, safe, and caring learning environment. • Provide meaningful, daily homework assignments to reinforce and extend learning (30 minutes for grades 1­3, and 60 minutes for grades 4­8). • Par#cipate in professional development opportuni#es that improve teaching and learning and support the forma#on of partnerships with families and the community. • Ac#vely par#cipate in collabora#ve decision making and consistently work with families and my school colleagues to make schools accessible and welcoming places for families which help each student achieve the school’s high academic standards. • Respect the school, students, staff, and families. As a Student, I will: • Carry out the following responsibili#es to the best of my ability: • Come to school ready to learn and work hard. • Bring necessary materials, completed assignments and homework. • Know and follow school and class rules. • Communicate regularly with my parents and teachers about in­school and out­of school experiences so that they can help me to be successful in school. • Limit my TV watching and instead study or read every day a%er school. • Respect the school, classmates, staff and families. As a Parent/Guardian and/or Family Member, I will: • Carry out the following responsibili#es to the best of my ability: • Provide a quiet #me and place for homework and monitor TV viewing. • Read to my child or encourage my child to read every day (20 minutes K­3, and 30 minutes for grades 4­8). • Ensure that my child a"ends school every day, gets adequate sleep, regular medical a"en#on and proper nutri#on. • Get to know my child’s teacher(s) and share interests, issues, and circumstances that may impact and influence my child’s ability to learn and be successful in school. • Regularly monitor my child’s progress in school. • Par#cipate at school in ac#vi#es such as school decision making, volunteering and/or a"ending parent­teacher conferences. • Communicate the importance of educa#on and learning to my child. • Respect the school, staff, students, and families.

Dear Parents, Guardians, Students and Community Members, Waits River Valley School has a clear vision for their school and is embracing a model that is designed to generate high levels of academic achievement in all content areas, for ALL scholars. Our desire is to work as a learning community that celebrates a clear K­8 learning con#nuum that supports each learner and their unique learning styles. Our curriculum is con#nually presented as inquiry­based in daily instruction. Project Based Learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of #me to inves#gate and respond to an authen#c, engaging and complex ques#on, problem, or challenge. PBL provides voice and choice in all stages of the activity/learning, allowing the individual scholar to build their communication, effort and perseverance, inquiry, and decision making and problem solving strategies. The Funda#ons Program provides research­based materials and strategies essen#al to a comprehensive reading, spelling, and handwri#ng program. Funda#ons makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for life­long literacy. Scholars in grades K­3 receive a systema#c program in cri#cal founda#onal skills. The instruc#on aligns with the state’s rigorous college and career ready standards, including the Common Core State Standards. For the 2016­2017 school year, the Waits River Valley School along with the schools in the Orange East Supervisory Union im­ plemented standards­based report cards for scholars in grades K­6. These report cards reflect an evalua#on of skills and concepts, progress based on current level of expecta#ons. The report card standards are based on the Common Core State Standards for ELA, Wri#ng, and Math; Next­Genera#on Science Standards; and the VTGLEs and Na#onal Standards for the other content areas. Students are measured on a con#nuum of 1­4 based on how well they perform against these standards. Work is in progress to developing the same level of report cards for scholars in grades 7 & 8 that will be implemented for the 2018­2019 school year. Ver#cal teaming was developed and implemented with monthly mee#ngs at OESU with the curriculum director and SU wide content leaders to develop common grade level work and create units and common assessments for the Common Core Standards. An assessment team was created and staff completed professional development on interpre#ng data. With the crea#on of daily common team #me, teachers regularly collaborated to talk about instruc#onal changes based on our assessment data. We worked with Fran Huntoon, a skilled math consultant and instructor for the VT Math Ins#tute, who observes math instruc#on, and provides teachers with feedback, problem solving ideas and progress celebra#on. Funded with CFP money, Fran helps quide our work to evaluate math assessment data for system progress. We are con#nuially looking for ways to engage our scholars during non­school #me. February and April vaca#on weeks provided K­5 camp opportuni#es which were PBL models of instruc#on. Our middle school scholars had the opportunity to a"end a summer humani#es camp, funded through VT Humani#es, which integrated enrichment based English language arts and social studies content. We are strongly commi"ed to our communi#es and con#nually seek addi#onal ways to build rela#onships within the school community and the community at large. We work to be as visible as possible to our community, allowing for genuine rela#onships to form. We con#nue to hold the standard of having an individual voice, to feel respected and valued, and to engage in modeling life­ long learning. We want the scholars to be thinking of individual goals for the present, the near future, and even aligning standards and values learned to their broader future. We invite families to visit and be a part of our learning #me. We value the community exper#se that can bring enrichment and enlightenment to our programming. Thank you for your con#nual support and desire to see scholars successful. You have an amazing school that is filled to capacity with dedicated and professional staff, highly mo#vated scholars, and truly passionate families that celebrate their children's successes. Sincerely, Carlo"a Simonds­Perantoni

Waits River Valley School

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