“Transformation means focusing on student learning by creating educational environments that respond to the needs of students, provide flexible environments rich with 21st Century tools, and expect students to demonstrate deep understanding through a variety of means.”
‐ Bill Romond, Vermont Department of Education

What is a Learning Community?

Curricular or academic learning communities are a set of disciplines and/or classes that are linked or clustered, often around an interdisciplinary theme, with general goals of coherence, critical thinking, and spoken and written communication skills applied in a community setting.

What Do We Gain through Transformation?

Core Values

• Use Core Values to drive school improvement.
• Diverse teams to address school wide expectations for students.
• Opportunities to discuss, develop, and utilize school-wide rubrics.

Curriculum

• New forums for cross disciplinary curriculum work.

Instruction

• Ability to analyze personalized and differentiated instruction through multiple perspectives.

Assessment

• Capability to use school wide student data to inform decision making.

School Culture and Leadership

• Comprehensive and transparent budget building and scheduling.
• Improved communication.
• Increased focus on student attendance.

School Resources

• Centralized procurement and budget management.

Community Resources

• More effective communication with parents.

Links

Teacher and Staff Resources

The Leadership Model

Last updated: Dec 16 2011 at 11:10 am