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Notes from Community Leaders Luncheon
February 24, 2009
Tiverton Success Stories
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Excellent staff work with parents in
providing a quality education
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Strong elementary education
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Success for children
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Holistic education - mind, body and
heart
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Quality Education
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Substance Abuse Task Force
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PTO – parent information
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Support all learners across the
spectrum (at-risk and gifted)
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Great value
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Safe & nurturing environment
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Small schools
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New schools
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Open to working with community
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Pull together to face challenges
How can Tiverton Public Schools go from good to
great?
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Increase mathematics performance
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Improve communications
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Quality management - contract
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Change excellence to include equity
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Focus on early literacy
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Connect with families before children
enter school (i.e., create a reading system where children have to
read 1000 books before they start kindergarten)
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Increase funding from non-tax sources
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Keep student achievement on the front
burner
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Expand world languages – start in
elementary school
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Improve public relations
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Implement a merit pay system that
better aligns compensation with performance
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We need to change “Excellence in
Education” to “An Equal Opportunity for an Excellent Education for
each child”; Reach and Teach
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Address areas of need to enhance test
scores therefore enhancing the town awareness and general pride and
willingness to invest to better the schools
How do we engage our community in improving our
schools?
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Develop community outreach program
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Invite public into the schools to see
kids present their successes via performances (i.e. music, computer,
literacy, arts, etc.)
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Recruit community volunteers (coaches,
mentors, etc.); teachers don’t need to do it all
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Community based integration by having
programs open for townspeople to come into the schools
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Increase opportunities for community
groups to use/see school facilities
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Mentoring – bring people of different
occupations into the schools
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