Winchendon Public Schools

The Memorial School Improvement Plan for 2023-2025 focuses on fostering a love of learning and reading in a nurturing, inclusive environment. Key priorities include developing a school-wide system of support for students' emotional well-being, implementing positive behavior and accountability systems, and ensuring equitable access to high-quality instructional materials aligned with Massachusetts standards. The plan also emphasizes culturally responsive instructional practices, celebrating diversity, and strengthening family and community partnerships through ongoing communication.

The Winchendon Public Schools' Sustainable District Improvement Plan focuses on ensuring each student acquires necessary skills, knowledge, and habits for success through a safe, inclusive environment, comprehensive support systems, and positive collaboration with families. It aims to strengthen collaborative teaming structures, support administrators, improve instruction, provide student-specific supports, and foster a positive school culture and climate with wraparound services and community engagement.

The 2021-2022 Sustainability Improvement Plan for Toy Town Elementary School focuses on cultivating shared responsibility for student well-being through high expectations, providing engaging and rigorous programs to meet student needs, and using data to improve instruction. It also emphasizes creating a safe and respectful environment, implementing positive behavior reinforcement, and promoting academic achievement through community engagement and parental involvement.

The 2022-2023 Sustainability Improvement Plan for Murdock Middle School focuses on effective implementation of Illustrative Mathematics, strengthening literacy practices, implementing a new assessment system, aligning tiered interventions, and creating a supportive climate and culture. Key priorities include collaborative planning, using student data to inform instruction, explicit vocabulary instruction, comprehension strategy instruction, and staff training on the Renaissance STAR Assessment System. The plan aims to address areas for improvement identified in the SchoolWorks TSV, such as refining tiered interventions and providing customized teacher feedback.

The Murdock High School Improvement Plan for 2023-2024 focuses on collaboratively providing a safe, inclusive, and engaging learning environment to cultivate compassionate and powerful critical thinkers. The plan prioritizes creating a culture of achievement, equitable access to high-quality instructional materials, culturally responsive practices, and strong family-community partnerships. Key initiatives include establishing clear expectations, ensuring a safe physical environment, aligning curriculum, fostering collaboration, and enhancing communication through newsletters and community engagement.