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Continuous improvement of math achievement scores.

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Positive culture & climate

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93.7% of students feel they have a trusted adult at Woodland.

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Positive culture and climate for students, staff, and families.

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Growth of Unified Sports and Best Buddies

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Hawks Headlines / Journalism Program

Positive student-run digital communication on multiple platforms

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Real World Opportunities:

Internships

Job-Shadowing

Drone

CNA

EMT

Aviation

Manufacturing

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Extra Curricular Program: 94.7% of students believe they have opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities.

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Facilities

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Advisory Program

SEL lessons, Projects to prepare students for life after high school, Creating sense of community & inclusion

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Student voice in decision-making

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Opportunities to earn college credit

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We have a committed staff who cares for our students and connects with them both in and out of the classroom.

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Faculty meetings incorporated Ruler for all staff and we implementing SEL coping strategies to support staff/staff work

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Students have opportunities to participate in a wide range of extra curricular activities.

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LRMS students worked with the Prospect Land Trust and planted a variety of shrubs and trees at Urban Oasis Garden at McGrath Pond.

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Continued training of staff in structured literacy programs.

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Stokes Counseling services supporting multiple students and their families.

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Staff retention

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All staff particpated in two collegial walks.

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Team of literacy and math specialists committed to students progressing and thriving

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Staff members who care about the children and families in our community, building strong relationships for the best interests of the students

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Collaboration among grade level teams, across grade levels and including paraprofessionals and paraeducators

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As a whole, the staff all own ALL of the students. There is a shared responsibility with all students.

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Hiding so they would win the staff game "Pumpkin in Your Pocket."

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Positive place to work!

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District office administrators who operate cohesively through systems thinking approach with a commitment to student performance

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Unified Sports to become a Banner School at Woodland

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100% 4-Year Cohort Graduation Rate

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Build capacity for co-teaching model and AI differentiation for grade level courses.

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Improve opportunities for students from WRHS to spend time in 3 other schools.

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Special education programming i.e., transition, co-teaching

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Continue to work hard to decrease chronic absenteeism rate and tardiness.

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Transition Grant to support our transition program at Woodland

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At the start of the 2023-2024 school year, Long River Middle School (LRMS) became an official participant in the AirNow - Air Quality Flag Program, which uses brightly colored flags to help a community be aware of daily air quality conditions.

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A NJHS student was awarded $500 scholarship. 500 winners were selected, there were four winners in CT this year and one was from Long River Middle School.

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NJHS raised over $1200 for three charities:

Yale New Haven Toy Closet

National Sports Center for the Disabled

St. Jude Children's Hospital

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7th and 8th grade students competed in the Connecticut Coalition for Climate Change poster competition sponsored by the State of Connecticut to highlight climate change effects in our state.  It is exciting to report that we had 9 semifinalists and a first place winner at LRMS.

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Our math scores have been improving over the last few years in conjunction with the implementation of the Illustrative Math Curriculum.

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Continue to make gains in math scores

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Work to support all staff with the SEL of all students and to better understand the struggles our students face.

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Continue to make gains with our high needs students.

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School Wide consistency for discipline

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Reading scores have dipped the last four years. We need to do a better job calibrating our scoring on assessments.

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Promote continous development of all staff

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Using data from Renaissance with support staff to develop plans for students in need.

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Cognizance of special education planning and hours provided for students based on only 2 resource teachers.

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Great instruction taking place each day--need that to translate into growth on standardized assessments.

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Continue to build teacher and staff skillset and tools to meet the needs of all learners: high performing and at-risk

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Rethinking and improving communication with our community.

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SEL Diagnostic (Renaissance Fundamentals) selected to be administered in grades 5-8

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Proactively identify and address non-academic barriers to student learning and success.

PreK-12 STUDENT WELLBEING SCREENER

Research-based attitudinal assessment with impactful intervention guide

Uncover hidden non-academic barriers to student learning and success, such as lack of confidence, motivation, and connectedness to school, with a research-based and easy- to- administer pre-K-12 survey that takes students less than 15 minutes to complete.

Dynamic, interactive, and immediately available reports provide insights into the whole district or school, from the demographic level down to the individual student level. These actionable reports provide standardized measures based on nine factors that focus on how a student feels about their school and themselves as learners.

Renaissance Fundamentals can be used as a critical component to your MTSS process or other whole child initiatives, allowing educators to identify at-risk students and areas of concern before they manifest as chronic issues.

Download the Sample Reports Book

View samples of Renaissance Fundamentals reports for districts and schools, by demographic groups and individual students.

Renaissance Fundamentals provides a standardized measure for these nine factors

1. Feelings about school

Measure a student's sense of well-being, safety and comfort in school.

2. Perceived learning capability

Measures students' views of how positive and successful they feel in their specific capabilities as learners.

3. Self-regard as a learner

Measures the impact of students' learning on their concept of self, generally.

4. Preparedness for learning

Measures students' perceptions of their behavior and attitude in learning situations (including metacognitive skills).

5. Attitudes to teachers

Measures students' perceptions of their relationships with teachers.

6. General work ethic

Measures students' attitudes and responses to work in general.

7. Confidence in learning

Measures students' confidence in approaching and dealing with learning and perseverance when presented with challenging tasks and includes associated feelings such as a high anxiety element.

8. Attitudes in attendance

Measures students' attitudes to attendance at school.

9. Response to curriculum demands

Measures students' perceptions of the appropriateness of the level of difficulty of work they are asked to complete.

For administrators

Administrators can use district- and school- level reports to make data-informed decisions that:

Identify areas of success and areas for improvement

Prioritize school-wide student supports and allocate resources

Evaluate existing SEL programs and adjust accordingly

Strengthen MTSS programs with whole-child data

Ensure equity across all student groups

Reports can be broken down to compare scores across schools, grade, gender, ethnicity, special education, ELL, F&RL status and up to two school/district custom-defined groups.

For MTSS staff

MTSS administrators and staff can use the color-coded reports to help:

Strengthen MTSS plans and programs with whole child data

Drive higher-level interventions (Tier 2 and Tier 3)

Inform Tier 1 instruction

Evaluate existing programs and initiatives, adjusting as needed

Report colors of green, yellow, amber and red coincide with MTSS intervention.

For teachers and counselors

Teachers and school counselors can use individual student reports to:

Identify struggling students for one-to-one interventions

Group students who are struggling in the same areas to intervene appropriately

Uncover students in need of support that might have otherwise fallen through the cracks

Share student insights with parents and families

Measure the success and impact of interventions

Individual student reports include percentile scores by the nine attitudinal factors and show changes over time from one survey administration to another.

For students

Students react to 50 statements in surveys for grades 3-12 and 27 statements for surveys in grades pre-K-2. Statements and answers can be read aloud to students in all grades (preK-12). It takes students 15 minutes or less to complete the survey.

How it works

How does Renaissance Fundamentals work?

How does Renaissance Fundamentals work?" section_text="Students take the Renaissance Fundamentals survey multiple times during the school year. Administrators, school counselors and teachers analyze reports after each survey, putting programs and interventions in place and adjusting as needed based on comparison of survey results.

Research

Renaissance Fundamentals' post-COVID norms reflects the attitudes of students who completed their surveys in the United States between August 2021 and November 2022. The norms provide insights and comparisons to attitudes of students who returned to school post-COVID, having experienced the learning impacts resulting from COVID.

The Post-COVID standardization document outlines the research and methodology to create the new norms. It also includes information on the overall reliability and validity of Renaissance Fundamentals.

Download the document

Terms of service and privacy

For more information, see the Renaissance Fundamentals terms of service and privacy policy.

Learn more about Renaissance Fundamentals

Want to learn more?

A Renaissance representative can provide you with a more detailed understanding of Renaissance Fundamentals and help you decide if it's the right tool for you and your students.

Request a demo

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Measures how students feel about school and themselves as learners to uncover non-academic barrier to student learning.

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Steady progress with math achievement for all students over time.

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Providing guidance and support on emerging educational trends and technology (ie professional learning around AI)

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Community involvement through EL Reading curriculum, with presentations and gallery walks for families and BOE presentations.

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PES has 2 national finalists for Invention Convention!

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Coding and STEM lessons implemented successfully as part of Library Media classes in Grades 4-5.

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School of Distinction in Math for High Needs Students

School of Distinction for three years in a row in different areas

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Successful implementation of a social skills play block in Grades K-2, three to four times per week to teach important social skills: how to ask a friend to play, good sportsmanship, sharing, etc.

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DO Staff is committed to being an active resource to support the school administration, staff, and students.

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Created a shared Vision statement for R16: Empowering all students to thrive.

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Regional School District 16 has passed a budget that supports all learners and maintains small class sizes with tier 1 supports.

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Lexia

Core 5 and PowerUp reading support for tiered intervention and special education students.

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Clearly illustrating the alignment between proposals/decisions and the region's established vision/mission/values/goals

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$4 million + capital improvement project at WRHS and renovation of Culinary Classroom.

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Restructured district office with clearly defined roles and expectations, and implemented multiple platforms/systems to increase efficiency