Tolland Intermediate School

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Tolland Intermediate School

• State of the Schools
• 2009

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Parker to Tolland Intermediate..On The Move

• Process started on July 21st to move to our new
  school
• 80 rooms packed-up in boxes, moved to new
  school, and unpacked
• Teacher volunteers during summer
• helped with move
• every teacher set up their classroom to be ready
  for the start of school

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Differing Points of View

• Adults

• Children

• 760 students entering the building for the first
  time
• Lockers, stairs, portable classrooms
• New cafeteria procedures, new fire drill
  procedures
• Recess placement
• Student drop-off pick-up procedures
• Classroom layout

• Exciting new school
• My own locker! Our cafeteria is upstairs! We get
  to go outside on the way to music!
• Our cafeteria is huge!
• Recess!!!
• Wow!! This place is so big!

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Building a New School

• Melding staff members from multiple schools
• Parker Elementary School Grades 3, 4 Unified
  Arts
• Tolland Middle School Grade 5 Teachers
• Shared unified arts staff members from Tolland
  High, Tolland Middle, and Birch Grove Primary
  School
• _____________________________________
• One Tolland Intermediate School

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Celebrations

• Music Program
• Inclusion
• Computer Integration
• Marketing Club

• Everyday Math
• PLC Teams
• TEF Grant
• PTO

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Tolland Intermediate Needs

• Math remediation teacher
• Full year afterschool programs Remedial
  support, homework help, enrichment
• Full-time Administrator - 1.5 Administrators is
  not sufficient to meet the needs of 760 students
  and to adequately supervise and support over 100
  staff members
• Multi-leveled curriculum materials to enable
  grade level curriculum to be accessible to all
  students

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Tolland Intermediate School

• Thanks to all who made our move a success!!!