- Thomas Paine will continue to share a weekly newsletter with all families.
- Thomas Paine will continue honoring our four core values: Respect, Responsibility, Resilience, and Citizenship. Each month our school will focus on one value. Activities will include: Second Step lessons, read alouds, morning meeting themes, and a home-school connection in our weekly newsletters. This will culminate with a community event, our Paine Tiger Rally. Each teacher will honor a student that exemplified the monthly core value.
- Paine houses our district’s multiple disabled classrooms. In this way, we are vigilant in including our MD students and families in all school-wide, community events. During the school day, our MD students attended lunch, recess, and inclusion classes with our general education students.
- In the Spring of 2024, comparison between our third grade economically disadvantaged students and our non-ED students is as follows:
- Math
- ED - 25% met expectations
- Non-ED - 65.8% met expectations
- ELA
- ED - 25% met expectations
- Non-ED - 70.3% met expectations
Goal: In both ELA and Math, on the fourth grade NJSLA, our ED students achievement (meet or exceed expectations) will increase by 10% or 35% of ED students will meet expectations.
- Thomas Paine will decrease the 16.7% of students that were absent for 10% or more of the days enrolled by 10% and will continue to fall below the state average.
- Implementation of retention strategies to foster a supportive and inclusive work environment.