Literacy Collaborative

The Literacy Collaborative is a comprehensive model for school reform provided as a collaboration between Lesley University and the Fletcher-Maynard Academy.  It is a long-term professional development program designed to provide a school-wide approach to literacy instruction in grades K-8.  The goal of the program is to assure successful literacy achievement for every child.

Technology Initiative?All students in grades 5-8 use the Portable Technology Initiative (Laptops).  The system allows teachers to design lessons that require students to use the laptops for independent, small group, and whole class work - lessons not previously feasible due to restricted computer lab time or the limited number of computers within the classroom.

Terc Investigations:

All students in grades K-5 use the Terc Investigations curriculum.  Investigations is a complete K-5 mathematics curriculum, developed at TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is designed to help all children understand fundamental ideas of number and operations, geometry, data, measurement and early algebra.

Connected Math Project (CMP)

All students in grades 6-8 follow the Connected Math curriculum, in addition to an additional math block focused on increasing MCAS scores.  According to the CMP, all students should be able to reason and communicate proficiently in mathematics. They should have knowledge of and skill in the use of the vocabulary, forms of representation, materials, tools, techniques, and intellectual methods of the discipline of mathematics, including the ability to define and solve problems with reason, insight, inventiveness and proficiency.