What is SAGES?Wiscasset Schools Advisory Group for Educational Success was created as a community run group supported by Wiscasset Schools staff and administrators to be a resource to support academic achievement for all Wiscasset Schools' students and a positive interconnected K-12 experience & school culture in Wiscasset Schools. SAGES will work best if a diverse array of community members participate by emailing SAGES school topic related questions & suggestions, and by attending SAGES meetings when you can. SAGES will work on: fostering positive relationships between Wiscasset Schools and the communities sending students to the schools through effective communication. SAGES will provide: meeting forums to learn about our schools, and a means to provide community input for Wiscasset Schools Principals, the RSU 12 Superintendent & Board of Directors.
| SAGES Last Meeting of the 2011/2012 School Year was held on Thursday, May 10th at 5 p.m. in the Wiscasset High School Library. Agenda items were: choosing a new chair, vice chair and secretary for the 2012/2013 school year and reviewing SAGES' Framework. SAGES' Framework is attached below. All officer positions are still available for interested Wiscasset Schools community members. Please email sages123@ymail.com if you are interested in leading the SAGES group during the next school year. SAGES Spring Newsletter is attached below. It is 24 pages long and full of interesting news from Wiscasset Schools. Please open the attachment to see what students are learning and doing at Wiscasset Schools. SAGES sends a huge thank you to all of the SAGES Newsletter contributors this year! SAGES 5 Newsletters (Sept., Oct., December, February & SAGES Spring Newsletter) are attached below. They are full of interesting information about all 3 Wiscasset Schools!
| If you would like to take a peek at some of the key guiding documents for ongoing RSU12 curriculum work, here is a list of the documents which you will find attached below:
1. Common Core for ELA & Literacy in Social Studies and Science (which is NOT a set of standards for either social studies or science, but how both disciplines should be incorporating literacy skills in grades 6-12, ie. writing skills, decoding informational texts, etc.)
2. A comparison of reading standards across disciplines
3. Common Core for Math
4. Current content Maine Learning Results (MLRs) with Benchmarks for Science as broken down by grade level for K-8 --> subject to change as the Next Generation Science Standards will be released next winter.
Science, Social Studies, Art, Health & PE, Foreign Languages are still tied to the Maine Learning Results as found on the following site: http://www.maine.gov/education/lres/pei/
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