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East Windsor reports progress on NEAS accreditation, sequences Portrait of the Graduate into curriculum
Summary
Administrators told the board the district is following the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEAS) accreditation cycle, has established an instructional leadership team and is implementing MTSS and Portrait of the Graduate rubrics across grade levels to monitor competencies.
Administrators Allison and Daryl told the board the East Windsor School District is in the middle of NEAS (New England Association of Schools and Colleges) progress monitoring after its decennial visit. They described the accreditation cycle — a reflective summary, a decennial visit, and subsequent one-, three- and six-year progress reports — and said the district submitted its three-year report last May and will next report at the six-year checkpoint.
Presenters said the NEAS visit produced five priority areas for district action: establishing clearer professional-development commitments and learning targets, updating library resources, strengthening a service-team/MTSS model for student supports, aligning curriculum materials to consistent formats and to the Portrait of the Graduate, and continuing to plan for facilities. District leaders said they restored PLC (professional learning community) leadership roles, set up a fully formed instructional leadership team, rolled out competency rubrics tied to the Portrait of the Graduate and are incorporating those rubrics into report cards and departmental assignments.
Administrators explained MTSS (multi-tiered systems of support) as the district’s framework to analyze attendance, behavior and academic data to target interventions by cohort or grade, and they said MTSS helps identify where professional development is needed. For families wondering how competencies translate to grades, presenters said academic grades remain letter grades while competency rubrics are averaged and reported as rubric scores alongside academic marks so parents see both a content grade and a competency indicator.
Board members asked clarifying questions about monitoring fidelity, regional NEAS standards and timelines. Presenters said the next required submission is the six-year report, due May 1, 2027, and reiterated that continued alignment of curriculum, MTSS work, and Portrait-of-the-Graduate implementation are priorities going forward.
