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RIVENDELL INTERSTATE SCHOOL DISTRICT |
Annual Meeting Information
ANNUAL MEETING: Due to COVID restrictions, there will be no in-person meeting this year.
ANNUAL REPORT: This year’s annual report will be created to be more user friendly, economical, and practical. Our hope is that most community members will be able to access the report electronically on the local listservs and website. We will provide each town office with hard copies and mail hard copies to anyone who emails a request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by March 4th.
VOTING: Voting on the budget and officers will be by Australian ballot. In the interest of keeping our poll-workers safe, we are once again encouraging everyone to vote by mail. Ballots will be mailed to each registered voter in an envelope labeled “Official Rivendell Ballot Enclosed.” If you do not receive your ballot by March 1st, please contact your Town Clerk. Voted ballots must be received at your town office by 3PM March 16th. For those desiring to vote in person or to drop off a ballot, polls will be open at Rivendell Academy 5-7PM on March 16th.
INFORMATION MEETINGS: There will be two information meetings held remotely via Zoom. This is your chance to learn about the budget, ask questions and offer comments. You can dial in on your phone or connect through the internet.
- 6:30PM Tuesday, February 23, 2021
- Annual Report 2021 Budget Document
- Rivendell Budget and Voting Information Mailer
- 6:30PM Tuesday, March 9

Committee on Learning (COL)
Purpose:
- Improve instruction and learning through action research based on research and theory
- Focus on staff development, with a lens on data and district goals
- Encourage and support innovation
- Explore curricular dilemmas
Projects:
Spring 2011
Voice and choice in learning though Collaborative Inquiry Projects
2011-2012
Investigating and fostering deep intellectual conversations and academic language in the classroom through collaborative action research
2012-2013
Investigating how deep intellectual conversations support writing and how writing supports deep intellectual conversation in every subject across the curriculum.
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- Extend student understanding of content and use of academic language
- Develop ideas, opinions and voice
- Organize thinking for writing pieces
- Develop a shared pre-k-12strategies
- Make connections to Common Core Standards
- Evaluate student writing
2013-2014
Working in groups to develop and revise questions related to student learning, and plan an investigation, gather data, record and analyze data from classrooms, and present results to colleagues
2017-2018
Planning professional development and project based learning
2019-2020
Planning professional development and project based learning
Logistics:
- Meeting times are the thrid Wednesday a month from 3:30-6:30
- Appropriate representation from each school (2-3 teachers per school site).
- Facilitation / Notes
- Agendas are developed in the last 20 minutes of each meeting
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- Review data to identify instructional needs
- Review research that addresses instructional needs
- Frame learning and development around the issue(s)
- Reflect
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Rivendell Interstate School District
PO Box 271
10 School Drive
Orford NH 03777
Phone: (603) 353-2170
Fax: (603) 353-2189