2009 Annual Report.pdf - Town of Milton

Paul Connor excelled at both indoor and spring track. Mckenzie Sumner and
Paul Connor won the Female and Male Outstanding Senior Awards, respectively,
for their athletic ability.
Coach Dale Snyder was elected to the Massachusetts State Track Coaches
Association Hall of Fame. A coach at MHS for 23 years, Mr. Snyder has
coached both boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams, indoor track and outdoor
track. In the course of his career, Mr. Snyder has coached as many as 14 conference
champion teams.
For the 2008-2009 athletic season, the athletic fee was $200. There is a
waiver system for students unable to pay the fee.
Special Education:
During the 2008-2009 school year the special education department embarked
upon a major reorganization of the Pierce Middle Schools Language
Based programs. With the goal of the continuous improvement of individual
MCAS scores and the quest to meet academic proficiency goals for all students
the new design of this program included the full inclusion of students in the
primary subject areas of English/Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies
and Science classes. Students also received additional pull-out small group remedial
instruction in Language Arts and Mathematics.
At the high school level, a new program was initiated for students with significant
learning disabilities who required smaller group direct instruction in
English/Language Arts, Mathematics and Social Studies. The Transitions Program
was designed to meet the specific academic needs of a growing number
of students, to prevent the need for out-of-district placements and to allow students
to remain in their community high school.
In February, the Department was presented a $10,000 donation from one
family. These funds were specifically to be used to purchase equipment for a
sensory/motor room to be located in the Collicot School for the use of the occupational
and physical therapy needs of the students at Collicot, Cunningham
and the pre-school. This generous gift allowed the Department to purchase certain
specially designed heavy equipment which would allowing our staff to
greatly expand the sensory and physical therapy needs of these students. Additional
equipment was also purchased for the Glover and Tucker programs.
The highly successful and popular co-taught classroom model was expanded
once again in 2008-2009. The Tucker added a grade 2 and Glover added
a grade 4 co-taught classroom each. The co-taught program was started 5 years
ago to fully include students with special needs in the regular classroom setting
by teaming a regular classroom teacher with a full-time special educator.
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