Four Corners Faculty Belief Statement

All children come to school with diverse backgrounds and values. Everyone has rights and responsibilities within the school community. Together we strive to ensure that everyone's needs for love, belonging, power, freedom, fun, and knowledge are met.

Four Corners feels that students are motivated by their need for love, belonging, power, freedom, fun and knowledge.

Four Corners School Profile

The Four Corners School, located at 21 Ferrante Avenue, is an elementary school serving a diverse population of 250 students in preschool through grade four. Three languages are spoken at Four Corners. We are a Reading Recovery Training Site for Western Massachusetts, training teachers and hosting Continuing Contact sessions for Reading Recovery teachers as well.

Four Corners is a Responsive Classroom model school. The Northeast Foundation for Children sends many schools and colleges to visit each year. Responsive Classroom is a clear social curriculum that can help build a classroom or school into a learning community where high social and academic goals are attained. It is built around central components that integrate teaching, learning, and caring into the daily program. The six components are: classroom organization, morning meeting, rules and logical consequences, academic choice, guided discovery, and assessment and reporting. All Faculty are trained in the Responsive Classroom model. Four Corners also incorporates Developing Responsible Behavior in which pro-social attributes are a focus each month, with all school assemblies as a culminating event. The Second Step Violence Prevention program was purchased by the Four Corners PTO and is taught by classroom teachers.

Four Corners faculty were represented on or led the District Math Task Force, PALMS (Partnerships Advancing the Learning of Math and Science), District Spelling Team, Social Studies Task Force, Language Arts Task Force, Science Task Force, Responsive Classroom District Team, DLT (District Learning Team), REBA (Regional Education Business Alliance), District Professional Development Committees, School Council, Responsive Classroom Leadership Team, Community Partnerships Council, District Technology Committee, Beginning Teacher Support Program, Connecticut Valley Regional Alliance, and the State MCAS Teams.

The Technology Team, along with parent volunteers created a computer lab ten years ago. Additions and continual upgrades have kept us "state of the art." Apple iMac computers running OSX fill the lab and each classroom has two or more iMacs for student use. All of the computers in the building are networked allowing students to log on anywhere to access saved work and the internet.