Heck/Quaw Elementary School - Belgrade, MT

Heck/Quaw Elementary School is a pre-kindergarten through fourth grade school. At our school, we believe all children can learn and deserve to learn alongside their peers using grade level standards tailored so each child is and feels successful. Students are our first priority and focus, not just academically, but both socially and emotionally as well.

Working collaboratively is also a high priority. Our teacher teams have worked hard over the last few years to develop a guaranteed and viable curriculum. We value shared leadership in decision making, soliciting ideas from teachers, administrators and the community as we continue to make gains on standards based instruction, grading, and reporting.

In addition, our Professional Learning Communities (PLC's) have become stronger over the last few years. Our PLC's have begun meeting weekly to look at Common Formative Assessment (CFA) data to decide the best course of action for the reteach and enrichment cycles. This information is used to target and inform instruction in the general education setting using standards based intervention protocol, applying responsive and flexible instruction based on grade level proficiency scales, and scaffolded learning targets. We are proud that "What is best for students?" is always at the forefront of all the decisions we make.