The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads
of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this
in small groups
in our new class every morning for a week, what a
great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense
of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages
differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The
students quickly came out
of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much
of the nature
of the
students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part
in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had
in getting
students to gel... Switches the
students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important
life skills... This gives a
great insight and a fantastic array
of examples, clues and hints as to the characters
of each individual
in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules
of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense
of purpose... Creates a sense
of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...
Known as the Local Control Funding Formula, California's approach would allocate each district around $ 7,600 per
student, on average, almost certainly putting a
great many
of the state's districts above the $ 7,500 threshold after adjusting for
differences in cost
of living.
For these
students — primarily African American and Latino, but also poor
students of all backgrounds — the teachers who believe
in and push them, who refuse to accept anything less than the best from them, often make the single
greatest difference between a
life of hope and one
of despair.