Sentences with phrase «one room schoolhouse»

Her father taught in a one - room schoolhouse, where Jean became the star pitcher and lone girl on the softball team.

Another read aloud that whet appetites for more... set in 1948 in Alaska, this story of a teacher in a one - room schoolhouse inspires curiosity in art and literature and creativity.

His schooling, which had started in «a one - room schoolhouse with a chunk stove» was continued at a boarding school in Manchester and then at Burr and Burton Seminary and Military College in Norwich.

When I was a young girl I went to a one room schoolhouse in rural Iowa.

He was a teacher in a one - room schoolhouse, a principal in a public school, and an college instructor.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Tangent is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where the portfolio of Niven Family wines are poured.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Baileyana is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

Tour working businesses like the Print Shop and Blacksmith Shop, attend class in a one - room schoolhouse, imagine life on the prairie in the Log House and visit the Martin Mitchell Mansion, a spectacular Victorian home built in 1883.

Back in the historic pioneer village, you'll enjoy crafts, a reindeer food bar, story readings of holiday classics at the one - room schoolhouse and... a special visit with Santa.

The District Schoolhouse, circa 1810, is a one room schoolhouse originally from Candia, New Hampshire that was relocated to Old Sturbridge Village in 1955.

Returning New Suffolk students can expect numerous changes in the three - room schoolhouse this year.

He was driving a tractor by age 11, while attending elementary school in a one - room schoolhouse.

When their money runs out, the two set their sights on Montana, where Thunderbolt knows $ 500,000 to have been hidden behind the blackboard in an old one - room schoolhouse.

Here, when Thunderbolt And Lightfoot's heroes arrive at a plaque noting, «The one - room schoolhouse evokes a vision of a vanished America» outside a building that's been preserved as a landmark, the film doesn't dwell on the significance, but doesn't look away from it, either.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

President Lyndon B. Johnson stood before the one - room schoolhouse in Stonewall, Texas, that he once attended.

The road continues on, and after a few turns, the now vacant site of the one - room schoolhouse with the potbellied stove appears, the walls inside which Wilson received his first formal education now just a memory.

Unlike the old one - room schoolhouse teacher, educators today have a number of support resources available through their schools and districts.

Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act outside the former one - room schoolhouse in rural Texas he'd once attended.

Our largest school district educates more than 16,000 students, and we still have one - room schoolhouses.

-- In a three - room schoolhouse couched in a green hillside here, teacher Kathy Fawcett begins her 3rd - grade class with a song.

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

Given an agrarian society with poor transportation, schools could only draw enough students to populate one - room schoolhouses.

Some of the other squares, 25 in all, show an ice cream cone, the words «Seneca Falls,» and a tiny one - room schoolhouse.

Conant's idea of a large school was 400 students, and the schools Cubberley wanted to consolidate were mostly rural one - room schoolhouses with an average size of well under 100 students.

The collection even includes two complete classrooms, a one - room schoolhouse from Connecticut and a World War I classroom from Cleveland, Ohio!

Tidy Little School: Custodian Paul Lynn goes about his duties at Old Quasset School, the nation's oldest one - room schoolhouse used continuously for its original purpose.

For the most part, schools have not changed much in the last fifty to one hundred years from the old one - room schoolhouse.

They move to a one - room schoolhouse, dress in period clothing, adopt old - fashioned names, and learn the traditional way — by rote or on a chalkboard.

Girls wearing bonnets and long skirts and boys in straw hats and neckerchiefs stood on either side of a one - room schoolhouse, fidgeting as they waited for words during a spelling bee.

At the time Quasset was an operating one - room schoolhouse, children ages 4 up to eighth grade would have attended, so they all would have been doing different work at the same time.

As a result, the blackboard didn't make much sense in the context of the one - room schoolhouse because the teacher rarely, if ever, stood in front of the class to lecture.

Think one - room schoolhouse meets blended learning and home schooling meets private schooling.

, a new book by HGSE lecturer Katherine Boles (co-authored by Vivian Trn), contends that teaching in America has deteriorated for decades to reach a low point unmatched since the era of the one - room schoolhouse»» despite billions of dollars spent on school reform efforts and millions more spent to recruit bodies to teach in U.S. classsrooms.

Also called continuous learning, multiyear placement, or family - style learning, looping — in which the same teacher remains with a group of students for two or more years — is a concept as old as the one - room schoolhouse.

Wearing long skirts and straw hats, third graders from Woodstock Elementary School spend a week learning in a one - room schoolhouse the way youngsters did in the mid-1800s.

As Matt Candler, founder of 4.0 Schools, writes, «What makes a modern micro-school different from a 19th century, one - room schoolhouse is that old school schools only had a few ways to teach — certainly no software, no tutors, and probably less structure around student to student learning.

For a week each year, each one of the school's six third - grade classes at Woodstock Elementary School in Woodstock, Connecticut, attends classes at the Quasset School, a one - room schoolhouse dating back to the 1800s, to experience life as students did more than 150 years ago.

Multiage grouping is as old as one - room schoolhouses, in which kids of all ages learned together.

At a time when the one - room schoolhouse has almost become extinct, the Long Beach Board of Education has given the go - ahead to a rural community on California's Santa Catalina Island to open one next fall to save several young pupils a two - hour daily commute to another school.

Innovators from California to Massachusetts are developing micro-schools: modern one - room schoolhouses serving 100 students or fewer with project - based curricula.

«At only eighteen years old, she was both principal and teacher in a two - room schoolhouse.

«The Spirit of the One - Room Schoolhouse,» reads another: why do we have age - segregated classes, where the group is expected to progress at the same rate through the same material, when children learn at different rates and in different ways?

We've known since the days of the one - room schoolhouse and dunce caps that student behavior issues eat up classroom time (the BBC reported a survey suggesting that it's five weeks out of the school year) and frustrate teachers (a report by Public Agenda [PDF] suggests that one in three teachers want to quit because of them).

That's not how it worked in the one - room schoolhouses of yesteryear, and it's oblivious to the many ways that children differ from each other, the ways their modes and rates of learning differ, how widely their starting achievement levels differ, and how their interests, brains, and outside circumstances often cause them to learn different subjects at unequal speeds — and to move faster and slower, deeper or shallower, at different points in their lives, even at different points within a «school year.»

Such boutique programs offer highly personalized environments on a tiny scale, in a tech - enabled reinvention of the one - room schoolhouse that eschews lockstep schedules and standard curricula for student - led learning.

John McCain and Barack Obama each had considerably more formal schooling than «Honest Abe,» who spent only a few months in a one - room schoolhouse in his childhood.

Their pushing worked: Ticchi enrolled that fall in the town's four - room schoolhouse.

Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job: