Sentences with phrase «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:

It wasn't so much an intellectual experience as a gut one... I could just feel that my son would do okay there (it was a two - room schoolhouse with only 35 kids K - 5 and three full - time teachers).

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.

Property adjacent to the site, purchased in 1997, included the original Hartsbrook School, a one - room schoolhouse dating back to the early 1900s.

Risk - taking is part of Deklotz's roots as the daughter of a sharecropper and one - room schoolhouse teacher who was an early advocate for free library access and bus transportation.

Classes stayed in session regularly until 1943, making it the nation's oldest one - room schoolhouse used continuously for its original purpose.

From one - room schoolhouses on the frozen tundra of Alaska to large urban secondary schools, hundreds of schools across the United States are validating the potential of these proven practices.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation University — a one - room schoolhouse located just above a bodega — returns this September.

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

Visit our Garden Store located in a historic one - room schoolhouse where we specialize in books, organic plants and compost, eco-friendly gardening supplies and gifts and treats from local artisans.

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.

He went to a five - room schoolhouse while in Yellowstone and later attended a private, progressive boarding school, Colorado Rocky Mountain School in Carbondale, near Aspen.

We don't live in the woods with one room schoolhouses anymore.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Her memory had been jogged back to the 1840s by a 1926 article in the New York Times illustrated with a line drawing of a one - room schoolhouse like the one in Maine she attended as a girl.

Even as one - room schoolhouses gave way to massive schools — sometimes with thousands of students and hundreds of faculty — classrooms continued to resemble isolated, self - sufficient cells (Lortie, 1975).

Students advance academically and socially using highly successful, proven teaching methods and technology in a an updated one room schoolhouse philosophy where the learning is tailored for each individual student.

This story is based upon the life of Arizona Houston Hughes, a teacher who taught generations of children in a one - room schoolhouse tha...

Based on the principles of the Socratic method and experiential, hands - on learning, Acton Academy is a one - room schoolhouse offering two educational environments serving students in grades 2 — 5 in the Elementary school and grades 6 — 12 in the Middle and High schools.

There is an estimate that about 400 one - room schoolhouses still exist around the country, not out of a philosophical need, but of a geographical one.

Let's take a look at each of the five basic elements of competency education and juxtapose it with my one - room schoolhouse experience.

Sugarcane Academy begins as the tale of a one - room schoolhouse created to educate children who were forced to flee as Hurricane Katrina approached.

My Mother, who grew up in a small Illinois town, became the teacher in that town's one room schoolhouse during the Depression, then married my Dad, who had been one of her classmates in that school, because he had graduated from nearby Knox College with a degree in Physics.

In its eighth year, the Minnesota New Country School (MNCS) does just that, mixing the intimacy of a one - room schoolhouse with 21st century technology.

The best thing about a historical park is really that nothing changes - the one room schoolhouse was exactly as I remembered it from when I was in Grade Three.

Known as Miss Bradshaw to hundreds of schoolchildren, she taught all the grades in one of the last one - room schoolhouses in Livingston County from 1922 to 1924 and taught 3rd grade and music at Fairmont School near Lockport from 1924 to 1937.

Over in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the WINGS model of schooling — now Divine Providence Academy — is an example of how blended learning can facilitate effective multi-age classrooms, allowing schools to right - size staff and become sustainable as much smaller operations, akin to one - room schoolhouses of old.

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.

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

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.

«He gave aid the the elderly and infirm and built a two - room schoolhouse on his plantation for local children, including his own, who went on to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama,» Benjamin wrote.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation University — a one - room schoolhouse located just above a bodega — returns this fall.

Progressive Era reforms transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the «one best system,» shifting power from the teacher and the school to the superintendent who ran the district.

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

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.

The company has evolved throughout its history — starting out in a one - room schoolhouse and now occupying an award - winning, state - of - the - art facility.

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.