Sentences with phrase «room schoolhouses in»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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:

My grandmother was a teacher in a one - room schoolhouse in the early 1900s in America.

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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.

On October 2, 2006, Charlie Roberts - then Monville's husband - burst into a one - room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, with a handgun, a 12 - gauge shotgun, a rifle, cans of black powder, a stun gun, two knives, a toolbox and restraint devices.

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

Located in the heart of the Edna Valley our tasting room is located in the historic Independence Schoolhouse, built in 1909.

Located in the heart of the Edna Valley, our tasting room is housed in the historic Independence Schoolhouse, built in 1909.

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 day we visited the Maasai village we were able to peek in on an adorable kindergarten class in their one room thatched hut schoolhouse.

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

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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.

Janice Herbranson, who gained celebrity status two years ago as the lowest - paid teacher in the country, may be off to teach in Alaska next year if her one - room North Dakota schoolhouse closes down for lack of students.

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

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

Teachers from around the world «adopt» bare - bones rooms in a virtual schoolhouse and fill them with visions of the future.

(In addition to the seed money, the Rosenwald Fund also provided architectural plans for the buildings, which ranged from simple one - room wooden schoolhouses to two - story brick buildings.)

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.

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.

, 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.

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 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.

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

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.

In The Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlison, explains that teachers still face the same challenges teachers faced in the one - room schoolhouse and engages the reader to tackle these challenges through strategy and planninIn The Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlison, explains that teachers still face the same challenges teachers faced in the one - room schoolhouse and engages the reader to tackle these challenges through strategy and planninin the one - room schoolhouse and engages the reader to tackle these challenges through strategy and planning.

Since the days of the one room schoolhouse, teaching in the United States has been characterized as an isolated profession.

Schools have [always] taken roll (attendance) at the start of class; even in the time of one - room schoolhouses.

In the long - ago days of the one - room schoolhouse, home visits were commonplace.

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.