Sentences with phrase «room schoolhouses of»

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.

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.»

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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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 Pyngyp Schoolhouse was built more than a century ago, one of nearly 100 such crude one - room wooden schoolhouses that -LSB-...]

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

That's why history teachers still use «Elbow Room» from Schoolhouse Rock fame to introduce the concept of exploration.

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.

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.

«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).

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.

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:

Wildflower Montessori is part of a chain of micro-schools that take Montessori's model a step further, operating as one - room schoolhouses, led solely by teachers, that aim to make personalization a definition rather than a description of education.

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

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).

As public schools have evolved from one - room schoolhouses to large districts with thousands of children, the tasks expected of teachers each...

As public schools have evolved from one - room schoolhouses to large districts with thousands of children, the tasks expected of teachers each day have changed as well.

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.

What began at the turn of the 20th century as a movement from highly variable one - room schoolhouses to a district - level «one best system» had by century's end become a national effort to use the power of the federal government to create uniformity across the nation's public schools.

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.

Using scientific management techniques, they transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the bureaucratic «one best system» of city administration that still persists today.

But when it comes to defining the federal role in an education system that has evolved over a century - and - a-half — from isolated one - room schoolhouses to urban mega districts — there's a lot of confusion, uncertainty, and division.

The Democrat even signed the act at the one - room schoolhouse that he attended on the banks of the Pedernales River in Johnson City, Texas.

In local schools without special programs much of the educational therapy for the gifted may take the form of recreating the best aspects of the one - room schoolhouse.

A hundred years ago there was a great deal of within - class grouping, but that was due to the pervasive one - room schoolhouse.

The Vail School District, located southeast of Tucson, opened in 1903 as a one - room schoolhouse.

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.

(from The 74) The Wildflower chain of micro-schools takes Montessori's model a step further, operating as one - room schoolhouses, led solely by teachers, that aim to make personalization a definition rather than a description of education.

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.

Some states, like New Hampshire, are putting into place some new standards that get rid of the old age - grade / time - based lockstep approach of the Carnegie unit for credit in high schools and pave the way for this one - room schoolhouse «philosophy.»

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