As students transition to
middle school, they go from the familiarity of a homeroom
teacher to changing
teachers (and classrooms) by subject,
sometimes seeing as many as eight or even ten different
teachers weekly.
In those cases where small
schools are not feasible, district and
school leaders should break down large
middle - grades
schools into smaller
schools or small learning communities where teams of
teachers share small groups of students (
sometimes called clusters or houses).