Word: classrooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swanson has since brought her program, which she named AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), to more than 1,200 schools across the country. Today it is widely regarded as one of the most effective educational reforms ever created by a classroom teacher. This year more than 65,000 students in 21 states are in AVID, and Swanson, who in 1986 left the classroom to run the program full time, leads a team that trains nearly 9,000 teachers a year. The results have been extraordinary. Since 1980, more than 93% of AVID graduates (70% of whom were poor enough...
...their AVID instructor, who teaches them, in essence, how to learn--what kind of questions to ask in class, how to put notes into their own words, the best way to underline a textbook. Says Swanson, who hopes to soon hand over AVID's administration and return to the classroom: "Never underestimate what kids can do. That's what our schools and teachers need to know...
...dream was born in a sharecropper's shack in East Texas where there was no money for books or toys--she and her 11 siblings each got an apple, an orange and 10 nuts for Christmas. Though she was called n_____ on her walk to school, entering the classroom, she says, "was like waking up." When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat. She went on to Harvard to earn a Ph.D. in Romance languages...
...after week, all the way home. The vast majority of preachers do their work in sanctuaries, not stadiums, before hundreds of listeners every week, not tens of thousands once a year. And for them, who are judged not only in the pulpit but also at the bedside, in the classroom, at the meeting, in the soup kitchen, how much does the preaching really matter...
...south tower, President Bush was being introduced to the second-graders of Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota, Fla. When he arrived at the school he had been whisked into a holding room: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice needed to speak to him. But he soon appeared in the classroom and listened appreciatively as the children went through their reading drill. As he was getting ready to pose for pictures with the teachers and kids, chief of staff Andy Card entered the room, walked over to the President and whispered in his right ear. The President's face became visibly...