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Sterling Garris, principal at Blaine, has plenty of such low achievers at his school. As he walked down the hallway on a recent spring day, an elated reading teacher came rushing up to him with a third-grader who, she exclaimed, had jumped four reading levels. Garris offered the boy...
What's the alternative to AYP? Most educators, Garris included, prefer a more flexible measure of student improvement known as the growth model. In this approach, schools track the progress of each student year to year. Success is defined by a certain amount of growth, even if the student isn...
When Garris took over as team captain in 2001, she led a fundraising effort to get a professional choreographer and costumes.
“You’re looking for someone who does everything—[who] brings together ballet, jazz, and gymnastics,” Garris says. “If you want to dance you might not choose Harvard because you won’t major in dance.?...
“It’s always been a family because you spend so much time rehearsing and performing and traveling together,” says Garris. “There’s five or six [CDT grads] who live in New York, and we get together almost...