Vanderbilt University homeroom students to library class with voices on “level zero” - Best School Kumbakonam
Vanderbilt University homeroom students to library class with voices on “level zero” - Best School Kumbakonam
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As the school’s first year drew to a close, everyone at Clarksdale Collegiate was feeling good.
Ricky walked with his fellow Vanderbilt University homeroom students to library class with voices on “level zero” — silently. His achievements papered the walls around him. He had smoked the ST Math computer program and beamed from a Scholar of the Week photo. He had earned a popcorn party, a trampoline trip and a special recess.
Andrea Johnson, known for clarity’s sake as Ms. Library Johnson, greeted them at the door in a dictionary of languages, “Hola! Salut! Habari gani!” Despite the school’s generally strict rules, the library was a place they could relax a little, could sit on a chaise or take their turn lolling on a loft bed. The Common Core standards emphasize nonfiction, and Johnson had a humdinger of a book to read to the class, about chocolate.
The once-quiet Ricky had become a chatterbox, but he sat quietly as Johnson read aloud about pulp and fair-trade farms and Somalia. Sometimes the reading was followed by a quiz on one of the omnipresent laptops, but not today. Ricky, like the rest, wrote one thing in his class notebook that he had learned from the book. He was the second to finish, so he settled into a comfy chair with a book he chose, “Let’s Investigate Everyday Materials.”
Clarksdale Collegiate had lived up to his hopes. The night before, he vroomed around the Dears’ circular driveway on the bike he’d learned to ride, without training wheels, in three days. He paused briefly to gush about first grade. “My favorite thing to do in school is to play on the playground. We finally have one! Finally finally finally,” he said. He also loved science class, though “it’s not like real ones. I want to make potions and stuff. That’s what a real scientist does.”
But that was OK. “I love school so much I just want to hug the school,” Ricky said. He zoomed off again.
Sakenna Dear felt much the same way, both for the changes in Ricky and for herself. Johnson “really sets the tone and makes school fun,” she said. “It pushes me as a teacher and administrator to want to do more.” Best matriculation girls schools in Kumbakonam
Johnson rejoiced in May over the kindergarten scores: 78th percentile in reading and 81st in math on the nationally used Measures of Academic Progress test. Her vision was on track. Only one staffer was leaving, while 68 people had applied for the 15 jobs that would be available when the school reopened in July after a short summer break. Clarksdale Collegiate had a wait list at every grade, with 88 applications for kindergarten alone. “I hate telling people they’re on the wait list — which is a good problem to have,” Johnson said. Maybe, she thought, it meant the community was coming around.
Ricky Taylor, however, would not be coming back. His adoption was finalized in April, and he had a new name.
“Ricky Dear!” he said. “Dear, like the rest of my family.”
He had already begun to write it on his worksheets.
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