At the same time, the amount of students who qualify for free-and-reduced price lunch is high. Her school is about 632 students strong and the majority of its population speak English as a second language, she said. They have to be illustrative of real-world experiences. For instance, how do you get a child to understand the concept of boiling point if he or she has never seen a boiling pot of water?Īcademic concepts can't be just words if educators expect students to understand. In between classes, Thomas talked about the challenge of teaching children who sometimes don't have cultural exposure to things many families take for granted. She walked into a second grade classroom where the teacher was combining the importance of literacy with history by having the children learn and discuss historical fiction associated with World War II. Just before the Christmas holiday, Kristy Thomas roamed various classrooms at Rock Rest Elementary School in Union County to inspect the work of her students and her teachers. JanuTransforming schools: The essential role of the principalīy Alex Granados, EducationNC January 3, 2017 Transforming schools: The essential role of the principal If you republish a story, please let us know by emailing Anna Pogarcic at email Anna Pogarcic at you have any questions.Please email Anna Pogarcic at you are interested in sharing a multimedia element. Other edits must be approved by emailing Anna Pogarcic at Photos and other multimedia elements (audio, video, etc.) may not be republished without prior permission. Allowable edits to the content of the piece include changes to meet your publication’s style guide and references to dates (i.e. The original headline of the article must be used.If republishing the story online, please provide a link to or a link to the original article in either the byline or credit line.Credit our team by including both the author name and in the byline.
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