HAMMOND, IN- Eggers Middle School upholds the highest educational standards in the belief that all students can achieve their potential. The institution provides an educational program that addresses the whole adolescent, cultivating life-long learning by providing exposure to and appreciation for high academic standards, fine and applied arts, physical fitness, civilities, and diversity. Reading teacher …
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Oak Grove Middle School
PARAGOULD, AR-Char Edwards Green, a gifted and talented school facilitator at Oak Grove Middle School, is using The Art of Learning as a tool to help develop a lesson plan to meet the affective needs of gifted 10-13-year olds. By focusing on the book’s principles “Using Adversity” and “Making Smaller Circles”, she is teaching students …
Emerson School
ANN ARBOR, MI Emerson School is an elementary and middle school for the gifted and talented. Their main focus is to use a whole-child, multiple approach method to encourage creativity, problem solving, and development of basic skills in a nurturing environment. The school’s librarian and media specialist, Linda Lakshminarayanan, will be introducing The Art of …
PEGS-Program for Exceptionally Gifted Students-Truman School
ST. LOUIS, MO The PEGS program in the St. Louis public school system targets the most intellectually and academically exceptional students, providing them with an accelerated and enriched curriculum. Michelle Ryder, the principal of the Truman School, is incorporating The Art of Learning into the middle school English program in order to support the students’ …
Union Ridge School
HARWOOD HEIGHTS, IL The principal of this early childhood through 8th-grade school, Michael Maguire, supports an important aspect of The Art of Learning Project’s core mission, namely, that students and teachers should not be programmed to believe that test scores define the ability to teach and learn. Michael is placing the book on his staff’s …
Pond River Middle School
BURLINGTON, NJ Susan Ringenary, a Special Education teacher at this middle school, is utilizing The Art of Learning concepts to bolster the confidence levels of her 8th-grade students and give them a concrete set of tools that enables them to view themselves as equals and their disabilities as obstacles that can be conquered. The school’s …