Elementary school day restructuring

Fred Marshall (marshall@northernnet.com)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 23:59:10 EST

The staff of Northern Elementary School in Bemidji, Minnesota (450
students in grades 1-5, 17 classroom teachers, music, art, gym, and
library spceialists) are searching for ways to restructure our school
day. We are seeking direct input, and pointers to other information
resources, from Usenet newsgroup participants.

Some of the areas of change that have been identified for this project
are:

1. Establishing "team" concepts and reorganizing schedules to provide
for daily team planning time

2. Incorporating technology in the curricilum at each grade level

3. Enhancing curriculum through the clustering of computers within
grade levels

4. Ungrading reading classes in the primary grades

5. Initiating portfolios of student work

6. Extending the school day for students requiring remedial tutoring,
using volunteer university students as tutors

7. Preschool conferences

8. Combining library and technology classes

9. Initiating peer tutoring

If you have ideas, suggestions, experience, or pointers to useful
information in any of these areas, would you please share them within
this group or by email?

Thanks for reading this!

Sincerely,

The Staff of Northern Elementary
Bemidji, Minnesota USA

northbem@paulbunyan.net

Submitted to EDTECH by:
Fred Marshall
marshall@northernnet.com