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Woodville is doing it right
02/02/2009 7:16 AM by John M
The RTD takes a look at the authentic success at Woodville Elementary despite the school’s challenges:
The 590 students in her East End school come from some of the city’s poorest, toughest neighborhoods. Between 94 percent and 96 percent qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a federal benchmark for poverty.
It’s the kind of place where a student will say his favorite part of an out-of-town school trip was sleeping in a bed or that her parents couldn’t make it to teacher conferences because they were in jail.
Great to see positive news on the RPS.
Now some questions.
What is she doing different?
What are the standards of success?
What are the limits (if any) of improvement?
How can we replicate this?
Do the results follow these kids into middle and high school?