This September Chimacum School District will consist of a grades K through 2 primary school, a grades 3 through 6 elementary school, and a grades 7 through 12 jr and sr high school. In order to accommodate fewer students the middle school was consolidated into the elementary and the high school. I wrote about the …
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Feb 09
I’m Drawing a Blank
My school district, Chimacum School District (CSD), has been experiencing an unprecedented decline in enrollment for the past bunch of years. When I started teaching at Chimacum Middle School (CMS) in 1997 there were about 370 students in grades 6 through 8. We had four classes at each grade level with approximately 120 students at …
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Jul 11
NGSS and Enjoying Science
I just read this article on Mindshift, Will New Standards Improve Elementary Science Education, and it made me think of something we teachers talk about often, the natural curiosity that kids come to school with when they first enter school. Something about the way traditional schooling is done to children strips that natural curiosity. In …
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