Case Study III: Fruit Grove Elementary
Since 2011, there has been an influx of students due to transfers from out of state as well as from other schools within the district that have a desire to become involved in the Core Knowledge program at Fruit Grove Elementary. Such has caused an increase in staff to compensate for the need to handle the changes in the class sizes for the upcoming school year. However, this increase in staff as well as students appears to not place a damper on the overall flow of the schools daily activities. During one of the annual staff back to school professional developments, Mrs. Orange, a veteran teacher of Fruit Grove for Fruit Grove for 26 years made the comment, “The biggest challenge of the school culture, is that many of the teachers are stuck in a place. I don’t know how to say this, but… an old style of teaching. Old fashioned teaching versus staying new, connected, modern and moving forward. Even the approaches to teaching, the outlooks on technology, and the way kids learn. The approaches that we have to change in education do not mean using the same basal readers, where kids sit there and teachers feed them information.”
(Nelson, 2014)
Since 2011, there has been an influx of students due to transfers from out of state as well as from other schools within the district that have a desire to become involved in the Core Knowledge program at Fruit Grove Elementary. Such has caused an increase in staff to compensate for the need to handle the changes in the class sizes for the upcoming school year. However, this increase in staff as well as students appears to not place a damper on the overall flow of the schools daily activities. During one of the annual staff back to school professional developments, Mrs. Orange, a veteran teacher of Fruit Grove for Fruit Grove for 26 years made the comment, “The biggest challenge of the school culture, is that many of the teachers are stuck in a place. I don’t know how to say this, but… an old style of teaching. Old fashioned teaching versus staying new, connected, modern and moving forward. Even the approaches to teaching, the outlooks on technology, and the way kids learn. The approaches that we have to change in education do not mean using the same basal readers, where kids sit there and teachers feed them information.”
(Nelson, 2014)