Bonney Lake teachers awarded for innovative work with youths
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The team shares responsibility for one group of about 90 freshmen in the school. Most of the school’s 362 freshmen and 365 sophomores have a teacher team for their core classes.
Team members meet regularly to discuss student achievement, look at data and identify ways to boost student performance.
It’s strategies like these that earned Bonney Lake High an Innovative School label in November. The state program recognizes schools that are using creative ideas to help kids succeed.
The team of math teacher Mike Olson, English teacher Jennifer Fruehauf, science teacher Andrew Sage and counselor Kami Johnson meet regularly to share what they’re hearing from their ninth-grade students and to brainstorm solutions to their problems.
On this Friday, after school is over for the week, the team is joined by Principal Linda Masteller and Assistant Principal Brian Scheerer.
Masteller says the issues confronting kids in her suburban high school of 1,400 students aren’t unusual.
[ Via: Bellingham Herald | Read more... ]