Teachers At High-Performing Schools Share Strategies

The Jackson (MS) Clarion Ledger (9/18, Brown) reports that standardized test scores have improved in Mississippi, and credits the change to "individual classrooms" and teachers. The article profiles several teachers at high-performing school, as well as the methods that have shaped their success. Kristin Brown of Timberlawn Elementary, for example, "incorporates other subjects such as math and history into her lessons" on English, while Canton math teacher LaTanya Sanders "takes her students outside the classroom, letting them do measurements in the hallways or go on nature walks, as long as it's relevant to the skill she is teaching." Sanders said "credits Nichols Middle School Principal Cleveland Anderson, who had been her math teacher in seventh grade and a mentor, with giving teachers the freedom to get outside the classroom."