At the start of the school day at
AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School
’s campus in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, the 20
wiggly students in Monique Twyman’s preschool class are as attentive as a
group of 3-year-olds can be.
Ms. Twyman leads the children through a brisk review of letter sounds
and tells them the plans for the day: Some will choose to dig through a
sand table to discover dinosaur “fossils,” while others may play with
classroom toys, like blocks. Still others can choose to work with clay,
or stamp paper with the letter E with the help of the classroom’s second
teacher.
The day also will include monitoring the progress of students at the
school, one in a network that has received a $5 million Investing in
Innovation grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Children will be
pulled out of the classroom individually for quick assessments designed
to gauge their mastery of the building blocks...
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