Sumner County Schools
Gallatin, TN
Wit & Wisdom (K-8)
February 22, 2020 - February 23, 2020
03/31/2020
02/24/2020
“The connections and the discussions are there, and they were not before….Seeing the connections across subject areas is incredible.”
02/24/2020
“They possess a lot more content knowledge than a lot of kids we see in high school.”
02/24/2020
“They can do the work. If you expect them to do the work, they’ll do it.”
02/24/2020
“With this curriculum, everyone is getting it, everyone is pushed. High learners, lower learners, everybody is being pushed.”
02/24/2020
“It’s a lot easier to implement classroom management techniques because it starts day one with our curriculum, embedding routines and procedures.”
02/24/2020
“I’d ask, ‘well who’d you play with at recess?’ because that was really the only thing I could get out of them….This year it’s completely changed.”
02/24/2020
“They are creating projects, having conversations with each other, and putting things on Google Drive about these texts that they are involved with.”
02/24/2020
“They just love to come home and talk about what they’re reading.”
02/24/2020
“What I thought was good was not what the teacher next to me thought….We didn’t have evidence to say ‘this is what writing has to look like.'”
02/24/2020
“We’re able to not just complete a lesson…but really sit and think about how it’s going to flow and what we’re expecting for the kids.”
02/24/2020
“The Socratic seminars are great. They really enjoy those academic, text-based discussions.”
02/24/2020
“They [teachers] still spend a lot of time outside the school day working… but it’s more rehearsing and fine-tuning.”
02/24/2020