So I send a letter out to all our parents every Friday, and all the teachers do, as well. We also integrate multiple intelligences into the language we use on report cards. The idea here is that when you teach students, you teach parents. They are a committed, creative, hard-working group. They develop their own curricula, and our faculty has produced two books on teaching to multiple intelligences .
Kids use what they have learned to solve problems.
Well, there would be 15 to 17 kids per teacher. The kids sit at tables that are grouped usually in fours, so that kids can work collaboratively. You wouldn't see desks in straight rows. There are risers or lofts in the classes, so that kids can sit on them and listen to the teacher, depending on what's going on in the class. What's different in our classrooms is the sense of freedom and personal responsibility.