To learn more about the three New York City schools that Education World editors visited, be sure to read our Reporters' Notebook . One of your students told me he is reminded about how to behave in every class, each day. There is a code of conduct in the student handbook, and we restate that code a lot. The expectations are clear. We started our new semester yesterday, and each teacher talked about the expectations for the class.
Kids do their own self-evaluations too.
We are trying to get them to be realistic about how they're doing and how other people see them. That makes it hard when we take trips because some kids have to come back to pick up younger brothers and sisters. Your students and staff go on a three-day camping retreat each fall. They recently went to the Museum of the Moving Image, the African Burial Grounds, the Museum of Natural History, and hiking. We go places they've never been.