Teachers discover, through a series of activities, that the transfer of student learning across the disciplines is surprisingly poor. Chris, Jim, and Linda present their ideas and instructional plan to the Rochester School Committee. School Committee responds favorably to the proposal with a small award to help keep the work moving through the Spring. Chris, Jim, and Linda begin development of a full-scale, interdisciplinary project to cultivate transfer across art, music, and language arts. Chris, Jim, and Linda gear instruction to specifically teach for transfer.
Work begins on the interdisciplinary project.
Students become highly interested in the work. Teachers videotape interviews with students as part of the evaluation process. Students take their projects home. Project includes a class presentation in a bound booklet and attached cassette tape containing student poems, music compositions, and visual art works. Formal feedback collected, and response from parents and administrators is overwhelmingly positive.