That's really practiced here. The next year I copied what she did, and my class scores came up. Ten of my kids went down, so that's a personal thing I can improve on to help the kids. I assumed they knew more than they did. But something got missed.
Teachers also develop goals for each student, which they go over with the principal.
At the end of the year we also look at each child's gain scores and try to figure out, if any child did exceptionally well, why, and if a child didn't do well, why. That information is passed on to the child's next teacher. All this focus is relentless. After school, the focus widens and students have a wide range of activities such as art, drama, Spanish, and running clubs to help them develop more broadly. Parents at Shallowford Falls are highly involved in their children's school experience.