Student attendance increased to more than 90 percent, where it remains today. Students' standardized test scores also improved. Enrollment also is rising. In the 1994-95 school year, the school will add an extra cluster to accommodate 130 additional students. Thurgood Marshall's cluster and team approach has successfully individualized the learning environment for students and teachers.
Teachers point to an atmosphere of trust and companionship foreign to many schools.
It happens all the time. The teams provide teachers with the opportunity to share their concerns with the other team members, and you have a lot better handle on dealing with the daily realities of the classroom. Before, if you were having a problem with a student, you either blamed yourself or you blamed the student. Your options were to keep him after school or throw him out of class.