Robison's page has daily notes and homework assignments as well as a game to help students learn. There's also a way for parents to find out their children's grade average in the class. Ten ideas worth rethinking Basement classrooms. East Aurora and Iroquois Central hire and pay professionals to direct their school musicals. East Aurora also hires professional choreographers and set designers.
Students do all the performing.
Even in this post Columbine era, when you almost expect to see a police officer or two in a school, the heightened security at Niagara Falls High School is startling. Not only is there a police substation in the school, there's lock-down equipment and a level of surveillance unprecedented in this area. Some schools, primarily in Erie County, say it's too difficult to coordinate schedules. There's a broken water fountain at Buffalo Alternative High School that runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No one's able to shut it off.