Dr. Melanie Hayes
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704 appearances
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first heard Dec 2019
last heard Feb 2022
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Um and then in the afternoon we have another block called Project Time, and that's to give the kids the time and support to work on their own individual projects.
And then for kids who um we do have a lot of kids who can't read for various disabilities or
You know, they've been circling that elementary math strain their whole career.
And they do wanna learn how to do
traditional math or they do want to learn how to read or maybe sometimes our kids that come in once they start eighth grade they start to think about, Well, how am I going to be successful in high school?
So when they ask for that kind of
support, then we'll give 'em support.
We can do math and literacy coaching.
Um we have a teacher who does life skills class that teaches them how to move into a high school if that's what they want to do.
But um
It's all about what the kids want to do, so there's no control and compliance from the teachers.
We're there as mentors and supporters.
And um we let the kids uh be free to explore what it is they're interested in learning.
And it's kind of interesting because we do we are WASC accredited, which is the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and they require that you do annual testing in math and literacy.
And so we explained to the kids why we had to do it and we gave them a chance to opt out if they didn't want to do it.
They all tested and we ended up with higher math and literacy scores than the state average, which I thought was very interesting 'cause we don't teach that way.
So
Yeah, and for a lot of our kids, you know, they that's their first experience of having
kids who are their true peers.
So people that they that get their humor and are interested in the things they're interested in.
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