Photo courtesy of Mary Evans.
The new classroom design.
In the spring of 2016, Crestline administrators challenged their teaching staff to a Classroom Transformation Contest. Teachers were asked to submit written answers to questions about their vision of an optimum learning environment and why their classroom needed to be transformed. The winners were chosen by a committee at the central office, and the PTO-funded makeovers have taken place over the summer.
The classrooms chosen to be transformed belong to third-grade teacher Laura Ferguson Rives and sixth-grade teacher Bill Garner. The new, state-of-the art classroom designs will impact classroom practice, teacher planning and student learning.
When students return to school, they will find these two 21st-century classrooms completely updated. Rives’ and Garner’s rooms are the first to convert to “Imagine Classrooms,” in hopes to be models for all classes at Crestline in the future.
– Submitted by Mary Evans.
