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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Showcase Program
Encourages Sharing
Successful Teaching
Practices Among Schools
By Lindsey Christ
Monday, April 6, 2015 at 11:17 PM EDT

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It's one of the first lessons children

learn in school: how to share. Now,
Chancellor Carmen Faria wants city
schools to do a lot more sharingwith
each other. NY1s Lindsey Christ filed
this report.
P.S. 69 in Brooklyn is one of several
public schools that's been hosting a lot
of visitors this year.
The arts programand how teachers
incorporate the arts into lessons across
every subjectdraws guests to PS 69.
It's a so-called showcase school, one of
17 that has agreed to open its doors to
show and tell what it does best.
Visitors include principals, education
officials and teachers from across the
city who have signed up to spend a day
observing, asking questions and taking
notes.
"The music and the arts, the
instruments, the dance, the plays.
They're learning so much that it makes
me sad that everybody isn't doing it
everywhere," says Marilyn Bell,
principal advisor at Bank Street College
of Education.
The idea is that the visitors will spread
practices that work, bringing ideas back
to their classrooms and schools.
"I wish I could bring the whole school to
my school to show my administration.
Like, this can be done," says P.S. 272

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Like, this can be done," says P.S. 272

teacher Shaunda Hester.
Chancellor Carmen Faria launched
the showcase program in October,
having schools share everything from
parental involvement strategies to
creative student scheduling.
"We believe this is a great way to start
a conversation about how we can
improve what's happening in all the
schools in our city," says Deputy
Chancellor Phil Weinberg.
Nearly a thousand educators will visit a
showcase school this school year and
the Education Department plans to
expand the program next year.
While P.S. 69 is an elementary school,
teachers of every grade level say they
are able to learn, just by getting out of
their classrooms and spending a day in
someone elses.
"The engagement is amazing, the
participation, in the way they work
together," says Pheona Hunt, who
teaches at High School for Arts Imagine
and Inquiry.
Thats exactly what the Chancellor is
hoping every school will do.

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