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Young Playwrights Project Inspires Creativity, Confidence At Love School

Fourth grade students in Lori Cobb’s and Mackenzie Zuech’s classes at Love Elementary School are bringing their ideas to life through the Chautauqua Institution’s Young Playwrights Project, a program designed to help students explore storytelling, writing and performance in a meaningful ...

Read 180 Helping Close Literacy Gap

For students at Washington Middle School, the path to literacy is becoming increasingly personalized. As Jamestown Public Schools enters its third year of a district-wide transition to a comprehensive literacy curriculum through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Washington reading teachers John ...

Ashley Cruz Combines Connection, Innovation As Washington Teacher

For Ashley Cruz, the hallways of Washington Middle School are more than just a place of work — they are home. Now in her sixth year with Jamestown Public Schools and her second at Washington, Cruz brings a unique perspective to her fifth-grade classroom: she once walked these same halls as a ...

First-Year Teacher Aims To Create Welcoming Space

In the corner of Fletcher Elementary School’s “west wing,” Blade Ellis’s fourth-grade classroom is bustling with excitement. Within these four walls, learning isn’t a passive activity — it’s an event. It’s time for English Language Arts, and before the students read a story ...