With enrollment dropping and teachers striking across Puget Sound, some schools are avoiding these problems, including Impact charter school Seattle Salish Sea Elementary.
With enrollment dropping and teachers striking across the Puget Sound, some schools are avoiding these problems, including Impact charter school Seattle Salish Sea Elementary.
The goal of Seattle Sea Salish Elementary is to develop social-emotional skills in its young “scholars,” what Sea Salish calls its students, and gives them the skills that families say are seeing great results in their kids.This increased focus on social and emotional development is important to the faculty and staff because it emphasizes individual student development rather than purely meeting state mandates testing standards.
Other support systems for faculty include a shortened Friday schedule, which gives teachers time to plan their lessons as well as important mental health breaks during their work time. All of these improvements come from being able to work directly with faculty to plan curriculums and be flexible and responsive to student needs.
For teacher Emily Lescombes, the freedom of having control over her lesson plans rather than relying on more structured, state-approved learning has given her the freedom to focus on teaching strategies that meet students where they are.
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