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“The teachers believed in us and we believed in them.” Marguerite Bunyan Giles

 “The teachers openly used the term ‘progressive education.’
In their meetings, they would talk about progressive education
and talk about their curriculum development.” Sayde Bunyan Dean


Mrs. Jewell R. Jackson
teacher of English

 

Mrs. Jewell Jackson participated in the Secondary School Study by exploring pupil-teacher planning and by introducing "elective courses in speech and dramatics" for the senior high school students.

“Mrs. Jackson had us delve deeply into literature and writing. She encouraged us to write (and she took our work to conferences). She had a sense of what we could do and brought out the best in us.”
Sayde Bunyan Dean

 

 

“Mrs. Jewell R. Jackson was such a wonderful teacher who knew her subject matter. She stressed writing and convinced us how important this skill would be. Not only did she teach us to write, she showed us how to concentrate and to listen. I always felt that she worked harder than we did in preparing her topics and getting ready for her classes.”
George W. Bunyan



  

George W. Bunyan
  
                     
 

"The science teachers are making an intensive analysis of pupil needs in reading accompanied by exploration of classroom technique for promoting greater adequacy in reading for information in science.

Teachers of science and geometry use individual pupil folders to collect a variety of information concerning the growth of individual pupils. The information is used by teachers and pupils as one basis for deciding on important next steps for individual pupils and for the class as a group. Some of the general categories of information are acquisition of factual information, work and planning skills, reading for science information and certain thinking abilities."
Catalog of the Secondary School Study

       


Mr. William N. Jackson
teacher of science
                                 

Mr. Birtill T. Barrow
teacher of science


Mr. William Hargraves
teacher of history

     

 

“Mr. Hargraves never came out and talked about racial segregation. Since he was a history teacher, he used history—the civil war—to discuss contemporary issues.”
Sayde Bunyan Dean


Sayde Bunyan Dean
   

George W. Bunyan
 “Mr. Hargraves attended to the formal curriculum but also brought in much talk about his perceptions of articles in the newspaper and of events in the country. He helped us explore areas that would influence us for the rest of our lives. He wasn’t confrontational; he just tried to explain situations and help us to recognize how we could succeed in this system. We did encounter quite a few obstacles even though they were invisible but, from Mr. Hargraves’ class, we knew that they were there.”
George W. Bunyan		  
                                 
       “Mr. Merry built a community at Grant School for the teachers and staff as much as for the students.” Sayde Bunyan Dean    
                                 
   


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