Biggs, Julian Glascock, Baylis

Description

The film opens up with a teacher and a child going over math problems at Rawson School during a new summer program that teachers and parents have developed. One teacher talks about the community aspect of the school that is new in the past year. She talks about a program in which there are volunteer teaching aides from the community spending at least a half-day a week each at all three of the elementary schools in the area: Annie Fisher, Rawson, and Mark Twain schools. She then describes the summer program as a way to support student learning, particularly in Kindergarten through second grade. The program has a a 1:1 or 1:6 teacher to studentratio, and provides tutoring for students during summer vacation, since retention of informationfrom the previous school year is a problem for students. The civic association and other community members have gotten involved and were able to get institutional support for a summer program from Dr. Miles at the Board of Education so that students who need the most support could get it over the summer. The film cuts to another woman helping a young student with vocabulary through image recognition and reading aloud. It then cuts back to the initial teacher who explains that 50 families participated in the summer program this year and discusses the importance of communities beginning to work together to help themselves and not just seek out volunteers from the suburbs. The film cuts to a teacher playing games with children outside....

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Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library

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Connecticut Digital Archive