Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birkett requires a lot of his 30 teachers, but he says he also puts a lot into selecting them, trying to select candidates who are experienced in an urban setting and excel at classroom management...
...have a strong artistic bent, but modern school is the enemy of creativity," he said. "And creativity is the essence of art, therefore I prefer art in a setting other than the classroom...
...sophomore was injured yesterday afternoon when a pyrotechnic device, intended for use as a theater special effect, exploded in his hands before a crowded classroom...
This disregard for the value of the traditional is not confined only to the classroom...
Yates teaches in the same third-floor classroom where he once studied geometry. He was raised a short bike ride from the school, graduating in 1985. He moved to Colorado and Texas but returned after marrying, so that he could raise his two children in Webster's small-town atmosphere--and see his students at the pizza parlor or the Krispy Kreme. He doesn't mind when they stop by his house, or hide outside his back door to blast him with water balloons. "I would never teach in a school where I didn't live," he says...