{"id":11579,"date":"2013-11-20T13:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flovalleynews.com\/?p=11579"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:32:57","slug":"hazelwood-schools-washington-u-partnership-brings-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flovalleynews.com\/?p=11579","title":{"rendered":"Hazelwood Schools, Washington U. Partnership Brings Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Hazelwood School District (HSD) is seeing the results of improved science test scores from a partnership with Washington University faculty and administration that began in 2008. Since the partnership started, scores on the Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) tests have increased 22.4 percentage points for fifth-graders, and 12 percentage points for eighth-graders over a five-year period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe have improved at a higher rate in science compared to other schools in the state, and I believe it is a direct result of our relationship with Washington University and the support they have given us,\u201d said Grayling Tobias, Ed.D. HSD superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>Washington University is providing support for HSD through its Institute for School Partnership (ISP) and its community based initiative to improve K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).<\/p>\n<p>HSD teachers are given on-site instruction, and earn 15-credit hours of graduate level work. Washington University\u2019s faculty provides additional support to HSD science teachers. The university also supplies instruction materials and kits for students and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program has changed the way I teach in so many ways. When I first started\u00a0teaching science, I was pleased if the students did the experiment the way I told them to. But that was boring to me, and boring to the kids,\u201d said Georgene Collier, fifth grade science teacher at Russell Elementary School. \u201cThe program has given me confidence and expanded my thinking about science and about how I wanted to present science in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big thing I learned through the program: Having the students write their own testable questions, and then come up with their own hypothesis. That\u2019s totally new from when I learned science growing up,\u201d said Sara Berghoff, Jamestown Elementary School fifth grade science teacher. \u201cWhen I was in fifth grade we read out of a textbook. Science is really hands-on, and I think that\u2019s another thing that has helped our test scores, too; everything is hands-on and students like to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HSD is looking to improve in other areas as well. \u201cThis program has been so successful,\u201d Tobias says, \u201cthat we are planning to replicate it in the area of English language arts with the University of Missouri-St. Louis. That\u2019s how strongly we feel about the partnership with Washington University.\u201d <em>(story provided by Hazelwood District Communications Dept.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hazelwood School District (HSD) is seeing the results of improved science test scores from a partnership with Washington University faculty and administration that began in 2008. 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