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| Fenty visits Florida Avenue campus |
VOICE writes, "BY MICHAEL SKINNER
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“The mayor is coming!” students on the playground exclaimed. “He came to my house, and now he’s at my school,” gushed one first-grader.
Mayor Adrian Fenty visited Two Rivers Public Charter School one bright fall afternoon in early October. School Executive Director Jessica Wodatch and Principal Jim May escorted Fenty and his staff on a tour of Two Rivers’ new Florida Avenue campus.
Fenty had an opportunity to see classes hard at work, quietly observing lessons in action in some classrooms and talking directly to students and teachers in others."
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Students were eager to share their expeditions — long-term, project-based learning activities that each class uses to explore and integrate a variety of subjects. Third-grade student ambassadors, Elias Demian and Rayne Turnage, explained their class expedition on writing a law just about voting rights for the District.
Fifth-grade students peppered Fenty with questions about what it is like to be the mayor — one student even managed to get an autograph. Upon hearing that one class was working on an expedition exploring water quality in D.C., the mayor invited them to meet with experts at the District Department of the Environment.
In addition to seeing classrooms at work, Fenty met with school administrators to get a better sense of how Two Rivers works. Gazing around at the brightly painted walls and engaged students busy at work in small groups, the mayor observed, “This is one outstanding school you’ve got here.”
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Posted on Dec 03, 2007 13:28pm.
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