NorwalkTeamNotes

=Norwalk Visiting Team Quotes=
 * Reading Good to Great together helped us confront the “brutal truth” about our building. “You have to look at that ‘brutal truth’ in order to determine your direction and focus”.
 * “You can change your culture and your school. It all stemmed from the teachers wanting to make a difference in our school.”
 * "How are you reaching out to the Latino community? There’s close to 70% Latino students in this building but a visitor would never know that by looking at the walls and bulletin boards in classrooms."
 * "They “blew up” their pull out programs and changed the role of their special education teachers. They started providing learning labs for all of their Level 1 (those students who were achieving at least two grade levels below their current grade). They found that once students started having success academically, their disruptive behavior diminished dramatically."
 * They went out and observed in other towns and realized that "middle school kids are middle school kids everywhere".
 * They adopted the philosophy: “If a child doesn’t learn the way you teach, you need to teach the way the child learns.”

**Jane Cook's Notes from Nathan Hale Middle School Team Visit on 12/17/10:** [|NathanHaleMiddleSchoolNorwalkVisitingTeamMeetingwithWMSDataTeamson12-17-10.doc]