None of the 1,200 pupils at Ninkogo had anything other than blackboards at the front of classrooms to write on.
"We were sitting in our classroom, waiting to write an exam.
A recent lesson in Barbara Williams's fourth-grade classroom asked students to write down their conceptions of peacemaking, one of the core values.
The teacher, who is forbidden from taking political stances in the classroom, asked them to write or draw what they were feeling.
She credits Ms. Diop, a more experienced teacher, with helping her succeed by giving her advice on classroom management and how to write lesson plans.
While Stradlater is shaving before going to meet Jane, he asks Holden to write a classroom composition for him.
Only that they used to have a mock classroom, and you'd have to write on slate boards, and the pretend teacher would come round with a cane and give you an impression of what it was like in that era.
While some schools are incorporating the programme into International Baccalaureate, BTEC or A-level qualifications, to help teachers create an atmosphere that feels entirely different from the normal classroom we've asked them to write their own plays alongside their groups and develop their skills at the same time.
As teachers in NYC return to their classrooms this week, many will have to write "R-E-S-P-E-C-T," if they write it at all, on broken blackboards, with stubs of leftover chalk, in dilapidated and overcrowded classrooms.
The study provides recommendations for further AWE research, and in particular calls for more research that places emphasis on how AWE can be integrated effectively in the classroom to support writing instruction.
