Frank L. Huff Elementary School

Posted November 9, 2009

School struggles to offer differentiated learning opprotunities to its higher level GATE students who represent a reasonable % of the school s population. Budget for GATE funding provides for a once a week after school club with non-academic activities. Teachers struggle to offer differentiated learning opportunities for advanced learners while also meeting the demands of districts misadventure in Continuous Improvement (CI) with its myopic emphasis on drills to pass NCLB and State testing. The school should consider other approaches including targeted middle school style class rotations starting in grade 2 that would allow teachers to offer targeted intervention at the right level for each student allowing teachers the ability to focus. If the many parent volunteers took a break, the school would have serious challenges.
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Posted September 15, 2009

This is a great school. Parent and community involvement is exceptional, and Huff is doing a great job of navigating the current economic difficulties.
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Posted July 15, 2009

My daughter went to Huff for Kindergarten. Her teacher Mrs. Lopez is great. She was having some problems at the beginning of the school year and Mrs Lopez gave us some material to take home to help her out. Everyone in the school is very friendly and it's in a great community.
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Posted June 12, 2009

My son is studying at huff, it is a great school, all the kinder teachers are great, our son had Ms Martincic, she is a wonderful teacher. She went out of her way to help our son in class and outside of the class. The parent community is great. Many parents volunteered in class. It was good for students to have that extra parent involvement in class. My son learnt a lot in his one year at Huff!!
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