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Traveling Pants begin statewide tour
Chandler was the starting point for a pair of jeans’ send the jeans to 55 libraries throughout the state, The jeans’ progress can be tracked at aztraveling-
journey around the state as part of the Arizona where they will be decorated by other local teens. pants.blogspot.com, and residents can “communicate
Traveling Pants project, inspired by the “Sisterhood When the journey is complete, the pants will be sent with the pants” at aztravelingpants@gmail.com. For
of the Traveling Pants” movies and the book series by back around the state one more time so participants details on the project, call 480-782-2807 or access
Ann Brashares. can see the results of their artistic collaboration. Their www.chandlerlibraryteens.org.
After putting their own artistic touch on the jeans, fi nal destination will be the Downtown Chandler
members of the Chandler Library Teen Program will Library, where they will be placed on display.
CUSD from Page 1
Send us your knockout
In addition to extra time, standardizing the “block” modifi ed block schedule works so well for their ninth-
schedule was also done to ensure that schools were through 12th-graders, they expanded it for seventh-
stories and photos!
in compliance with the requirements. Each high and eighth-graders.
Students in Chandler
school’s weekly “block” schedule now includes three “We have been so pleased with the results that we
and Gilbert have the
traditional days during which a student spends 56 added block scheduling at the middle school level last opportunity to see
minutes in each class and then two block days during year,” she says. “We created this schedule to reduce their articles, stories,
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which students spend 112 minutes in half of their lost time during transitions, add more time for hands-
poems, editorials and
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classes. on activities and experiments, and give students an
illustrations in print in
“For example,” Gilbert explains, “on a Monday additional opportunity to get assistance from their
the SanTan Sun Kids
you’d see all six teachers. Tuesday you may see all six teachers before assignments are due.”
Opportunity section. Visit www.SanTanSun.com,
teachers. Then you’d see three on Wednesday and the At the elementary school level, a number of CUSD
click on Youth and then Student Writer Permission
Slip to download a submission/permission slip.
other three on Thursday. Then on Friday you’d see all schools changed their schedules to start at 8:30 a.m.
Complete the form and have your parents sign it so
six teachers again.” and end at 3 p.m. Terry Locke, spokesperson for
we have their permission to print your material with
CUSD sees several benefi ts to the new schedule, CUSD, says that these time changes were made to help
your byline. Then, email your submission/permission
particularly for ensuring that instructional time with district bus routes become as effi cient as possible.
slip and writing or cartoon to Lynda@SanTanSun.
teachers is maximized. The block days allow for “We want to maximize our resources related to com as a Word fi le (if writing) or JPEG (if art) or
extended lessons and the ability to go deeper into a transportation,” Locke states. “Buses begin with high pasted into the email. If you don’t have access to
subject in one session. school routes, followed by elementary and junior high
email, or prefer to send your submission on disk,
“Every high school had some form of block within routes. Essentially, we use one bus and one driver for
you may send a hard copy of the form with your
their schedule, and our teachers do like the block up to three routes each morning and afternoon. This
entry in a Word fi le or JPEG on a CD via postal mail
schedule,” says Gilbert. “So we looked at how we is far more effi cient than having three buses and three
to Lynda Exley, Kids Op Page, SanTan Sun News,
could have the best of both worlds in the sense of the drivers provide service simultaneously.”
P.O. Box 23, Chandler, AZ 85244-0023. For more
information on the Kids Op page, or to have SanTan
amount of time students see each teacher and also
Sun News Editor Lynda Exley speak at your school
having the block schedule days so that teachers can
Natalie Morris is a freelance writer who lives in Cooper
do different things with labs and science and some of
Commons with her husband, two sons and their dog, Bella.
to rev students up about writing and publishing,
Contact her at Natalie@SanTanSun.com.
email Lynda@SanTanSun.com.
the other subjects.”
HCLC’s high school Principal Nancy Emmons says
:
While
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