BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

138. The Everywhere School is a participating member of the Hartford Public
School System and reports to the Hartford Superintendent of Schools and the
Board of Education. The school is administered by a Counselor Staff under
the direction of a Master Counselor, who is the direct organisational link
to the Superintendent. The Master Counselor is appointed and paid by the
Board of Education. The Counselor Staff is charged generally with responsibility
for the entire spectrum of education in the neighbourhood and
specifically with operating the neighbourhood MIAs. Figure 12 shows the
organisational structure adopted for the School.
13'9. Each MIA of 150 children has a teaching team comprising:
- a master teacher with responsibility for the educational program
within his MIA;
- four certified teachers with direct responsibility for implementing
the educational program;
- five teaching aides, generally people from the neighbourhood,
preferably mothers and fathers, who will assist the teachers in
their work.
The original proposal (see Figure 13) includes two program designers and
three teaching associates who have been eliminated in the course of further
developmentso Despite this the pupil/adult ratio will be no less than
15/1.
140. Unfortunately the Environmental Extension and Field Trip Program
providing children with the necessary outside experience had to be eliminated
due to lack of funding. It operated, however, in part during the
demonstration phase, and distinguished three kinds of programs:
i) agencies or business firms that would send their staff members
into the school;
ii) agencies or business firms that would be open to receive pupils;
iii) exchanges between agencies or business firms and the school, i.e.
a combination of i) and ii).
141. One of the unique features of the comprehensive SAND art/cultural
program is the SAND Art Studio. A black artist from the community who
did several striking murals in the city of Hartford has a studio and
partly lives on the first floor of the old warehouse which contains, the
demonstration MIA. In return for community help in building his studio
he now works with 10 pupils from the elementary school and 12 from other
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