Principal Cleans House, Charts Turnaround | New Haven Independent
At the new Lincoln-Bassett School, teachers will come early. Students will be invited to stay late. Class sizes will be smaller. Staff will use the Comer Method to help kids cope with trauma.
That’s the latest plan for a state-funded “turnaround” planned for the Newhallville neighborhood school, which serves 355 kids in grades pre-K to 6.
This coming fall the school will embark on a double experiment: one that gives a principal the power to clean house and reconstitute the team in her own vision; and another that expands school hours to help families who work late and can’t pick up their kids.
The woman coming in to steer those experiments grew up in the neighborhood, knows generations of families, and hugs strangers who cross the threshold the school. The principal, Janet Brown-Clayton (pictured above), just replaced 20 of 27 teachers in the school; she is now busy building a new team to start a turnaround funded by three-quarters of a million dollars per year.
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