Teacher Pipeline Part of Operation to Lift a School
By 2 o’clock in the afternoon on a chilly day last week, Augusta Bryant, a first-year teacher at William T. Sherman School here, had lost more than 30 minutes of class time to a fire drill and watched four of her science-lesson goldfish expire in their bowl.
It didn’t rattle her. As one of the 30 teachers who had signed on to turn around a school where student performance has lagged for so long that local education officials called it the first in the district to be blasted with the full force of the No Child Left Behind Act, Ms. Bryant was made of sterner stuff.
Still, the young teacher in the modish squared-off glasses, the product of an innovative training program, knew she had a lot to learn—and a real chance to learn it. So when she sat down with her coach, her...
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