Download or read book A New Look at Iowa One room Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New Look at Iowa s One Room Schools written by Sandra Host and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth details and stories of Iowa's highly successful Iowa Rural School System (1858-1966) and how it anchored the huge farm settlement (1870-1900) and helped shape the character of Iowa. During this 30 year period a million immigrant farm settlers doubled the population of Iowa and created new farms out of the tall-grass prairie that quadrupled the tilled acreage in Iowa to 35.5 million acres. Farmers built a school for every four square miles of farmland. While there are still people today who have fond childhood memories of attending one-room schools in the mid-1900's, most are unaware that 12,623 one-room schools were built in Iowa mostly during the height of the Victorian Age (1870-1900) or that they were linked together as part of a legislated state-wide system of rural schools that provided easy access for all children within a 2-mile walk from home. Willow Tree School in Richland Township, Sac County, Iowa serves as a representative of a one-room school during the time that the Iowa Rural School System operated. It is representative of other rural schools across Iowa because all were part of a progressive state-wide system with the same organization, regulations and Course of Study despite differences in nationalities and faiths. This book explains why Iowa's successful system of one-room schools served farm families so well for over three generations. The book contains 145 colored photographs of artifacts from the Iowa Rural Schools Museum of Odebolt. We invite you to get to know the individuals through their narratives that were associated with Willow Tree School past and present and let them take you to another time and place!
Download or read book Iowa History of the One Room School 1870 to 1950 Artifacts Pictures and Books written by Sandra Kessler Host and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book pays tribute to over a million immigrant farmers who settled Iowa and built 12,623 one room schools over a 30 year period between 1870 to 1900. Host crafts a research-based journey through artifacts, first-person accounts, and primary documents. The reader relives the emergence of Midwestern farm culture through the impact of immigration and the statewide one room school system that led Iowa to have the highest literacy rate and test scores for decades to follow. Many common stereotypes are challenged and new findings are revealed. Host has researched, collected, and photographed thousands of items donated to the Iowa Rural Schools Museum housed in the restored 1883 Willow Tree School to make a 106 page one-of-a-kind reference book on Iowa's one room schools. Host has been instrumental in creating a true-life timeline of a working classroom and student culture in one of the best historical examples of a late 1800's one-room school in Iowa.The book centers around 12 engaging collections of artifacts from teaching methods to fashions to children's chores. Each collection exposes new insight into the nature of Iowa's early farming communities and why Iowa's one-room school system, legislated in 1858 with the last public one room school closed in 1966, successfully provided an outstanding, free and accessible education for all rural children. It influenced educational achievement for generations. For more information see www.iowaruralschoolsmuseum.netFor information on other books by Host see www.iowahistoricschools.com
Download or read book Adams Ranch Story written by Sandy Host and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Day Memories written by William H. Dreier and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One room School Houses Iowa County Iowa 1844 1966 written by Owen R. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2012* with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Visions and Voices written by Charlotte Caldwell (Photographer) and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Montana's one-room schoolhouses, as recollected and recounted by those most intimately connected to those places, is the story of the American frontier and the high value placed on education by those who came to homestead, mine, or work the railroads. It is a story of the Western spirit and of a culture marked by tenacity and endurance. These stories told by students and teachers, many of whom are now in their eighties or nineties tell of adventures traveling to and from school, the school day, recess games, family life, daily chores, and above all, the sense of community, as defined by these iconic humble schoolhouses. Their voices share memories and perspectives about a way of life, gone for the most part, and breathe life into these visions of rural heritage. The preservation of one-room schoolhouses is important, as they are among Montana's first frontier structures. These treasures inform us about ourselves our history and our culture through the people who learned and taught in them. One hundred percent of the net proceeds of this book will be donated to the Preserve Montana Fund, a campaign of collaboration between the Montana Preservation Alliance, the Montana History Foundation, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This donation will serve to create a challenge grant, earmarked for Montana's endangered one-room schoolhouses.
Download or read book Harker s One room Schoolhouses written by Michael P. Harker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Harker’s goal is to record Iowa’s historically significant architecture before it disappears forever. From Coon Center School no. 5 in Albert City to Pleasant Valley School in Kalona, North River School in Winterset to Douglas Center School in Sioux Rapids, and Iowa’s first school to Grant Wood’s first school, he has achieved this goal on a grand scale in Harker’s One-Room Schoolhouses.
Download or read book Suggestions and Plans for Iowa Schoolhouses and Grounds written by Iowa. Dept. of Public Instruction and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All in One Room written by Franklin L. Yoder and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking School How to Take Charge of Your Child s Education written by Susan Wise Bauer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you read only one book on educating children, this should be the book.… With a warm, informative voice, Bauer gives you the knowledge that will help you flex the educational model to meet the needs of your child.” —San Francisco Book Review Our K–12 school system isn’t a good fit for all—or even most—students. It prioritizes a single way of understanding the world over all others, pushes children into a rigid set of grades with little regard for individual maturity, and slaps “disability” labels on differences in learning style. Caught in this system, far too many young learners end up discouraged. This informed, compassionate, and practical guidebook will show you how to take control of your child’s K–12 experience and negotiate the school system in a way that nurtures your child’s mind, emotions, and spirit. Understand why we have twelve grades, and why we match them to ages. Evaluate your child’s maturity, and determine how to use that knowledge to your advantage. Find out what subject areas we study in school, why they exist—and how to tinker with them. Discover what learning disabilities and intellectual giftedness are, how they can overlap, how to recognize them, and how those labels can help (or hinder) you. Work effectively with your child’s teachers, tutors, and coaches. Learn to teach important subjects yourself. Challenge accepted ideas about homework and standardized testing. Help your child develop a vision for the future. Reclaim your families’ priorities (including time for eating together, playing, imagining, traveling, and, yes, sleeping!). Plan for college—or apprenticeships. Consider out-of-the-box alternatives.
Download or read book Thread that Runs So True written by Jesse Stuart and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1958 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal narrative of the author's experiences as a teacher in the mountain region of Kentucky. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book Iowa Grant History written by Iowa-Grant Educational Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to all small communities in rural America was the value placed on education. The schools, along with churches, were the glue that kept these small settlements and villages alive, thriving and providing an unforgettable way of life for over a century. Life was hard then, by today's standards, but everyone seemed to be in a similar situation. Education became the key. The schools played a vital role with each generation learning and growing in their trades, their farming practices and their family-centered way of life. This book tells the story of one such area, in beautiful southwest Wisconsin, where over 40 small school districts consolidated into one larger district spanning nearly 200 square miles. The rural leaders in the 1950s realized that the one-room school concept could no longer meet the growing needs of their children. Society was advancing and education, once again, remained the key. Rural cooperation is well exemplified in this book as these tiny districts looked to a future of growth and opportunity and claimed it for their families. They birthed the school known as Iowa-Grant. The name tells proudly of its origin in both Iowa and Grant counties. The book includes photos and stories of the one-room schools and the town schools spanning over a hundred years of changes. It features the construction and dedication of this new high school in the middle of corn and oat fields. Then it tells the story, in photo form by the decades, of life in a rural high school. It is said that it takes a whole village to raise a child so the names of the teachers, school board, students, administration, support staff and community members are included to clearly show who proudly help raise these children of Iowa-Grant. Some fifty years later, education still remains the vital key to the success of our children. This look back in history may just remind us that there is still a part we must all play to keep it growing forward. This look at the past can also show us how collectively we can take an idea and build it into something bigger than each of us can do alone. But it takes each of us to play a part, for the greater good. We are so thankful for the individuals who had the vision and acted on it together, for the greater good.
Download or read book School Long Ago and Today written by Sally Lee and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was school like in the days of old? Can you imagine studying in a tiny one-room schoolhouse, writing out lessons on a chalkboard slate? Discover how school life has changed over time, and what it might be like in the future.
Download or read book When One Room Fit All written by Helen Boertje and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From township to township, When One Room Fit All pinpoints the location of each school and lists the teachers who taught there. Through excerpts from old newspapers and interviews with former teachers and students, the author provides a glimpse of what life was like in the country schools of Marion County, Iowa. An appendix lists the teachers alphabetically with the names of schools where they taught.
Download or read book Iowa Historic Schools Highlighting Victorian Influence written by Sandra Kessler Host and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Tour of One room Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
