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Classroom volunteer Janet Claassen, center, helps Mohammed Hassan, Juan Zepeda, Mang Le Thang and Zua Fit Da Bi with an English lesson.

Photos by Dean Musser Jr. | The Journal Gazette

Eager to learn, unfairly tested

Math teacher Karen Rhoades calls it the most “despicable” thing she's ever done as a teacher. Emily Schwartz Keirns, who oversees the English Language Learners program for Fort Wayne Community Schools, said it is clearly the wrong thing to do to children. [More]

  • A warmer welcome

    Northwood Middle School makes a good first home in Fort Wayne. For students newly arrived in the U.S., the school must seem like a safe and supportive place to grow accustomed to a new language, a new culture and new people.

  • Photo icon Getting on board for kids

    Kim Fazio is a math teacher, mom, teammate, cheerleader and classroom manager extraordinaire. Until four years ago, she wore the roles a bit unevenly, clinging to the mind-set that if she taught it, they must learn it.

  • Photo icon Learning squeezes in

    Look at a yearbook from Northwood Middle School’s early years and you are struck by how different the school looks today – and how it looks the same.

  • Photo icon The essential principal

    Northwood Middle School students often learn school news from closed-circuit broadcasts in their classrooms.

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