Third grade is the last chance for students to master reading before they face more rigorous expectations.
ATLANTA — Michael Crowder stood nervously at the front of his third grade classroom, his yellow polo shirt buttoned to the top.
Gilbert-Jackson hopes it will be enough. She has raced to prepare her students for future classes, where reading well is a gateway to everything else.Before December vacation, the class was subdued and visibly tired but Gilbert-Jackson moved on with her lessons. Gilbert-Jackson has an important advantage: She taught most of her students in first grade and second grade, and followed them to third. She knows how much school many of them missed — and why. The strategy was adopted by Boyd Elementary to give students consistency through the crisis.
"I see a change in him," says Michael's stepfather, Rico Morton."I feel like he has the potential to be someone."On paper, Atlanta' policy is to promote elementary school students who"master" reading, math and other subjects. How often the district, which did not respond to requests for data, holds students back is unclear.
One day in late February, Gilbert-Jackson asked her students to revise a narrative they'd each been writing about a glowing rock. She worries she isn't serving her new students as well as she'd like."This train has been running for three years," she said."I can't start over."
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