The Cambiando Vidas School (CVS) is a Montessori school that is operating at a very small scale in Antigua. The recent good fortune that has allowed the school to build a brand new facility on a near-by lot has allowed its leader, Janeth de Reyes, to envision a school that is K-6, a nearly 6-fold increase in the number of students enrolled. Some of the challenges she faces are:
1. Comparing her aspiration for the school to a school in North America or elsewhere to better understand issues like staffing ratios, administration, etc. Helpful ideas would include, as an example, the appropriate size and scale of a computer lab for a school this size (how many computers, type of software, etc.)
2. Borrowing or leveraging the proven ideas and/or themes from other Montessori schools (e.g. lesson plans, etc.). This would help to reduce the amount of time teachers would spend building plans vs. teaching.
3. Limited resources: books, pencils, materials, etc.
4. How to best use the school facilities to teach as many students as possible. The vision is K-6. The teaching hours are only 4-5 hours per day, which means the facility is not filled with students for half the day. Ideas may include: two shifts of teachers and students: morning and afternoon; etc.
Share your ideas on possible partnerships or approaches that can help make the school successful.
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