Moving up a grade together can benefit both teachers and students.
When teachers have more time with students, they get to know them better and can teach them more effectively. It's a low-cost way to deepen teacher focus on all students, but particularly those who need the most support.(Getty Images)
For some of the children atDyersburg Primary Schoolin northwest Tennessee, starting school this past fall felt familiar. They'd moved up a grade, but kept the same teacher and most of the same classmates.
That's because Dyersburg "loops" teachers – a practice in which teachers stay with the same group of students for more than one grade.
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