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The Peninsula Times Tribune from Palo Alto, California • 41

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PV.0 ALTO TA'ES, KONDAY. AJS. 13. I962-X7A 5 Cupertino has 3 new schools .0,4 2 Multi-purpose room 9 rp W- ey t-e Ck-C" e- we'imsn ckt 7- 03 m- ft Three new schools will provide the educational home for more than I. Ml youngeera in the IV pertino Ek'meniary School Pis IrwA this fall.

They are the ft 2 million John F. Kennedy Junior High School the first school in the nation to he namwl after the President with about am students, and two K-a schools. Dilworth and Meat Valley, which will house about 400 pupil rat h. The throe are designed for a raiacity of 2,900 pupils. Opening of the new plants mark another giant step ward in the district'! efforts to keep pate with its spiraling growth.

The Cupertino District, which will have an average daily enrollment of about 10.000 this fall, is one of the fastest growing in the state. MilOOIJt NOW The district now has 30 schools and figures to have 55 by 1975. Four short years ago the district had an enrollment of 5.400, with nearly 2.flm of those on half-day session. Two years later enrollment had skyrocketed to 11.100 and tins fall it will top the 16.000 mark-n phenomenal gain of more than 1.0000 students in the last five years. It is expretod to crest at 19.000 in March.

19-a level undreamed of when the district was formed 45 years ago. Tlie Kennedy Schixil, a spanking. modern plant with striking design and layout, will he rrady fnr -cuaiK'y in the general academic area in September. The remainder will le ready later on in the year. Slnkrs and contracting difficulties delayed snmrwlial tile final completion of the school.

TVs jrsne show he VI lot lers F. kmredy Mrs. leonn Thornton named prinripal 1,500 students due Whisman starts team teaching jhas derided to hold an election jollier. reading, arithmetic and A team teaching program and a potential 1.500 udent enroll-! I1 monf)r ment explosion the oPen of I A thrce-ieachrr team mill in- John F. Kennedy Junior High ing I the Whisman Elementary I prohahiy rlstrvh.t 99 second and third grad- School District in northern Moun-) taeeilinB of S2 ocrifr Srho1- A Iiaw this Snimhr I1'? 8 nnd team xx ill handle 94 second 1 0t vlu!" and third grade viHingsters.

The team teaching sysirm will tion. a bond issue for new nas-, T(l() trims ali definitely be put to work on a'rnnm construction, and voter an-ui trial haw on three of the dis- thorualmn for the district to awj fourth graders and IK- fo hou. a capacity of 900 iu-dentv. open for the frt tirra thij fall. public buildmq in the United named for the President.

row monev from the state. fifth and ii graders. trirt six school. The potential enrollment explosion it entirely dependent upon Tindall has said that the district T'l lhr an oi.Hoor corridor and ar new $1.2 million Junior Hlnh Sk'liool in fi'0 imvy S. hooi Olslric t.

The has heenbinll around a large collection of of Kennedy pnpevhack honks and will pro-Sx-h(Kil I vide a Inal for eontininxl use of such Kx'ks, TEST PAPERBACKS The district's administration he- v. h'v1. built will It fie lirst Sf.ne-, fo be bH may have to go on double teaching as op- uhether or not 10 new homes sons wmrlm 13 if (he rn. posed to the conventional class-spring up soon the area served pxpiokion occurs and room aystem. by the district and moie classrooms aren't pro- ll encourages a teacher to rw- 199-hnme sub-' sided, ognie the child as an individual.

mat Completion of a makes for more flexible LEONA THORNTON Ke-nel S- hen! pal division on Stierlin Road this fall is expected to i add almost 2no stu- rPnljv unr construction at Whis- additional classrooms eur- a an(j j( imds toward cooper- Additional K-9 arhools nn the drawing hoard are Three Oaks, Portal and Calvert. Work on them may start during the roming school year. Go-ahead on two more 7-9 schools. Oitega and Maryknoll, still hinges on trends in sulidivisions and housing developments. The new princiial of West Valley School Is Arline A.

Oklevik of I os Altos. Gosa will he principal of Ihe new Dilwnrth School. Experiments will continue lieves use of iaperbacka will help allnin the goal of at least 10 hooks for every pupil, nr a total of more than 150, non volumes, years, he said, surh facilities as The nrw Valley ScImniI is liliraries and multi-use rixims had'fuffy cumplefed. while Ihe Dil- dents to the district, hringing .,1 should he ready fur moment to almost 2.5(4). Im-eunaiirw hv October and will yKlwrT alive lesson planning When a team meets to makr IK.

I.nn.-.n.nil,tlipncy 'a lesson plan, it must keep the The msjonly of the umxxupim 0f the jno students jHuail rhild in mind Thus a land within the district's hound-1 frnm .7, I is nresentlv mned for liehi uMl llevel is created for each child. M' lesson plan, it must keep the arie is presently wned for light worth School still hopes to meet its planned Sept. II opening dale The Inverness K-9 School has now reached the hiikling stage. industry. If the city changes the! roning to single familv residen- Four "teacher aides" will do fal.

chan.es are good' that two," mm husy fork for the teaching is finished. trams. The aides, in addition Classroom programs in the Cu- resource center. This wmild he a rtino Klemenlary Schixd Di Comlnnalion of a tradilionnl will attempt to carry for-jhrary and nn instructional male- ward this year tlie now ap-j rials center, where pupils and roaches to leaching and pilot teachers could work where reprograms initialed during the past sources, such as printed al. audio-visual aids, leaching Special consult anl John Txf aH the like, are avail-gren said tiicre 11 he no drama-1 changes in curriculum.

strad. the emphasis will he on he district has now rontmiu-d triaandlesling of with casKnsim techniques 'hlrn-jni ifgren explained, more rw'fnl are being Installed al additional developments of more than 500 homes each will materialize. TAl.Kft PUNVEI) to supervising classes, will lunch counts, bulletin hoards, and handle audio visual equipment. The aides will givr the teachers more lime In develop lesson tic PALO ALTO to he sacrificed. The emphasis on teaching mathematics wilt he strong again this year, Izifgrrn said, with SMKti School Mathemalirs Study (Iroupi getting its usual wide use Manipulative devices whirh help visualize abstract mathematical concepts will be in wider use this year, logic will he taught In grades through 9.

and may he extended to 7-9 grade arhnnls if results warrant it. The district's pilot program of trying to group kindergarten children (nr entering math and read-ing-rrndinnesa programs will ulso he continued. OTHER PROJECTS Other construction projects, a library and shower-kicker room Supt. Arthur Tindall said he andjm Crittenden School and a library other district officials will he con I at Monta lama, should be fin-. ferring with city officials in the j.shed hv September.

Tindall said. Plan and Tindall point ed out. "1 NEW ADDITIONS Other new ndditinns to the dis trid this fall will include a three- near future to determine what fu- TinHdl, prodic(cd that hire the city Is considering for ,2 fxpenditurCi financed the undeveloped land. ihy bond funds, would he required HEARING AID CENTER PERSONAL COUNSELLING fer kisrisg comlerl HEARING TESTS, Eveluatian, Traisisg REPAIRS, Parti, Rallariai, Laanari AUDIOMETERS asd Tallin Equipmant fer Madical, Industrial, a a I and Military Uia schools where they are needixl BYPASSED Because of the urgent demand for classrooms In the past few to present facilities. The money day -a-week school psychologist and a thrre-dav-a-week htwarian.

J. C. Neil Cerda Crrlilicd Hnrini Aid Audilnil Member: C.H.A.D.A. would he used for two new kindergarten through sixth grade. completion of Kan Ramon School, The district previously had a psychologist only once a week, GEEGH2D enaannB 01303 years.

A flexible class schedule plan, which will free students from the confine of the clock and calen dar, will he startl'd on a pilot basis In the new Kennedy 7-R grade school this fall. The srhnol also will have a two pronged program aimed at meeting the needs of Imth tlie slow learner and the faster sixth-grade student. TEAM TEAOIIM; Tram trcching and non-graded classes, in use in several 01 her 1 This vear the district will have; DA 6-7851 Job of school debate topic Another debate in the selionl jnine additional classrooms atjwhile parents ran school libraries Crittenden School and new dis-ion a volunteer basis, trict administrative officrs. Tlie psychologist will lie hcttiT 548 Ramona a record numlier of teachers, MO. ') compared In Ihe prcvasis high nfjjj 511 in (lie ID6I -63 scInniI vear.

rAl0ALT-1 Team (caching will lie practiced hl'' 1 three-day scheilule, the dis- feels. The librarian, based three of the district's six schools; Tindall said. I' field is whether leaching should provide "practical experiences or "liindnmrnlal background." One eniise of this is increasing CKrTO- CLOTHING in this fall, a -n l. at Crittenden School, will cnoidi (Yittcnden School will have two! tiiree-ieachcr learns for the 2u9 students at the seventh grade level. One team will instruct in science, math and English; the other will handle history, reading.

English and geography. The twoif0admR uwx teams will work cooperatively f'rt prode classes, one teaching other suhjects m-hiNils in tlie district, will hr thi- year at the now Dilwoi'th School. The adriilKin al Cupertino. Srrlg Hyde and Eisenhower schools uf new hcxagiuial-shaixxPailmisMon. or whether grades in risims with folding walls will subjects" are a guule is mil a flexibility of use nol possi- iie disiule.

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