There's a new program growing at the Guilford School, and it's called the Responsive Classroom.
Okay, the idea behind it isn't new and it has been incorporated into the way the school functions for years, but this is the first time the program has been implemented directly into the way teachers run their classrooms.
The Responsive Classroom was first put into action at the Greenfield Center School in Greenfield, Mass., before it came to Guilford. The GCS school board, along with overwhelming support from local taxpayers (many of whom are parents of Guilford students), voted in favor of this program after two other attempts at a similar program years before.
Roughly $20,000 in grant money was issued to GCS, so John Gagnon, principal, can make sure the faculty is trained in the new program.