How Being Part of a 'House' Within a School Helps Students Gain A Sense of Belonging - 0 views
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sense of inclusion and engagement in a common enterprise can have academic benefits as well as social-emotional ones
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each takes responsibility for advising 28 of the house’s students, whom they follow through the end of sophomore year.
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houses have not just missions, colors, chants and symbols but also hand signs and mottos—each classroom contains four colored containers.
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For a house system to succeed, there has to be something substantive behind it, an underlying ethos being reinforced.
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“The houses are not just a thing that you do,” Kloczko agreed. “It’s really your whole school culture.”