Research - Case Studies
Roosevelt Elementary School: Video
Long Beach, California



Listen to the Leadership Team at Roosevelt Elementary School discuss their success with Thinking Maps as a staff and with the students. The video clip Roosevelt Elementary School Leadership Team.
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Stefanie Holzman, principal of Roosevelt Elementary School in Long Beach, California, is interviewed in a classroom about differentiation by David Hyerle. Roosevelt Elementary School is an urban, inner city, K–5 school of 1200 minority students (85% of those entering with Spanish as their primary language) that continues to have extraordinary success with teacher and student thinking skills including consistent growth on the state API test scores well beyond the state expectations. The video clip Differentiation in a Multilingual School.
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More information about Roosevelt Elementary School is part of the book Student Successes With Thinking Mapsread excerpts from this chapter and other chapters about the student successes.