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Wirt-Emerson Visual and Performing Arts High Ability Academy, was a seven-year (6-12) middle/high school for the visual and performing arts in the Gary Community School Corporation in Gary, Indiana.
28 maj 2024 · Library of Congress. The Gary Plan. One of Wirt’s most notable achievements was implementing the “Gary Plan” in 1910. Often referred to as the “platoon system,” students were split into two platoons, the first utilizing the school’s academic facilities while the second platoon utilized non-academic facilities such as the gym and swimming pool.
30 kwi 2022 · Wirt developed the Platoon System in Gary, and introduced it into schools nationwide. Emerson was designed according to Wirt's instructions and included special rooms for recreational and vocational classes.
The Emerson school was the flagship learning institution for Gary superintendent William Wirt, who would later be considered an innovator of education. Wirt used the Ralph Waldo Emerson School to be the first to employ his revolutionary new Wor k-Study-Play system of education.
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1 lut 2017 · Through drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources of information, the paper analyses the connections between John Dewey, William Wirt and the Gary Schools Plan in their shared quest...
30 lip 2022 · Gary School Superintendent William Wirt used the Ralph Waldo Emerson School to be the first to use his new Work-Study-Play system of education, a 'Whole Child' philosophy. (A historical marker located in Gary in Lake County, Indiana.)
