orlando sentinel obituaries joeann williams

She moved to Baltimore for her first teaching job at Charles Carroll of Carrollton Elementary School, a Black school in a segregated system.

She graduated in 1949 from Cheyney State Teacher’s College, near Cheyney, Pennsylvania, becoming the first in her family to graduate from both high school and college. The family moved to Philadelphia while Ms. 1, 1927, in Orange County, Virginia, the seventh of eight children of Horace E. “She meant business, and you knew she was there for the kids.” “She took the time to learn about my family and understand what environment I was coming from and did her best to see I was given every resource to thrive in that environment,” the Rev. Williams as an innovative and inspirational educator. Schmoke, now president of the University of Baltimore, touted Ms. Word of the experiment spread, and educators and journalists from around the globe visited the school. Barclay had fewer student absences, transfers and disciplinary removals. On a standardized test used by most independent schools, Barclay-Calvert students scored above the norms in writing and on par in other subjects.

Sam Stringfield at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University found that the Barclay–Calvert students scored above local and national norms on a standardized basic skills test used by the city. In an independent fourth-year evaluation, Dr. “As we knew they would be, Barclay children were successful with the Calvert curriculum,” Ms. Williams’ theory, she would say, that kids can learn regardless of socioeconomic factors.

Barclay got the Calvert curriculum in an eight-year partnership.īarclay students proved Ms. After mobilizing parents and community members and appealing to then-Mayor Kurt L.

Orlando sentinel obituaries joeann williams