{"id":698,"date":"2016-02-03T00:03:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/?p=698"},"modified":"2023-06-22T19:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:51:19","slug":"the-oakridge-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/the-oakridge-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oakridge School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"431\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-big.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakridge School\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-big.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-big-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-big-220x135.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"537\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-side.jpg\" alt=\"Sarah Schecter, Principal, The Oakridge School\" class=\"wp-image-701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-side.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-side-156x300.jpg 156w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-side-220x421.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Nancy Larson Science: challenging for students, easy for teachers<\/strong><br>Principal Sarah Schecter understands the constraints her teachers at The Oakridge School, a private school in Arlington, Texas, are under. Last fall she introduced Nancy Larson <em>Science 2<\/em> and <em>Science 3<\/em>. \u201cWe love that the information in the Nancy Larson Science program is challenging and age-appropriate yet easy for teachers to implement,\u201d said Dr. Schecter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-left.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakridge School\" class=\"wp-image-708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-left.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-left-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-left-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-left-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>No cramming required<\/strong><br>\u201cParents love Nancy Larson Science because it brings a sense of joy to students. Learning science is fun,\u201d said Schecter. Parents at The Oakridge School say they appreciate that their children are learning as they go along in class, so when it comes to the test, the knowledge is already in their heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Students become specialists<\/strong><br>Schecter says the lessons\u2019 methodology makes the students feel like specialists. The program goes into great detail to cover each topic. \u201cWhen I\u2019m in a classroom and the teacher says, \u2018It\u2019s time for science,\u2019 the students get all excited and you just know it\u2019s one of their favorite times of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-bottom.jpg\" alt=\"The Oakridge School\" class=\"wp-image-700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-bottom.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-bottom-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/oakridge-bottom-220x146.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe love that the information in the Nancy Larson Science program is challenging and age-appropriate yet easy for teachers to implement,\u201d said Dr. Schecter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"full-width","neve_meta_container":"default","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"[\"title\",\"content\"]","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"on","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-success-stories","tag-private","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nancylarsonpublishers.com\/classroom\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}