Matt Best

NEW IDEAS: Davis High School teacher Matt Best and Vice Principal Pam Mari reflect on their high hopes for a "school within a school" at DHS.
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"In a regular class, you have lectures, book work and projects, all leading up to a test," explains Matt Best, a DHS teacher who served on the original feasibility study committee and has remained involved with the project.
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"Teachers need to be collaborative and have good relationships with the students," Best says."They're also going to have to put in extra time to learn new teaching styles."Much of the necessary training will take place this summer.

The number of teachers and students will grow in the second year of the program, when it is hoped it will naturally expand to 300 or 400 students, with approximately 100 from each grade level.The teaching staff will then most likely expand to eight or nine.Best and Mari hope the small numbers will help teachers "know students intimately and act as advisers over three years."