Jones Paideia Magnet

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name = Jones Paideia Magnet


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established = 1995
type = Paidiea Magnet Elementary School
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grades = K - 4
head_name = Principal
head = Pam Greer
address = 1800 9th Avenue North
city = Nashville
state = Tennessee
zip = 37208
country = USA
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website = [http://www.jonespaideiaes.mnps.org] Jones Paideia Magnet School is a thematic magnet school that receives students from all over Davidson County. Their theme is "Paideia". The school was named in honor of Richard W. Jones, a former principal with sixty-years of service to Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.

History

Jones has operated as a Paideia school for the last thirteen years. In the same year a Paideia middle school was opened at Buena Vista. In keeping with this restructuring, Jones changed from a K-8 school formerly known as Buena Vista-Jones Paideia to a K-4 program called Jones Paideia. Buena Vista moved to a new facility at John Early Middle, and the middle school paideia program was discontinued. Due to the many changes of faculty and staff throughout the years, the school district contracted with the National Paideia Center for faculty training. They began training during the 2002-2003 school year and trained on one Paideia Component each year, beginning with Seminar. All formal training was completed during the 2004-2005 school year. This year we have focused on the implementation of all Paideia components with continued monitoring and training through technical site visits from the National Paideia faculty.

Currently, Jones Paideia serves approximately 360 students in grades kindergarten through four. The school was constructed in 1936 and stands on the corner of Garfield and Ninth Avenue, North in a, primarily inter-city, residential neighborhood.

Paideia Philosophy

The term "Paideia" is probably best known to modern English-speakers through its use in the word Encyclopedia, which is a combination of the Greek terms enkyklios, or complete system/circle, and paideia, or education/learning. [National Paideia Center]

Students in kindergarten through fourth grades are engaged daily in the school board adopted curriculum based on newly written standards in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and visual and performing arts. At Jones, Spanish is taught to all students grades K – 4. In addition, students attend related arts classes in art, music and physical education. Teachers utilize the state framework of objectives, as well as the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools Graduate and 12-Pre K Academic Standards when planning instruction for all subject areas. In addition to the curriculum, teachers incorporate hands-on-science, science and technology kits, math manipulatives, character education and balanced literacy. The curriculum is delivered through the Paideia philosophy of instruction. One remedial class for fourth grade students performing below the 430th scaled score in reading, called Language Exclamation, is implemented at that level. The hope is to have students reading at or above grade level after two-years in the program. Currently, we have 18 students who qualify for this program. In order to serve the special education needs of students in our building who receive services, we use an inclusion program. Currently, 6.0% of their total student population is eligible for special education services.

References

External links

* [http://www.paideia.org/ National Paideia Center]