Beachwood High School - Oculus Yearbook (Beachwood, OH)

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Administration Stimulates MR. JOHN GRIFFIN, B.S., M.A.; Morningside College, Columbia University; Junior High School Principal. MR. ARTHUR SHAPIRO, B.A., M.A.; University of Chicago; Senior High School Principal. A most significant accomplishment of the 1963 scholastic year was the continued separation of the junior and senior high schools. This became pos- sible with the completion of the new addition to the building in January. But Beachwood gained more than additional classrooms. This year also brought a new administration with Mr. Arthur Shapiro as senior high school principal and Mr. John Griffin as principal of the junior high school. Together, these two administrators have been stressing the impor- tant areas for learning outside the confines of the classroom. Consequently, the emphasis has become Expand the classroom; take the class out; bring the world in. This year, the English and Social Studies depart- ment established a humanities and a Communicative Arts program. Humanities is a fusion of traditional World History and Literature. The skills necessary for Communication have been extracted from the usual English presented to high school students and given in separate, short courses to each student ac- cording to his needs and level of skills. To facilitate this, flexible grouping was used. In this new program, teachers may have classes which range in size from as many as a hundred students down to a single pupil, thereby offering the maximum educational Opportunities to the student body. Principals Mr. Griffin and Mr. Shapiro dis- cuss administrative problems.

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Our High School’s Progress Because of the differences in age, interest, and maturity between the junior and senior high stu- dents, the Board of Education and the administration considered it necessary to have distinct social ac- tivities for each group. The establishment of the ju nior high brings with it the need for its own curricular and extracurricular DR. GLENN C. PARKER, activities. This need is being met by the planning BeAr VisAns bh es) Luron of Mr. Griffin. His plans for new curricular activities College, U. of Minnesota, include a testing program for the seventh grade U. of Chicago; Superin- which helped to determine each student's level of tendent of Beachwood reading and composition. The results of these tests Schools. were then employed by the teacher as a guide to his programming. Also new in curriculum for the seventh grade is the multi-lingual program, de- signed to assist the student in choosing the language to which he is best suited. Among the extracurricular activities organized by Mr. Griffin this year for the junior high were a student council parallel to that of the senior high, a freshman football team, a junior high band, and seventh and eighth grade basketball teams. Working behind the scenes in a continuous effort to improve methods of teaching and administrations are Dr. Glenn Parker, Superintendent of Beachwood Schools, and the Beachwood Board of Education, headed this year by Mr. Donald Klein. MR. ALLEN McCUL- LOUGH, B.B.A., M.A.; Westminister College; Business Manager of Beachwood Schools. 2 aS SCHOOL BOARD, SEATED: F red Isenstadt, Si Wachs- berger, Margaret Lubin (president). STANDING: Sher- man Hollander (vice-president), Don Klein, George Schatel. ;