From the outside:

Rockbridge county is home to a new style of teaching/thinking for their teachers. This style of teaching is close to what we studied in our Field Work class.

From the outside Rockbridge Country High School looks like a run down jail. Then you realize that the architects who built it also design jails. As you drive up there is a football field with a red track around it. The school looks like it is a giant rectangle. Very dull and boring. In order to get inside you have to ring a buzzer and sign in at the front office. Mrs. Leadbetters class is made up of a lot of lower middle class to poor students. She has to make the best of what she can do in order to keep her class engaged and learning.

From the Inside:

Walking around you see many mascot paintings, and their school colors. Mrs. Leadbetter’s class looks tired and worn out. That is to be expected because they are the 7th period. She uses the project based learning in her class. That is one way she can at least keep them awake  and working. She had them learning to write a research paper. She would ask them questions such as, “how do you integrate sources?” and “How do you cite your sources properly?” Her class would respond and a lot of the time get it wrong. But she would crack a joke and guide them to the correct answer. She would then put them in groups, give them prompts for their research papers, and ask them to start finding ways to research their topic and come up with a rough outline. The students needed a lot of help on their outlines. A big part of it was narrowing down their topics. But this happened all in due time.