Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . SmLDLLLOa [icEcicsmLHa tects sketch of it. It was Innlt iu 1908 at a cost of $2,300. Thefurniture cost $700 additional. A CLEARING HOUSE. The office of the county superintendent of schools should be a clear-ing house for good ideas about school buildings and school should be a table there, covered with plans, drawings, and photo-graphs. When trustees think of building, they should go and talk thething all over with the superintendent at length. They should find inI
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . SmLDLLLOa [icEcicsmLHa tects sketch of it. It was Innlt iu 1908 at a cost of $2,300. Thefurniture cost $700 additional. A CLEARING HOUSE. The office of the county superintendent of schools should be a clear-ing house for good ideas about school buildings and school should be a table there, covered with plans, drawings, and photo-graphs. When trustees think of building, they should go and talk thething all over with the superintendent at length. They should find inIlls office photographs showing wliat other schools are doing and whatIS possible to be done. They should find sample plans and specifica-tions. They should find out-who are the reliable architects and con-tractors of the county. They should get sound notions of heatin-lighting, ventilating a schoolroom. Of course, all this entails some work,some alertness, some responsibility on the superintendent; but that isii^n-ly a part of his jol). 101. The watei IMPROVEMENT UNDER DIFFICULTIES. The Dunbar School, in Sonoma County, is perched on top of a steep,bare, and rocky hill. At the base of the hill flo^vs a nice stream, -withbeautiful trees along its course. One picture shows the Water Line— the children of theschool carryingwater for theshrubs and plantsthat grow withdifficulty in thestony soil of thesclioolyard. Theother shows aflower bed amongthe rocks, that hasbeen made pos-sible by the laborsof the water pictures aresent by ^,s Novilla Davidson, the enthusiastic teacher of the moral of this is that where theres a will theres always a toachci- who can uiidi-rtakc and can-y out such an entcrjirisewith her scliool—.something requir-ing real work andlasting a longtime — teaches avery valuable las-sou. It is genuineexeprience. It re-quires the highestgifts of some such wayas this a greatteacher gets adeep hold on hispupils, teache
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