NEW HOME FOR THE HUMANITIES BY BRAND ON BARRET T
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ver the past year, students to make life easier and increase socialand staff alike have seen the ization, as the prior layout of NRHS did transformation of North Roynot group rooms together by department. alton High School from unorThough the social studies teachers were ganized and maze-like to categorized and previously spread out in both levels of the navigable. One of the main portions of this building, requiring a trip across the buildtransition was the move of the humanities from ing to speak with their fellow history lovers, they’re the old 300s and 400s hallway to the newly opened now able to interact by simply walking next door. and renovated areas of the As a history teacher, school. One NRHS teacher Mrs. Orseno naturally feels who has been heavily imdisappointed about the depacted by this move is Mrs. struction of the old buildOrseno, who teaches a variing. She says, “As someone ety of social studies courswho studies history, I am es and has recently moved always sad to see old buildinto a brand-new classroom ings torn down. But in this filled with collaborative sense, we evolved to be the spaces and advanced techway education is now.” Hownology. ever, she is extremely happy “I feel good about it. It’s with the school’s pride in its nice to have...things that are history and the steps it has new and allow for the abiltaken to continue to honor ity for students to collabothat legacy, saying, “I think rate more and to be togeththe school has done a good Mrs. Orseno’s new room is quite the uper with the other students,” job of preserving the histograde - it even has sofas! said Orseno in regards to the ry...with the bell, that has a change from one classroom to new home. We don’t use the another. Additionally, while many teachers were bell anymore, but it has a new home. It’s kind of worried how this transition would transpire, her nice to see where you come from.” individual move went extremely smoothly. Though everyone in the building is incred “It wasn’t really too bad for me personally be- ibly delighted with the new advancements and cause I didn’t have too much stuff,” she said. While opportunities a new high school creates, many there was also an adjustment period in learning are eagerly wondering when the project will be how to utilize this new workspace, she says that ex- complete and construction sounds will cease, alperimenting with her classroom and allowing time lowing for a certified brand new high school. “I to pass resulted in a solid understanding of how to hope it is fairly soon so that everyone can get use this area to her benefit. settled and used to the new spaces,” she said op Further, features of the new classrooms appear timistically. 10
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