FIELD CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE BEYOND THE CLASSROOM Teaching the teachers of the future is the primary business of Geneseo’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education. But faculty at the school are also active outside their Geneseo classrooms, building and directing programs designed to serve the needs of particular populations — and, as an additional benefit, creating learning opportunities for Geneseo education students. The following pages describe three of those programs and an experiment based in a firstgrade classroom that’s making an entire elementary school happy.
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By Judson Mead
Decked out for St. Patrick’s Day, a Livonia first-grader reads a story to Laney, the classroom therapy dog.
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PHOTOS BY KEITH WALTERS ’11