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mathematics lab, a media
center and more, Gardner
said. He said most classrooms
have windows and more
natural light than classrooms
in the old building, and the
school has wider hallways and
three teacher work rooms. The
school also features a large
gymnasium with a built-in
stage.
“We didn’t have a stage
for the students in our old
building to be able to perform
and parents to come and see
their children in a different
environment,” McIntire said.
“We now have a gym that
has a stage built in — we call
it our ‘gymatorium’ — and
it will have bleachers, but it
has a nice stage... for future
performances when we’re back
in the building, face-to-face
with our students.”
McIntire said the Park Street
employees miss their students,
but teachers were excited to
open the new building this
year.
“Many of our teachers
have opted to teach from
their classrooms virtually,”
McIntire said. “So, although
the students won’t be in the
building, the teachers will be
able to come in and use their
classroom space.”
The principal said much
of the new furniture in the
classrooms is on wheels,
making it easy to create a
flexible learning space. The
modular furniture, along
with other technologies like
smart televisions, will help
students “get as much of a
face-to-face environment as
possible through the virtual
realm and setting,” according
to McIntire.
“Instead of being at home
where a lot of our teachers
may be confined to just a
dining room table or an
office space, if they’re able to
teach from their classrooms
virtually, they can almost set
up different zones to be able
to move throughout their
classrooms to do lessons,”
McIntire said.
The new building will also
serve as a gathering place for
the community, according to
the principal. The school offers
adult education classes, a food
pantry and other resources
for families. McIntire, who
took over as principal of Park
Street in 2018, said the Parent
University program was one
of her first initiatives at the
school.
“We started doing Parent
University and allowing
parents to come in and just
learn about a variety of
different things, from how
to help your child with math
homework to how to prepare
them for testing,” McIntire
said. “We even had someone
come in and talk to them
about getting a bank account,
setting up email. So there were
a lot of different parent classes
that we have started to offer in
the building.”
In the old building, those
classes took place in the
community collaboration
room. McIntire said the new
school building will provide
more gathering spaces and
new ways to reach out to the
community.
“I feel like it’s going to be
an incredible thing for our
students,” she said. “I think
it is going to be a new hub
to bring the community
together.”
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Courtesy of Marietta City Schools
The interior of the new Park Street
Elementary School.
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