San Diego Unified has made an investment in a historically Hispanic neighborhood near downtown with the construction of the new Logan Memorial Educational Campus, known as LMEC.
This semester, elementary and middle school students attend classes in person for the first time on the Logan Memorial Educational Campus. When the new high school opens this August, there will be space for as many as 2,000 students in preschool to 12th grade, San Diego, CA, April 11, 2022.
About $180 million in taxpayer-funded bond money was used to demolish two former schools on the city block between Ocean View Boulevard and Logan Avenue. Logan K-8 and Memorial Preparatory School were closed and replaced with state-of-the-art structures, including the first-ever high school in Logan Heights, which will open in August.In 2019, Logan and Memorial Preparatory were designated as two of the lowest-performing schools in California.
The LMEC lower schools opened virtually, last year. They include preschool to 8th grade this semester. This is the first year students are on campus following the pandemic shutdown and ongoing restrictions and challenges. LMEC teachers are using the Montessori method exclusively in the elementary school, starting with a mixed preschool class of 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds. Montessori education encourages student independence and creativity with more hands-on learning. The method uses teachers more as guides in the classroom instead of just lecturers.
Adriana Chavarin-Lopez is one of the school’s strategy and instruction support officers who helped implement the model.That’s why it was really important to use Montessori in Logan Heights, where we are working with children marginalized in education systems,” she told KPBS News. “We
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