Fort Fraser Elementary is a small rural school of about 125 students with 12 teachers and support staff. We serve a local population of about 500 people. We also serve the native reserve of Nadleh. Our school is recognized in School District #91 as a pilot site for using precision teaching techniques. We follow closely the Morningside Model of Generative Instruction as developed by Dr. Kent Johnston, director of Morningside Academy based in Seattle, Washington.

Morningside's Model of Generative Instruction involves a precise measuring of the development of basic skills. A few basic skills include: seeing and saying numbers, seeing and writing prose and seeing and saying words at a specific rate, usually over a minute timing. Charting students' progress and developing specific interventions to improve students' progress are both key elements of this model.

We are in our fourth year of implementing this model school wide and have started to gather some very promising results.

The student population of about 125 students are divided into grades K, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4,  4/5, and 6/7. The teacher caricatures below were drawn by a variety of students from grade 2 to grade 7.

Mrs. Gerhardi - Secretary Octopus lady with psychic powers.	Mrs. Six - Principal A.K.A. The Pastel Princess	Mrs. Anderson - K-   Sings, dances, paints and plays most of the day	Mrs. Raymond - 1/2 Our school conscience
Mr. Sundahl - 2/3 The King-They tell him	Mrs. Lindstrom - 3/4  Teacher with a bottomless craft supply box	Mrs. Matthew - 4/5  Teacher with a scheduled mind.	Mrs. Rothenbusch - 6/7 Bathes in tub of melted chocolate every morning.

Fort Fraser School has been around in one form or another since around 1913. Over the last eighty years or so, many different teaching techniques have been tried with varying degrees of academic and social success. The Morningside Model of Generative Instruction is based on relatively old philosophy using cutting edge technique and materials with astonishing academic and social success.

It is perhaps very fitting that such powerful teaching and learning tools based on old and new techniques is being practiced in a historic school.