looping
n.— «School administrators are likely to implement “looping” next year. Teachers would flip-flop grades so that one teacher would move up with youngsters while the other teacher moved down a grade.» —“‘Looping’ Could Provide Pupils With More Continuity” by Meredith Carlson Hartford Courant (Conn.) Mar. 3, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...