Let me tell you about Kelly’s class one day One of my 6th Grade Science Teachers, Kelly Lee, was facilitating a lesson on physical and chemical changes. The question arose — is boiling an egg a physical or chemical change —…
Category: Projects/Activities
Posts in this category describe projects I have assisted in and feel are good examples of technology integration.
Flipping the Learning by Starting with a Question… and a Bonus!
My instructional practice question for you is this, why spend class time teaching the features of a product rather than your content or providing time for researching? The scenario One of my teachers would like to have her students create…
“Sheets is the answer!” And I Have a Template for You…
As Alice Keeler says, “Google Sheets is always the answer!” So when one of my teachers came to me looking for an answer, I went with a Sheet. The scenario The teacher would like to have her students self reflect on…
Building Relationships and Having Conversations…
When coaches catch-up… One of my former math teachers, Linda, is now a math coach for our middle schools. Her time is split between my building and our other middle school. I like to check in with her for three…
Utilizing Technology to Scaffold Global Issues Problem Solving…
I share a space with my building’s Gifted and Talented Teacher Resource Specialist, Rebecca McLelland-Crawley. This enables us to have some great coaching conversations as well as moments where we can integrate technology into the PRISM (Performance Revealing Individual Student…
Keep Calm and Use Google Forms…
Scheduling 1600+ students? No problem! Allowing students to choose their schedule? We got this! Making sure grade levels don’t go rogue and sign up in another level? Don’t see an issue with that! Limiting sections within the schedule to ~30…
A Coaching Moment & How Edji Helped…
***Update*** I was selected to be an Edji Visionary! An authentic coaching moment. In my school, language arts is called IRLA (integrated reading and language arts). One of my 7th grade IRLA teachers was preparing for an observation by having…
A Seventh Grade Team’s ‘Research Day’…
Last year four team teachers, well let me first give you some back information. My school does teaming which means one teacher of each: math, social studies, science, and IRLA (integrated reading language arts) are a team and the students…
From PD Share to In Class Modeling… (part 2: InsertLearning)
Collaboration is fun x2! Last week I wrote about my October professional development share on ‘Making Content Interactive’ (you can give it a read here). I then followed up the post with part 1: ActivePrompt. Today I’m going to share…
From PD Share to In Class Modeling… (part 1: ActivePrompt)
Collaboration is fun! Last week I wrote about my October professional development share on ‘Making Content Interactive’ (you can give it a read here). One of the items shared is called ActivePrompt. I discovered this tech gem during a district…