Written with my colleague, Dr. Sara Romeyn, our Director of Humanities and Global Studies The Class: The trimester elective, “Contemporary Global Issues,” allows students the opportunity to investigate the world and analyze current challenges and problems. Sophomores and Juniors in the class have explored a variety of contemporary crises, including the Cape Town, South Africa … Continue reading
Written with my colleague, Dr. Celeste McDaniels, who teaches Chemistry. In our 2017-2018 chemistry class, students took up the challenge of integrating creativity with science and technology by making and marketing unique soap bars, utilizing chemistry and technology skills in our new Discovery Center building. Students began the project brainstorming a unique design for their … Continue reading
I created a series of tips to share with teachers at my school that I wanted to share out here on my blog. These tips are related to using Pear Deck Takeaways and how to review individual student work (this requires that you have a Premium Pear Deck account). Before reading on, you’ll want to make … Continue reading
If you’re a fellow Pear Deck user, you’ve probably seen their announcement — Introducing a Fresh New Look for Home! To follow-up on the homepage refresh, I made a video walkthrough: to share the new process for creating a Pear Deck through peardeck.com (which now launches you to a Google Slides presentation); and to talk through … Continue reading
These past couple months, I have been playing with both Read&Write and EquatIO, by TextHelp, to brainstorm ways we can be using these tools to help all students learn. Currently, we are using Read&Write mainly for students with learning accommodations. But I feel that we are missing out on an opportunity to help all students engage … Continue reading
You may have noticed that #Productivity has been a recurrent theme in my blogging this year. As I’ve read more on the topic of routines, getting things done, and how to live a more productive life, I’ve realized that it’s important for me to continue to invest my time in this topic – not only … Continue reading
In my AP Calculus course, I wanted students to look back on past work and connect it to new knowledge. Reflection is key to learning, and I wanted to create a project to help students strengthen their understanding of the relationships between “old” and “new” material. I wanted students to go back to material we … Continue reading
I wanted to feature a guest blog post written by my colleague, Kerry Hosmer. Kerry team teaches an American Humanities Seminar that combines AP Language and Composition and AP US History in a double-block format. She recently used Flipgrid as a way to mix up literary analysis by empowering students to exercise critical thinking (and … Continue reading
I am excited to share a post that I had a chance to write as part of Innovate My School’s Hottest EdTech Trends series! Since I was a teenager, I have always looked forward to the In/Out List published in the Washington Post right before the start of each new year. So, as Innovate My … Continue reading
I recently had the wonderful opportunity to write a piece for EdSurge talking about the shifting role of “tech” coach: There is a lot of talk about how the role of the educator morphs to facilitator to meet the needs of students when implementing personalized learning—but it’s rare to see pointers for how the role of … Continue reading
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