Teachers as Lead Digital Citizens In July, Beth Rihtar shared her knowledge as an instructional technology coordinator with AIMS members around the state with her presentation on teachers as lead digital citizens. Below you’ll find a preview of [...]
How-To: Present at AIMS Events Teachers are the experts, so at every AIMS professional development event our goal is to feature the voices and ideas of the people in the classroom and those directly involved with educating young adolescents. [...]
Empowering Student Writers Our highlight of AIMS Summer Splash presenters continues with Katelynn Giordano. Katelynn took time out of her summer to share the ways she works to help students in the ELA classroom to use their voice in [...]
Night School Intervention, and Why We Will Continue Post Pandemic Participants at this year's AIMS Summer Splash event were able to hear from Allan Davenport along with Mike Yadgir and Molly Larson. Their presentation focused on the creative [...]
Supporting Struggling Math Students Michelle Matz presented at this year’s AIMS Summer Splash event in July! You can view Michelle’s presentation here, along with the tools she uses to support her students in math. For more information, contact [...]
Making a Case for Instructional Videos Beth presented at the AIMS Technology Showcase in 2021! Check out the slides that go along with her blog post here: https://tinyurl.com/AIMSvideo I know that it’s summer, and you may be taking [...]
Lessons From My Dad Henry L. Jennings is currently living his retired years with his wife Rose on a gorgeous plot of land in southeast Iowa. Henry was born in New York and raised in New Jersey [...]
National Board Certification: Meaningful Professional Development In the past 16 years I have spent a lot of time in professional development workshops and in-service trainings. Many times the focus of these training sessions dealt with student literacy [...]
Amplifying Thinking Routines Using Technology Tools Have you heard of Project Zero’s Thinking Routines? If so, how have you used them? Thinking routines are “designed to promote students' thinking, such as asking students what they know, what they want [...]
Embracing Uncertainty March 2020 was the time where everything changed in the midst of education. I remember hearing that we would not be back for a few weeks when suddenly weeks turned into months which then turned into [...]
