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 [...]
How Do We Guide a Student Teacher in a Year When We Are All Still Learning? As a cooperative teacher, my hope for my student teacher is the same one I carry for my students: a desire to [...]
Mindfulness Matters: A Middle School’s Experience with Managing School Avoidance What does calm mean in a middle school? It might sound like students presenting pieces of writing in clear, sure voices in a language arts classroom, or offering [...]
Design to Make a Difference at Highland Middle School: Empowering Students to Solve Problems at School Students have a unique perspective on the life of a school. We wondered what would happen if we asked students to identify [...]
The Fall of Grades “Grades during this time should be used as feedback instead of instruments of compliance.” The Illinois Governor, J. B. Pritzker, made this statement when announcing that schools across the state would be closed until [...]
If you were unable to make the Exploratory Expo Showcase, or just want to review the helpful materials presented, click the links below to view the presentation materials. Presented by: Chris Cooper and Samantha [...]
