All School Advisory: Giving ALL students a voice! At the December Network Institute, educators across the state shared their knowledge during a meaningful day of professional development at National Louis University. Presenters varied from classroom teachers to those [...]
Creating Your PD Playlist I may be showing my age here but who remembers the art of the mix tape? Perfectly crafting the right order of songs to convey your message, bringing your party to a whole new [...]
Teachers as Writers: Blogging Basics The education field is bursting with professionals who are intelligent, innovative, and supportive of one another. I witness these characteristics daily walking down the halls of our middle school, chatting in PLCs, and [...]
Using Padlet to Engage and Assess Our Students As we entered the 2020 - 2021 school year, I was very reflective on how our 2019 - 2020 school year had ended. Being an ESL/Bilingual teacher, I am used to [...]
Building Powerful Communities In Our Classrooms As teachers, we know that feeling safe and secure in school helps students focus their energy on learning. And the research bears that out: A study by Interactive Learning Environments found that [...]
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 [...]
