Spotted! In the Classroom

    • Ms. Powell played the “Unfair Game” with her in-person students, which was so fun to watch! Take a look!

    • Ms. Collins engaged all of her hybrid students with a live debate that included both in-person and at-home learners! She was intentional about calling students to participate at various points and making sure that there was an equitable representation of all students. The kids had been working for a few days to prepare their arguments and were able to give concrete examples to support their ideas. Watch a clip 

    • Ms. Apodaca also engaged all her hybrid students as they presented their Hispanic Heritage Month presentations! She had kids presenting either in-person or via Teams. While a student was presenting, the students who were watching were filling out feedback notes for the presenter based on a presentation skills rubric, while Ms. Apodaca focused on a public speaking rubric. Kids were so encouraging and supportive of one another!

    • Ms. Bolin has been integrating such fun brain breaks for all of her students to participate in! This one was “The Silent Marching Band” - Ms. Bolin would call out a different instrument, and all the kids would march around and mime using that instrument. (Clearly, Mr. Seltenright and Mr. Williams have taught them well!) The kids had fun with this goofy brain break and were able to get up out of their seats and laughing.

    • Mr. Peck was intentional with his lesson planning for his at home kids, and included directions for how kids could easily make their own clay with common items from the home! He then had kids using their homemade clay to make sculptures and then uploading pictures of their creations to a shared space online. 

    • Speaking of artists, Ms. Hansen had her kids using their whiteboards online to draw visual representations of the distance between different numbers on a number line. She used this in the moment strategy as a way to support learners when she noticed them struggling with a concept. Amazing and creative differentiation!

    • Ms. Willis used separate and locked collaboration spaces in One Note as well as Teams meeting breakout rooms and intentional grouping to have kids in her 6th-grade math class collaboratively complete a Race to the Top with math concepts. Kids (both in-person and at home) were working together in their assigned groups, and Ms. Willis was able to monitor kids as they worked and check-in multiple times over the course of the lesson to evaluate their proficiency with each skill! Ms. Nowak and Ms. Pinkston have used a similar strategy in the past, utilizing tech tools like PearDeck and NearPod to be able to quickly and easily review student data. Go math department!

    • Ms. Shaw incorporated this wonderful example of modeling/Think Aloud in her lesson this week! The text in green shows her “thoughts” as she would work to solve a problem. This is a great metacognitive tool to help students get started on any type of problem and have a model to fall back on when they get stuck. What a great example of an “I do” component within a lesson!

    • Ms. Wissel was elevating student voice and leadership in her class this week, as Felicity (below) created and taught a lesson on peninsulas! Felicity clearly has some fantastic and engaging teachers based on the lesson she created, she even had her classmates using Kahoot to learn the concept! Ms. Wissel was a great facilitator, too, as she supported her little student leader.

    • Ms. Loose used an image of a Candyland board in the OneNote collaboration space for students in her intervention class to track their individual progress through differentiated assignments! Even though kids were working independently on different tasks, this brought them together with some friendly competition and provided some extrinsic motivation to get their work done efficiently! How fun! 🍬🍭🍫

    • Ms. Sanchez working hard to set up all of the incredible advertising for this year’s virtual book fair! It’s so great to see this awesome celebration of reading decorating our halls. Remind your students, Book Fair starts (virtually) November 17th! 📚