School
Where's the Wolverine - Tier 2 Vocabulary Support 2012
Student 21 Digital Day Curriculum Development 2017
STEM Makerspace, Verizon Grant 2017
"Rachael Toy invited me to come participate in a lesson she facilitated with Kathy Kier and Janet Nowlin last Thursday. Janet brought her students to the library to begin a learning experience around creating an ‘invention for good.’ I wanted to share that the level of thoughtful preparation, lesson design, and execution was some of the best I have observed. The three worked seamlessly to facilitate the students as they created, played, remixed and shared their unique invention that could help the world."
Jonathan Gregori, Instructional Technology Ed. Specialist ; Email to Kourtney Bostain, Assistant Director of Instructional Technology and Solomon Jefferson, Principal Wilder
Where's the Wolverine - Tier 2 vocaublary support 2013-2014
In my first year as an ITRT, I was fortunate to participate in a professional development on literacy presented by Dr. Kendall Hunt, a consultant with Advanced Learning Partnerships. Our county has a goal of increasing its literacy throughout the county but my particular building had high needs in this area. I was inspired that we need to focus on building Tier 2 vocabulary for our students. In partnership with my principal and with the support of our leadership team, I created a system to focus on Tier 2 words that students were expressing they did not know. The desired outcome was that students would have a higher functioning Tier 2 vocabulary in which to apply to increased SOL scores.
Student 21 Digital Day 2016-2017
Student 21 Digital Day was a school wide effort to better support students to be safe and responsible in a digital world and to display exemplary digital student work. This program was designed as a collaboration between myself and the school librarian. Students were encouraged to not only show off their great digital works to their peers through a gallery display but also participate in lessons and activities that promote building skills and becoming a good digital citizen. We had a great start but found that the time allotted in our master schedule made it difficult for teachers to implement the lessons. In the upcoming school year, we are looking forward to utilizing a new advisory time where there is one day each week built in for digital citizen ship lessons and lessons to support teaching with instructional technology. See below for a few of our lessons. We really made an effort to design lessons where teachers could easily copy to their Schoology course for facilitation and also got a chance to use a tool they may not had used before.
Digital Citizenship Lessons we created for teachers
Student Fun for Digital Day!
S21DD1.MOVIn addition to the digital citizenship lessons, we invited teachers to bring their classes to the library to participate in 21st Century lessons. The pictures show students using Quizlet Live to collaborate on digital citizenship questions (upper left), using a Makey Makey and Scratch to make a game controller (upper middle) and coding a Sphero robot to get the most points on challenges such as make it to the tower but don't knock it over (upper right and video).