• Active Models: Michelle Lovett, Science Dpt. 

"Using whiteboards (IMPORTANT - implies "fluid" and "changing" thinking) students will collaborate to visually represent a concept or idea.  Essentially they will create a flow chart of thinking surrounding a given topic.  Support can be provided to meet kids where they are (vocab list, basic sketch, essay prompt, etc)"

Link to PDF of Recipe: Active Models - Lovett 

• Emoji Kitchen: Stephanie Powell, English Dpt. 

"Students create an engaging mashup of emoji's to represent a skill/topic of  that your students are working on. This a high interest activity that can provide a platform for discourse."

Link to PDF of Recipe: Emoji Kitchen - Powell 

• "Who Has" Review Game: Lisa Whitestone, CTE

"An interactive review game where students can move about the classroom finding key terms or concepts that other Students posses.  This is a good way to get kids discussing, interacting, and moving while revisiting learned materail"

Link to Document of Recipe: "Who Has" Review Game - Whitestone

• Prior Knowledge Activation Activity: Angela Hagler, World Languages

"This can be used both as a warm up activity, or in the middle of a lesson. Students work together to brainstorm their collective recollection of vocabulary. "

Link to Document of Recipe: Prior Knowledge - Hagler

• On the Fence: Sha-Reh Reese & Preston Harrell, English Dpt. 

"The teacher presents prompts/scenarios where students must choose a side. I.E. the students are given a social dilemma and must move to one side of the classroom or the other depending on their answer choice. This leads to discourse and debate as students weigh their selections"

Link to Document of Recipe: On the Fence - Reese & Harrell

• Discourse Moves:  NC2ML

The following discourse moves have been assembled by Nc2ML, a research-practice partnership that includes The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, DPI, & universities and school districts across the state of North Carolina to strengthen learning in math classrooms across the state.  Although these strategies are presented through the lens of math instruction, they are applicable in ANY classroom and ANY discipline.  

• Revoicing

• Inviting Student Participation

• Assessing Student Thinking

• Waiting

• Assigning Competence

• Encouraging In-Process Thinking

• Orienting Students to Another's Thinking

• Pencil Collateral: Dex Davison, EC Dpt. 

"A method to ensure that students can borrow pencils with no class distractions and to ensure that the pencil will be returned."

Link to PDF of Recipe: Pencil Collateral - Davison

• CHAMPS Behavior Management System: Tim McLaughlin, CF 

"CHAMPS is a framework I've used with great success at both my previous school and here at Southwest.  It relies on clarity of expectations for various activities in the class, and repeated communication of those expectations."

Link to PDF of Recipe: CHAMPS - Mac

• Strong Start: Samuel Brailsford & Samuel Noyes, Arts & EC Dpt.

"A strong start is a method to start your class everyday and put them into a routine/ system that makes the rest of the class flows better, and a personal greeting helps to develop relationships and set the tone for the day."

Link to Recipe PDF: Strong Start - Brailsford & Noyes

• Skills Library: Jennie Hune, Media Coordinator 

"Narrate a copy of your power point lesson and save it as mp4. Now you have a how-to video for your lesson. This enables you to catch up students without taking time away from kids. RS assignments without sending paper back and forth, and assignments for your subs to use without students. Upload them as "unlisted" to Youtube, and you can share links on canvas, email, whatever."

Link to PDF of Recipe: Skills Library - Hunt

• Student Feedback Survey: Ally Chilton, Science Dpt. 

"Get feedback on your unit from your students so that you can continue to improve your teaching strategies and see what worked/didn't work. This can be done before or after a unit test, but personally I think it works better after the test. This increases student voice and allows you to adapt your instruction for your unique group of students"

Link to Recipe PDF: Student Feedback Survey - Ally Chilton

• New Choice: Jared Taylor, Arts Dpt. 

"Students engage in an improv activity by creating a scene but when prompted must create a new choice. ALthough this is a theater activity, it could be useful as an SEL or team building activity"

Link to Recipe PDF: New Choice - Jared Taylor

• Our Learning Community: Tim McLaughlin, CF

"This is a beginning of semester activity that allows students to create a representation of their personality that can be displayed in the class.  This creates a sense of ownership and inclusion in the space."

Link to Recipe PDF: Our Learning Community - Mac

• Hexagonal Thinking Activity: Laura Bryson, English Dpt. 

"Hexagonal Thinking requires students to write content and context words/phrases onto hexagon shapes, cut them out, and paste them together into a "puzzle" where relationships between words can be visualized and later written about as a group or individual."

Link to Recipe PDF: Hexagonal Thinking Recipe - Bryson 

• Review Jeopardy: Michael Connolly, Math Dpt. 

"Re-Create the classic game show Jeopardy as a review game in your classroom through Google Slides or PowerPoint."

Link to Recipe PDF: Review Jeopardy Recipe - Connolly 

• Gallery Walk: Daniel Perry, Social Studies Dpt. 

"Primary source documents are posted in the hallway or around the room and students are asked to analyze them in a non-sequential order.  This is a great opportunity to get the kids out of their seats and moving productively while engaging in discourse." 

Link to Recipe PDF: Gallery Walk - Daniel Perry  

• GimKit Review: Allison Chapman-Kennedy (CK), English Dpt. 

"GimKit is a live learning gameshow that is best used for review but they can also be used as a pre-assessment to see what students already know and where they are struggling.  " 

Link to Recipe PDF: GimKit Learning Gameshow - CK

• Stump the Chump Trivia: David Talley, English Dpt. 

"Stump the Chump is a review game for EOCS/GCFinals or other quick recall/vocab exercises that allows students to work in teams and compete against one another.  It's a nice quick option for review & discourse." 

Link to Recipe PDF: Stump the Chump Trivia - Talley

• Lifeboat Review: Denny Wesney, Social Studies Dpt. 

"Lifeboat review puts students in teams to review the end of a unit or a chapter.  It's a fun alternative that promotes teamwork and allows for student interaction" 

Link to Recipe PDF: Lifeboat Review - Wesney

• Bingo: Gina Chapman, CTE Dpt. 

"A flexible activity that can be used to review for quizzs and tests, or to provide a change of pace activity when introducing new content." 

Link to Recipe PDF: Bingo - Chapman

• Quizizz for Remediation: Amanda French, Science Dpt. 

"Do you have a student who missed an essential lesson and you need them to get through the lesson AND practice? Do you need to track this student's success and growth? Do you need something asynchronous because AM and PM tutorial is not an option? Is Enrichment just not enough time to help the catch up?

Try my experimental chocolate brownies of reducing mayhem and madness with attendance issues!" 

Link to Recipe PDF: Quizizz for Remediation - French