PERSONAL GROWTH THROUGH REFLECTION

Spring Branch Education Foundation Grant 

$5000 Grant

The Hovercraft Project

"a fully immersive STEM experience where students build, test and ride (yes, ride) hovercrafts"


2023 J. Landon Short Mini-Grant Recipient

Discovery Dome- "Totality Over Texas"

Project Asteria: Lunar Outpost Design

Participants in this course will learn how to train the next generation of scientists, engineers, and space explorers for positions within the aerospace community. Through an immersive, project-based

learning, educational experience, participants will embark on a journey to develop the very first human lunar outpost, culminating in a presentation that addresses all things required

for a new space civilization.

June 26, 2023- June 30, 2023

Space Foundation

Colorado Springs, CO

2023 H-E-B Excellence in Education Award 

Semi-Finalist

NEWT Nano Environmental Engineering for Teachers 

Participants increase content knowledge and to empower them in implementing rigorous project-based engineering activities on the topic of water sustainability in the classroom.  The program culminates in an engineering design showcase that provides teachers with a unique opportunity to present and create an engineering poster of their semester engineering projects to their peers, school administrators, and NEWT members.

 


Rice University

January - May 2023

The B.E.S.T. Award

(Baptist Educator Serving Texas)

The 2022 Baptist Educators Serving Texans (B.E.S.T.) Award celebrates Christian educators who are living out their faith daily among their students and the Texas Baptists institutions that taught them. Nine award recipients were selected, one from each Texas Baptists university. 

October 2022

https://hbu.edu/news-and-events/2022/10/07/dr-molly-nipper-named-2022-b-e-s-t-award-recipient/#:~:text=Houston%2C%20Texas%2C%20Oct.,Baptists%20institutions%20that%20taught%20them.

https://www.texasbaptists.org/article/2022-b-e-s-t-award-recipients-announced

https://hbu.edu/news-and-events/2022/10/07/dr-molly-nipper-named-2022-b-e-s-t-award-recipient/


Doctor in Education

Executive Educational Leadership

Dissertation: “Online Delivery of Mindfulness Practices:  Teachers’ Perception of Mindfulness, Stress, and Self-Efficacy”

Houston Baptist University

May 2022

Spring Branch ISD 

Board Meeting Recognition

Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Blaine and 

Board of Trustees President Chris Gonzalez

January 2022

Excellence in Science Teacher

Wilhelmina C. Robertson Excellence in Science Teaching Award 2021

Guild Scholarship


Sharon E. Saunders Endowed Scholarship Graduate Education   Fall 2021

Outstanding Graduate Student in Education


Houston Baptist University 

Spring 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools were closed and teachers learned to teach online distance learning.  Spring Branch ISD uses ItsLearning as its online platform.  I learned to create lessons, activities, and discussion boards in ItsLearning.
One online website I learned to use to allow students to upload videos is Flipgrid.  Students designed and built a Rube Goldberg Machine.  They uploaded their video in Flipgrid for me to view.
flipgrid.com/s/ea2f1d215d41 
Students research an Enigma topic of interest from websites in ItsLearning.  Jamboard is a G suite that allows students to keep track of note facts virtually in the cloud.  Students organized their notecards based on categories and themes.  Students collaborate by sharing their Jamboard for peer review.