This game board was created during the summer of 2025. I utilized all of the Powerful Teaching Power Tools and strategies to create a template that could be updated for any content area as a retrieval day activity. As of June 2025, it currently helps viewers retrieve, space, interleave, and provide feedback for the Powerful Teaching Power Tools and strategies up to chapter 6. 

I created this poster to help students use Sora, a digital library, to the best of their abilities! Many students don't even know where to start when it comes to looking for a book that is interesting. Hopefully, following these tips can get students reading something they love. 

A canva template created for students to make a brochure about a biome they have researched. Students in the past have gone beyond this outline and included relevant videos to give digital purpose to their digital borchure.

I love celebrating this olympics in the classroom! For the first time, my classroom celebrated the Paralympics in Paris. During the winter olympics, my students will choose a Paralympic Athlete to follow and create their own project on to teach others. However, because the Paralympics started before we had been in school for a month, I created a template to help guide the project. I can't wait to do this again for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy!

This is a project I created in my first year of teaching. I used this during my Small Group Reading time and this allowed students to organize their thinking and then connect with one another. It was fascinating to see how different each of their notebooks came out to be, even though they were all given the same base page to start with. 

This slideshow is the overview of an economics unit we do for the last month of the school year. Students learned to manage their own money by receiving a paycheck, balancing a checkbook, and paying bills, like desk rent.  Students also learn how to run a business, using our Entrepreneurial Design Framework in preparation for two Sanborn City Market Days during the last few weeks of school. This is just the beginning of a very engaging economics unit. 

Students created Podcasts about an Explorer during the Golden Age of Exploration. 

During the 20-21 school year, I utilized Book Creator more than I ever had before. I discovered how to make templates for my students to use and then turn in. Students love being able to be creative and share their thinking in a new way. The following school year, we adapted this template to be an end of the year reflection. Click on the image below to get an epub copy of this Reflection Template! 

This unit was completed over the course of two weeks virtually and has Nearpod activities integrated throughout.

I created this Voting Booth around the time of the 2020 election so fifth-grade students could explore voting on their own and prepare for a mock election in our classes. 

This PD was co-created in 2021 as a way to earn buy-in on Learning Targets in our building. The coworker and I who created this scavenger hunt wanted teachers to be able to move at their own pace, both physically and mentally, while gathering a common understanding of why it is important to use Learning Targets in the classroom. Some information and/or videos have been removed for privacy.

This PD on Guided Inquiry Design was the first PD I taught to teachers and librarians outside of my building. This was also the focal point of my final semester in my master's program. Information has been removed to protect student and teacher privacy.

This is the most recent PD I have presented (January 2025). I implemented student-led conferences in February 2024 as a pilot in my building. I gathered resources, created templates, and recorded conferences, with parent permission, to onboard my staff for February 2025 conferences. Student videos have been left intact, however, you must be a part of the St Vrain Valley School District to view them, as that is the parent permission I have to share these videos. The examples of their slides have been removed for student privacy.