Accomplishments

I was an educator for 4th-grade students as a part of Aves Compartidas. I was the lead facilitator, teaching 5 in-classroom lessons and supporting 10 additional classroom lessons as an assistant and observer/evaluator. Each classroom managed 23 students at a time, with multilingual students across English, Spanish, and other languages. Our program aimed to connect students with the watersheds in Guanajuato, Mexico, and Oregon, United States. The 4th-grade team's specific curriculum was created to also discuss the terrestrial migratory birds shared between the watersheds. Along with the 3rd and 5th-grade teams, we partnered with Mount Pisgah Arboretum and Ecology in Classrooms & Outdoors (ECO) to provide our lessons to students at our partner, the El Camino del Rio Elementary School. Our curricula were adapted based on previous lessons developed by Aves Compartidas students; however, our team also utilized the Learning in Places (LiP) frameworks to support the lessons. Starting in Winter term 2024, I incorporated these frameworks into all 5 curricula. Additionally, I created the whole Aves Compartidas team's evaluation resources, including our documents for evaluating our student teachers in the field. In the Spring of 2025, I improved and streamlined our week 1 and week 4 lessons, which were too long and complicated for the students. I also helped create the undergraduate research symposium slideshow and developed an additional activity for the field trip curriculum if it rains. Further, I worked on our team's website, writing the entirety of the 4th-grade curriculum page, undergraduate research symposium page, and acknowledgements page, and completed general edits.