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Day 1 Tinkering and Frolycing

We had a bumpy start to the first day. Half of my class is in gifted art and were out during part of science centers. The other half of the students began taking some of the objects apart. A few things...

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Google Hangout

Today our class and one other 5th grade room from the district had a Google Hangout with the developer of Frolyc, Nirupama Bala.The students enjoyed seeing Niru and hearing how she began developing...

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Student Post- Thoughts and Reflection

I really love tinkering so far. It's very fun and interesting. The only frustrating part is wiping off the lube!                               ~EmmanuelTinker time is something people need to...

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Science Centers- Student Responses

Like I said yesterday about how failure is basically a hint to success, today my group and I got the black covering and the tin protector off of the monitor. All it took was teamwork. Once everyone...

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Chicago Boat Trip

We took the day off of tinkering and using our 1:1 devices to enjoy the awesome city we live by, Chicago. We did an architectural tour that was very fun!

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Student Post- Thursday Science Centers

group three and one worked on the computer and the tiny tv we managed so far to losen the computers frame and unscrewed bits and pieces of the tiny tv and  successfully manged to get pieces off from...

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Student Post- Tuesday Tinker

When I finally got the main part to the x-box open with Mia I got so excited because I feel like I have been working on I forever.-NiaWhen we were tinkering with the old desktop monitor we accomplished...

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Connect It All

I have my edmodo, schoology, two Twitter accounts, Facebook account, Pinterest account, four websites, one blog, two google accounts, a youtube account and I am sure I am missing...

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Blogging Again! (Wow!! There is a lot to recap...)

It has been a year from today that I posted my last blog! This past school year went so fast and was filled with a lot for great and challenging times. My class continued to learn with me and put up...

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From Teacher to Instructional Coach

HH Family at the Cubs GameHH Group Halloween CostumeTowards the end of the year I decided that I was ready for a new challenge and a change in my career.  I decided to go for the new position as an...

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Prepping for the New School Year

For my new coaching position I have been reading many books this summer.I have also revisit the teaching channel just to be ready to bring some new research based strategies to the teachers I will be...

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Student Led Discussion Strategy

My goal is to reflect on or write about at least one teaching strategy each week.https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-literature-lesson-planPinwheel DiscussionsI attached the link to the...

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Whole Group and Shared Lesson Day 1 Coaching

My goal for the school year (new school year resolution) was to blog more. The beginning of the year has be really crazy traveling between three different buildings. This week my focus is supporting...

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Day 2 Shared/Guided Reading Coaching

#newschoolyear resolution:Shared ReadingGuided ReadingRecording my Lessons in Order to Reflect Today was the second day I modeled Barnhouse strategies in both shared and guided reading. I was a little...

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Weekly PD: Week 1

Along with my goal to blog more regularly, I also have the goal to bring something new to the staff each week in 5 minutes or less. My goal is to "plant seed"s of ideas each week, not necessarily to...

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Week 2: PD in 5 minutes or Less

I am out of the district for training on Friday, but I wanted to keep up with my goal of a new idea presented at our staff meetings each week. I decided to create a quick video with iMovie using some...

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Math Talks and CGI

This year I have been attending training about for math coaches and the focus of the training has been on Math Talks and Number Talks. I have modeled a "Math Talk" in all classrooms at my elementary...

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ICE 2016

I will be presenting on flipping the classroom to maximize and differentiate instruction in February. I plan to include different sections of the presentation. I have 50 minutes and it will be a poster...

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Research Simulation Task

Research Simulation Task Slideshow PARCC ExpectationsResearch Simulation Tasks– students will analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli and then answer a...

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Newsletter- January

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MTSS January

Today, my school's data/MTSS coach and I spent some time looking at both Aimsweb and NWEA data for our enter building. Our goal was to identify any trends we saw in the data. We decided, at the end of...

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All Set for ICE16!

I have finally completed all my documents for the ICE Conference and my Snapshot session next Thursday. I am presenting on Flipping Your Classroom for Differentiation and Instruction. I have changed...

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My Resource Page

This year I have been trying to story all my links and resources on a resource website so I can access them easily. I have organized the site into a few tabs: Grades 3-5, Grades K-2, Literacy,...

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Morning PLCs

Each morning, grade levels meet together for morning PLCs. They have not been very structured and some teachers feel like they are not getting much out of the morning meetings. After our last data day,...

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We Have Moved!

Here is my new blog! See you there.

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