Show Me A Story: Puppets in the Library
For several years now, I have integrated the use of puppetry with various library classes to teach story elements and writing skills. In the past, I have improvised by using library chairs draped with black sheets. This has been problematic because the fabric slips off the chairs and the students have to…Read More

Title: Mending Hearths without Breaking Ribs

Students are unaware of their compression depth and rate during Basic Life Support skills practice. Students are being assessed on this skill and are showing varying degrees of depth during the assessment. I plan to purchase BLS manikins with a light up monitoring system that will gage their…Read More

Just registered for my first Fire Summit on Oct. 23rd! So excited! My grant was for a “Digital Portfolio Station”. For the past five or so years, my 6th grade Language Arts students have completed digital portfolios. Digital portfolios make classroom learning more accessible to the students, but also parents, administrators, etc. because they…Read More

Just registered for Fire Summit on Oct. 23rd. Very happy to represent Johnson County and to be able to obtain C-Pens for my students. This will help with reading fluency, vocabulary, and confidence within the classroom. On behalf of the Johnson County School District, thank you. Look forward to meeting with everybody come the 23rd.

I just registered for the October 23rd FireSummit. A preview of what I’ll be presenting: After teaching students for 20 years I have come to find that some students love reading but a great majority of them will only tolerate sitting in an ELA classroom as they have no choice but to be there. My problem of practice is figuring out a way to make…Read More