My STEAM cart has been a great fire starter in spreading computational thinking. More teachers are willing to open their classrooms to let their students experience coding and the engineering design process through challenges they can complete with the robots and/or the material in my cart. The best part was having a STEAM night at our elementary…Read More

Bringing Coding to Life with Robotics…. Students have been learning coding skills with the Dash and Dot robots. Many students even have these robots at home now. They had never been exposed to computer science or coding skills until I introduced these into our classroom. TIme was the biggest factor that I would run into with the implementation…Read More

I’m so pleased with how the innovation grant impacted my classroom this year. I chose to utilize the grant towards flexible seating options for my first grade classroom. This decision totally changed the dynamic of my classroom and my teaching style to a more student-centered, independent learning environment. I chose to use the grant to p…Read More

I am so happy with how our grant worked out here at LCCHS! Generation Z is on a great path for their future and through the beginnings of their digital portfolios they will be able to build upon them for the years to come. One of the biggest pieces that helped bring everything together was the Fire Summit. This exhibition allowed my students to…Read More