My second grant was for digital notebooks, specifically the Rocketbook has been more challenging seems like. The idea of digital notebooks is amazing! I love being paperless but still having the option of allowing my students to practice those paper pencil skills, BUT there are a lot of outside factors that have made us have to adjust how we…Read More

With everything going on, virtual teaching and taking on DLC requirements for the primary in my building I guess posting about my grant update slipped my mind. I am always so grateful and appreciative of the innovation grants not only this year during trying times, but also all the other years that they have awarded my classroom with materials…Read More

This year my goal for my grant was to I corporate more “student led” technology into the classroom. I was able to purchase cps refurbished clickers, a swivel camera and three echo dots. We have had a few speed bumps along the way since receiving our items. We have had difficulties gettin more than one echo dot to work at a time and have had tro…Read More

My grant allowed me to introduce my students to a critical thinking and problem solving concept that I could never have achieved otherwise. Incorporating the Break Out boxes into my math class has taught my students about persistence, communication, team work and other skills that will carry them not only into my math class next year, but into…Read More

My other grant was for 6 dash and dot robots. My students were so excited for their first explore day with the robots and coding. Students worked with two different apps in which they had to construct different codes in order to make their robots move. Our next steps are to incorporate the challenge cards that will be aligned to many of our…Read More