My Transitional English classes are working either individually or in groups of two to write a K-2 children’s story. We have spent about 5 class periods working with published children’s stories and analyzing the story arc and layout of the story. We are looking at text structure and features. The students have been reading children’s story…Read More

Ms. Rebecca Potter and I have been conducting interviews and working with the Letcher County Central Journalism Class preparing our documentary entitled “Heroes on Every Hand: They Just Never Told Us”. We are preparing to start the editing process in the next few days. We are hoping to add a couple more interviews to this piece and more…Read More

My classroom redesign grant was used to purchase furniture to create alternative seating and seating choices for my students. I have seen more student engagement during lessons and individual work as well as improvement in time-on-task. The students have really enjoyed the change and say they look forward to coming to class each day. I feel…Read More

Although we are in the early stages of implementing this project, the Digital Reader’s Library appears to be a success. The Digital Reader’s Library is a class set of 25 Kindle Fires used to address a number of growing concerns in the classroom. The library has allowed us to create a classroom environment with up-to-date content-heavy literary res…Read More

The Paperless classroom was intended to allow more student collaboration and eliminate the need for individual paper assignments. While it hasn’t eliminated the need it has reduced the usage of paper and has encouraged more collaboration. The cricut cutter has allowed me to create visuals and manipulatives, which has been the most beneficial…Read More