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

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

Students shared their scale models of the world’s tallest buildings in the world in Frankfort and we had them on display at the Fire Summit. I will continue this process next year but I am going to restructure the lesson to begin with a research project. Students will submit reports periodically. I felt that some groups were not as focused as o…Read More

I was so pleased with how my grant “Alexa, Help My Students Become More Independent” turned out. I expected my students to become interested in using the Echo Dots in their classrooms and once more familiar with reaching out for, and using information, spread into using other technological devices to obtain needed information. I did run into a…Read More