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    • Students love to come to the computer lab, but many times they think computers are only to play games. Through my innovation grant, “Engaging Students Through Creative Technology”, I plan to help my students delve into a deeper understanding of technology and its many uses. In a Project Based Learning atmosphere students will interact with eac…Read More

    • There’s an App for That!

      As a first year teacher coming home to the mountains to teach in an area where I grew up, was a privilege. I hadn’t been inside of an Eastern Kentucky elementary school, since I had been enrolled myself. Things had definitely changed. Going from every piece of technology I could imagine at my fingertips, to a classroom w…Read More

    • Science for OUR Generation!

      “Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for the “Next Generation”…..but the poor can plan ahead for only a few weeks or days”.

      The projects I need funding for, as listed in the projected budget detail, were discovered as a result of work I did this summer on Next Generatio…Read More

    • This website is awesome for all teachers!
      [bpfb_link url=’http://www.teacherspayteachers.com’ title=’TeachersPayTeachers.com – An Open Marketplace for Original Lesson Plans and Other Teaching Resources’ image=”]TeachersPayTeachers.com — 1,700,000+ free and priced teaching resources created by teachers for instant download including lesson plans,…Read More

    • My 2nd period Global Issues Class (G/T) is doing a project they have called, PROJECT: BEAUTIFY. Their goal is to beautify the school by painting murals in the cafeteria, creating an outdoor eating area for students, adding a butterfly garden near the winter garden, and adding inspirational quotes. The students are repainting old stools, chairs,…Read More

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      • Wow, that sounds great! My middle school GT students are starting a business making t-shirts and the profit will go back into the GT program and hopefully a scholarship to allow an economically underprivileged student to travel with us on our annual educational school trip.

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