It was a little more difficult that I first expected to get the kids and their general education teachers to buy in to using the Rocketbooks at first. They were so used to having a notebook for every class. Even though most of the time the notes in these notebooks were never used to study or refer to, and the assignments created in these…Read More

My second graders are loving our new Chromebooks added to our classroom! So far we have been able to not only use our educational programs without leaving the classroom, but we have also been able to work as partners to read online books and complete reading projects.

Next week, I plan to start implementing a new program call NearPod. With…Read More

My students have been loving the Rocketbook notebooks they received. It took some getting used to. They felt as if they needed to still have several notebooks, but after time they started to realize how much easier it was to keep up with all of their assignments and notes. They get excited to write, which was an unexpected bonus. They want to…Read More

My project at Breathitt High School has been to develop a sustainable recycling program that focused on student leadership and design. We had a pretty slow start because it took quite a while to establish contact with our local recycling infrastructure, but we’ve had several meetings of the recycling club and should be ready to roll out the…Read More

Thus far 6th graders have visited Portal 31 and the Benham Coal Mining Museum. In class, they have explored news articles from the 1920s and 30s to examine why US Steel wanted eastern Kentucky coal and created their own mock news stories of coal mining coming to the region. Students explored census data related to Harlan County, the state of…Read More