The Miracle of Life was a very successful project in my class this year. I was able to purchase technology for my classroom including a digital incubator, ova scope, brooder box, and use iPads for students to make daily movies about what is going on inside the egg each day of development. Chickens were successfully hatched and students were given…Read More

Ms. Rebecca Potter and I would like to invite you to view our students journalism documentary, Piling Up Stones: A Collection of Mountain Memories and Wisdom. Ms. Potter has uploaded it to YouTube and you can access it by searching Piling Up Stones. I hope you enjoy.

Getting ready for my ARI session in Pikeville tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s projects.

My grant was to fund a Microsoft Surface so that I could teach sight word fluency more successfully to my students who need Tier 2 intervention in reading. Using the Surface tablet, I downloaded the OneNote App and the add-in called Learning Tools. Learning tools was originally created to meet the needs of students with dyslexia. But all students…Read More

I have just posted the PDAS Practitioner’s Field Guide to School Improvement. The PDAS is a well-defined set of principles, procedures and tools aimed to motivate schools and districts as they continually collect, analyze, communicate and use multiple measures of data to improve every aspect of school/district decision making. Implementing the…Read More