For my ARI grant, I received 4 iPods to use along side the Virtual Reality Google Cardboard and the Amazon Echo dot, to engage my students by traveling through history and taking field trips, otherwise, that would be unattainable. Students have gotten to have real-life experiences by reading and studying, for example, the history of pilgrims to…Read More

Look around! What’s in your hand? What’s in your bag? What’s in your pocket? Technology is all around us, consuming our daily lives with email, social media, games, and news of what’s going on around the world. We literally have the whole world in our hands, with the push of some buttons. Now think about the last time, you as an educator, got to…Read More

Mini Grant 2: Coding the Classroom; Creating Future Program Engineers

With coding on the rise, students should be given the opportunity to rise with it. This project will aid in helping students to grow with our world. With my classroom gaining classroom iPads, it also gains opportunity. Students have so many ideas, its time we make them become a…Read More

Mini-Grant 1: Choose your Chair (Flexible Seating in the Classroom)

In order for students to learn to solve problems, make their own choices, and use movement to stay on task, students need an option for a flexible seating classroom. This project will aid in helping to turn a universal room into a 21st century classroom for all students to grow.…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