Students with disabilities often require assistive technology devices to communicate their needs and wants, in addition to accessing various curriculum and lessons.
CS First is a program that introduces block-based coding to students in 4th-8th grade. The blended learning design allows for teachers to implement computer science in their classrooms across multiple content areas, even if they don’t have any computer science experience or knowledge.
This project will focus on the statistical methodologies I encountered in the CDR Lab work and apply these in a professional development for teachers looking at improving Habits of Success for students in our school network.
Introduce colleagues to the educational opportunities presented by VR in a high school classroom. Provide teachers with hands on experience with VR tools and applications and highlight how they can support and enhance a high school classroom.
Video recording is a powerful tool for evaluation, reflection, and research in the classroom. Preservice teachers and Master’s candidates are often required to record themselves teaching in order to assess important things like volume, wait time, and interactions with students.
The purpose of this Educational Transfer Plan is to structure six instructional collaboration sessions with teachers pulled out for full day professional development.
My school spends half its professional development (PD) hours in self-selected committees. I lead a committee focused on practitioner research -- the Cycle of Inquiry Committee. This committee meets twice a month, for a total of two hours, and we have four release days during the school year.
English Language Learners (ELL) face a double curricular load in a math classroom. Deciphering a math text, while attempting to solve a difficult math concept can be frightening and frustrating. Consequently, many ELL students feel anxious and thus, become passive learners in a math classroom.
The 2017-18 school year at St. Nicholas School in Los Altos Hills began with a foundational change in administration - a newly appointed principal! We had been under the same leadership for 14 years and found ourselves in the midst of an immense organizational change.