Ideas, Activities and Resources for Bend-La Pine Schools
I’ve realized how important it is for students and staff to continue to connect with each other in new ways since we’re no longer meeting in our schools and classrooms this year. It’s been great to see the creativity in Continue reading School News Created Remotely
Before the orders to stay at home, Tami Lence, a first-grade teacher at Silver Rail Elementary, along with her co-teachers Shalom Davis and Elizabeth Schneider, had a whole spring project planned, but they’ve had to simplify it. And yet even Continue reading Project-Based Learning Eggcellently Simplified
Recently I had French teacher, Kristin Larwin at Mountain View High School, tell me she assigned a Google Form Quiz and that the students were able to translate the page into English. This made the quiz useless as it pretty Continue reading When Translating a Google Form is not so Desirable
I’ve always loved math. It’s fun to be able to solve problems and it builds confidence when you’re able to figure something out. But do you remember sitting in a classroom, working on math problems, and wondering when in the Continue reading Video Power Problems
“Better together” is a phrase that you hear every now and then and more often than not, you might be thinking of a marriage or friendship relationship, but maybe (just maybe) it’s your teaching peers that make you better. I Continue reading Independent Reading Unit
A common thread I’ve been hearing lately is how hard it is to keep students engaged and willing to continue to show up and put in the work. What’s going to be that hook to keep them coming back for Continue reading Keep Them Coming Back For More
Shauna Johnson and Joy Teson, both history teachers at Mountain View High School, had big plans to have a living museum in their school library where their students could show off projects they made surrounding World War II. However, this Continue reading Switching Gears
Recently Heidi Moore, a math teacher at La Pine High School, was asking about how to annotate on something her student shares with her in WebEx. This could be so handy, especially as a math teacher. It seems like the Continue reading Annotating on Something Shared by a Student in WebEx