by Cristie Praeger | Jan 23, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authentic Audience, Science, Solutions
My original Problem of Practice was… How might we use the product of a unit on mental health to make contributions within the ESA community? I created a survey for the students of ESA to take. They responded to the following statements with either YES, NO...
by Susie Kang | Jan 21, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Authentic Audience, Science, Solutions
In my first blog post, I wrote about my desire to form student experts in neuroscience who would be able to create some kind of meaningful product for a wider audience. Instead of completing a project just for me as the teacher, and for their grade, I wanted students...
by Nora Madsen | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Special Education, Special Education Solutions
As a special education department we chose the Problem of Practice: How might we authentically include students with severe disabilities so they are academically engaged in their classes and socially engaged in the school community? For the first time at our school...
by Alex Schmerge | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Solutions, Special Education
For this post, I focused on the work that I do with our students with Autism at ESA. As the speech-language pathologist (SLP), I have the opportunity to see these students both in the classroom (for “push-in” sessions) and in small groups outside of the classroom (for...
by Nora Madsen | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Solutions, Special Education
A lot of the reading that I was doing about students with intellectual disabilities was around the importance of developing life skills. One of my fears is that they are not learning those skills explicitly at our school. I’ve also been speaking with our liaison at...
by Alex Zaugg | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Solutions, Special Education
The words “data analysis” probably don’t evoke much excitement in our high school students, but having the ability to closely examining data sets, graphs, and statistics can be an extremely useful life tool. Throughout our semester together in Microbiology, my...