by Leslee Addington | Jan 9, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity Strands, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
Background: I have been teaching Geometry for a few years now and LOVE teaching proofs. Students are asked to identify appropriate evidence that supports a claim, use logic and deductive reasoning, construct accurate mathematical representations, use...
by Daniel August | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Mathematics, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
by Maurice Blackmon | Jan 9, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Social Studies, Solutions
The idea of student engagement is one that has always challenged me. On one hand, I know exactly what it means because I’ve spent more time in my life as a student than as anything else, it seems. I’ve experienced the excitement of sitting in classrooms...
by Jackson Shafer | Jan 8, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Literature, Personal Authenticity, Solutions
I have being trying to help students connect the literature to their personal lives all semester. I just think this is more fun! My hope was to help them see that understanding other peoples’ journeys can help us understand our own experiences. In my last blog...
by Cyndy Ware | Nov 6, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Social Studies
One of my goals is to make sure students can personally connect to the work in Constitutional Law class. Fortunately, this is not difficult considering the Con Law is, in one sense, an ethics class and students are asked to judge (in the style of a SCOTUS justice) all...
by Jackson Shafer | Oct 23, 2018 | 11/12th Grade, Literature, Personal Authenticity
I was excited! I had been searching for a text that authentically engaged students about issues of immigration (with a particular focus on immigrants from Latinx communities). These students filled my classroom, but rarely saw themselves reflected in the literature....