by Rosa Moshi | Jan 14, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Personal Authenticity, Science, Solutions
In my first blog post, I wrote about how students design and carry out controlled experiments during the second unit of my microbiology class. As my problem of practice, I wanted my students to design experiments that they felt personally invested in. I asked- how...
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...
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...