Across the district, students are deep into the spring assessment process. Tensions are high and anxieties are piqued just at the height of the stakes of standardized testing. You would almost think this was the ultimate goal of education. To add to the general sense...
Over the past several years, Edsel Ford teacher Cheri Katzman has been working to revolutionize learning in her French classes by integrating technology into nearly everything she and her students do. Students in Madame Katzman's classes use Chromebooks and Google...
Teachers in buildings across the district are integrating technology in a variety of ways. Here's a quick look at how one building -- Stout Middle School -- is using technology to create emerging opportunities for students: Leon Vietinghoff's Blog. If you haven't...
The charge of the Tech Coaches is to support teachers as they seek to integrate technology into their instruction for the ultimate benefit of students. But as teachers ourselves, we both know that time for learning new things is at a premium--and that there's really...
Today, students in Diane Pas and Teresa Masiarczyk's science classes at Smith began working on their Mahara ePortfolio pages for their Earth Science unit. Ms. Pas & Ms. Masiarczyk began by introducing students to Mahara with a Google Doc posted on their Google...
Due to the popular demand of the digital annotation strategy, the Tech Coaches have updated the step sheet for the process of digital close reading. You can find it on the "How Do I?" page, at the bottom, under "Other Tools." We have also added a step sheet for...
