Year: 2015

Cohort 21 has been an incredible experience. I have had a supportive and innovative digital space to develop and explore my own professional learning goals and stay inspired. I cannot have asked for a better way to start my career. Here is a link to my presentation which summarizes briefly the scope of my action plan, how … Continue reading “Action Plan Update: Beyond Coding”

This year I am experimenting with a different method of telling the story of statistics this year. We began the unit by watching Girl Rising. It is a moving series of vignettes and statistics that tells the stories of girls all around the world and the challenges they face. Collaborating in English and Math class, we had … Continue reading “Girl Rising – Middle School Girls Study Statistics”

By far my favourite part of these Face 2 Face meetings is that I had a chance to have relevant and meaningful conversations with passionate educators who are working on similar projects. I get to hear about other peoples ideas and actions and discuss plans moving forward for both of us. I have some smaller next steps that I will … Continue reading “The Next Phase…”

  When I began Cohort 21 I knew I wanted to focus on how I could integrate computer science and coding into my Math classroom. I wrote about the project I created to try this in an earlier post. The short version is that the students built a computer program that solves basic equations from their science class. I … Continue reading “Creating in Math Class”