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Mrs. Fregoe had the students collaborating to analyze anonymous (and typed) student work with the district rubric, editing it and rating it on the rubric.

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Ms. Burrow incorporated the arts with a very moving reading of Color Blind. Students then worked together to communicate their ideas of colorblindness and then created an argumentative writing piece.

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Mr. Pigg used the SOS Silence is Golden in order to introduce the students to the Prohibition. Students were very drawn in and engaged in discussion after writing what they thought the video was about.

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Mr. Johns had students collaborate in groups in order to complete math tasks.

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Ms. Bryant taught kinesthetic vocabulary with movement.

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Ms. Bryant used the SOS Strategy called Hashtag It for her class's 2018 goals.

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Mrs. Jenkins uses a short reflective rubric at the end of each class for the student to self-assess how they are progressing on their group projects.

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1/11 Jenkins

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1/11 - Cardwell

Ms. Cardwell had her student "tweeting" about cells using the SOS Strategy Tweet Tweet

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1/11 - Martin

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Ms. Bryant used the SOS Strategy 321 Pyramid to wrap up

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Students used manipulatives to create their own equivalent fractions.

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Students used oranges to practice creating fractions in an engaging way

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Students watched a video on Isaac Newton and summarized the learning using the SOS Strategy 321 Pyramid

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Students completed inference stations practicing making inferences and filled out a structured sheet for answers.  Students summed up their lesson with the SOS strategy Tweet Tweet (pic below)

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Students summed up their lesson with the SOS strategy Tweet Tweet

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Students used sentence stems for gallery walk responses on how we remember things, taken during from an IFL unit Ms. Fregoe taught with infused STEAM elements throughout.

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Students at their gallery walk

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Students watched a video of a Rube Goldberg machine completely made out of photography equipment. Ms. Lock exposed the students to the STEAM career photography. While watching, the students were taught about different aspects of photography as well as were asked to identify a simple machine and draw it on a post-it note. After the video, the students used the SOS strategy Give 1 Take 1 to communicate the simple machine they drew

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Teachers showcased STEAM lessons that they collaborated on for families after school on December 5. They combined it with a chili cook off

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Students practiced descriptive writing using a text message format. They had to rewrite the message to explain the tone of the message. This was a very real world and relevant activity.

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Rubric mitosis and miosis videos Ms. Locks honor's class created.  She had her other others grade them using the rubric

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Ms. Jenkins uses sentence starters to help her students communicate about science with each other.

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Students engaged in a relevant, fictional book that is based on inner city high schoolers and the issues they're dealing with,.  The students were highly engaged and were digging deeply into each character and their relationship and impact of the other characters. Later, the students engaged in explanatory writing where they showed critical thinking in writing a thesis statement and then citing evidence from the text to support it.

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To teach simple machines, Ms. Lock had her students chose one of four modalities to express their knowledge of the simple machines.

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Students create a flip book on mitosis and miosis, using creativity.

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adhesive experiment

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Students are working on creating real world problems and finding solutions using digital resources and guiding questions

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7th grade students are building solar cells out of raspberries and the 5th graders were designing a wind (balloon) powered vehicle

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Ms. Stewart has gone from having students working only independently to working in pairs communicating and collaborating.

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Janet Wallace, Principal
Bruce Jackson, Asst. Principal

Address:
1800 Stratford Avenue
Nashville, TN 37216 (map)

Office:
615-242-6730

School Website:
https://schools.mnps.org/stratford-stem-school-lower-campus/

STEAM Innovators:
Brandi Fregoe
Amour Jenkins
John Pair
Brandyn Cardwell
Anne Stewart
Morgan Bryant
Megan Lock
Jeanne Whitlock

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STEAMformation is a three year system for professional learning and leadership designed to build and sustain a culture of STEAM teaching and learning. This comprehensive partnership will engage key stakeholders to create a shared STEAM vision, develop educators and administrators, cultivate inquiry-based, transdisciplinary instruction and prepare our future workforce. The focus of year one is to develop high quality STEAM experiences. Its primary goal is to foster a community of stakeholders sharing a common language, knowledge, understanding and vision for STEAM education and to ignite community engagement around this cultural change.

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The students learned how to turn and talk to increase collaboration and communication.

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Ms Cardwell used the standards to dig deeply in creating this PowerPoint to teach the students about land breeze, sea breeze and the water cycle.