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Completed student project of Lego assignment. This lesson was to have students understand informational text.

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She is very active on Twitter!! Check out her feed...follow worthy!

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Completed student project of Lego assignment. This lesson was to have students understand informational text.

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Materials from vocabulary lesson developed during Day 4 whole group. She stated that they began the lesson with a video on how their brains develop and stretching their thinking and imagination with words. The then completed this 214 SOS where students were given 2 facts, 1 clue and 4 images on a word and they had to attempt to guess the word.

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Completed student project of Lego assignment. This lesson was to have students understand informational text.

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Materials from vocabulary lesson developed during Day 4 whole group. She stated that they began the lesson with a video on how their brains develop and stretching their thinking and imagination with words. The then completed this 214 SOS where students were given 2 facts, 1 clue and 4 images on a word and they had to attempt to guess the word.

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Students playing a game of spoons to review vocabulary.

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Students playing a game of spoons to review vocabulary.

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Students playing a game of spoons to review vocabulary.

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Students playing a game of spoons to review vocabulary.

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Had the opportunity to observe a lesson where students were putting their learning and knowledge around google sheets to use to develop a test. He wanted students to have a grasp of various ways to utilize sheets as well as and idea of how tests are developed.

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Had the opportunity to observe a lesson where students were putting their learning and knowledge around google sheets to use to develop a test. He wanted students to have a grasp of various ways to utilize sheets as well as and idea of how tests are developed.

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Students had to find a current event and explain the text evidence within the article to support the information within the article.

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Students had to find a current event and explain the text evidence within the article to support the information within the article.

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Had the opportunity to see the opening to a lesson on the Rock Cycle. Gave feedback on ways to include various SOS strategies to spark conversation and prior knowledge.

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Had the opportunity to observe a lesson where students were putting their learning and knowledge around google sheets to use to develop a test. He wanted students to have a grasp of various ways to utilize sheets as well as and idea of how tests are developed.

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Had the opportunity to observe a lesson where students were putting their learning and knowledge around google sheets to use to develop a test. He wanted students to have a grasp of various ways to utilize sheets as well as and idea of how tests are developed.

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Had the opportunity to observe a lesson where students were putting their learning and knowledge around google sheets to use to develop a test. He wanted students to have a grasp of various ways to utilize sheets as well as and idea of how tests are developed.

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Had the opportunity to observe a few classes. Gave feedback and suggestions. Encouraged her to scan the graphic organizer and have displayed to facilitate and model where and how students were suppose to take notes.

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Students completed a lesson on storytelling using google slides where they had to find images to tell their story without words. This was part of his goals to make better cross curricular connections to core classes through his lessons.

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Students completed a lesson on storytelling using google slides where they had to find images to tell their story without words. This was part of his goals to make better cross curricular connections to core classes through his lessons.

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Students completed a lesson on storytelling using google slides where they had to find images to tell their story without words. This was part of his goals to make better cross curricular connections to core classes through his lessons.

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This is a news story featuring his Robotics team as they came in first place...especially over a favored Chartered School.

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"State was heart-lifting because I didn't think we would have a chance to make it," Ayzlin said. "We were mostly in shock at regionals."

The team didn't fare nearly as well at state last year, "but that didn't really bother me, because I was looking at two kids who had never so much as touched a robotics kit before they joined the club," Lie said.

Two more sign up

Now Carah and Ayzlin - joined at the hip, Lie likes to say - have added eighth-grader Brandon Blanco and sixth-grader Kevin Sulco to the team.

The group entered the Panopticane in the intermediate inventions category this year and its main competition came from Village Tech, a charter school in Cedar Hill that sent two teams to regionals.

"When they announced the second-place team as Village Tech, we just thought that the other Village Tech team would finish first," Carah said.

But Brandon quickly shut that thought down.

"When we all heard Village Tech's name, Brandon just said, 'Stop thinking negative; think positive,'" Kevin said.

Brandon shrugs at the memory.

"I just felt confident we were going to win," he said.

A gateway to STEAM

Lie and Bessie Coleman Principal Jason Miller hope the robotics club serves as gateway to the school's Environmental Science and Engineering Academy, which will open for the 2017-18 school year with 50 students each in the sixth and seventh grades.

Cedar Hill's other middle school, Permenter, will open its Entrepreneurship and Design Academy with the same enrollment numbers and entrance qualifications, which include mandatory parental meetings and interviews.

"When you see kids like this, they think outside the box," said Miller, who like Lie is in his third year at the school. "Sometimes they might be frustrated because they question things, and we have to accommodate them. We have to allow them to be risk-takers."

The middle school programs are part of what Cedar Hill Superintendent Orlando Riddick sees as a burgeoning STEAM plan throughout the district - a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics regimen that he admits has been slow getting started.

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Cedar Hill students catapult to victory in robotics competion with 'seeing-eye cane' for the blind

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"State was heart-lifting because I didn't think we would have a chance to make it," Ayzlin said. "We were mostly in shock at regionals." The team didn't fare nearly as well at state last year, "but that didn't really bother me, because I was looking at two kids who had never so much as touched a robotics kit before they joined the club," Lie said.

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Students chunking information they learned to create visual anchor charts

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Students designed and constructed paper roller coasters to demonstrate what they learned about force and motion and Newton's Laws

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Math and Science night featuring- Ecosystem Jenga and student collected and made life size Jenga

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Student designing and building Puffmobile Racers

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Business proposal plan students used design their racer

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Students testing and adjusting prototype as well as making update to business proposal

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Kick-off celebration and innovators receiving their lab-coats.

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Bulletin board with STEAM Innovator Gayla Davidson receiving Employee of the Month for all her hard work and commitment to the students of Bessie Coleman Middle School.

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Presenter, introducing students to performing and understanding the details of making a play come to life.

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Taking some time to show our support for our Troops during Veterans Day!

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Ms. Davidson and colleague building a life-size version of the game Operation for the upcoming district-wide STEAM Extravaganza.

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Ms. Davidson and colleague building a life-size version of the game Operation for the upcoming district-wide STEAM Extravaganza.

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Presenter, introducing students to performing and understanding the details of making a play come to life. Students simulating a "cold-read" to experience auditioning and performing.

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Ms. Davidson and colleague building a life-size version of the game Operation for the upcoming district-wide STEAM Extravaganza.

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Presenter, introducing students to performing and understanding the details of making a play come to life. Students simulating a "cold-read" to experience auditioning and performing.

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Presenter, introducing students to performing and understanding the details of making a play come to life.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers participating in a hands-on STEAM lesson

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Teachers participating in a hands-on STEAM lesson.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers participating in a hands-on STEAM lesson.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers working together while participating in a discussion based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers sharing their group discussion posters with the team based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers working together while participating in an engagement strategy showing their understanding of the learning within the day.

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Teachers participating in a hands-on STEAM lesson.

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Teachers working together while participating in an engagement strategy showing their understanding of the learning within the day.

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Teachers working together while participating in a discussion based on the learning within the day.

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Teachers working together while participating in an engagement strategy showing their understanding of the learning within the day.