# data[].attributes.headline
Getting ready for another great strategy!

# data[].attributes.subject
Getting ready for another great strategy!

# data[].attributes.body
My fav strategy!!

# data[].attributes.body
Brittany said they students ASKED to take the test!

# data[].attributes.body
Went to the dollar store and shared different color bands so 3 of my teachers could use this SOS!..They were excited!

# data[].attributes.body
Ellis, Wendy | Wed, Dec 5, 8:46

OMG! So exciting, a student came in this morning.  Last night, she made her own paper slide to fit to the matter song!  Thanks for teaching this with us!  Love it!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One:
We talked at length about Imperalism and the other facets that will be tested in the Regents exam in June. Also, this year, the state of NY has changed standards....
I shared the resources found on DE and she told me she would give it another look....;)
Day Two:
I sat down and we looked at a breakout she has planned...I gave her some positive feedback as well as some ideas to use regarding the implementation.
She is fantastic at producing her own breakouts (we had searched the regular breakout site--I'm a certified trainer for them) because she goes into SUCH depth!!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One:
We talked about how to make the students understand organic chemistry in an interactive way.. we also discussed the fact he had some ideas for a breakout but needed support..ran out of time..
Day Two:
We broke down the ideas he had for his breakout and created 6 or 7 activities...I shared some creative ideas and I think he has set a great breakout for his students prior to Christmas break!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One:  She shared the special students she was working with were in the middle of investigative reporting...so we talked about different sites they could use to show understanding and focused on thinglink...
Day Two: We talked about how to use pictures from Emily's drive and how to use thinglink...UNFORTUNATELY, we found out the first 5 student accounts are free to we abandoned ship and went with Padlet....lesson learned..

# data[].attributes.body
Day One: We talked at length about sites to use in SS and mission-us.org is the BEST!  Shared with him how to look up interactives in Google.
Day Two:
I was part of his class when they actually started a unit inside of mission-us...He also started class with a great SOS strategy...

# data[].attributes.body
DAY ONE:
Angie has the special needs kids and is such an extraordinary teacher.  Our conversations always revolve around good educational sites that differentiate learning for her students.  I shared a couple that would work and there is one student who has stolen my heart and asked to learn another card trick..I obliged!
DAY TWO:
Greeted with a hot cup of tea!! Then we proceeded to look at the Reading program she swears by for her students.

# data[].attributes.body
DAY ONE:
This teacher has lead the DEN Ambassador program here at Pal Mac...so we ALWAYS talk DE!! We also chatted about how to share the rock cycle with the students ...they are charged with making a project to show understanding...also shared geogreeting and patrickjmt.com with his.
DAY TWO:
The students looked at CNN 10 to start the lesson and we extended the conversation to talk about Presidents....then we talked about different ways to do their projects, and I helped them to understand Blabberize and Goanimate as possibilities!

# data[].attributes.body
Met briefly with Dave and shared SOS for SOS and also the writing piece for Global News.

# data[].attributes.body
Day One:
AWOL
Day Two:
We talked about her students becoming great math students and I explained how to inspire the kids to learn their multiplication tables by having an ice cream project. She then made tickets for each number and as they successfully complete the 1s times table, they get a tix for a bowl, 3s times table, a scoop of ice cream...she hopes to have it done by DEC 21st for an ice cream party before the holidays! I believe she is going to do it!!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One:
We spoke at length about finding resources to enhance Colonial America.  I shared with her how to find interactives on the internet and she was very happy with the ones she found.
I pondered all night ...
Day Two:
I shared with her STUDIO...how they students could collaborate on a board about a job in the colonial times and work together. We then made a Studio board as I explained the lay out and we assigned it to her students so they can start tomorrow!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One -- We talked at great length about Paperslides, actually continued our conversation from Friday's PL time. She told me she wanted to use it, but was having trouble on the WHY and HOW..We brainstormed some ideas and came up with MATTER...Lodge McCammon's video is too high for these 2nd graders, so I found an appropriate one on youtube, pushed it into Edpuzzle and shortened it for her...I then made a google slides presentation for all of her students to have one line of the matter song to draw their picture.
DAY TWO: We met in the morning, and after reviewing the video a couple of times, we passed out the papers and all of the students did a great job!  We then assembled the video in front of their eyes and they were sooo surprised to see their picture up on the big screen.  When I asked them the three properties of matter at the end of the lesson...EVERYONE said...
Solid, Liquid and Gas...I think they are hooked!

# data[].attributes.body
Day One -- I acknowledged the green screen he has erected outside his classroom, after briefly discussing doing greenscreen with him after our PL day on Friday. We then discussed the HOW and WHY of having the students present about their favorite holiday- drawing their favorite holiday to be the background in DOINK... before I left I reminded him  to tell his students NOT to wear green tomorrow! ;)
DAY TWO:
The students came out to the hallway one by one and I videoed them and took the picture of their drawings while Jed lead Writer's workshop in his classroom. . we were successfully in completing 17 DOINK presos!

# data[].attributes.body
Susan and I met with Jeff and we talked a lot about digital leaders, interactive white boards and the current status of tech at Pal Mac..(extraordinary!)  We talked about the current experiment he was having his students do and then writing the scientific method.
_____________________
Day 2
We met briefly where he shared the Ken-o-vision microscope he had used with his class...it is such a stellar piece of technology...all the students can see on their own device ANY thing under the microscope! We are also sharing the site biodigital human when they advance to body systems...it is a google extension they can put on their chromebooks

# data[].attributes.body
We talked at great length about interactive boards and the use of technology a couple of years ago compared to now. . Her students are fairly adept at various sites she shares! Casey showed me her version of a strategy called "tweet tweet"--we had used this practice during our session the previous Friday. Then she shared a student based project she will lead for her students regarding the Industrial Revoluition, lead by a great essential question.  I'm anxious to see how it goes!
--------------------------------
Day 2
I was supposed to assist the students in using some of the "telling tools" such as Powtoons, etc, but we were called out for a Fire Drill instead

# data[].attributes.body
We started the conversation about DE, their Ambassador program and usage. We then talked about various components of tools regarding teaching about earthquakes..I shared Google Earth and the Voyager area.. KMZs are available for exploration
--------------------------------
Day 2
We open up Google Earth and found a great KMZ regarding the levels of earthquakes in Southern California...a student talked about the geyser in Yellowstone...so we "flew" over there and then Jerry  asked questions about the ring of fire, the Mountain range, and the possibility of earthquakes...We viewed actually images of the San Franciso earthquake of 1989. .
I opened up my personal DE account and the students were able to see several different buildings and the effect of a BIG earthquake using the virtual lab

# data[].attributes.body
It was interesting to come to her class this year...even though she has four students, they are ALL individually taught their curriculum that she designs,..so differentiated learning is every day!  We talked about how to incorporate curricular ideas with their level of learning and came up with some great websites for her students.  Tomorrow, we plan on executing what we can..
-------------------------------
I was greeted at the door by her students who sold me a coffee the day before and delivered today (they are keeping a spreadsheet of sales, etc ) and it was a delightful exchange! I met up with her class later that morning and I worked one on one with Seth with a numbers card trick, which he was eager to learn and then played a couple rounds of go fish with sight words he is practicing.. Angie and I talked about how to "improve" the friday coffee sales with more interaction and I'm just blown away by her creativity, engagement with her students and real world learning! (I missed the pumpkin pie cooking...darn!)

# data[].attributes.body
Our initial time together consisted of a great conversation about understanding the industrial revolution.  I shared some sites with him and his idea was to challenge the students to use Flipgrid to share their understanding.
--------------------------------
Day 2
I worked with two of his classes using flipgrid..Morgan already had in place a great sketchnotes for them and they filled it out prior to reporting inside Flipgrid..they did a remarkable job! They were quite comfortable by the end of their time with this tool!

# data[].attributes.body
Initially we discussed her upcoming observation by her principal and she was  a little nervous...so I told her that usually  if you add some SOS strategies to the lesson...they walk away quite happy..so we talked at great length about her special ed students and different engaging strategies to use...
------------------------------
Day 2..She shared with me that her initial time with her principal today, where she shared her basic plan, the principal was excited to see "What's my 2-1-4?" We then worked with the students using pinup.com and the 6 word story strategy so they will be ready for Monday.
Side note: We had tech problems..but we figured them out....the students helped too!!

# data[].attributes.body
We started our conversation about the 4th grade class covering the State of New York...Handing me a piece of paper...she says--can we make this fun?  I took her over to mymaps and google earth and we explored how the students can put in data, pictures, etc in each placemark of their choice and share out.
I then forwarded her a preso about google earth for further understanding.
_____________________
Day 2 we met again to go over the particulars of GE and how to successfully use it with her students. I also shared with her Voyager --which is a great way to engage students with all kinds of geographical wonders!

# data[].attributes.body
Although this teacher is about to deliver her first child, she is very enthused about her students and their learning!  We had talked about storybird during Session 1 the previous week and she wanted to use this with her students..writing their own stories..So we talked about story boarding and I made up a chart for them to fill out to actually cross off boxes of information after they were able to execute it.
--------------------------------
Day 2
We very briefly  went over the basics of Storybird with them. . they then were able to get on their chromebooks and with the Storybird chart, they were able to perform the different tasks and crossed them off as they went.  Many of the students happily helped each other (which I see a lot of this in the district)
Successful execution of a new app for her class! Thank you for sharing bouncyballs.org with me...I passed it to all of the Pal Mac teahers and gave her credit!

# data[].attributes.body
We initially met together to talk about Social use Studies and article 2...which is 2 sentences long....after discussion, we incorporated several strategies, including 6 word story the possible  use of the Google Slides and table top texting (from our session 1)
--------------------------------
During the lesson plan I noticed they were reading Esperanza Rising...so I enrolled Dave on the Google Lit Trips site and downloaded the KMZ so while they read they book, they can go deeper with the story inside Google Earth!

# data[].attributes.body
We spent our time on the first day talking about his students using an ipad app to retell their stories so they could be uploaded to Seesaw.  . Talked at great length about how to initially steady the ipad camera to take a good picture of the book, prior to them reading it aloud.  Using an old milk crate with the book underneath is an ideal practice!
____________________
Day 2
I was lucky enough to help the students (2 at a time) Jed did many more at a time than me...and WOW...they WERE able to hold the camera on their own, needed minimal assistance with the app and after beginning this exercise, 12 out of 19 were able to be done during lesson time!

# data[].attributes.body
It was tricky to meet with Wendy initially, but this lady is full of great ideas and energy!  We decided to use Flipgrid to show their understanding of "beginning, middle and end" by doing a book report on their book they had read.  The initially did a storyboard before they used Flipgrid--which was planned for day 2.
_____________________
Day 2 started out by reviewing beginning , middle and end...they then began understanding how to use Flipgrid by having a student model for the entire class with Wendy assisting. It was a very successful day! All the students were able to share out their stories successfully!