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Gretchen's students created Google Slides presentations to show their understanding of poetic devices.

Students chose a song and shared their identification of poetic devices with their classmates.

Students analyzed the lyrics and also included audio on their presentations.

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Susan's students created business pitches to present to a 'Shark Tank' of their peers.

They learned how to write a check at the beginning of the period.  They had a limit of $10000 to finance their classmates' businesses.

They presented their ideas to the class and classmates had a budget from which they could "write checks" to back their classmates' business ideas.

Each student received feedback in the form of "compliments" and "opportunities" from their classmates after presenting.

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Susan's students participate in a Quizlet Live to review for an upcoming assessment. Students also created career portfolios choosing a potential career. They then wrote a letter to their parents explaining their career choice which will be given to parents at the school's open house.

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Gretchen's students created posters describing the characteristics of the characters from the Wizard of Oz.

Students then recorded their analysis on Vocaroo and pasted a QR code on their poster.

Attached video is of the posters with QR codes hanging in the hall for a gallery walk.

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Susan's seventh grade career education students compiled qualities they would look for in a potential hire.

They then created their own Google Slides presentation of these qualities.

They reviewed resumes with a partner and added to their Slides based on the resumes.

They then had to explain which resume they would choose to hire based on their qualifications and Slides presentation.

Background: students watched interview videos and filled out t-charts with pros and cons before creating their Slides presentations.

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Gretchen's sixth grade honors class created timelines using Genial.ly.

Students wrote down stumbling blocks that the characters in Wizard of Oz faced.

Students then created interactive timelines outlining those stumbling blocks.

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Factoring Valentine Activity---
I created a valentine activity for my Algebra students which resembled an “I have, who has game.” The students cut out each heart and then cut each heart in half. One side of the heart had the foiled answer and one side had the factoring answer. The students then had to figure out which left side of the heart goes with the right side of the heart. Once they put all the broken hearts back together, they got them checked and then they taped them together. All the hearts were then displayed in the hallway.

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A new column titled Digital Literacy has been added to the RMS Vocabulary Across the Curriculum Word Wall. Although this list will be just a sample of words used throughout our school, the RMS DLC is encouraging the faculty to integrate them and others that are common to their subject into their weekly lessons as we work towards improving Digital Literacy with our students.

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Quizlet Live has been a fun way to practice potential quiz and test questions. Students seem to enjoy this activity

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Quizlet Live
My Algebra and Math 8 classes love playing quizlet live! I have used some that were pre-made and there are some I have created. When you take a worksheet and put a competitive twist to it, students are more engaged. After each round I create new groupings. This forces them to get to know each other which connects with out capturing kids hearts philosophy. I say after every rotation “let’s make new friends. Introduce yourself if you don’t know each other.”

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Gretchen's sixth grade inclusion class learned about informational texts.

Students created a Google Slides presentation on their informational text.

They uploaded pictures from their chosen texts and had to write one sentence for each picture explaining what element of informational texts was in the picture.

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Algebra Tiles
My Algebra students learned how to apply factoring to area models through Algebra Tiles. The students quickly realized the connection between factoring and foiling by having this visual. They also worked I groups and they had to work together and agree on how to orient the tiles.

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Gretchen's sixth grade ELA students learned about biographies.

Students created Google Slides presentations outlining the person's life.

They went to the library to record a screencast of their Google Slides presentation via Screencastify.

They watched them as a class and wrote down one thing they learned they didn't already know during each presentation.

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All of the students took a student survey (about the teacher) on Google Forms to make tallying up the results and analyzing them super easy. Students also listened to an audio book beginning of a scary story, which the teacher read to a point, where then they watched a video to finish it. Students then created their own spooky story and turned them in through their Google classrooms.

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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"Payback"
Students worked problems on the Promethean board but in order to encourage them to come to the board we added a twist and called this game “payback.” If a student volunteered to come to the board, they got to choose someone to work the problem with them. To make it fair, the person who got chosen, got to pick which of the 2 equations they wanted to work. I found that the students who got called on, now wanted to get their friend back by volunteering for the next problem. Student engagement was at one of its highest levels during this lesson.

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Math 8 students used a Discovery Ed board to study the volume unit in stations. Throughout the stations, students viewed videos via discovery ed, via their on-line textbook and my own videos via my Youtube channel. They experienced learning new info by the way of technology-enhanced items and performance assessments using the online textbook and usatestprep. They also were accessed via mastery connect and usatestprep.

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Geometry students used the Pythagorean relationship between a² + b² and c² to classify triangles as acute, obtuse, and right.

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Sort and Create Systems of Equations
Algebra students reviewed for their test by first reviewing strategies for solving systems (graphing, elimination, substitution). The students then worked with a partner to create 3 sets of systems on a sticky note, one for each method. There were 3 pieces of chart paper hanging in the room, one for each method.  Once the students hung their sticky notes, they broke up into groups to discuss if any sticky notes actually belong on the other charts. They had to “share out” to the whole class.

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Students studied the proof of the Pythagorean Theorem by using foam tiles. They even used Google Draw to recreate the foam tile activity to show that they understand the derivation of the Pythagorean Theorem.

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Digital Conversation

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Volume Water Demonstration
Math 8 students derived the formula of a cone by pouring water from a cone into a cylinder. Before they started the demonstration, they had to estimate on a sticky note how many cones it would take to fill the cylinder. After each pour, we reflected on the estimations that they hung on the board and we discussed if anyone wanted to change their estimation.

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The RMS DLC team led PD for  the Wednesday afternoon faculty meeting on February 7, 2018.

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Susan's sixth grade career education students worked on their mock interviews, inspirational quotes, and resumes.

Students prepared their mock interviews to record with partners on Friday.

Students also created a Google Slide explaining their favorite quote of the day and why (5 sentences) to display in the hallway.

Students also created the resumes using resume templates.

They will record their mock interviews with their partners on Friday using FlipGrid.

At the end of the period, students watched their videos with the prompt "tell me about yourself."  Here's an example from Connor.

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April's students learned about scientific notation.

Students collaborated on a two-page worksheet on Friday and participated in a Quizlet Live today to review the material.

Students collaborated to complete the worksheet after reviewing via Quizlet Live.

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Susan's students were participating in real-life situations and pretending to be in an interview situation

They brainstormed ways to prepare for an interview and one student pretended to be the manager while the other student pretended to be the interviewee.

For mock interviews in December- managers of local businesses are the managers for sixth graders; seventh and eighth graders are the managers for each other with a combination of parents stepping in.

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Tara's inclusion math class learned about decoding word problems.

They divided a piece of paper into a four-part graphic organizer and brainstormed common terms for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

Students then organized the key terms to help decode vocabulary in word problems.

In groups, students then categorized word problems on the back wall using their decoding graphic organizers.

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SC Ed Tech Conference        (Oct 26-27, 2018)

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SC Ed Tech Conference        (Oct 26-27, 2018)

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I attended this conference and learned a lot! I shared info with various RMS teachers. With all of the takeaways, our classrooms are better for it!

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The RMS DLC team led PD for Wednesday morning meetings on November 8th.

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Tara's students learned about linear word problems in a new and exciting format.

Tara created a math lesson with 'secret messages' that were coded like her science colleagues did an activity using

She has them posted in the hallway- students created linear equation word problems (literacy in math) and solved the equation, created table of values, and graphed their table of values.

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Susan's students are researching careers and their education requirements.

After completing their research, students will be responsible for setting up booths at a college fair.

The college fair will be held in the cafeteria and led by students.

Other students from RMS will attend.

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April's students learned about fractions and decimals and reviewed their learning using Plickers.

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Gretchen's students learned about characterization using padlets and a Twitter convention.

Students described examples of characterization in their current book by creating a hashtag and posting their hashtags on a padlet.

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Tara's students learned about classifying the real number system.

Students solved Tara's 3 Truths and a Lie as a warm-up to learn the convention.

Students then created their own 3 Truths and a Lie and posted them on a padlet.

3rd period padlet

5th period padlet

6th period padlet

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Board-view of Quizlet Live.
Students sign on with a code and are randomly assigned a team.

They have to answer all 12 questions correctly otherwise they are taken back to 0 points.

The team that answers all 12 correctly first wins.

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Mrs. Mathewson's Career Education students participated in a Quizlet Live review.

Students worked in groups and enjoyed moving around the room during the Quizlet.

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Day 1- Monday, July 24 @ JL Mann HS

Day 2- Thursday, October 12 @ Riverside HS

Day 3- Thursday, December 14 @ Riverside MS

Day 4- Thursday, February 8 @ Greenville HS

Day 5- Thursday, March 8 @ Beck Academy

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This image will take you to a padlet of useful tech tools for K-12 teachers.

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Click the image below to navigate to the resources padlet for year 2 DLC PD sessions.

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Mrs. Mathewson's students are participating in mock interviews with Publix managers.

Susan has a partnership with the local Publix store and they hold mock interviews for her business related arts class.

Students interviewed each other and critiqued their interview questions and answers in preparation for the real thing at the end of this week.

Students are also creating the rubrics for their own interviews and "being the boss" for the interviews.

Susan is new to the DLC at the end of this school year, but is excited to continue working with the DLC and start sharing all the ways she uses Google Classroom with the Riverside MS faculty next year.

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Mrs. Grudzielanek created a Google Quiz for her students.

Students watched a video and answered multiple choice questions with image cues.

The questions included feedback if students selected an incorrect answer.

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Tara took the padlet idea from our DLC PD session and RAN!

She created a padlet for keeping track of all her volume resources.

Tara's students used digital media resources she posted on a padlet (attached) to complete guided inquiry on volume problems.

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Mrs. Moore's students created characterization posters as a final product from their unit on The Wizard of Oz.

Students drew their character on poster paper and included feet to represent where the character traveled in the book; hands with textual evidence of things they did; a heart with their most important character trait; and thoughts that supported the character trait.

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Check out this padlet for resources from our cohort DLC PD sessions.

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Mrs. Moore created a board for her students to complete.

She emailed me for direction on sharing the board with her students as an assignment.

This board will help students compare and contrast literary elements in The Wizard of Oz.

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Mrs. Moore's students are currently reading The Wizard of Oz.

Gretchen's students are creating a padlet as their project at the end of the unit.

Students will enter descriptions of the obstacles Dorothy or the group faced on their journey on the stream-formatted padlet.

When finished, students will enter their padlet links on a Google Doc.

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Mrs. Haynes created a stations board for her students to use for their volume unit.

Students had 4 stations to progress through during the unit.

Each station represented a concept they needed to understand for volume.

Each station cumulated in a quiz which gave students a chance to check their understanding with April.

One station consisted of students meeting with April to confirm their progress.

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Mrs. Haynes 8th grade math students started a unit on algebraic functions today.

April first went through the verbal and tabular representations of the functions.

Students then used individual graph whiteboards and plain whiteboards to graph practice functions.

April used the document camera and Promethean board to show students examples and non-examples of graphing.

April even took pictures of students' graphs and showed them on the Promethean board.

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Mrs. Haynes' math students recorded their Paper Slides videos during today's class.

Students had time to practice their 2 minute video before having two opportunities to record during class.

Students recorded their Paper Slide videos on iPads then submitted their videos to April via assignment on Google Classroom.

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Mrs. Haynes' math students are reviewing for their EOC and final exam.

Students used Google Docs to choose a topic for their paper slide presentations.

Students then collaborated as a group to create their papers for Paper Slides.

Students will record their Paper Slides after one practice run-through on iPads next week.

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Mrs. Haynes' math students are studying statistics.

April went over examples of data distribution patterns on the board.

Students used current NFL draft statistics in their classwork (Draft Day!).

i.e. students looked at the weights of the top 25 quarterbacks in the draft and ran the data using technology then looked at the standard deviation and decided if the data was normal distribution or not

After the draft tonight, they'll look at who was drafted and where the data distribution laid

April also showed students a cartoon using statistics in a funny manor as a break during the direct instruction on data distribution.

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Haynes- Statistics Apr 27 - Google Drive

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Your coach is Sarah Lasater.  She lives in Fayetteville, NC and spent her teaching career teaching ninth-grade World History in NC.

Email: slasater.depd@gmail.com

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Mrs. Grudzielanek's math students are reviewing for their EOC and final exam.

Students utilized Mind Mup 2.0 to create mind maps before taking Doodle Notes on their main concepts from this year's math course.