PD Reflection Wall by Heather Coble

Padlet

dabadie — 2025-08-11 13:21:54 UTC

I found a lesson that was missing the Accountable Talk/Communication piece and I added a Padlet activity.

One thing I added

2025-08-11 13:21:55 UTC

Have students create a visual symbolism chart. This will have students analyze different aspects of the story, while maintaining a connection to the themes throughout.

Lentz

CameronLentz — 2025-08-11 13:21:59 UTC

I was able to +one my first day writing assignment. Magic school helped me generate a pre-writing exercise that helps students generate ideas.

Intro. Activity

gevans70 — 2025-08-11 13:22:14 UTC

For an introductory activity, I have students draw connections between their classmates using hexagons. Typically, they write facts about themselves, but Magic School's Crossing the Rigor Divide added the idea of adding categories (ex. beliefs, experiences, etc.). Also, you could have students justify their choices (moving to analysis instead of simply recall).

ELA

tmurray001 — 2025-08-11 13:22:34 UTC

Students will share their developed theme with peers, which will allow more discussion among the groups.

Plus One: Character Analysis in the Phantom Tollbooth

2025-08-11 13:24:19 UTC

Last school year, students were tasked with investigating how the protagonist changed from the exposition to the resolution and created a diagram as evidence of their analysis. This year, students should explain why the protagonist evolves and create a presentation as evidence of their analysis.

6th - Brown Girl Dreaming

2025-08-11 14:33:15 UTC

Plus One

2025-08-11 14:33:38 UTC

Topic: Adversity vs Obstacles

Plus One: Random Grouping and Visual Thinking

Launch: Answer "How do you overcome obstacles?" on padlet

Think & Talk: Students will watch the video on Bethany Hamilton and build on their launch question. They will answer with their group, "Are there any obstacles that are too difficult?" while referencing the video.

Monitor: After think time with group, each group will share out their reflections.

2025-08-11 14:40:16 UTC

Lesson: Unit Introduction

Entry Point: random groups and vertical whiteboards

Transform: random grouping, student thinking visually

Launch: provide students list of concept vocabulary words by displaying on board

Think & talk: using vocabulary words students will predict what story will be about

Share out: students record predictions on vertical whiteboards

Monitor: teacher walks around room

2025-08-11 14:42:31 UTC

Launch: Create poll on related topic to grab attention and earn interest

Think & Talk: Have students talk in random groups about poll results and relation to topic

Share Out: Have group create an overall answer and post to padlet

Monitor: Using Classwize

Facing Adversity

2025-08-11 14:47:42 UTC

Launch - Padlet - Allow students to answer the essential question for the unit. "How do we overcome obstacles?"

Think and Talk - Create random groups; put other open ended questions which relate to the unit/first story/video on the wipe boards and allow the students a chance to answer each of them on the different boards.

Share out - Give each group a chance to share either their answer or another answer which they thought best answered the question.

Monitor - Each group would be in a different color, so you know they answered the questions. They can also go back and type their individual answers on a document and you can monitor it using Classwize or Schoology.

Plus One

2025-08-11 16:59:34 UTC

I would add a debate to the pre-writing stage of Argumentative writing. Allow the students to present and support their ideas in the form of a debate before writing the essay.

Plus One

2025-08-11 17:03:56 UTC

In addition to students adding to their EQ notes, I will hold a debate at the end of the quarter where students share their technology infographic based on their claim whether technology is helpful or harmful

Plus One

myock1 — 2025-08-11 17:04:35 UTC

For "The Banana Tree" I would have the students use visual symbolism to analyze for different aspects of the story.

Rigor

2025-08-11 17:07:22 UTC

Students will be able to share ideas about propaganda in Animal Farm and its relevance to their current lives using Padlet or Canva.

Change

julloa29 — 2025-08-11 17:07:23 UTC

I would use the snapshot activity, where the students would provide a picture and describe why they chose that picture and how it relates. This would help let teachers know they are grasping the concept of the lesson and letting them also put their own spin to it.

Vocabulary

2025-08-11 17:07:48 UTC

Originally, I had the students write an original sentence for each vocabulary word. Magic School AI presented the idea of creative synthesis through writing short stories, poems, news articles, or interviews using the vocabulary words. Another idea is to have students create an “expert vocabulary podcast,” which is a particularly creative activity.

Padlet Snapshot for Essential Question

mmetzger18 — 2025-08-11 17:12:08 UTC

My "plus one" is to use the Padlet "Snapshot" activity to answer the essential question in Unit 1 (Rites of passage). They will be asked to think of or find a rite of passage and analyze why it is important to someone growing up alongside the snapshot they chose to post.

It takes the rigor up a level by going from identify to analyze.

Plus One

2025-08-11 17:17:57 UTC

In one of the assignments for a project on the “The Tell-Tale Heart” at the end of the year, students were asked to write their own short story, analyzing the plot and checking for dialogue. The plus one was to use the DOK chart to create 3 questions/answers for their story.

"Flowers for Algernon" Socratic Seminar Prep

sdew5 — 2025-08-11 17:48:17 UTC

After having students individually generate Level I, II, III questions in preparation for a culminating "Flowers for Algernon" Socratic seminar, the plus-one lesson now suggests having students use AI-generated rubrics to explain their justifications of level questions and reminds them to incorporate textual evidence in their responses. This activity may also be done as a peer review.

Plus One

2025-08-11 18:48:22 UTC

I plan to implement the random group generator for the first week of school where students will share in their groups of 3 their reading/writing goals for the year after taking a readers/writers survey

Plus One

2025-08-11 18:58:32 UTC

Our team thought about adding an almost pre-writing stage of some argumentative writing. Ideas would be supported in a debate from the students.

Also, maybe having a debate at the end of the quarter where students can share their infographic about their claim.

Or writing their own short story, students can analyze the plot of the story, making sure to check for dialogue, and creating 3 questions/answers for the story.