Stratford MS STEAM Innovator Portfolio by Becca Silver https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio Made with a STEAMtastic attitude en-us 2017-09-08 04:28:33 UTC 2025-03-17 02:24:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png School Information: rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/186035453 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 
]]> 2017-09-08 20:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/186035453 YEAR 1: STEAMformation rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/186035537 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. 

]]> 2017-09-08 20:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/186035537 12/1 - Lock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/212333909 To teach simple machines, Ms. Lock had her students chose one of four modalities to express their knowledge of the simple machines.]]> 2017-12-01 16:23:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/212333909 12/1 - Fregoe (cont...) rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/212418584 Students at their gallery walk]]> 2017-12-01 19:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/212418584 12/5 - Whitlock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/213914849 7th grade students are building solar cells out of raspberries and the 5th graders were designing a wind (balloon) powered vehicle]]> 2017-12-06 20:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/213914849 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/213916306 2017-12-06 21:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/213916306 10/5 - Bryant rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950658 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.]]> 2017-12-24 15:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950658 11/8 - Bryant rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950665 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.]]> 2017-12-24 15:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950665 10/5 - Lock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950690 Students create a flip book on mitosis and miosis, using creativity.]]> 2017-12-24 15:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950690 10/18 - Lock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950692 Rubric mitosis and miosis videos Ms. Locks honor's class created.  She had her other others grade them using the rubric]]> 2017-12-24 15:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950692 10/5 Whitlock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950719 adhesive experiment]]> 2017-12-24 15:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950719 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950725 2017-12-24 15:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950725 10/18 - Whitlock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950732 Students are working on creating real world problems and finding solutions using digital resources and guiding questions ]]> 2017-12-24 15:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950732 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950735 2017-12-24 15:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950735 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950740 2017-12-24 15:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950740 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950749 2017-12-24 15:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950749 10/18 - Cardwell rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950802 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.]]> 2017-12-24 15:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950802 10/4 - Stewart rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950819 Ms. Stewart has gone from having students working only independently to working in pairs communicating and collaborating.]]> 2017-12-24 15:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950819 11/8 - Stewart rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950824 2017-12-24 15:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950824 10/18 - Jenkins rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950838 Ms. Jenkins uses sentence starters to help her students communicate about science with each other.]]> 2017-12-24 16:00:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/217950838 Stratford’s STEAM Family Night rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218196501 Teachers showcased STEAM lessons that they collaborated on for families after school on December 5. They combined it with a chili cook off]]> 2017-12-30 19:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218196501 1/3 - Lock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218634348 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]]> 2018-01-03 20:13:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218634348 10/18 - Fregoe rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218992468 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)]]> 2018-01-05 17:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218992468 12/1 - Fregoe rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218993545 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.]]> 2018-01-05 17:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218993545 10/18 - Fregoe rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218994193 Students summed up their lesson with the SOS strategy Tweet Tweet]]> 2018-01-05 17:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/218994193 1/8 - Lock rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219411071 Students watched a video on Isaac Newton and summarized the learning using the SOS Strategy 321 Pyramid ]]> 2018-01-08 16:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219411071 1/8 - Stewart rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219537660 Students used oranges to practice creating fractions in an engaging way]]> 2018-01-08 20:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219537660 1/9 - Stewart rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219971166 Students used manipulatives to create their own equivalent fractions.]]> 2018-01-09 20:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/219971166 1/10 - Bryant rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220650460 Ms. Bryant used the SOS Strategy 321 Pyramid to wrap up ]]> 2018-01-11 16:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220650460 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220651320 1/11 - Martin]]> 2018-01-11 16:12:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220651320 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220686469 1/11 - Cardwell 

Ms. Cardwell had her student "tweeting" about cells using the SOS Strategy Tweet Tweet]]> 2018-01-11 17:15:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220686469 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220721160 1/11 Jenkins]]> 2018-01-11 18:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220721160 1/11 - Jenkins rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220722181 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.]]> 2018-01-11 18:22:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220722181 1/11 - Bryant rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220782332
Ms. Bryant used the SOS Strategy called Hashtag It for her class's 2018 goals.

]]> 2018-01-11 20:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220782332 Bryant rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220784363 Ms. Bryant taught kinesthetic vocabulary with movement.]]> 2018-01-11 20:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/220784363 rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/224384325 1/24 - Jenkins]]> 2018-01-24 18:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/224384325 1/24 - Jenkins rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/224428674 2018-01-24 20:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/224428674 margaretvlock https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/228200290 2018-02-05 16:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/228200290 2/8 - Pigg cherifamcdowell https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229721564 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.]]> 2018-02-08 17:56:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229721564 2/8 - Johns cherifamcdowell https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229733526 Mr. Johns had students collaborate in groups in order to complete math tasks. ]]> 2018-02-08 18:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229733526 2/8 - Burrow cherifamcdowell https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229871268 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.]]> 2018-02-09 01:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/229871268 3/28 - Fregoe rsilver_depd https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/246954780 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.]]> 2018-03-28 15:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rsilver_depd/StratfordPortfolio/wish/246954780