Saint Mary's College High School 2025-2026 PLC Teacher Team 16 by Dr. Troyani

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stroyani1 — 2025-08-16 19:48:11 UTC

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stroyani1 — 2025-08-16 19:48:11 UTC

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stroyani1 — 2025-08-16 19:48:11 UTC

How did you experience our Lasallian charism in your team member’s classroom? What practices or moments stood out that you might bring into your own teaching to strengthen educational outcomes for our students?

Scholarship: Including Everyone in the Conversation

2025-08-19 20:56:30 UTC

Quality education:

2025-08-19 20:58:57 UTC

Collaboration

Energy!

2025-10-03 18:53:27 UTC

Maria,

You had such positive energy and unflagging engagement with the group! Way to make grammar FUN.

Full Engagement :)

2025-10-22 15:15:43 UTC

Maria,

Great class! You had the full engagement of your students. They were confident in asking clarifying questions. I noted strong class procedures (students passing out markers and white boards). You also think on your feet! The impromptu lesson you gave from a student question on intentional observation vs. casual observation with the examples of hear and listen, see and watch shows your knowledge of content and flexibility in teaching!

mfigueroa144 — 2026-01-16 19:39:48 UTC

Love that the students pray the Lasallian prayer in French. My kids pray the Lasallian prayer in Spanish :)
lots of student participation with the original grammar lesson
good student engagement and behavior!
Ms. Mahoney, you never stop being so funny, which helps keep the class fun!!! I would've loved to take a French class with you!
I think there was a moment when you had made a mistake on the paper activity and a student corrected you. I'm not sure because it was said in french. Good job admitting the mistake in a calm way, it shows that even we teachers can make mistakes sometimes and we can admit it in a humble way like you did!
really good job with the consistency of speaking in French throughout the class with the second year French students
engaging bingo game to get students on their feet! good practice for keeping the students active in their work
Student: "oh non!"
Ms. Mahoney: "Oh oui!"
the funniest thing I've heard all day hahaha!

Chef's Kiss!

2026-01-16 20:20:36 UTC

The lesson flowed smoothly through multiple well-paced activities: questioning and call-and-response, French tongue twisters, a movement-based bingo activity using previously gathered student information, and a crossword puzzle. Transitions were seamless, and engagement never lagged. Mahoney strategically shifted into English when addressing a counterintuitive grammar point (pronoun placement in positive vs. negative commands), ensuring clarity with very little use of English. When a student expressed confusion, Mahoney immediately shifted modes—moving to the board to visually clarify the concept—resulting in clear understanding. The balance between social, communicative learning and focused individual work was excellent, even prompting spontaneous, authentic language questions from students (“How do you say ‘agreed’?”). Overall, this was the work of a master teacher on a regular day: thoughtful structure, joyful rigor, and consistently high student engagement—chef’s kiss.

mfigueroa144 — 2026-05-11 21:31:17 UTC

Brian covered Ms. Panlilio's class today.

Started the class with the emotion wheel - good connection to outside material such as Pixar's "Inside out." Good activity for engagement between classmates.

Good job walking the students through how to look up the articles they might need on EBSCO. Walk-throughs are helpful.

I did not completely understand how to cite Chat GPT's work, both in-text citation and Bibliography citations. It would, perhaps, have been helpful to go over how to cite Chat GPT in more detail and maybe even give an examples of both in-text and bibliography examples using an example article. Some students can benefit from examples, depending on their learning styles.

Senior Project Super Hero

2026-05-19 22:00:31 UTC

Sorry and thanks!

Sorry it didn't work out to watch you teach and thank you for your tireless work with the project kids.

The fall reference interviews are a very heavy lift and not only are you patient and terrier-like in getting all independent projects kids to show up, but you still have enough energy to get them fired up about their projects and resources to explore.

And now, in the spring, you get our toughest kids and I feel like I have someone to help me shoulder the burden at a time when I'm getting tired of pushing them along. Thanks for shoving with me!