I saw someone doing this on Instagram, so I felt compelled to make my own (my husband would phrase that as 'I felt compelled to make my own less fun version', but whatever...) You can get your own copy by clicking below (it's a PDF, and each square has a clickable link).
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We are not allowed to assign work to our students during this "break", so I am sharing this with them merely as a suggestion for things that they can do while we're not having class.
It is officially Spring Break here, so planned time off from school. There has been no announcement that the break will be extended, but that's certainly what many are anticipating may happen. Before the break began, I spent Friday teaching crash course style Google Classroom workshops to teachers at both the high school and middle school.
I've taught workshops on Google Classroom before, but those were more along the lines of "this is a fantastic tool you should consider intergrating into your classroom." Here is my presentation, if it's helpful. This was more "checking the box" to the highlighted statement:
Now that I'm home (maybe for just a week, maybe for much longer), I am happy to see a few things happening:
1. There's lots of pushback against simply "putting school online." It's not that easy. Our students don't all have computers, or access to reliable internet (and our public library system just closed hours ago). Learning online is different than in-person instruction, and it can't simply be converted over with a day's notice. I'm grateful for the conversations going on around distance learning and what can and (more importantly) cannot be expected.
2. There are so many educational providers stepping up and providing services free of charge (at least temporarily). There are also individual teachers putting resources they've created themselves online for others to use. This brings to light the need to have a robust and varied online PLN, to be made aware of some of these offers.
3. Administrators, educators, parents and students working together in an hour by hour changing landscape.
I have no idea what the coming weeks will bring, but I am choosing to focus here on what positive things I can:
-every teacher I trained Friday was open, receptive and excited about learning new technologies
-nobody seems rushed to insist we "switch" to online learning without careful considerations
-as educators, we're getting access to many online providers tools and resources that we might not have otherwise been exposed to
Besides that, there's not much else to do, but stay put and ride out this storm as best we can- see you on the other side.
Happy 2020! Last year's blog count was a pitiful six :( The goal for this year is 2 blog posts per month, so 24 for the year. It's already been a busy start to the year. Last week, we had a visit from Department of Education Secretary Frank Brogan, and this week we received a 2019 AP CSP Female Diversity Award:
We were one of only 4 schools in Oklahoma to be recognized for AP CSP. The criteria are as follows:
Schools receiving the AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have achieved either 50% or higher female representation in either or both of the AP computer science courses, or the percentage of female computer science examinees meets or exceeds that of the school’s female population. Out of the 20,000 institutions that offer AP courses, 818 achieved this important result during the 2018-2019 school year--nearly 20% more than the 685 schools recognized last year. In 2019, Blanchard High School was one of 639 recognized in the category of AP Computer Science Principles. An additional 36 schools received the award for both CSP and CSA.
This award is for last year's class- this year I have both CSP and CSA, and by this criteria, we'll receive this again next year for both (something only 36 high schools in the country did this year)- that is just wild. Last year 81% of my CSP class were girls. This year, it's 60%. My CSA class this year is 68% girls. By comparison, by Computer Science I classes are only 35% girls.
Last school year (2018-2019), my sophomore English class wrote a novel. It's a post-apocalyptic collection of connected short stories, and I'm super proud of their work.
You can actually purchase a copy of the book on Amazon HERE
As we were doing final edits on the book in the spring, partly to motivate me, I submitted a proposal to present at the next OTA Encyclo-media, and I was accepted. I'm a little behind in posting this, but I got to present about our class novel a few months ago.
It was a great experience, and I hope to have more opportunities like this one in the future. I plan on recording my talk and posting it here, but I'm currently battling a Thanksgiving cold, and I hope to have that done before we leave for Christmas break.
Above is a link to my presentation, if you have any questions please email me, I'm happy to answer any questions:
(Look for video link in a few weeks!)
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