Passions & Interests
Areas of Interest
- Learner centered-real world instruction
- Project Based Learning
- Student reflection and self-assessment
- Giving students choice and a voice in the classroom
- Thinking Maps & Write from the Beginning: Expository and Response to Literature
- ELD scaffolding
- Collaborative student work online
- Mentor texts
- Socratic Seminars & Great Books discussions
- AVID
Projects
- Classroom Environment Redesign for Flexible Learning Environments
- Debate Unit (a vertical collaboration between Ashley Novak (AHS Speech and Debate Coach), myself and 7th grade ELA teachers.
- Write from the Beginning expository units that give students choice.
- Thinking Maps to support all ELD levels in their ELD and content classes.
- Using Thinking Maps to deepen students thinking and organize their writing across content areas.
- Writing curriculum across content areas.