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A Walk In The Parks

Students researched one of the 63 US National Parks focusing on information that other 4th graders would enjoy learning about

Shift

Students studied the geological processes of changing the land via erosion, human impact, and other forces to model gradual change in their topographical maps

Double Exposure

Students created their self portraits using hundreds of linear and quadratic equations. They then annotated their portrait by solving intersecting lines using substitution and elimination

Two Sides to a Screen

Students took a deep look into screens to see how they can both negatively and positively affect our lives

Art and Activism

Inspired by the picture book A is for Activist, in this project students explored the power of “muralism” to create change in communities

How I Planned a Project Using ChatGPT

Middle School teacher Sean Gilley explains how he uses Chat GPT to share the load on project planning, so he can focus on the parts of teaching that matter most

Dance Dance Reconstruction

I never intended to become an advocate for teaching history in elementary school; it’s something that just sort of happened…

The Price of a Good Education

“Hey, I’m gonna need that hundred dollars by the end of the day,” Max said as he double-checked the owed amount on his collection sheet.

Lightning In A Bottle: The Al Qamar School Story

“Paagalon ka school” (“School for lunatics”), “The Motley Crew’, “The Rag-Tag Army” were the not-so-flattering epithets the community used to describe our school —one would have thought we had started a rock band, not a tiny little school with nine children and grand ambitions.

What Did You Learn in School?

This is a story about the lessons White boys learn in school. Or at least it’s about what I learned in school- about race and class and gender and what we do or don’t owe each other.
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