Collaboration Coaches

Interesting read.

"If you're not yet on Twitter, read this post to find out some reasons why you should be. Confused about the Twitter language? Hopefully this brief explanation will help."

I think our CCs should enter your lesson improvements/pbls to this contest. You might even win $500 cash.

Also see: http://www.relayforlife.org/learn/relayforeveryone/studentrelays/relay-recess "How can your students become superheroes in the fight against cancer? Relay Recess brings Relay For Life to elementary schools nationwide. It provides students, teachers, and administrators the opportunity to become heroes in their own communities. It also brings cancer education and community service to the classroom in a fun and exciting way. It also engages elementary school students in the fight against cancer through fundraising activities that support cancer programs and services in every community. It gives students the chance to get out of the classroom and have fun with entertainment and activities that reinforce what they have learned. Because the program is so flexible, it's different at every school and is an excellent opportunity to showcase unique qualities about your school and your community."

Sending this to the Collaboration Coaches in case your school is looking for an outreach that your students can help organize and get involved in...

Converge wrote about Collaboration Coaching in AJUSD and our 21st Century classrooms

Nicely done Sarah and Erik! You've put a lot of planning and detail in it. It's well organized. I'm wondering if you saw these two sites: http://bit.ly/ehyA0R & http://bit.ly/utLabn

Web quest for 9th-10th grade world history students studying Islam.

I loved how you took the lesson that you and Candyce started, and then collaborated with Sheryl to improve it. It turned out so strong. I am especially happy that you and Sheryl will start using images from FlickrCC. Fab! I was wondering if you ended up improving the rubric with Bloom's taxonomy? I noticed the verbs were all describe, so I was wondering how that would look different with Bloom's verbs.

I love how the two of you worked together to create something so strong. I'm wondering how you will have them reflect on their learning.

I love how you both worked together to come up with such a strong learning experience for your students. They will get so much out of this because of how deep it goes. I'm wondering how you will have them reflect on their learning when the unit is done.

A lesson for Lynne Cook's freshman English class improved during sessions four and five.

Nicely put together. I love how you are reflecting on how it went this year and added in more ways to integrate tech to enhance the lesson. I wonder if when they vote for the best ones, if you'll have them create the criteria for what makes it "the best"?

I love the real world connections your students will be making and the authentic audience. They are going to love it and learn so much about Thanksgiving! I am wondering how you plan to have the kindergarteners reflect on their learning? I'd love to know so I have a better understanding for how to help Kinder with this.

A lesson plan that incorporates all the Topic 8 geometric terms from enVisions Math using project based learning. The end product is a children's book with real life/world illustrations.

Nicely done! I appreciate how you're having them look for math in the real world. I'm wondering if you've seen Mrs. Yollis' blog post about polygons: http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/polygon-movie.html I'm also wondering if we can connect with an architect or artist as an expert.

Project Based Lesson Plan for 1st and 2nd including a rubric

Lesson Plan focusing on character traits for grade level 3-4

Awesome post by Kathleen Morris!

Several Coaches asked where to look for other blogs, here's a list to start ya off

I will use this list instead of the Microsoft list during our training (Year 1s).

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