Thanks

Thank you for all of the great tips on Friday! I hope I remember to use them in August. :)

JJ

Jeanne Johnston Whatmore

CES 7 Literature and Language Arts

Drama Queen

Yearbook Master

Annual Fun(d) Captain

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ― Anna Quindlen

My Marshmallow Moment

My Lego Robotics class is a lot of fun, but is also a challenge for me.  What it calls for is a lot of time management and logistics.  I'm more of a "just do it" and build kind of person, but with Lego Robotics, it challenges  me to work with the lack of time the lack of kits avaialbe and technical issues to optimize working teams.

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Fred Jaravata

Educational Innovation Coordinator

Convent & Stuart Hall

Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco

marshmallow

Teaching the kids and developing lessons at appropriate levels comes quite naturally. My biggest challenge always centers around grading, and what administration truly thinks, wants, etc.   Also, parents contact me quite often (at both high schools) requesting 1:1 tutoring, and the marshmallow is managing these requests and saying No upon occasion (that's it's ok to say No).  

Linda Gutierrez's Marshmallow

Integrating Cultural projects into curriculum

-time management

-how to integrate into a grammar curriculum

-not taking away time from grammar that I need to teach

-feels like too much of a "break" from the rest

-making a clear rubric ahead of time

SSH Fishman Marshmallow

HI, Ramsey,

With the rush of new technology (partially supported), one big "marshmallow" concern I have for the upcoming year (from the one I just finished) is that, despite the incredible potential for more effective and efficient individualized student-teacher communication about writing skills and performance, there have been all kinds of problems actually making the communication work. It was a year of starts and stumbles (broken vermicelli, fallen marshmallow). Where their work ended up, how they got the feedback I'd offered: so many foul-ups.

my marshmallow - Corinne

I struggle with some teachers over what my role (as EIC) is in their teaching. There are still some who want me to come in and teach the entire lesson, curriculum content and the technology piece. I'm finding it difficult to model this effectively with these few teachers. I have planning meetings with them and have other teachers share best practices. This doesn't seem to be enough.

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Corinne A. Corrigan

Educational Innovation Coordinator

Schools of the Sacred Heart

2222 Broadway

San Francisco, CA 95115

415.292.3134

Lauren Richardson

Mousetrap race car design time and follow through.  Each year, kids do a fair job on this project, and 2 of the 6 years they have done very well. 

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Lauren Richardson

Stuart Hall for Boys

5th Science & 6th Science/Health

2222 Broadway

San Francisco, CA 94115

Lori Saltveit

I struggle teaching Copyright and Fair Use in that students (kids and faculty) find it relevant and useful.

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Lori Saltveit
Educational Innovation Coordinator
Global Partnership and Stewardship Coordinator

Stuart Hall High School
1715 Octavia Street
San Francisco, CA  94109
415 345 5811 office
415 515 4301 mobile
http://www.sacredsf.org/shhs/
Skype:  lori_saltveit

Jeanne's marshmallow

Grammar... every year it seems harder. How can a verb be so hard to find? I want them to understand and use grammar correctly in writing, but I often have split classes. Kids who get it, and kids who literally cannot identify a verb. I haven't had a class that got as far as infinitives, participles and gerunds in about five years. I blame texting.

Jeanne Johnston Whatmore

CES 7 Literature and Language Arts

Drama Queen

Yearbook Master

Annual Fun(d) Captain

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home." ― Anna Quindlen

Mike Buckley

In AP Euro, there's so much to cover, and I feel like my students often don't really understand the English civil war.