Professional Development & Lesson Portfolio

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Instructional technology Repository

Visit my repository of instructional technology trainings and materials here. All training sessions have been executed in front of a live audience of teacher, parents, administration, or students.

Government Lesson Sample

Eleanor Roosevelt & Human Rights
In this unit students research the life and accomplishments of Eleanor Roosevelt as a reporter while contemplating the larger topic of Human Rights.

Literacy Lesson Sample

Nighttime Ninja : Creative Writing 
Learning word choice &  the difference between quality over quantity, this mini lesson unit series is interwoven in the students writing workshop. 

Social Studies Lesson Sample

Indus Valley Civilization & Trade
Studying trade in the Indus Valley, students become traders themselves in this social studies & literacy integrated unit. 

Science Lesson Sample

Mr. Bones : The Human Skeleton 
Students explore their own skeleton and participate in targeted games to help them remember which bone goes where. 
“What is the meaning of life? That was all, a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one"
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― Virginia Woolf