I had the privilege of presenting with Kelly Van Meter and Lesley Ryan at the NSTA STEM Forum in Minneapolis this last week.The session was well attended and well received and we ran into multiple people afterwards who let us know how much they had enjoyed it. We spent a lot of time during the days that we spent in Minneapolis discussing our next steps now that we have a firm foundation for a STEM initiative on our campus. Please take the time to read Lesley's blog post linked below for a great commentary on some of the things that we discussed. Below are our both session description and links to our resources. Enjoy!

Click here to see our presentation. 

Click here to see our intro video. 

Click here to see our Thinglink of resources for our sessin. 

Click here to see Lesley Ryan's Blog Post on the event. 

We were fortunate enough to once again have visiting educators from around the state on our campus this May. Folks who attend the iLeap Academy are here because they have just launched an iPad initiative or are considering doing so. They spend 3 days in Austin, most of which are in a classroom setting led by Carl Hooker, Tim Yenca and Lisa Johnson. For 2 hours each day, attendees visit campuses across the district where they get a chance to see iPad integration in action. Here is the schedule we followed:

Our visitors saw a wide variety of activities. In Elisse Newey's room, we observed the 4th Graders making Stop Motion Videos. In Maci Shannon's room we saw a variety of apps being used for Formative Assessment: including Plickers, Nearpod, and Notability. We spent awhile Monday in Carin Champion's Kinder class visiting with students about projects that they had created with their iPads this year. On Tuesday, we talked to Mary Ann Simmons's students about the work they were doing in Google Classroom. Wednesday Second Graders let us observe and ask questions about a Mother's Day project they were doing using one of the following apps: Pages, Popplet, or Book Creator. 

As I told Tim afterwards, the highlight of these visits for me is that the amazing teachers on our campus have a chance to shine and shine they do! I couldn't have been prouder of and more grateful to the 5 teachers that opened up their classrooms to us.