Target 1. Student-Centered Learning: FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step: Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. Indicator of Success: Students and staff will create personalized learning networks to communicate and collaborate with … Continue reading A Focus on Fractions in FES Fifth Grade
Award-Winning Author Comes to GEMS
Target 1 –Student-Centered Learning: FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step: Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff. Indicator of Success: Students and staff will create personalized learning networks to communicate and collaborate with … Continue reading Award-Winning Author Comes to GEMS
BFA Celebrates Pi Night!
BFA recently hosted the first-ever Pi Night - a good reason to bring together families from the elementary for some fun math-related activities on a wintry Friday night. A variety of board games, card games, dice games, jigsaw puzzles, tangram puzzles, logic puzzles, and group games encouraged students and parents to play together! Special highlights included: … Continue reading BFA Celebrates Pi Night!
GEMS Students Apply Common Core Concepts in Mock Trial
Target 1 – Student-Centered Learning. FWSU students will engage in personalize learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step - Highlight, create and model innovative learning opportunities that promote collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creativity for students and staff Indicator of Success - Students and staff will apply existing knowledge to create original works as a means of personal or group … Continue reading GEMS Students Apply Common Core Concepts in Mock Trial
Surviving the Winter – Preschool Style
How do you keep little people happy when it is -20 degrees? Bring the snow inside to them - and let them play! Watch as they discover what interests them most, and then develop your lesson. Last week in the Fletcher Preschool, the hot topic was the COLD - COLD snow, COLD fingers, and COLD … Continue reading Surviving the Winter – Preschool Style
BFA Students Participate in VPR’s “Dorothy’s List” Series
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students. Indicator of Success - Students and staff will participate in a global dialogue to engage in authentic investigation and problem solving with partners located outside of their school community. Each school … Continue reading BFA Students Participate in VPR’s “Dorothy’s List” Series
Newsflash: Students Chat Live with Reporters from Indianapolis Star
Target 1. Student-Centered Learning – FWSU students will engage in personalized learning involving collaborative inquiry, problem solving and creative learning opportunities. Action Step – Increase easily accessible opportunities for global collaboration for teachers and students. Indicator of Success - Students and staff will participate in a global dialogue to engage in authentic investigation and problem solving with partners located outside of their school community. A small … Continue reading Newsflash: Students Chat Live with Reporters from Indianapolis Star
FES Develops Kindergarten Authors
Kindergarten Teacher Jennifer Blackman has been using a Writer's Workshop approach in her classroom. The great thing about this approach is that students choose their own topics, write about subjects they are excited about, and are able to spend time finishing or continuing their projects for as long as they want. We have student-authored books about fire safety, … Continue reading FES Develops Kindergarten Authors
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