Blue Ribbon Institute

Would you like to breathe new life into your students’ day? Renew your classroom with energizing techniques that will motivate your students and increase their engagement. In addition to classroom management strategies, you will have the opportunity to learn about innovative activities, projects and classroom writing that stimulate the student while fulfilling Common Core standards. Teachers who are exploring ideas for incorporating writing into the curriculum will benefit from shared strategies and assignments.

This presentation is designed to help middle school Social Studies teachers learn to create lessons that incorporate the new standards for literacy described in the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework. Lesson samples will be shared from both grade 6 and 8 to give a range of complexity, and ability levels. Suggested audience: grades 5-9 Social Studies teachers.

You are cordially invited to join the Barrows 4th Grade Team for an “app”etizing hour of iPad sharing.
Who: Anyone who is currently using or interested in integrating iPads into their classroom.
What: Serving up a menu of useful apps that we have used in our classrooms.
What can you bring? Novices, just yourselves. Experienced users, BYOD and an “app”etizing app to share.
We promise you will have a sparkling time!