Earth, Environmental, Bio Teacher @SaratogaSpringsHS, Knowles Fellow. Adventurer. She/her.
Joined September 2016
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4 Jan 2023
That time your group challenge felt a little too topical to the unit you’re on. Whoops. 😂 #savesam #reproductionunit
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5 Dec 2022
Forgot rule number 1 of teaching. You cannot leave rubber bands unattended at the table.
23 Nov 2022
Ss created their initial models of what is causing leukemia symptoms. Inspired by last week’s book club mtg on @AmbScienceTeach
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3 Nov 2022
Whiteboard art discovered in my room. “It’s about a demon trying to do a little hood in this place called hell”
17 Oct 2022
Maintaining Homer-o-stasis. Now with more systems modeling thinking! #homerostasis #ngssified #systemsthinking #modeling
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12 Oct 2022
Creating models to make sense of gas exchange in the body AND THEN students used each other’s models to help them explain what’s happening at different scales.
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6 Oct 2022
Unanimous consent for the win. Missing the brilliant ideas from Gaming PLT this year. But super grateful for all the games that continue to help me build community and model science phenomena in my classroom.
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30 Sep 2022
Love my classes so much this year that I rapped Bodacious P’s* 2015 hit “Baby Got Graph” for them.
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30 Sep 2022
Bodacious P being the artist formerly known as MsPienta. Thank you block 3.
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29 Sep 2022
Loved this class’s creativity! Used the variety to start conversations about what makes a good model. #teach180 #thermoregulation #nyssls #systemmodels
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9 Sep 2022
A student came back to class after dismissal to invite another student to sit with her and her friends. My daughter said it best. “My heart hurts because there’s joy in it and it’s hitting me inside there”
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30 Aug 2022
Got about 45 minutes worth of work done in 2.5 hours. At least they didn’t accidentally dump the pushpin container. 🤦🏼♀️. #teacherprep
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15 Jun 2022
Students stayed strong until the end with some fierce Taboo battles. This year was hard. But these students were phenomenal.
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7 Jun 2022
My students were off their phones for the entire block during the last week of classes! All it took was hours of planning and set up!
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3 May 2022
Lesson planning and the penguin live cam came up in recommended videos. Productivity just plummeted.
14 Apr 2022
I highly encouraged haikus during our outside observation time. They did NOT disappoint. #NationalPoetryMonth
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