After reading Linked by Gordon Korman, my 5th grade AE reading students are creating a podcast in the style of Reel Tok. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #engagement #motivation #collaboration #theme

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at #IETC25. Come learn about using @bookcreator.com across the curriculum. #EduSky #EduSkyIL ##collaboration #engagement #writeridentity

Thank you to the session attendees and the conference organizers. Thoroughly enjoyed attending and presenting research at this year's #MWERA2025 conference in Milwaukee. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #multimodalliteracies #multiliteracies

Students write, rehearse, film, and edit book commercials for their fifth-grade blog. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #reading #writing #collaboration #engagement

Looking forward to presenting/speaking at this year's Mid-Western Educational Research Association conference regarding using multimodal literacies in an elementary writer's workshop. #EduSky #EduSkyIL ##collaboration #engagement
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Great day in costume today! 5th grade AE math students finish 3D volume projects while 4th grade used @blooketofficial.bsky.social to review previously learned concepts. In reading, both AE grade levels used @bookcreator.com to write & read Halloween-themed books using vocabulary. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

What a great evening listening to @alangratz.bsky.social speak about his books. We use Refugee each year in class, and my students love his books. His latest book, War Games, is another brilliantly told story. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

This was a great way to start the school week--author visit from @lindsayncurrie.bsky.social. Students loved it! And her new book, X Marks the Haunt, is fantastic! #EduSky #EduSkyIL

Wrapping up another great week of 4th grade reading. Today, students used context clues, roots, and affixes to solve the locks and @breakoutedu.com. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

5th grade Acceleration and Enrichment students play original math board games they created to review previously learned concepts.

5th grade Acceleration and Enrichment students play the math board games they created at the end of last year to review the year's previously learned concepts. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

I am halfway through Busted, a new novel by Dan Gemeinhart, and I am absolutely loving it! Thank you @netgalley.bsky.social and Jordin Streeter, at McMillan Children's Publishing Group. This is a fantastic MG read! This is such a great teacher read aloud! #EduSky #EduSkyIL

4th-grade AE reading students end the first week of school with a @blooketofficial.bsky.social to review figurative language. ##EduSky #EduSkyIL

5th-grade AE math students take an idea from Rob Buyea's book, Because of Mr. Terupt, and count/estimate the blades of grass on the soccer field. ##EduSky #EduSkyIL

My AE students love @breakoutedu.com! I use it day one of school. I tell the class that I "accidentally" locked the seating chart inside. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #collaboration #engagement #problemsolving

Wrapping up the school year, and now it's time for a little camping to relax and unwind. Wishing all teachers some much needed downtime with family, friends, and pets. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

And that is a wrap on my 18th year of teaching. So many great memories of students collaborating, laughing, and learning. To my 5th grade AE students, I wish you well in middle school. And to my 4th grade AE students, next year will be even better.
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Final day with my 4th grade AE math students. They spent it playing their math board games. Highly engaging fun! Great review of the year. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

4th grade makes progress on their original math board games, while 5th grade presents their million dollar projects. Paying for a home, vehicle, college, vacation, and charitable contribution adds up fast, folks! #EduSkyIL #EduSky #engagement

With a week left in the school year, 4th grade AE math students create original board games and generate questions covering the year's worth of concepts learned. Engaging, creative way to wrap up the school year. Also, plan to play them at the start of next school year as a review. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

Fifth-grade AE math students wrap up the week with a little fun with Hands-on Equations. ##EduSky #EduSkyIL #collaboration

Much appreciation to the students, teachers, staff, & community of Heartland Elementary for their contributions to our @unicef.org fundraiser. We raised $1,338.10 for children. It began with 5th grade AE reading students reading Refugee by @alangratz.bsky.social. Empathy & action. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

5th grade AE math students work on scaling down elements of the classroom and other buildings using Balsa wood. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

We are all set for our final math activity of the week for 5th grade, @breakoutedu.com. Sure, students will get a week off for spring break, but first, they must break out of math class! #EduSky #EduSkyIL #collaboration #engagement

Dyett hunger strikers celebrate five-year anniversary, then join eviction court occupation Activists celebrated the five-year anniversary of their 34-day hunger strike to save Dyett High School Monday morning, gathering outside the school in Washington Park.

“The lesson of Dyett, is what the microcosm of what the movement for justice around the country needs to look like It was a Black-led fight led by the people directly impacted but supported with honest, humility and courage by people around the city.” #eduskyil

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Another fabulous webinar from #Academica featuring #DrHailiHughes & #DrCarlHendrick. Takeaway? Differentiation is not Scaffolding. EVERYONE can achieve w the right levels of support. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching

Over the past few years, my 5th grade AE math students have done a terrific job scaling down elements of the classroom. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

Do you have your copy of Blake Harvard’s new book? It certainly got my attention! It’s fantastic! #EduSky #EduSkyIL #PowerfulClassrooms #PowerfulTeaching

Working on a scaling project in 5th grade AE math, students asked to "build the building from Adventures in Babysitting." Other projects include Chichen Itza and the John Hancock building. #Balsawood #EduSky #EduSkyIL

Happy Valentine's Day from 5th grade! Students collaborate on Valentine's - themed logic puzzles and brain teasers. #EduSky #EduSkyIL

4th grade AE math students explore converting measurements by measuring various distances around the school in meters, centimeters, and millimeters. #EduSky #EduSkyIL #collaboration