I aligned math curriculum to common core, revised and aligned social studies curriculum to common core as well. Also, though not official, the amount of time I spent on pinterest this summer looking at ways to incorporate common core into my classroom practices and improve my effectiveness should really be considered PDP! :-)
I volunteered this summer for the Pajama Program in Suffolk County. The Pajama Program provides new books and pajamas to children in need. The volunteers go to Head Start programs and give out the books and pajamas and read to the children. The smiles and gratitude from the children are priceless. It puts everything in [...]
Collaboration with the seniors from High School East and High School West writing children's economic books, resulted in us winning the New York State Teacher of the Year in Social Studies.
I completed course work for six graduate level on-line classes. I also attended professional development regarding the Laptop Program and APPR.
Most Sunday mornings, I’m wedged between our two boys for mass at Our Lady of the Snow in Blue Point. In the intervals between reminding them how to sit at church and mediating whose turn it is to put money in the collection basket this week, I try to listen to the week’s message. Although [...]
This year Sunquam participated in the “Heart of Gold” Project for Pediatric Cancer. A former student from Sunquam Jordan Belous started this Heart of Gold program in the hopes of bringing awareness and having September GO GOLD similar to the support during October’s Pink for Breast Cancer. Jordan was in my second grade class in [...]