When I told the colleagues and contributors I used to work with through Science Progress that I was leaving my job to teach, they’d usually assume that I was headed to a science classroom. “I wish,” I’d say, “But I only took one science class in college. I’m not qualified.” I love science, science journalism,… Read more »
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Congratulations to the Class of 2020 (30 Days of Creativity: Day 17)
My 7th graders made it through their first year of middle school. And I am immensely proud of them. So I made this drawing on my new iPad, for which I am most grateful to the Reynolds Family Foundation.
Tomorrow is the Last Day of School (30 Days of Creativity: Day 16)
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Your Dropbox is Almost Full! Teacher Collaboration With Cloud Storage (30 Days of Creativity: Day 12)
Update below Teaching With Cloud Storage So since the very beginning of TFA Summer Institute, the hands-down most important web tool for me as a teacher (aside from email) has been Dropbox. Dropbox is a feature-rich, cross-platform file-syncing service. If you don’t use it to store your lesson plans, collaborate with co-teachers and other colleagues,… Read more »
30 Days of Creativity – Day 8 – Venn Diagram
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30 Days of Creativity – Day 5 – What My Students Need
The TFA DC Region is piloting a new cohort led by the Director of Transformational Teaching. The idea is to have an interdisciplinary group of corps members work with the Teacher Support and Development Team to design new models for sharing resources and improving effectiveness for 2nd-year teachers. I’ll be honest: four months ago, I… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I currently teach 7th-grade English / Reading / Language Arts at a turnaround school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year, my classroom is piloting a 1:1 iPad program designed to accelerate middle-school literary. I write about education technology here at appratt.com and at the EdTech 101 blog on . I'm a 2010 Teach For America corps member, and before that I was the managing editor at , the science and tech policy magazine at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.