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Girls Who Code: Our First Iteration

Focus on Strengths:

  • Bravery
  • Resilience
  • Creativity
  • Purpose

General Lesson Format:

  • Spotlight
  • Plan/Learn/Build/Celebrate
  • Standups

Spotlight Examples:

Culminating Activity:

Girls Who Code Reflection:

  • What we would keep
    • curriculum
    • project
    • number of participants
    • team
  • What we would change
    • time allocated
    • enrollment
    • planning
  • Plans for 2019-20 school year
    • project type
    • schedule

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Breakout EDU

Why Breakout EDU?

  • Engaging and Active
  • Opportunity for Problem Solving (Critical Thinking and Creativity)
  • Encourages teamwork (Collaboration and Communication)
  • Easily integrate content from any subject area
  • Relatively small initial investment

Breakout EDU reminders

  1. Remember to put everything back how you found it.  The room should look exactly the same when you leave.
  2. Be gentle with all of locks and boxes.  
  3. Each clue opens its own lock.
  4. The numbers need to be in the center of the holes.
  5. The first position is near the line (not the Breakout EDU symbol)
  6. You can ask for up to 2 clues. Entire group needs to agree when they will accept a hint.
  7. Your will be given 35 minutes to complete this puzzle.
  8. Good luck!


Resources:



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Haleakalā to Human Rights

Here are some examples of how nā haumāna and nā kumu are using digital tools at KS Maui Middle School.

Haleakalā:
Kumu Miki Kapisi, 7th grade science teacher, incorporated the design-thinking process into her science curriculum to solve some of the problems facing Haleakalā National Park.

Video of Class Presentation


Human Rights:
Kumu Peggy Kono, 6th grade social studies teacher, wanted to make the concept of human rights more applicable and understand their personal kuleana in preserving these rights.

The Right to Democracy

The Right to Education

Copyright

Food and Shelter for All

The Right to Play

Professional Development:
As a part of leadership visits to New Zealand and Australia, we utilized “old school” VoiceThread to capture reflections about our learning.

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LanSchool

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Maui Ed Tech

Aloha! Most of the technology integration news and tips will now be housed on our Maui EdTech Team blog. Hope to see you there!

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Testing

Let’s see if this works

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Elementary Space Night

Check out the websites that were featured at Space Night!

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KS Blog Instructions Updated

Students download this form to do tonight’s homework.

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Professional Development Article

Please read this article prior to our next class meeting on 2/22.

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Shelfari

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