I teach diversity, empathy and, most importantly, appreciation to my students through cultural exercises, paintings, discussions, current events and points of view. #ElementsofMe #RISDGreatness

I also created and am collaborating with Oscar Rives on a video to promote cultural understanding of immigrant students. I want to foster an environment of mutual respect and appreciation. Here is the link of what we have so far: youtube.com/watch?v=gK_J8V… #ElementsofMe

Science day in upper level Spanish! Scientific method for experiments in Spanish. #RISDgreatness #CrossCurricular

Students from different countries and cultures come together to have fun at Multicultural Book Club! #RISDCONNECTS #risdgreatness

Best World Languages director ever!!! Thanks, Jessica, for the book and the teacher appreciation gift for all of us! #RisdConnects #RISDGREATNESS

Last meeting of multicultural book club! Info gap activity to illustrate interdependence as a theme of the book.

Last meeting of multicultural book club! Students do an information gap activity to illustrate interdependence. #RISDCONNECTS #RISDGreatness

Thank you, Brandon and #CoppellFireDepartment for the tour and home safety discussion #heartsafecommunity

We model with one example then let the students do the activity with a different topic. This increases rigor. #lovethescholardrivetherigor

#CISDTogetherAtHome Mockingbird Elem @MKB_PE

We continue our celebration on World Teachers Day! We celebrate these Foreign language teachers, Social Studies, Math, and throw in a Law Magnet guy! #TeachersDay2021 Chris Choat Dr. William K. Parker, Jr. #risdpoweroflove

First Spanish Conversation Partner Meeting of the Summer! These students are so dedicated to learn Spanish through collaboration and interaction! #RISDgreatness #RISDBetheOne #RISD #Collaboration #WorldLanguages #Spanish

A2: "It’s hard to foster creativity and innovation when kids are always asked to follow the rules and complete the steps." Juliani, A.J. What IKEA and Our Education System Have in Common (It’s Not a Good Thing), Retrieved from medium.com/the-mission/wh… #R10AdaptEDU

Q1: I teach regular and PreAP Spanish 3. The main differentiation is the grading. The rubrics differ in the points awarded for reaching a certain level. #R10AdaptEDU

Q2: This gives the students ownership and is one of the easiest ways to differentiate. #R10AdaptEDU

Q1: One way mentioned in the activity conver-stations is randomly. The students switch group combinations multiple times in one period. Another article talked about grouping them weekly by Friday pre-test results. #R10AdaptEDU

Q2: Tiering is an effective way to provide information and activities at an appropriate level for students. #R10AdaptEDU

Q3: In the examples of collaboration, students take ownership of their own learning. In tiering, students are met with just enough challenge to keep the information comprehensible, but challenging. #R10AdaptEDU