Thank you San Diego Music Foundation for the Baby Taylor’s guitar grant!!! We are thrilled to jam and learn guitar skills, as music is infused into all our learning. Hooray for big thinkers and generous companies! Kids deserve all the great music! 🎸

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth2024 & #spring, grade 1/2 Ss read about famous artist/designer #yayoikusama ! We painted flowers inspired by her work w/ a #cinquainpoem to honor the new season! Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning

#WomensHistoryMonth2024 continues w/#Georgiaokeeffe fierce flowers + brainstorm sesh of fierce words to describe themselves and Connect Academy PUSD. Our words + MagicSchool AI 💜 🪄✨ led to this song to the tune of happy birthday! Poway Unified #independentstudy #weareconnectacademy #ai

Whole body learning = everybody thinking & adding their voice. I wish I’d had school like this growing up. Here students have read 3 sources, highlighted the most interesting parts, & are adding the most important to our collaboration board. Now to write!

🌈🌉Today grades 1/2 used Brooke Brown #rainbowarch stem project to continue celebrating #spring and #stpatricksday ! We learned the necessities bridges need like piers, deck, and arch to hold our #potofgold ! Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified #powayunified #weareconnectacademy

LOVING this grades 2/3 collab! #georgiaokeeffe ‘s life influenced us as we brainstormed words to describe fierce @connect_academy_pusd learners, used MagicSchool AI 💜 🪄✨ to create a song, and, today, our first spring collaboration is here!!! K. Elaine Rogers, M. Ed Poway Unified Connect Academy PUSD

Spread out & taking up our space! Standing, chairs, stools, cushions, lap desks, supplies available, outdoors, collab space, just space. Water project including a contest for City of Poway w multiage classes across 2 campuses. Can’t wait for the educational art install kids plan!

Studying neurodiversity to create our dream math classes. Students are using Canva to design a flyer for a class that works for all brains including compelling title, detailed description & completed math problem. Can’t wait to be part of their math class when they launch it!

Grade 6 is shining bright by growing crystals and understanding the structure of minerals! #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning #pusd #powayunified #powayunifiedschooldistrict @powayunified Stephanie Shabsin

☀️ Life is s’more fun with a solar oven! Checkout Grade 7’s collaboration! The s’more, the better! #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning #pusd #powayunified #powayunifiedschooldistrict @powayunified #solaroven #solarovens #smores #smoresolaroven Janice Teixeira

Light Lab was epic for 3-5th! @shannonnellies created a dark room to discover how light travels, bends, combines to make white light, refracts, & reflects. Light is a primary tool for perceiving the world & communicating within it. Hands-on, real life learning engages & connects.

Once you fall in love and get the pleasure of relationship with a student with Down Syndrome…you just don’t know. When you know, you are changed FOREVER!!! Neurodiversity makes us all come together whole. ❤️

We are thrilled to announce that we received a #3dprinter for becoming Common Sense Education recognized! This program provides a road map for creating a positive culture of digital learning! Thank you Poway Unified Technology & Innovation 👏🏽 Poway Unified #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #powayunified

Harvesting hydroponics! Tanks use 10x less water than our garden, use less space so we grow them indoors, & food grows 2x as fast. Organic types of lettuce washed & cut up for large multi-class salad w leftovers for teachers to take home.🔥 ❤️ and eat 🌱’s.

Check out how these tech-savvy💻elementary & middle school digital citizens Connect Academy PUSD are leading the way with digital communities🗣️ and learning with #AI 🤖 #pusdinnovate #digitalcitizenship

Trimester 2️⃣= opinion ✍️, learning about the past, measurement & +/- double & triple digits. Through Canva mini lessons, learners took a basic Template and personalized them! BRAVO!👏🏽Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified Poway Unified Technology & Innovation #hybridlearning #independentstudy #pusd #powayunified

Wacky Animals 3 ways- ✏️,Microsoft Copilot prompts to make an AI version & Tinkercad 3D version. This project has given learners a voice w/ adjectives & creativity! But this isn’t the end project…more to come in about a week! Connect Academy PUSD #powayunified #powayunifiedschooldistrict

Yesterday we got the opportunity to share about middle school at PowayCTE expo with the help of two current learners! Want to know more about our program? Please checkout our 🔗 in our bio! #powayunified #pusd #independentstudy Poway Unified Poway Unified Technology & Innovation Stephanie Shabsin

Class dismissed! 🌴 🍎! Ms. Teixeira is retiring and trading in her lesson plans for sand and waves. Here’s to the next chapter at the beach! Congratulations on 2️⃣7️⃣ amazing years! 🎉Poway Unified and Connect Academy PUSD were so lucky to have you Janice Teixeira 🎉

It’s been an honor to serve wonderful families the last 3 yrs & it’s been a privilege to witness your children grow. While we’re devastated to see Connect Elementary close, we can’t wait to see how grades 6-8 blossom. W/ ❤️ & respect, The Connect Academy Team Poway Unified