Collaborating with our amazing librarian Mary Lawson on #SDGs UN SDG:Learn - We’re working on it! #ACSAbuDhabi #ACSLearns DYK that she has also cataloged at least 180 books in our library with SDG tags?

Magical things happening with NatlSchoolReformFacu Three Levels Text Protocol in Grade 8 to jump off our UN Sustainable Development Group 🇺🇳 #inquiry! #ACSLearns

8th grade readers ACS Abu Dhabi are committing to building understanding in their independent reading! #MakingThinkingVisible #Headlines #ACSLearns

Kicking off our research with some #LeanNotes Thanks TCRWP for the tips! #ACSLearns

Living the Humanities Teachers’ Dream ACS Abu Dhabi! Pre-writing is in full effect as 8th grade Ss comb through #LeanNotes and pull info into graphic organizers. Seriously geeking out on inquiry over here! #ACSLearns

Behind the scenes look at 7th grade theatre scenes. Hilarity! Also learning how some well-placed compliments can make a student’s day from the great Daniel Last! #PLN #ACSLearns

Another busy week in ACS Abu Dhabi Middle School Drama. Puppetry, poetry performances, comedic scenes and our first live parent audience participation in three years! #acsabudhabi #iamacs

Bringing the Energy with Mentor Monday yesterday. It was a treat to have my G8 classes teach and work with our G5 students. We shared the key principles of puppetry and a special Work in Progress showing of our upcoming play. Denis Coates Jess Boerema ACS Abu Dhabi #acsabudhabi

Earlier this week Grade 8 met with Grade 5 to share info writing strategies. Today they came back and shared final products! #BuildingBridges #Collaboration #ACSLearns thanks Amy Mulvihill Denis Coates and the rest of team 5!!

Looking across Scope & Sequence of all 8th grade classes to find areas to connect led us to this broad conceptual understanding. Is 8th grade ACS Abu Dhabi all about relationships? Isn’t #MiddleSchool all about relationships? #ACSLearns

Today’s adventure in education - the #MESAC JV Soccer Tournament! Go Vipers! #ACSLearns

ACS Abu Dhabi MS Drama Students used the Adaptive Schools Focusing Four protocol to decide on which skills in Drama are the most important. These skills will be the major plot driver for scenes to be created next lesson. Thanks for demonstrating the protocol Bridget Doogan

Accident prone! This time he’s been mauled by a polar bear to represent George from #TwoDegrees by Alan Gratz for book character day! ACS Abu Dhabi #ACSLearns

Today NealShusterman gave a writing workshop to the ACS Abu Dhabi 8th graders today! So grateful for our amazing librarian, Mary Lawson! #ACSLearns

When the Minnesota Timberwolves come to ACS Abu Dhabi you know this MN teacher has to get out and meet Wolves Crunch! #NBA #Minnesota #ACSPlays

Laura Silverman and I getting our classes together today to share thinking and do notebook tours at the end of our TCRWP unit on narrative nonfiction! Great sharing and uncovering complexity from this group reading @PhillipHoose. #ACSLearns

All year ACS Abu Dhabi 8th gs incorporated poetry into their Hums learning. During our units on power and identity, they reflected and created their own poems to connect to the complex issues we study. The last week of school, we celebrated that journey! Thx Laura! #ACSLearns