How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama link.medium.com/LTtHIjdPZ6

✌️❤️ 📚 🤔 🏃🏽‍♀️ Reading books allows us to think more deeply or differently about the 🌎 around us & beyond, & then have conversations w/others & to take ACTION to make our 🌎the way it should be. Thanks Pernille Ripp for sharing these titles to share w/our Ss.

I ❤️that my daughter, Ella, 💕s 📚! Whether walking or relaxing (w/dirty feet) Ella wants to read. She also has access to quality 📚 in a variety of genres & formats. ALL KIDS NEED ACCESS TO QUALITY 📚BOOKS. I’m still trying to figure out HOW to do this for ALL Ss during COVID.

I’m reading The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler for our last 📖 talk w/ Jackie Noland, I came across this Tweet showing how this gap will continue to widen. ALL Ss NEED ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE of the 🌎 to EQUIP & EMPOWER them 2 be LEADERS, INNOVATORS, & CREATORS in our democratic society.

We’re always looking out for the safety and well-being of our students. -Dr. Quentin J. Lee

Practical tips to make student voice the cornerstone of your online classes — EducationHQ educationhq.com/news/practical…

Zoom 📖 clubs showed 🌱 growth! We had a few 🐶s join us from 🏡. One club raised the roof when they read passage revealing resolution! Ivan says, “From 🌳, I can 👀 She’s belly deep in tall grass w/others.She’s here, Stella. Ruby’s safe. Just like I promised.”Brown Elementary

HTE is inspired during the Flip Live Event- author, Jason Reynolds, shared about his writing process, how discovering your strength & joy can come by helping others. His latest 📕, Stuntboy’s super power is empowering others 2 shine. Flip Hilliard Schools #hcsdinnovate

The 2023 March Book Madness books are here. Let’s have another great tournament! #2023MBM marchbookmadness.weebly.com

Coding allows Ss to go past just knowing how to use technology. It lets them create & invent new ways of thinking & designing as well as engaging & fun. Ss code a friend to build a sandcastle, a life cycle of a pumpkin, color coding Ozobots, & block coding w/Osmos. #hcsinnovate

🍁Scholastic 📚Book Fair Browsing today and tomorrow! Students are all 😊smiles as they create Wish Lists that are also Next Reads Lists! Our goal is to grow our 🧠brains and fill our 💜 hearts. Hoffman Trails Elem Scholastic scholastic.com/bf/hoffmantrai…

Ss Hoffman Trails Elem love discovering & learning to grow micro-greens for our box turtles & ourselves. HEF Hydroponics Grant allows us to experience growing plants in an innovative way. Our STEM Grant will allow Ss to extend this to hydroponics.#hcsdinnovate

4th grade Ss Hoffman Trails Elem were engaged as Dr, Rachel Kajfez, shared about the Toy Adaptation Program at The Ohio State University. Play is how every child learns. Toys are adapted by adding circuits & switches. Ss will use design thinking to adapt toys for Ss. #hcsdinnovate

1st grade Ss are growing as coders with Matatalab Coding. They used teamwork as they coded their bot- debugging along the way. Since it’s new, there are Tweets so they wrote scripts on How to Code w/Matatalab & created Clip videos to teach others. #hcsdinnovate #ReadyforTomorrow

IDC smiles Hoffman Trails Elem as Ss practice Aloha Aina, “love for the land” by reusing milk cartons & planting vegetables that will be planted at The Hilliard Food Pantry, our school garden, or family gardens. Each week they will document growth. #ReadyforTomorrow #hcsdinnovate

Kindergarten Ss are empowered as they make learning visible by creating Nonfiction Book Snaps w/their iPads. Ss ask questions & use text features in nonfiction books to discover answers, take pictures, & then use editing tools. #ReadyForTomorrow #hcsdinnovate Hoffman Trails Elem

Students, also known as ornithologists, scientists who study birds, observed our duck moving in its shell. This is called candling. The yolk provides energy to grow. The duck will use its beak to “pip” through the air cell (white portion of egg). #hcsdinnovate #ReadyForTomorrow

A 1st grade student reads Piggie & Gerald to our ducklings that hatched in the IDC. The other students made observations using iPads, while classes watched the YouTube Livestream. Tech integration opens possibilities to experiential learning! #hcsdinnovate #ReadyForTomorrow

Our rescued ducklings have hatched! Students are inspired to chart their growth, use design thinking to create play systems, and make thinking visible with our collaborative duckling mural. #hcsdinnovate #ReadyForTomorrow

Have you signed up for the ☀️ Summer Reading Challenge Columbus Library ?! Mrs. Cook and your Hoffman Trails Elem friends have! We love the amazing books and fun programs for everyone in the family! You can sign up for a free library card!📚❤️ #hcsdinnovate #ReadyForTomorrow