Devan Stone

A mom to my sweet Brody boy, wife to Jonathan and teacher to the most awesome kids ever! I love life:-).

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Loretta Lynn was a true highlight to sessions. What an amazing actress and singer portraying her. @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I was grateful for the session on KTRS today. It was so informative for we teachers. I needed to see the information. Thank you KEDC for thinking of that! @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Storytelling in Kentucky was one of my favorites from this week! I cried three times! I can’t wait to do this with my 8th grade ELA students this year. @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I had not heard of William Wells Brown until yesterday. I plan to read his autobiography this summer. I’d love to have him come perform for my students. @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Mary Todd Lincoln was so good I felt I had gone back in time and was really at the White House talking with her. She brought me to tears! @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

This KEDC conference has been off the charts this year! I’ve learned so many new strategies and projects to do with my students. The gears in my head are spinning! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead @KEDC1

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

If you’re a teacher and haven’t tried out Diffit….you are missing out! It offers so many wonderful options to add to your lessons! @KEDC1 @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I LOVE starting off our morning with games from THE Jim Caldwell!!!! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead @jimcaldwellwx

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I enjoyed learning strategies to use in order to prepare my students to have difficult conversations on ‘prickly’ topics. This will help me so much as I plan for next year. @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

The KEDC conference kicked off today and it did not disappoint! I loved the session on rotations and using resources from the Smithsonian and local historical societies. Look at these 3D printed Abe Lincoln hands! They’re huge!
@KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I had my students use the Four Quadrants strategy today. They loved it and it went well! It’s such an engaging, fun, effective strategy! This will be on repeat! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead @s3strategies

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Heidi Boles delivered another awesome session on s3strategies. I’m so excited, I’m doing the four quadrant tomorrow because it fits with what I already had planned! Pics coming soon of my history detectives! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead @s3strategies

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Heidi Boles did a session with us today on S3 Strategies and I cannot wait to use them in my class. I’m most excited about historical mystery. It’s such a great strategy for inquiry that will get their wheels turning! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead @s3strategies

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I appreciate Jeff Davis for his session on structured academic controversy. I love the structure he shared and how we can choose and create our own prompt. My students will really love the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ sides and hashing it out. @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Update on Diffit…I’m so thankful for the paid membership I have. It has really helped me in planning multimodal stations in my classroom. @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I had no idea 60 second Civics podcast playlists existed! I’ve been going through them and making a list of those I’m using in class. These will be great for bell ringers, to spark class discussions, etc. @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I love the ESCAPE framework to help students examine the reliability of media sources. I have been working on jigsaw activities for my students to use this in my next unit! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I have really been scouring for primary sources to use with my students. Jeff Davis really gave such great ideas on how to use them! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

I absolutely love ❤️ using virtual field trips and this morning I was blessed to go to a session where I learned so many more ideas for using them in my classroom! Bring it on! We are going to travel all over the world 🌍! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead

[Devan Stone @devandaisy]

Notebook LM was the Google tool I didn’t know I needed…..until today! I have already been working in it to create a notebook for my medieval Japan unit. Goodness gracious, it’s maybe the best thing since sliced bread!!! @KEDCGrants @passport2lead