Elizabeth Ward

8th grade science teacher, wife, & mother. Investing in the future one student at a time.

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Excited for the @AVID4College conference!

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@gcouros @mrs_jburkhart

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@NicholasFerroni “Do you have a pencil sharpener?” In December. Its screwed into the wall.

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Spontaneous meetup at #CAscience18 ! #WeAreMCSD #CSTAgroupie

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Enjoying our first session to make science informational text accessible to all students using infographics. #CAscience18 #NGSS #CANGSS #scienceliteracy #WeAreMCSD

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Feeling like a kid in a candy shop as I try to choose sessions at #CAscience18 ... so many good options! #WeAreMCSD

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@misskerriebaby1 @teacher2teacher Following. 8th grade sci teacher also. Former HS T and it’s very different in MS. Lately, after asking for quiet, I’ve been saying “uh oh”, glancing at clock and every second it takes them to quiet I tally on the board and they owe me after class.

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@WendelStephanie @csufullerton You’ve got so much experience and learning under your belt already, you’re better off doing it now when you’re already a master.

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@ClaireVerti @mreichenser I do this, too.

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Plus- families who arrived later and lacked the time to watch now have a link to our #grid so they can watch the presentation at home.

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#BacktoSchoolNight: Ps watched a video of my presentation (@Screencastify+@Flipgrid) on chrome books. I invited them to post an intro of themselves and their hopes for their child. A few actually did- so #powerful! We are strengthening our #community! #WeAreMCSD

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This worked especially well for families whose primary #language is not English, as I was able to include their language on the slideshow, and they could pause and clarify.

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@JeanLeggett Sounds about right! I can imagine the same conversation in our house, except we’d have pancakes.

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@LSmith811 @MelissaBlakeBio You didn’t witness Fortnite fever last year?!?! Oh gurrrrl! Lol I didn’t think it could get worse, but it has.

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@gcouros

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? Twitter did. #MyTwitterAnniversary

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Just saw an idea to use QFT for student driven Socratic Seminar discussions. I like, I like!

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@MrsWebbGarcia 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 All good things! Might also iterate right turn only out of the H lot.

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@phaneritic 😱😰

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Scott Braden encouraging @MercedCitySD educators to #believe in their students, teach them how to #FailForward, and pursue their dreams. #WeBelieve we are #dreammakers! #WeAreMCSD #TenayaWarriors