During a conversation last month with a HS student I know, I asked if he was using the CFF laptops at school. He said, "I don't have a choice. In Math, we're using them to teach each other!" Of course, I had to follow up on this. So, I checked in with the Coach at Council Rock School District, Suzanne Loftus. Suzanne told me that she indeed had seen the kids doing just that. She put me in contact with Paul Pasko, a teacher of 10th grade Accelerated and Honors Geometry. This is Paul's
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Dear CFF Coaches, WOW! What amazing Classrooms for the Future Coach Boot Camps! Thank you so much for making them such a positive experience. We were very pleased overall with the success of the boot camps, although we know there were some glitches at each site. Your enthusiasm and passion for CFF and your role as coaches made them so successful.
It was a unique boot camp with the four sites and we were glad you could be a part of it. The intent was to offer an optimum-sized professional development event at
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Jason Zippay, CFF Coach, and Anne Marie Layhue, PAHSCHI* Coach, share a goal-to support high school teachers. Each provides on-site, on-going, professional development focused on providing teachers strategies and skills to enhance instruction. While Jason and Anne Marie are involved in different high school reform projects, the eMBEDDED Learning courses enable a cross-project collaboration! Jason again will facilitate the Teaching in the 21st Century-The Need for Change course and Ann Marie, a PA certified Math tea
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I started the new year by checking in with the CFF teachers at Southern Columbia to outline goals and ideas for their second year in CFF. One teacher, Mike Johnston, who teaches 10th grade English, gave me an exciting task. He wanted to use his webcam to connect with another classroom. There weren't any real details because we didn't know if there was a compatible class out there. We decided to set up the collaboration first and fill in the conten
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Hatboro-Horsham Part II Adina Thomas, 9th Grade Co-Teacher, English, & Meredith Kane-Sobol, CFF Coach
In the last Coach UPDATE, you read about Sean DeLuca at Hatboro-Horsham. In this issue, the spotlight is on Sean's veteran co-teacher - Adina Thomas. Adina is with the same students for the entire year; however, she co-teaches with two different teachers. In the first semester, she co-taught in a non-CFF, traditional classroom. In this second semester, she is in a CFF classroom. She has seen these kids in both environments; Adina has a unique perspective on CFF.
