Hello and Welcome to 4STEMsake!
We are thrilled to be working together to create this blog. The idea all started on a road trip down I-75. Janice, Bridgette, Laura, and myself (Kaycee) were riding together to attend #MACUL17. MACUL is amazing and we were all copresenting in some form over the next few days. That car ride was full of presentation prep as well as sharing new ideas.
Bridgette, Laura, and I were all working together at the Swan Valley School District. Bridgette (2nd Grade) and Laura (5th Grade) were teachers at Shields Elementary and I was the K-12 technology integration coach. Bridgette and Laura are completely innovative teachers. They were two teachers I know that I could always get to try something new. They trusted me, as their learning coach, that I would offer them useful and relevant ideas and they built upon those ideas, taking them far beyond my expectations. Each has inspired me in their own way, both to look at teaching and learning through a different lens, as well as to take more risks and jump in without looking back.
Janice was working at Freeland Community Schools as their technology integration coach (Freeland and Swan Valley are neighboring schools). Janice and I had been working and collaborating with each other all year as we were the sole technology coaches for each respective district. We had co-submitted a presentation for MACUL and would be presenting on behalf of the REMC Association. I have great respect for Janice. She is not afraid to tackle a problem head on and dive in. She is my go-to person to talk ideas through with as she views things from a different perspective than I do. She encourages me to try my ideas, no matter how off the wall they may sound, she helps me identify potential problems and work to find solutions. She is a wonderful technology coach and has done amazing things within the classrooms she works.
Anyway, Janice and I each were already running our own district centered blogs, which you can find here and here. We were looking join together and create something bigger. On the car ride to Detroit that March we all jumped in and started brainstorming ideas that set this in motion. By combining our knowledge and resources we hope to be able to share more ideas and learn more in the process. We look forward to bringing weekly posts to our audience that inspire and motivate others to do great things in their classrooms.
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