Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This interactive inquiry-based lesson focuses on how our mindset impacts how we engage and approach different situations throughout life. Students will reflect on their own mindset and current beliefs that affect growth and fixed mindset. Students will develop a plan to foster a growth mindset. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Growth Mindset
The Accepted! College Ready initiative is a program that takes students, their families, and core high school staff members to a college campus to which the student applied and was accepted. This event will provide the students and their caregivers with a focused opportunity to explore the campus as... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 7th, 2025
This brief examines the Freshmen Success (FS) intervention model's impact on ninth-grade student engagement, attendance, credits earned, and GPA. The study found significant improvements in motivation, engagement, attendance, and credits earned, but no significant effect on GPA. Read more »
This multiple-day collaborative group lesson uses dice to explore the probability of simple events similar to those in the book "Jumanji" by Chris Van Allsburg. Students will examine sample space, theoretical probability, and experimental probability and make predictions using outcomes of probability.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 4th, 2025
Probability
The authentic teaching of academic vocabulary encompasses many components, such as incorporating students' prior knowledge, using engaging strategies, and promoting student ownership and understanding. In this session, participants will explore and evaluate strategies that increase the authentic teaching... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
In this session, students will learn the importance of the FAFSA and important information about filling out the FAFSA. Students will brainstorm ways to pay for college. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
Students explore the top 10 benefits of continuing their education after high school through an interactive overview. Students are given a brief introduction into the seven year GEAR UP grant and take a class photo. Students also participate in student stations that include: a note to their future... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
This session is designed to engage teachers in using researched-based strategies to explore ACT data and identify specific skills that can be implemented in daily instruction. The goal of this session is to raise ACT scores by targeting skills within a composite score range provided by available ACT... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 19th, 2022
This workshop prepares student for the ACT test by utilizing several K20 Instructional Strategies. The workshop is designed to be an after-school program lasting for seven weeks and including one 2-hour session each week. Sessions will be broken up into reading/ELA and science/math. This resource provides... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 23rd, 2025
The Mindset Makeover PD focuses on increasing teacher knowledge about growth mindset and how it can be fostered in their classrooms. Through this interactive session, participants will review research on growth mindset and develop their own goals for applying the research to classroom practices. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 8th, 2025
