Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This professional development is designed to promote a college-going culture (life post-secondary school). College culture is typically thought of as a four-year university, but the term actually also entails other options after high school. As educators, we must prepare our students to think of their... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Productive student conversations are a vital part of deep, flexible understanding of content. During this session, participants will increase their awareness of productive and scaffolded student conversations in the classroom or within a synchronous online learning platform, such as Summit or Odyssey. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
In this lesson, students will develop cladograms and phylogenetic trees to predict manatees' evolutionary relationships to several other mammals. By comparing trees based on morphological characteristics with trees made from protein sequences, students will deepen their understanding of why scientists... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: June 17th, 2022
Using Genomic Data to Evaluate Evolutionary Relationships
Students will read and analyze the short story "The Interlopers." They will determine multiple themes throughout the story, compare character motivation, and evaluate the effects of setting on the story. Using a similar format, students will research a popular “feud” in contemporary culture or history... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Conflict, Motivation, and Setting
In this lesson, students discover how the human mind develops the ability to perform cognitive functions and engage in moral reasoning. First, students establish what they already know about how people learn. Next, students gain a basic understanding of cognitive and moral development by reading two... Read more »
Created by: Tanner Lusher
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
Human Development
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