wife • mama • teacher

Tampa, FL
Joined January 2010
Students actively engaged in the 25k Pyramid Activity! 🥳 We’ve used this strategy to review previously taught concepts and prior to a CMA! @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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FUN learning activity after FAST Writing! Academic Language / Vocab Art 🤩 Students picked their word(s) from a bucket, drew their word, then participated in a gallery walk to observe and determine their classmates’ words! @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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Students enjoyed climate PPTs so much, they asked to make them for our environments unit! We included animals (and their classifications 😉), plants found in environemnt, and related the environments to previously taught units! @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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Summed up our climate unit with PPT presentations - collectively, students created their own rubric based on EQs + the standards! Students provided each other with sticky notes containing 1 thing they learned from the presentation! @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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Students at @HCPSGorrieEL activate their brains each day with focused review standards—strengthening skills & refining their thinking for lasting mastery. Plus, who doesn’t love earning “Love Jar” tickets along the way? 🧠✨ 🩷 @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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I truly work for the best department in HCPS! 🥹 Thank you to the Science Department for always making us (teachers AND students) feel valued! @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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Wrapped up U13, Our Solar System, earlier this week … and I can’t bring myself to take down students’ 2D/3D models! 🪐🧑🏼‍🚀 Students are really enjoying our Earth Science units! @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL
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wrapped up our physical change experiments prior to fall break - excited to give students a brain break after testing with our chemical change experiment! @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience
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sad to take down our unit 7 and unit 8 science walls, but excited for how units 9 and 10 are coming along 😍👩🏻‍🔬@WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience
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Celebrated our grade level Science Olympics winners on the morning show (Friday) + surprised them with a @WeAreHAEST tshirt! THEN, today, we celebrated our 1st + 2nd Grade Winners for winning their district heats on Saturday. @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL
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One of my teaching goals for ‘25-‘26 was to utilize mini rubrics for student responses (instead of hand written sticky notes 😜) - proud to say, so far so good … they’re even color coded! 👀 check out that VE modification for written responses! @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience
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THANK YOU @WeAreHAEST! 🤩 Very excited to conduct this investigation! @HCPSElemScience
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Started collecting QUANTITATIVE / MEASURABLE data on our LTI Grow Creatures! Students enjoyed using tools to collect their data and share with their class! @HCPSGorrieEL @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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LATE POST: Wrapped up Unit 0 + Unit 1 Process Skills … two weeks ago 🤭! Students enjoyed mini investigations to set the stage for the rest of the year! @HCPSGorrieEL @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience
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Thank you, Martial Arts Advantage, for training @HCPSGorrieEL faculty in self defense techniques! @HCPSEmployeeBen
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taking a quick second to brag on my M/S partner, Mrs. Beatty, absolutely rocking her science wall 🔭 @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL
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safe to say our 🏆scholar bowl, 🔐 escape rooms, and 🔭 review stations ensured our students’ success on FSSA • extremely proud of our kiddos and all their hard work! @HCPSGorrieEL @HCPSElemScience @WeAreHAEST
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swapped our human body visual with the beginning of animal adaptations (camouflage)! @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL
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I get to represent the school that I attended as a student! Full circle. ❤️ #TeacherOfTheYear 🐾
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took down our “out of this world” unit wall, but excited to build our next interactive wall #watercycle #weather @WeAreHAEST @HCPSElemScience @HCPSGorrieEL
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