Author Archives: Niya Johnson

Digital Storytelling

Deborah A. Watson, Visual Art, Hopewell High School

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Multiculturalism Through a Child’s Eyes

Danielle Gregory, Fifth Grade, Albemarle Road Elementary School

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Visual Storytelling & Cinderella

Angela Boyce-Thornton, Literacy, Ashley Park PreK-8 School

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Around the World in 20 Days: Virtual Flights and Explorations through Children’s Literature

Tiffany Craig, Special Education, Allenbrook Elementary School

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Stop Making Sense: Questioning Morality through Examination of Style, Structure, and Substance in Historical Fiction

Megan Shellenberger, English, William Amos Hough High School

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How Can What We Learned Today, Change the World Tomorrow?

Kayla D’Allura, Literacy, Collinswood Language Academy

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Graphic Novels: Reading Critically from Texts to Images

Jennifer Ladanyi, Language Arts, Bailey Middle School

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Oh, the Journeys We Will Take through Close Reading Fiction

Elizabeth Smiley, Language Arts, Torrence Creek Elementary School

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The Diction of Fiction!

Christina Varney, Literacy, Stoney Creek Elementary School

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Realizing Close Reading: Helping Struggling Readers Progress from Strategy to Skill in the Social Studies Classroom

Calen Clifton, Social Studies, Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School

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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood: The Path of Heroes

Angelina McCurry, English, Alexander Graham Middle School

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Teaching Tolerance through the Civil Rights Movement

Amy Stokes, Social Studies, Lebanon Road Elementary School

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This Freedom Could Kill Us: Teaching Novels about the American Revolutionary War Era

Alexandra Edwards, History, Bailey Middle School

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Metaphorical Mutations

Rochelle Stanley, English, Garinger High School

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Metamorphosis Models in Mathematics

Rima Solh, Mathematics, Eastway Middle School

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