Holyoke Catholic High School Teacher, Lise Letellier wowed us with her 5 year journey with the Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming study at the Spring Workshop for Teachers last week!
Lise took us through her experience engaging High School students at all levels in collecting field data, representing and understanding project data. She showed what she was able to do with students , year by year for her first 5 years of leading this project.
Throughout this presentation, we could see the importance and relevance of Lise's educational goals for her students, and recognized the complexities of school life and ecological studies that provided challenges along the way to fully reaching those goals.
Lise -We celebrate your success this year even more now that you laid out the 5 year process for us!
Comments from other Schoolyard teachers included:
- The introduction of more teacher presentations and especially Lise's presentation was informative, useful, and totally motivating.
- Lise gives me hope that I, too, can have my students tackle data!
Lise has passed the state level screening for a Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST)
Awaiting word at the national level...
To see Lise's slides and audio from her Spring Workshop presentation, go to the 1st presentation at:
To see samples of student work and associated overview, directions, and rubric related to this presentation,find these 9 documents under Buds, Leaves and Global Warming heading beginning with Letellier. 2016.
Related Blog Post: student graphs blog
To see Lise's lesson plan on the national LTER Digital Library, go to:
"How awesome!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for sending this...she does great work."
Donna Cochrane, Schoolyard Ecology Teacher, North Attleboro High School
"I enjoyed your blog about the wonderful Lise. As you know she is an amazing teacher and in addition for all she does for all her students, ahe is so good at reaching out and supporting the rest of us in the teaching community. Such a warm and wonderful person. I do hope she receives the recognition she so richly deserves. Thank you so much for nominating her."
ReplyDeleteSally Farrow, MAS Audubon, Drumlin Farm