2011-12 Projects

The links on this page connect to many of the innovative learning experiences happening in Trinity classrooms during the 2011-12 school year. These projects reflect Trinity’s Capacities for 21st Century Learning which include:

  • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
  • Collaboration & Leadership
  • Agility, Confidence & Adaptability
  • Initiative, Action & Service
  • Strong Oral & Written Communication
  • Analysis & Synthesis of Information
  • Creativity, Curiosity & Imagination

Early Learning Department (ELD):

  • Pre-K Moments (Caroline Peevy): This project is designed to capture the 2011-12 school year through the eyes of our young photographers. The purpose of this classroom blog is to share small daily scenes of learning in Pre-K, highlight student creativity, and empower children to observe the world around them. At first, this blog will be a place where teachers model the documenting of moments, small or large, throughout the week. It will ultimately evolve into a student-directed responsibility and blog.
  • McCullough’s Pre-K Blog (Anne McCullough, Shann Acevedo, and Keith Elrod): These three Pre-Kindergarden teachers chronicle life in their classroom through weekly blog posts.
  • Fun in First (Kim Washington and Amanda Wilson): This classroom blog, maintained by First Grade teachers Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Wilson, documents all of the fun and learning that happens in this Trinity School classroom.
  • Billie Bear’s Travels on the Teddy Bears Around the World Project (Julia Lee and Rhonda Mitchell): This global collaborative project features posts from teddy bears all over the world. Mrs. Julia and Mrs. Rhonda’s Kindergarten class will be participating throughout the year. (Post #1: I Swam with a Whale Shark) (Post #2: Billie Bear at the Fabulous Fox) (Post #3: Billie Bear at the Farmers Market) (Post #4: Billie Bear Celebrates Yom Kippur)

Upper Learning Department (ULD):

  • Burris’s Blog for Bibliophiles (Meredith Burris): This classroom blog provides Meredith Burris, Fifth Grade Language Arts and Social Studies teacher, a place to reflect about her passion: books! Students regularly comment on Mrs. Burris’s posts on this “blog for book lovers and those who are becoming book lovers.”
  • Parrish’s Ponderings (Jack Parrish): This Fifth Grade classroom blog is “a place for thinking, writing, and discussion.”
  • Mrs. Bauer’s Sixth Grade Writing Workshop Wiki (Marilyn Bauer): This wiki is a place which houses students’ online notebooks. Students take pieces of writing through the writing process in this space which is both an independent and collaborative space.
  • QR Codes – A Sixth Grade Explorations Class Wiki (Katie Chapman and Megan Howard): This wiki is a collaborative space for teachers and students to explore, discover, and work with QR codes in education.
  • Johnston’s Journal (Ashley Johnston): This Fifth Grade classroom blog “serves as a place where I can interact with my students, hear their thoughts, and engage in conversation as a class outside of the normal school routine.”
  • Carter’s Connections (Mary Reid Carter): This Fifth Grade classroom blog is an active space which hosts classroom activities, reflections about the week, and personal thoughts and memories of the teacher, Mary Reid Carter.
  • Nalley’s Class Blog (Sara Nalley): This Third Grade classroom blog hosts the weekly blog posts of students in Mrs. Nelley’s class. Every week, the Star Students collaboratively write a blog post, and on Friday, the whole class makes any necessary revisions and edits and hits publish! A lot of parents are commenting on these posts…so make sure to read the comments!

School-Wide:

  • What the Head Thinks (Stephen Kennedy): A blog written by Trinity’s Head of School, Stephen Kennedy, which features “comments on education and the future of learning.”
  • Links to Learning Wiki (Marsha Harris and Kara Koetter): A wiki about all of the exciting and educational things happening in Trinity’s Technology Lab. This wiki also includes great resources for using technology in various subject areas as well as Marsha and Kara’s lesson plans for the week.
  • World Languages Blog (Brandi Hoyos, Jackie Wilkerson, Abby Smith, Julia Kuipers): A blog about Trinity’s World Languages Program (K-Sixth Grade) which features posts from the World Langauges team as well as guest posts by adult and children language learners. The teachers are also collaborating on the World Languages Learning Center Wiki.
  • 2011-12 Envirocenter Wiki (Various Faculty and Staff): This wiki houses online information housed in Trinity’s envirocenters. The fish wiki is maintained by the Media Specialists. The geology wiki is maintained by the Science Department. The astronomy wiki is maintained by the Afternoon Enrichment Team.