Our StickTogether Pixel Art Showcase Is Such A Special Art Work To Celebrate This Week

Our first grade and second grade friends have been busy creating amazing self portraits using the StickTogether Pixel Art site. 

Everyone made such a beautiful and unique self portrait using this wonderful free technology tool. 

You can read all about this special project here. 

And to make this project even more special, StickTogether is happy to announce the StickTogether Pixel Art Showcase November 2022, "I am thankful for..." 

To be part of the November StickTogether Pixel Art Showcase, your students can create what they are thankful for at the Pixel Art site here. 

You can then post their Pixel Art entries and ‘I am Thankful for’ caption on social. Tag StickTogether at @byStickTogether #PixelArtShowcase #WeStickTogether

Our students are busy creating their thankful projects at school, so I thought I would put all of their Pixel Art self portraits together and share what we are thankful for at our school. 

We are thankful for one another at Van Meter School. 

I hope you do this special project with your students and share what they are thankful for too.

Have a lovely holiday week, friends. I am thankful for all of you. 

Join Us For The Next Future Ready Leadership Forum On February 8, 2023 In Georgia!

We are so excited to announce the second Future Ready Schools Leadership Forum, Creating a Culture of Excellence and Innovation. 

Our first event in Philadelphia was a huge success! There was such amazing learning, sharing and connecting focused around innovation and digital literacy. The program sparked so many ideas and conversations all throughout the day. We left inspired to put digital innovation into practice within our school communities and within educational leadership roles we hold. 

This next one will be held on the Kennesaw State University campus in Kennesaw, Georgia. It is on February 8, 2023 from 9:00am-3:30pm EST. 

Join Future Ready Schools® (FRS) for a one-day personalized professional learning leadership event. The FRS Leadership Forum (the Forum) is designed to help educators (district leaders, principals, instructional leaders/coaches, librarians) lead a culture of excellence and innovation in their schools and district.

 

Led by Shannon McClintock Miller, Bill Bass, and Adam Phyall, III, EdD, the Forum will bring together like-minded education leaders to learn and grow through an interactive agenda that sparks ideas and actions for weaving digital resources into instructional practice.

 

During the Forum, we will share best practices that  promote and support innovation and deeper levels of learning through use of technology while showing strategies and tools that support digital innovation across the curriculum. Participants will engage in honest and authentic conversations around successes, roadblocks, and hurdles and create a personalized action plan to make change happen.

 

Space is limited. Act Now - Don’t  miss this opportunity to understand the latest research and emerging practices for high-quality digital learning implementation.

Register today - it’s Free!

And if you can't join us in Atlanta, don't worry...there will be two additional forums in 2023. 

You can sign up to be the first to know about the upcoming forums at the bottom of this site. 

Have Your Readers Join The NEW Biblionasium Challenge, Building Community Challenge! Lots Of Special Resources To Use Here, Friends.

 

One of our favorite places to go to log, share and celebrate our reading is Biblionasium, the "Good Reads for Kids!" 

Biblionasium is a wonderful social reading community for all readers where they create shelves of books, log reading, share book recommendations, write book reviews and more. 

We can even set up Challenges for our students and our friends at Biblionasium set up amazing Biblio Challenges too. 

This month, I am very excited to team up with Biblionasium to share a NEW Biblio Challenge, the Building Community Challenge. 

As shared on the Biblionasium Blog, 

Midway through the semester, could you use a boost to keep kids enthusiastic about learning and reading?

This Building Community Biblio challenge features activities and rewards to motivate students by engaging their whole selves—mentally, emotionally, and physically, at home and at school! 

Here's how you can bring book-tasting, Biblio badges, and smiles to your communities: 

1. Either as individuals or as a class, have kids choose a book to read and an accompanying activity. You can use Shannon Miller's Biblio choice board, the Biblio Challenge bookshelf, or choose a book of your own!  If you want to make a copy to change anything on the choice board, you will find the copyable link here.
2. Write a book and activity review on Biblionasium. 

3. Track reviews on our printout checklists and notes templates. Choose from green checklist, green notes, pink checklist, and pink notes. 

4. Award a BIBLIO BADGES for each review. Award COMMUNITY CERTIFICATES for 5 reviews or a full class activity.

5. Optionally, celebrate your achievements with a prize of your choice – like a ‘dress up as your favorite book character day’!

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL 
  
Connect with the wider Biblio community – TAG @Biblionasium and #Biblionasium on Twitter and Instagram for a chance to be featured on our blog!! 
  
REMEMBER to check out all our resources to have fun as a community this November. Read on!

You can sign up and learn all about Biblionasium here.