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Orono teachers present classroom STEM and feedback projects at ISTE conference
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Orono Public Schools staff described two classroom projects they presented at this year’s ISTE conference — an elementary STEM unit tying reading, math and coding to a family parade event, and a high-school workflow to provide faster formative feedback — and said district grants and the Orono Foundation helped fund the work.
Orono Public Schools teachers and digital-learning staff told the school board Thursday that they presented district classroom projects at this year’s International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference and shared plans to expand the work locally.
The presentations, school leaders said, highlighted an elementary “Igniting STEM Learning” unit that links reading, math and coding through a family-facing “Balloons over Schumann” parade project, and a high-school initiative designed to “close the feedback loop” by giving students faster, iterative formative feedback on longer writing assignments.
District technology director Sean Beverson described the presentations as a direct result of classroom teachers solving “a problem of practice” and then sharing the solutions. “What I’m calling elevating excellence from problem to presentations,” Beverson said, noting ISTE draws thousands of educators and that the district’s proposals were…
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