On the move

Recently I completed the end of the year report for our  Hillsboro Schools Foundation  Grant. The process of writing the grant report game me a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a STEM school. The month of May can be a challenging time both mentally and emotionally. With the onset of state testing, there can be a sense of dread and fear. We feel the angst of "I didn't do enough to prepare them" or "I just need more time with them". Completing the report helped to ease some of this. To gather information for the report, I interviewed the teachers whose classrooms directly benefited from the grant funds. Our 5th graders and 1st graders are 2nd year STEM students as they were part of the pilot classrooms last year. The 5th grade teachers noted that their students were able to work well in groups and also showed a high level perseverance with a challenging task. They transferred those skills into another group project, re-purposing items for the inventio