Trimester 2️⃣= opinion ✍️, learning about the past, measurement & +/- double & triple digits. Through Canva mini lessons, learners took a basic Template and personalized them! BRAVO!👏🏽Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified Poway Unified Technology & Innovation #hybridlearning #independentstudy #pusd #powayunified

Check out how these tech-savvy💻elementary & middle school digital citizens Connect Academy PUSD are leading the way with digital communities🗣️ and learning with #AI 🤖

#pusdinnovate #digitalcitizenship

Harvesting hydroponics! Tanks use 10x less water than our garden, use less space so we grow them indoors, & food grows 2x as fast. Organic types of lettuce washed & cut up for large multi-class salad w leftovers for teachers to take home.🔥 ❤️ and eat 🌱’s.

Once you fall in love and get the pleasure of relationship with a student with Down Syndrome…you just don’t know. When you know, you are changed FOREVER!!! Neurodiversity makes us all come together whole. ❤️

We are thrilled to announce that we received a #3dprinter for becoming Common Sense Education recognized! This program provides a road map for creating a positive culture of digital learning! Thank you Poway Unified Technology & Innovation 👏🏽
Poway Unified
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Light Lab was epic for 3-5th! @shannonnellies created a dark room to discover how light travels, bends, combines to make white light, refracts, & reflects. Light is a primary tool for perceiving the world & communicating within it. Hands-on, real life learning engages & connects.

☀️ Life is s’more fun with a solar oven! Checkout Grade 7’s collaboration! The s’more, the better!
#weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning #pusd #powayunified #powayunified schooldistrict @powayunified #solaroven #solaroven s #smores #smores olaroven Janice Teixeira

Grade 6 is shining bright by growing crystals and understanding the structure of minerals! #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning #pusd #powayunified #powayunified schooldistrict @powayunified
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Spread out & taking up our space! Standing, chairs, stools, cushions, lap desks, supplies available, outdoors, collab space, just space. Water project including a contest for City of Poway w multiage classes across 2 campuses. Can’t wait for the educational art install kids plan!

Studying neurodiversity to create our dream math classes. Students are using Canva to design a flyer for a class that works for all brains including compelling title, detailed description & completed math problem. Can’t wait to be part of their math class when they launch it!

LOVING this grades 2/3 collab! #georgiaokeeffe ‘s life influenced us as we brainstormed words to describe fierce @connect_academy_pusd learners, used MagicSchool AI to create a song, and, today, our first spring collaboration is here!!! K. Elaine Rogers, M. Ed Poway Unified Connect Academy PUSD

🌈🌉Today grades 1/2 used Brooke Brown #rainbowarch stem project to continue celebrating #spring and #stpatricksday ! We learned the necessities bridges need like piers, deck, and arch to hold our #potofgold ! Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified #powayunified #weareconnectacademy

Whole body learning = everybody thinking & adding their voice. I wish I’d had school like this growing up. Here students have read 3 sources, highlighted the most interesting parts, & are adding the most important to our collaboration board. Now to write!

#WomensHistoryMonth2024 continues w/ #Georgiaokeeffe fierce flowers + brainstorm sesh of fierce words to describe themselves and Connect Academy PUSD. Our words + MagicSchool AI led to this song to the tune of happy birthday! Poway Unified #independentstudy #weareconnectacademy #ai

In honor of #WomensHistoryMonth2024
& #spring , grade 1/2 Ss read about famous artist/designer #yayoikusama ! We painted flowers inspired by her work w/ a #cinquainpoem to honor the new season! Connect Academy PUSD Poway Unified #weareconnectacademy #independentstudy #hybridlearning

Thank you San Diego Music Foundation for the Baby Taylor’s guitar grant!!! We are thrilled to jam and learn guitar skills, as music is infused into all our learning. Hooray for big thinkers and generous companies! Kids deserve all the great music! 🎸

Celebration of Learning TRI 2 rocked! Learners created “Dinosaur as a Pet” animations using Canva , Family Coat of Arms & Dino story math problems ! Connect Academy PUSD
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✨Happy Celebration of Learning Day for Trimester 2✨ 👏🏽Meet our staff! #independentstudy #hybridlearning @powayunified Poway Unified Technology & Innovation #powayunified #pusd #weareconnectacademy

👏🏽 We’re happy to share that we are officially a #commonsenseschool ! Thank you Poway Unified Technology & Innovation and @powayunified for presenting our new banner! Common Sense Education
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The energy is palpable when students and staff work on changes to design and ways to present impactful work to a public audience. Collaboration among students to help everyone meet the student made rubric requirements melts me. They care. ❤️Celebration of Learning tomorrow!