Engaging instruction
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We often get questions such as the following: How do you turn on the light bulbs in the eyes of your students? Is there a way to give teachers back the opportunity to truly teach? Is it really possible to teach multi-level classrooms effectively and make sure all students are learning the concepts that they’ll need to pass ‘The Test’? Can one curriculum really work for all grade levels? How can a teacher who isn’t familiar with a grade level really know what those kids need to learn?
Yes. It is. It is possible to keep staff and students engaged and excited about learning. It’s possible to teach skill and standard based concepts in fun and memorable way. Differentiating doesn’t have to be difficult. With a little bit of fun, it makes it a lot easier to teach AND learn.
For years we’ve worked with the kids who don’t have to be there and using a lot of innovation, trial and testing, and a spark or two of creativity we’ve found ways to make them want to be there. Through our innovative curriculums and programs, students (and staff) gain confidence, grow in self-respect and learn new skills. They discover their own creative potential. We’ve seen over the last decade that with the right techniques a program can have a strong positive impact on creativity, motivation and communication skills in the young people we work with.
We’re inspired by young people, and we aim to inspire them in turn. The results are programs and curriculums that get young people excited about learning and have proven to powerfully motivate disengaged students..............Access the Spark Lesson Unit Library..............
New To Our Library
Epicuriosity!
Learning never tasted so good! Flour on your cheeks? Dough in your hair? It tastes like learning is everywhere! Students learn how to take their favorite foods they might buy and make them from scratch (and they learn why!) Turn the kitchen into a learning laboratory with fun recipes and incredible facts. It’s a recipe for success!
Myths of Time: The Wild West
It’s time to rewind through the Myths of Time! Doc Brown's DeLorean is out of commission, Bill and Ted's time traveling phone booth has traveled to a future utopia, the Doctor is who knows where, and Mrs. Frizzle's magic school bus is on the fritz…so how can we travel through the Myths of Time? With a bit of study and a lot of imagination (and the help of some good books) we’ll hit the ‘Rewind’ button on our V.H.S., Vehicle of Historic Study that is. It’s an epic adventure of legendary proportions as we head back to when the West was Wild!
Monsters INK
Are you a monster, or of a monstrous persuasion? It’s time for students to start a tale as old as slime and create their own 3D ‘pulp fiction’! We’ll be crafting perfectly monstrous characters and fantastic beasts and then crafting tales with 3D settings and flippable ‘story boards’ that will keep ‘bored’ far from these stories!