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Articles by Alyssa Tormala
Finding the Right Balance in Tech Use
It was this conundrum that Liane Rae , Alexa Duda , and I faced when designing the required ninth-grade Technology Foundations classes at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, Oregon. Our answer? Challenge students to design apps to promote healthier choices around technology use. That debate frequently lands squarely in the laps of technology educators, who are passionate about engaging meaningful learning through technology yet also want to promote healthy balance.
How to Get Engagement, Growth and Stickiness When Teaching Kids to Write - EdSurge News
As an English teacher with 24 years of experience, I often feel I’ve explored every possible avenue to help my students grow as writers. That is truer today than ever as new technology has increased the instructional possibilities, and evidence-based, on-demand testing has forced me to get creative. But while the educational landscape has shifted, my core values as a teacher have remained the same: to ensure engagement, growth and the retention of learning— “stickiness”—for each student.
Getting Girls into STEM: The Power of Blended (and All-Female) Instruction - EdSurge News
Jackie, the team captain of St. Mary’s all-girls robotics team, knows a thing or two about breaking the mold.
Confronting the Abominable Snow Day
Here in the Pacific Northwest, we recently had our 10th snow day of the school year. We had four before Christmas, and when the fifth arrived before the exam period, bringing a forecast of more to come, our school decided we needed to move quickly to keep students on track for exams and the rest of the year. So what to do? In a last-ditch effort to continue the momentum of learning and help our students prepare for exams, our school developed a Digital Learning Day (DLD) protocol.
Discomfort, Growth, and Innovation
Foster a culture of successful innovation by empathizing with fellow educators who are uncomfortable with risk, modeling a growth mindset, and celebrating effort as well as success. We’ve all heard the calls for innovation ringing through the education field. This age of exponential change leaves us no choice—we must change or our students will fall behind. But for many educators, shifting away from the status quo can be incredibly uncomfortable.
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