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Personal Geometries:
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Language, Culture, Curriculum and Relationship


Ellen Franz, Bayside Elementary
Sausalito/ Marin City Unified School District, CA

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I've always used hands-on projects to build on students' strengths and engage their interests. I've found that building projects, in particular, allow me the opportunity to introduce the worlds of physics and engineering to students, as well as to work in an area that most students find exciting and energizing. While working to meet grade level standards in science, mathematics and language arts, I've found that I can build on students' natural verbal strengths, accelerate their vocabulary development, and begin to make connections between these strengths and areas in which students are more challenged and less confident....

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