Locust Grove Middle School designs a capstone project for soon-to-graduate 8th graders modeled around 'Genius Hour.' Students select a topic to research and build expertise in, working towards a final presentation and using a predefined rubric to guide their efforts.

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Complete Sentences

Students build language proficiency within academic conversations through responding to teachers using complete sentences whenever they...

Say Something Cards

Say Something cards provide students who are learning English with scaffolded sentence stems to help guide conversations.

Example: Prior Knowledge - Mental Hooks for Learning (IgnitED Research)

This video shares evidence from the learning sciences and a practitioner perspective around prior knowledge.