Are you an elementary teacher interested in boosting your student engagement during remote learning?  Today’s episode of Engaging in Teaching and Learning addresses the challenges and possible solutions to increasing student engagement at the elementary level.  Our guest Christy Lauterbach, 3rd grade teacher at Hillrise Elementary, shares her best practices and what she has learned throughout the semester that has brought her success. Included in many of the topics covered are the importance parent involvement, Canvas class setup ideas, and Zoom scheduling management. 

The 19-20 school year required more grace, flexibility and patience than ever before. Darby Sanchez and Kina Marlatt, LCPS teachers, joins us for our first Zoom Podcast meeting to chat about the school year. Their poignant reflections about the way teachers reach their students fill our 30 minute episode. Please take a moment to listen to our LCPS family reflect on the teachers we became this year.

Check out Darby's Youtube Channel here 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0YLh7FMszSUuDCYCFGOuPQ

And be on the lookout, a new season of our podcast starts in the fall. We'll be talking to teachers, sharing ideas, and supporting each other through the next school year, whatever it brings!

Kissa Dixon, Samantha Redford and Katrina Castillo join us to discuss the LCPS GRADS Program and the work they do to work with our district's teen parents. Las Cruces High School and Oñate High School share their models for GRADS and highlight some of their program's successes.

Criss Grubbs is the LCPS District Testing Coordinator. In this role, she oversees state and federal testing for the district. 2019-2020 has brought many changes to NM Assessments. Criss breaks down, for teachers, what this means, what it will look like, and how to be prepared.

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NM PED Assessment Bureau

During the 19-20 school year, Oñate High School established a partnership with the Las Cruces Homebuilder's Association. In this episode, Principal Jim Schapekahm discusses the goals of the program and the need for a variety of career and technical courses.

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KFOX14 Story - LCPS Introduces Build My Future

Rachel Knight is the 2018 LCPS Teacher of the Year and a 2018 New Mexico Teacher of the Year Finalist. She is an ACE Career Specialist for LCPS. Rachel's professional accomplishments include being names the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) Region II National Agriscience Teacher of the Year and a NAAE National Agriscience Teacher Ambassador and professional development facilitator.   In this episode, she shares more about the ACE program and the Agricultural Career connection in Las Cruces and the Mesilla Valley.

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Career Readiness and ACE, LCPS