The Kenan Fellowship and Internship created for my experience through the N.C. Museum of Natural Science was unequivocally one of the best professional experiences that I have been honored to participate in. We began three distinct projects that were extensions
The small victories that add up to huge success……
I have taken many of the activities, opportunities, and lessons that I have participated in and or reviewed within my Kenan Fellowship and utilized them this year. One moment that happened recently that I have not seen a true cognitive
Collaborative Culture
The networking throughout the fellowship has been unparalleled to any of my prior experiences. My students were recently able to participate in a day with Bayer Inc. as a result of networking that took place in our October PD institute.
Mentoring Milestones
The Kenan Program model does an amazing job of pairing educators with professionals and educators that will allow the professional growth of the fellow. We were fortunate in the Symbiosis in Soil internship to be paired with two amazing post
Professional Learning
As I have mentioned before I have always envisioned myself as a life long learner. No matter where I have been in my journey I look at my professional growth as paramount in performing the job at hand. Education has
A school year that has just begun, yet is flying by……..
I cannot believe that we have been in school for over 5 weeks. I feel like it has been a blur and am finding myself daily challenged to get all of the ideas and instruction I want in for that
Citizen Science: Getting Everyone Involved
One component of the Student’s Discover experience is promoting all people, not just students, to become contributing scientists to the constantly evolving world that we study and live in. I found myself immersed in not only my field of study
Wow, what an internship…..
The internship portion of the Kenan Fellowship has come to a close and my emotions and experiences are as diverse as the colonies that we had appear on some of our soil plates. I have a continued enthusiasm for the
My contributions to Student’s Discover
I have always prided myself in that I have an insane preoccupation with both science and curriculum. I love finding a way to enhance science teacher’s content knowledge and also marry multiple curriculum areas into their curriculum. I was thoroughly
About my fellowship
I am fortunate to be in a profession that I love and a position that I love even more. As an Instructional Science Coach for the Brunswick County School’s Middle Schools teachers I am afforded the chance to work hand