SCIENCE CLASSROOM
J.Fox
Student Success Stories & School Leaders
Z. Velasquez, 12th Grade Team Lead & 12th Grade Mathematics Instructor
"Ms. Fox has prioritized building student relationships, creating a supportive learning environment and actively working on improving her teaching practice. These factors have given students a safe, supportive and inclusive classroom environment which has resulted in greater student motivation to learn and thus having students find success."
Student Success Stories:
Please click on the images below to learn more about 3 groups' projects and reflections for the "Science Symposium" Performance Task.
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Student from AP Environmental Science, Block 2
"I entirely enjoyed this project and had the supports I needed to find success. It was also pretty fun making our logo."
-12th Grade Student, D.G.
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Student from AP Environmental Science, Block 3
"I felt successful in having a great peer to complete the project with and that we were able to finish it. I loved how the project was all just one document and not a whole bunch [of documents] and also that we got to be a bit creative."
-12th Grade Student, E.A.
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Student from Anatomy & Physiology,
Block 5
What looked like success was when we finally finished our podcast recording. I did feel successful in the project and thought it was fun to do and be able to do like a mini research project about any topic of our choosing. Ms. Fox always checked in with any help and would help out when we were stuck on a problem. I enjoyed the creative side of it which was doing the pod cast it was really fun to record."
-12th Grade Student, I.T.
"I loved that we had full creativity and that there was different ways to do it. This helped because my biggest strength is talking not writing."
-12th Grade Student, C.C.
Please click on the images below to learn more about 2 groups' projects for the "Climate Summit" Performance Task and feedback from students.
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Representing India
"Success looked like fully being able to present a completed project. I just think I could've been more organized and productive at times."
-12th Grade Student, A.S.
"For this project, success looked like having all the information that we needed and having the assignment ready on the due date. Yes, I felt successful completing this project. I think we had all of the supports we needed to be successful. The instructions were pretty detailed and Ms.Fox was always available for any questions we might have had. I enjoyed the research part of the project. I was able to learn about issues that I never would have known about otherwise."
-12th Grade Student, V.V.
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Representing Tuvalu
"Yes! I felt like it was manageable with a group, working with others, and learning about other countries."
-12th Grade Student, M.C.
"The opportunity for us to free roam and take the project where we wanted it to go was enjoyable. We had the supports we needed to find success because you helped us a lot when we were confused."
-12th Grade Student, J.G.
