Innovation Integration

LIVE in the lounge today is Heather Reinbolt, principal of Zion Lutheran School in Bay City, MI. Heather shares ideas about some of Jill and Colleen’s favorite topics–innovative practices in …

Jill & Colleen recorded LIVE at the Michigan Great Lakes Unity Conference October 15th and 16th. In this episode, they interviewed Emily Hoffman hot off her presentation on social inclusion …

Jill shares how a community book study and a personal read impacted her and her school community. Stop in the lounge for some highlights about St. John Paul II and …

What do you think should be the top prioirity of your parish pastor or your school chaplain? Likely, everyone has a different opinion and priests are challenged to be all …

Will Dennis (of Unscripted Productions) joins Jill and Colleen in the lounge once again to talk improv! Will shares how he has used improv in the classroom using 5 basic …

Jill unveils the 2 campus-wide goals she and her principal rolled out at the start of this year and provides the status of their goal progress so far. Good intentions …

This episode continues the converstion about classroom activities available to kids who arrive early, who finish work quickly, or who stay after. Every classroom has activities and learning opportunities for …

In this episode, Jill shares a question from a Catholic school in Erie, Michigan about what to do with early arrivers in the morning. What is the most productive or …

Did you ever wish you had a group of people to solve your problem? So does Colleen! In this epsiode Jill and Colleen explore the idea of community inquiry learning …

Today in the lounge, Jill and Colleen talk about approaches to lesson, unit, and course design. What’s better–following curriculum chronologically or thematically? How do we focus on standards AND make …