Patricia Abouabdo

Today at Westwood EdTalks, John Caldwell inspired us with his talk on designing and building a racing wheelchair! 🏁🚀 Students learned about innovation, engineering, and the power of perseverance. @WestwoodJH_RISD #RISDBeTheOne

A virtual flight experience at Westwood Junior High this morning ⛅️! Thanks to Southwest pilot Jim Thal, we got to try out a flight simulator and learn about aviation ✈️ right from our Science classroom. We had so much fun! 🐺💙 @WestwoodJH_RISD @SouthwestAir #EdTalks

Kelsey was setting the bar high today at District Wide Day! 💻Nearpod, 🎧Flocabulary, and 🤖SchoolAi are taking our teachers to new heights. The words ✨life changing✨ were used by a lot of the teachers who attended her session today! @MrsKelseyOrd #RISDBeTheOne @RISDiTeam

From rolling out Schoology at pioneer campuses with @tayloryourteach & @CamileParker to presenting district-wide together! Lots of hard work💪, creative solutions💡, & exciting progress📈! Can’t wait to see how you #LevelUp ⬆️ your Schoology use! @RISDiTeam #RISDBeTheOne

Youre looking at newly appointed @nearpod Coaches! @hayleybrackens @MsCYao @DigitalCoachA @LisaMarieTech Jamie Rigdway @RISDiTeam #RISDBeTheOne

Students in Mrs. Yon’s Engineering class got to participate in the “Hang Out” challenge! They tried to create the longest structure to hang off of a desk ledge! What a fun way for students to work on critical thinking and problem solving skills! @WestwoodJH_RISD

🎉🎉🎉 28 MINUTES! That’s how long it took these SUPERSTARS to unpack 380 chromebooks for our 7th graders! Thanks to these amazing team players for giving up a part of their morning so rollout runs smoothly. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💙💙💙

Rounded out today with supporting @CamileParker at RHS! 🦅💜💛 All secondary pioneer schools are ready to rock their second year of Schoology implementation!! 💻#RISDBeTheOne @RISDiTeam

Today @hayleybrackens lead the @rwestjh staff through their second year Schoology training! Hayley is crushing her first year as a CITS! 💪🏼 I’m so glad she’s my LC partner this year!! 🦅💜 Gold medals all around for Hayley’s training today! 🥇#RISDBeTheOne @RISDiTeam

The RLC is where it’s at for Schoology trainings!! @its_dig_gid did a phenomal job training the @sce_eagles 🦅 this morning! It was so fun to see how excited the teachers were to set up and explore their courses! West and RHS, we’ll see you tomorrow!! 📆 @RISDiTeam #RISDBeTheOne

This morning @Miss_McMillian3 did an ✨amazing✨ job training her staff at @LakeHighlandsJH on Schoology!! 📚💻 I loved getting to support the staff and tour the new building!! 🏫 #RISDBeTheOne @RISDiTeam

This morning, teachers chose from 12 sessions that focused on our Instructional Big 3 for the year. So many amazing sessions with ideas and strategies to build on our successes from last year!

She’s back baby!!! We all started at @WestwoodJH_RISD together 6 years ago, and now Paige is coming back to lead the @westwoodchoir program to greatness!! 🎵🎤⭐️ #BackWithThePack 🐺💙 #RISDBeTheOne #WelcomeHome

Loved getting to spend my afternoon with @Jaridgwayrisdo1, @Miss_McMillian3, @MsCYao & our newest AVID teachers in RISD!! 📚📝 We had so much fun previewing Schoology and exploring all of the technology RISD provides to their teachers! 💻 @RISDiTeam #CITS #RISDBeTheOne #AVID

RLA was where the party was at this morning!! 🎉 These teachers are reading to rock Schoology this year!! 💪🏼🌟 #CITS #RISDBeTheOne #iTeam

When it comes to facilitating learning with technology, our new RISD team members have it down! #RISDBeTheOne @RISDiTeam

Loved getting to support RISD New hires today with @RdzFurlongELAR, @joelkfisher, and @hayleybrackens! ❤️💻 #RISDiTeam #RISDBeTheOne #CITS @RISDiTeam

Instructional Technology is excited to support our new hires this week! See you on Wednesday & Thursday for Schoology and Facilitating Learning with Technology. The perfect opportunity to meet your iTeam Specialist and/or Campus Instructional Technology Specialist! #RISDBeTheOne

Shout Out to @CarolanKnight and @am_lam1 for these Grow Conference Booklets! 📖 Such an amazing resource for staff to keep track of all of the conference information 📆 and to intentionally take notes 📝 on their learning! 📚✨🤓

When the two retirees happen to turn in their technology at the same time, you can’t help but take a picture! Westwood truly will never be the same without these two! 💙🐺@joelmprice @WestwoodJH_RISD