Sam Ponzo Byrams

Samantha Ponzo, M.S.

Our WLB Robotics Club members designed their own mazes on their Chromebooks. Then, they challenged their friends to complete their maze using their @Sphero Bolts!

The students of WLB’s Robotics Club have been hard at work with their @Sphero large-scale maps. Students are working to engineer, plan, design, & construct large maps for their Sphero Bolts to navigate through! There’s some serious creativity & collaboration happening here!

I can’t believe tomorrow I will be marrying my Cortland besties alongside my favorite roomie ❤️

@elenimariel 😍😍

Briann and I are gonna be roommates for the weekend for the first time since junior year of college 🥲

Check out the awesome “Instagram Profiles” students made to celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Students studied someone influential & created a profile to showcase important aspects of their life! #AAPIHeritageMonth #VS24 @ChloeKim @TheRock @brucelee

What is wait time? #Sketchnote via @ValentinaESL

Engineers in our BAS Robotics Club built their own Monster Scribble Bots! Utilizing pool noodles & a motor they crafted a bot that was able to draw and create some awesome doodles! #LookForTheAwesome #VS24

Travelers at RWC took a virtual field trip using @googleearth to Beijing, China today to explore the different venues & events of the 2022 Winter Olympics! They even watched a video of @ChloeKim & her amazing gold medal win!!! @NBCOlympics @Olympics

On World Read Aloud Day, reading superstars in 2R were starstruck when they saw some familiar faces & listened to stories on @storylineonline! #LookForTheAwesome #WLB @MrsGaddy1

I know this year is going to be a big year for me and my boo 🥺

I mean having a good snack is also a big moment 💫

Canada has officially banned LGBTQ+ conversion therapy.

A teacher being removed from an elementary classroom for wearing a hijab should make *every single* Canadian angry, not just Muslim Canadians.

I never thought I’d miss the shenanigans that would go down at Memorial Lib 😢

After finalizing our ⭐️ Top 5 Tech Tools ⭐️, students presented to their classmates utilizing Google Meet Breakout rooms! Sharing our favorite tools & seeing what we had in common was a great way to close out this activity! #LookForTheAwesome #VS24 #VS24tech

So thrilled that Ada Twist, Scientist made her debut in the Thanksgiving Day Parade! This brainy little girl is teaching young viewers how important it is to be curious, and how anyone can be a scientist—no matter their age or background.

Students in 5AR at BAS made a list of their ⭐️Top 5 Tech Tools⭐️. Each list was unique to the student and they had so many options to choose from! Some favorites were @tiktok_us, @YouTube, & @netflix! #LookForTheAwesome #VS24 #VS24tech

Scholars at WLB practiced math facts, followed directions, and collaborated with their classmates with #iMOlearn! An #awesome way for us to get our brains and bodies this morning! #LookForTheAwesome #VS24 @MrsGaddy1 @ValleyStreamWLB @VS24District

Mathematicians in 2L at WLB practiced their #awesome addition skills using @quizizz! They were so focused, engaged, & exited for those power ups! #LookForTheAwesome #VS24 @ValleyStreamWLB @MrsGaddy1

Please stop saying that we need to increase teacher salaries in order “recruit the best and brightest” as if the best and brightest are not currently teaching. We need to increase teacher salaries because those currently teaching deserve and earned it.