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Tag: children’s literature

  • Loveland’s Teaching Professions Academy competes at the 2019 EdRising Ohio conference

    Loveland’s Teaching Professions Academy competes at the 2019 EdRising Ohio conference

    Loveland, Ohio – Students from Loveland High School’s Teaching Professions Academy (TPA) competed at the 2019 Educators Rising (EdRising) Ohio State Conference at Capital University on February 28 and March 1.

    Jordan Morrison accepted the Honor Chapter award on behalf of Loveland High School Teaching Professions Academy.

    “I’m so proud of the TPA students for their great passion and performance, not only at the conference, but every day as they train for their careers in education,” said Bre Sambuchino, teacher at Loveland High School.

    Sambuchino designed and implemented the TPA during the 2017-18 school year, allowing students the opportunity to explore, expand and support their interests in an educational career path, and taking pre-education college-level course work for credit while still in high school.

    The annual EdRising Conference includes competition centered around students demonstrating their knowledge, skills and leadership in education. In both individual and team events, students are challenged to stretch their creativity, commitment and professionalism in areas such as Children’s Literature, Lesson Planning & Delivery, Public Speaking and Research Learning Challenges. The representatives from Loveland placed among the Top 10 in the categories of Children’s Literature K-3, Lesson Planning & Delivery (Humanities and STEM), Chapter Display, and Exploring Careers in Education. Loveland High School also earned recognition as an Educators Rising Honor Chapter for its chapter involvement and for creating a unique display encapsulating the 2019 conference theme “Embrace Your Super Power.”

      

     

  • Loveland first-graders: Will Hillenbrand is happy when he draws

    Loveland first-graders: Will Hillenbrand is happy when he draws


     

     

    Collaborative story written by Jennifer Miller’s first-grade class at the Loveland Primary School,
    Will Hillenbrand visited Jen Miller’s 1st grade class to teach her students how he writes and illustrates his famous children’s books.

    Loveland, Ohio – Will Hillenbrand is an author and illustrator. Will is a story-teller. He draws and writes. Will draws what he dreams and imagines. He is happy when he draws.

    Will uses tape, his magic pencils, and glue to create. His studio is in Terrace Park, Ohio.

    Will’s art makes me happy.

    EDITOR’S NOTE ABOUT THIS STORY:

    Will Hillenbrand is a nationally acclaimed illustrator of children’s literature. After first-grade teacher, Ms. Miller found out Hillenbrand was coming to visit the Loveland Primary School to tell students how he writes and illustrates his famous children’s books, he was asked if he would make a special visit to her class and take part in their on-going writing collaborative with Loveland Magazine. The children used the time to write notes about the author – to use for writing their own story and also showed Hillenbrand how they are taught in the classroom to write stories.

    The class visited the office of Loveland Magazine later that month to jointly write a story about Hillenbrand. The story above is the culmination of the lesson plan on writing and how newspapers can be a tool for telling stories about events in the community.

     

    The photos below were taken while the students were at Loveland Magazine to work on the story they have published.

    Below those photos is the art the children created using the skills they learned from Hillenbrand to help tell their story.

     

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