Awards and Special Recognition



The Arizona Learning Interchange is designed to be a clearinghouse for educators to learn about innovative technology programs. In the Fall of 2003, our class was a Featured Exhibit at this website. The project, Thinking About Thinking: What Makes a Good Question?, contains video clips, curriculum standards, assessments, and resources.

Arizona Technology in Education Alliance selected Mrs. Sunda's class web page as winner of the Exemplary Web Site Award in May 2003. Check out the list of winners. 

ISTE's February 2003 issue of Learning and Leading with Technology featured a full-length article written by Mrs. Sunda about questioning strategies, called "Thinking About Thinking: What Makes a Good Question". Read the article.

Interested in using technology to motivate and inspire? See how teachers around the world use technology in exciting ways to support student learning. We are honored that the Intel® Innovation Odyssey site showcases our Literature Units Project on their Education Odyssey site at 
www97.intel.com/education/odyssey/day_073/day_073.htm


Our class is featured having a literature discussion in an instructional video titled Effective Questioning Strategies. This video is part of a series of teaching practices geared for teachers and school districts. 

Cox Award

Our research project web page and lesson plan, A Century in Review - Decades Research & Quiz was awarded First Place entry in the April 2000 Cox Communications Excellence in Education and Technology Program.


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Our research project slide show web page and lesson plan for  Internet Investigations: Unsolved Mysteries won First Place in the Educast Lesson Plan Contest.
View Educast article

 


ED's Oasis

ED's Oasis Teacher's Guild MasterSearch, the lesson plan contest for teachers using the Internet, also awarded First Place to our web project, Internet Investigations: Unsolved Mysteries.
View MasterSearch Article


Education World


Education World conducted an interview with Mrs. Sunda featured an article describing the process behind our Life in the Middle Ages research and web page project. 
View Education World article


Intel's Teach to the Future Program selected one hundred educators in Arizona to be trained as specialists in technology integration. As one of the selected Master Teachers, Mrs. Sunda provided technology training to teachers in her district in using and integrating technology into the curriculum.

Ruth Sunda, Gifted Resource Teacher
Kyrene de las Brisas Elementary School
Chandler, AZ

rsunda@kyrene.org

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