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Laurie Sullivan 2024 Presidential Award #PAEMST Finalist, 2004 Virginia Teacher of Year #KWBpride Barrett NASA Explorer School #NASAsocial #MagicSchoolAI
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! My principal jumping in the background is so fun! Thanks to Catherine Han and AP Amin Littman for the Snack Cart and lunch. I appreciate it along w my Kindergarten teacher “neighbors” Cristina Torres and Andrea Donovan #KWBPride

Happy Administrative Professionals Day to our wonderful office staff! We appreciate all you do for our Barrett #KWBPride school community! #OneTeamOneAPS Ms Espinoza, Ms Hundessa, Ms Kaplan, Ms Matadial! #smiles #sunshine #team


“Fewer Things, Better” Impactful keynote by Angela Watson @Angela_Watson Copenhaver Institute #copenhaverchats When you try to make time for all the good things, you run out of time for best things. What is best use of my time, and what could I eliminate to create time for that?



Celebrating the 25th birthday of the Margaret Sue Copenhaver Institute for Teaching and Learning! Theme: TEACHING WELL: Finding the Intersection of Required Curricula and Creative Pedagogy #copenhaverchats #teacher #SummerPD




Epic. Entertaining. Thought-provoking. Trevor Muir @TrevorMuir keynote at the Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College #CopenhaverChats Innovation should serve the purpose of school. Harness the power of story to deepen student engagement and create meaningful learning



Field Day fun! Beautiful weather for Barrett students to enjoy games, races and cool off with water and popsicles #KWBPride #smiles #school



Thank you Rosie Riveters for the STEM Pulley kits. The Barrett #KWBPride 3rd grade students loved building, lifting load of pennies, decorating and taking home to share with family #SimpleMachine #Science #SciArt




The Barrett Elementary School 2024-2025 yearbook has arrived! Student smiles! We are Mindful, Helpful, Powerful #KWBPride



Arlington Public Library invites students and adults to read 30 days (any amount of time) and earn a prize National baseball tickets and a free book to keep @ArlingtonVALib Summer Reading Program! Families may also check out DVDs, games, dolls, audio books #KWBPride




Thank you Killer Snails @KillerSnails1 for educational games like Biome Builder cards and digital simulation WaterWays where students tag and track sharks and develop solutions to problems like plastic pollution #ecology #science #curiosity #EdGames #STEMed




By kid request, the Bee-Bot is back! Two of the students came up with idea to program robot to deliver kind notes while others pretended Bee-Bot was an animal finding its habitat #KWBPride #EarlyChildhood #STEM #creativity




Thank you Kylie, Hunter and Aiden from Blue Origin @blueorigin for sharing Club of the Future at school this week. Our Barrett #KWBPride students are so excited about their Postcards to Space art flying on New Shepard rocket @clubforfuture #STEM #STEAM #SciArt




Barrett students celebrate Hubble Space Telescope 35 birthday in space by creating models, mission patch, viewing planets and stars! Great job @NASAHubble #SpotHubble #KWBPride NASA Explorer School @NASASTEM




Happy Earth Day! Barrett #KWBPride students plant vegetables at school, study seeds and design a new spring flower #nature #outdoors #EarthDay2025




Barrett 1st grade students explore the #KWBPride schoolyard Peace Garden and search for signs of Spring as they take photos with iPad camera #nature #flowers #trees




Barrett #KWBPride students Virtual Career Connection VCC videoconference with plant scientist biologist Dr. Gioia Massa NASA Kennedy Space Center #PlantsInSpace @ISS_Research #SPARX #STEMeducation @NASASTEM




So much fun building gliders with Ann Caspari @SmithsonianEdu @airandspace Happy Valentine’s Day #KWBPride students #EarlyChildhood #STEM #STEMEducation




Look at these brilliant #engineers using our #STEM curricula! Thanks for sharing, @lsullivan! We want all #students to experience and have fun w/ #STEMeducation like Barrett 2nd grade #KWBPride students! Download our free curricula guides: yes.mos.org/curricula/yes-…! #teachers
We are Materials Engineers testing different gloves to determine the best for picking up small objects like a paperclip in 20 seconds! Barrett 2nd grade #KWBPride students compare data share results @yesatmos @APSscience @APS_STEM