Motivate Students with FlipNLearn
I'm proud to serve as the educational advisor to FlipNLearn – the innovate
foldable that students design, print and share. FlipNLearn uses a special
pre-formatted paper and FREE design software to make it easy for students
in grades 3 through high school to design, print, share and learn.
FlipNLearn enables students to think like designers, to apply their
learning strategies and to organize and express their learning. It
exemplifies the best of the information revolution –students as creators
of content rather than as a passive audience.
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Timeline
series: I'm proud to serve as a consultant to Timeline
a series of graphic novels that combine exciting fiction, fascinating
historical facts and lavish illustrations. Reading levels 4-8. Interest levels
4-12.
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Washington DC: Peter Pappas will serve as an
advisor to the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester –
Rochester, NY. The museum is a recipient of a 2006 Institute of Museum
and Library Services Grant. Museums for America - Sustaining Cultural
Heritage The project includes management and educational activities
targeting the gallery's collections of ancient, Asian, European, Meso-
and Native American, and African Art.
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Washington DC: Peter Pappas will serve as an
advisor to the Bill of Rights Institute, based in Arlington Virginia. The
Institute is the recipient of a 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities "We
the People" grant designed to encourage the study of American history. It
received $190,000 to develop a Web site on landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases -
"Exploring Landmark Supreme Court Cases: A Document-Based Questions Approach.
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From:
NYLearns.org ~ March 2006 Instructional Leadership Through Sharing Work: The
Spirit of NYLearns.org
"Peter Pappas is no stranger to public
education. In addition to his twenty-five years as a high school social
studies teacher, Peter has served as Assistant Superintendent of
Instruction at East Irondequoit Central Schools, and worked as a senior
consultant for Willard Daggett's International Center for Leadership in
Education. Today, Peter remains vital in providing instructional
leadership to classroom teachers in and beyond New York State. His
extensive experience and passion for teaching and learning enable him to
offer unique insights into current instructional strategies and the
fundamental roles literacy and critical thinking play in students’
lives."
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