2023

Innovation with Intent

Innovation with Intent allows teachers in urban low-income schools to find flexibility in bringing innovation and engagement into their classrooms. It allows students to tinker, engineer, and engage with materials that support their learning of […]

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Entrepreneurship Workshop

An 8 session entrepreneurship workshop to teach high-schoolers fundamental steps to becoming an entrepreneur! The essence of entrepreneurship is not just about making money, but it is about how to identify problems, create innovative solutions, […]

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The Sustainable Development Goal logo that has 17 rectangles each with a symbol representing a goal coming off of the main circle that has the text 'Build a Better Future' with three lego block heads above the text.

Build A Better Future

For this project, I created a web-based platform for K-5 students to engage with the Sustainable Development Goals while designing and building a solution that can meet the goal.  In the platform students will go […]

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Biking In Boston

“From HGSE, it’s Biking in Boston. I’m Sarah Montroll. Today on our show, we take a look at cycling in Boston and Cambridge –  cities renowned for their rich history, fervent sports fans, and, let’s […]

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Student in conversation

IndigExpression

How might we increase the number of opportunities that students may see, hear, and use their Indigenous Heritage Language in their classrooms and school environments? Based on research that students hearing and using language daily […]

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Houdini the Hamster Illustrated by Lindsey Balducci

Children’s Book on Hamster Care

I am passionate about the ethical treatment of animals. Proper care of rodents–hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, etc.–is not widely understood within our society. Further, rodents are often regarded as vermin or pests with little intellectual […]

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Decorative image of an illustrated boy and box.

Designing for Dialogic Reading

Utilizing multimedia storytelling for Transformative Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Shoes of my Dreams started as an idea to specifically focus on providing developmental support to learners who may have high adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which […]

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