Teaches and students

First graders at Helen Baller Elementary are showing what it means to be self-empowered learners! In Ms. Wing's classroom, students worked together to unscramble a tricky sentence using words they are learning to decode—building confidence and collaboration along the way.

Next, a student took ownership of his learning by stepping into Ms. Wing's “teacher chair” to identify the day’s focus concept in the connected text for the lesson.