A Collaborative Teaching Model to Mimic Even When There's No Eclipse

For one Vermont district, this week’s solar eclipse brought with it a unique opportunity for collaboration among educators across the K-12 spectrum. Amy Clapp, a 4th grade teacher in the Addison Central school district, created a working group of educators last October. Together they created a set of lessons that could be modified to meet the needs and abilities of each grade level as they learned about this week’s solar eclipse. These lessons included a read-aloud facilitated by the school librarian, a math exercise in which students calculated how old...