Sandra Childs, TLOSA-ISS Franklin High School
I will be traveling to Costa Rica with 25 other teachers from around the country November 2011. Students will have the opportunity to investigate this country and the environmental issues around it before I go, follow me on my journey once I am there and follow up once I return. This website will offer links for their research and space for their questions & projects, as well as a place for my pictures and stories. This trip is sponsored by Toyota International Teacher Program whose mission is to offer teachers intensive environmental education opportunities that they can share with their students.
I hope to work with our Spanish Humanities, Modern World History, Biology, and Environmental Science classes on this project.
I am a Teacher Librarian on Special Assignment (TLOSA) for Portland Public Schools. This year I am serving as an Instructional Support Specialist for Franklin High where I taught Global Studies, Women’s Literature, & Sophomore English from 1991-2008. I am endorsed in Education (Library) Media, Language Arts, & Social Studies. From 09-11 I was the library media specialist at Jackson Middle School and from 08-09 I was the LMS at Clark-Binnsmead K-8. I also served as Jackson’s writing coach in 2009-10 and their technology facilitator in 2010-11, and am a teacher-consultant for the Oregon Writing Project & a writer for Rethinking Schools. I graduated from Reed College (English), S.U.N.Y. Buffalo (Law), & Lewis & Clark (Education). My greatest teacher is my 15 year old daughter who keeps me up-to-date about everything teen and teenish.
