Finn Hill Teacher Chosen for Microsoft Innovation Education Forum

A language arts and social studies teacher at Kirkland’s is among four Lake Washington School District teachers chosen to attend a U.S. Innovation Education Forum this week at the campus in Redmond.

Robin Hoover and the three other teachers will share the ways they are using technology creatively to improve learning. They are among 100 teachers invited from across the country to the Microsoft-sponsored forum, part of the software giant’s Partners in Learning program. Ten of the teachers will be selected for a Partners in Learning global forum in Washington, D.C., this November.

At the local forum this Thursday and Friday, Hoover will showcase her and her students' project “Voices of Injustice.” Students use their research to create three fictional voices from a global situation of injustice, including the perspective of victim, persecutor and neutral bystander. One voice is presented in a written narrative, another orally and the last digitally.

The other three LWSD teachers participating are Bret Crane of Redmond Junior High, and Matt Palmer and Kim West of the district’s technology integration team.

The teachers were judged based on the learning philosophy and goals of their project submission, their use of technology and their ability to demonstrate examples of student work and achievement from the project.

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Information in this report came from a Lake Washington School District press release.