We met a fabulous middle school science teacher at the recent T+L conference in Seattle. Nicole Yemothy teaches in Kent, WA. She was kind enough to share this story with us about how BrainPOP helped while she was away from her students to attend the conference. Read on! And if you’ve got a story to share with us, please post on our blog!

As a Title 1 school, our kids are from a very diverse background, with over 70% low income family on free and reduced lunch. At Mill Creek Middle School in Kent, we have over 11 languages spoken at our school alone. Our kids come from an incredible diverse background as well as educational abilities. This diversity is great for the kids and interpersonal growth but the various learning levels make teaching a daily challenge especially in overcrowded classrooms and tight budgets.

BrainPOP is one of those key programs that help even the learning field in my classroom and at our school. After my attending the Brain POP seminar, I used it in my classroom while I was in at the conference for the second day. The results were amazing. I come home from the first day at the conference to emails from 20% of my kids asking for clarification, help, and re-explanation on their day’s activity on the Atmosphere. Since I could not be in the classroom myself the next day, I “sent” Tim and Moby to my classroom (via a BrainPOP video). (more…)