Dr. Laurie Sullivan, Project Discovery Barrett APS

Barrett #KWBPride Counselor Ms. Pizzano sitting with Kindergarten students during National School Counseling Week

National School Counseling Week spotlights counselors’ vital role in helping students thrive. Barrett Kindergarten students surprised Ms. Pizzano with a gift of appreciation and a special letter they composed #KWBPride @apsva.us #OneTeamOneAPS

Barrett #KWBPride students surround Dr. Rivas with a hug for Principal Appreciation Week.

Students surround Dr Rivas with a hug.

Huge poster card with coloring done by the students showing many of Dr Rivas favorite things.

Barrett students and teachers wish Dr. Rivas a Happy Virginia School Principals Appreciation Week! We appreciate you @drgabyrivas.bsky.social #KWBPride @apsva.us #PrincipalsAppreciationWeek #OneTeamOneAPS

PreK teacher Susan Garman works on a building project with a student holding a hammer.

PreK Instructional Assistant Adela Jaldin helps a student with a wood building project.

I’m thrilled that my teaching colleagues Susan Garman and Adela Jaldin were selected as the Barrett Teacher and Support Employee of the Year! Congratulations! #KWBPride @kwbarrettpta.bsky.social @kwbarrettpta.bsky.social #OneTeamOneAPS

Teacher with huge 6 7 balloons. Students 67 motions, boy in a 6-7 shirt

Students enter the classroom in the morning with 67 balloons

Creating with 67 marshmallows and toothpicks

Barrett #KWBPride 2nd grade students celebrate 67 days of learning! Math games with the number 67, writing for 6 minutes and 7 seconds and 6 or 7 nicknames. Ten frames with 67 dots. What will you build with 67 marshmallow and toothpicks?! @apsva.us

Fuse at Mason Square More than just a building, Fuse is a public-private partnership between the university and industry that will bring both community and economic vitality to the region.

Thrilled to be selected for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) STEM Teacher Leadership Advisory Panel. Inspiring kick off today at Fuse George Mason University Square in Arlington masonsquare.gmu.edu/fuse

Student holds snow standing on the snow-covered turf

Smiles of excitement as students walk across the snow-covered turf.

First snow of the season! What an exciting start to our Barrett #KWBPride school day @barrettaps.bsky.social @apsva.us #OneTeamOneAPS

Thank you and NEA team members for visiting #KWBPride Barrett @barrettaps.bsky.social

NEA President Becky Pringle with Project Discovery teacher Laurie Sullivan

APS post on Instagram

Special to share about Project Discovery with NEA president Becky Pringle along with a big gift for #KWBPride Barrett and Arlington Public Schools! #OneTeamOneAPS

Exciting day in Project Discovery sharing the book gifted to our Barrett students from NASA Astronaut Leland Melvin and then PreK astronauts floating by #KWBPride #OneTeamOneAPS #NASAedu #EduSky

Teachers Megan Zelasko and Laurie Sullivan

Stop Motion Animation

Ozobot examples - Predator Prey and Migration

Bee-Bot Animal Habitats

Loved the energy of the teachers who attended our presentation at the Virginia Association of Science Teachers VAST PDI conference! Thanks for the inspiration @kidmuseum.bsky.social @mszelasko.bsky.social #2025vastpdi #STEM #MakerMindset #KWBPride

We are Barrett astronauts! #KWBPride

Two students sit on the grass turf eating ice cream

Paradise employees smile as they serve ice cream

Students put toppings on their ice cream

Artwork on student’s arm

Wonderful evening weather for the Barrett PTA Ice Cream Social with so many happy students and their families #KWBPride #OneTeamOneAPS @kwbarrettpta.bsky.social @drgabyrivas.bsky.social

Dr. Sullivan standing in the middle of the Welcome Barrett Tigers lawn sign

Student tosses inflatable planet to another student

Students collect data record tally marks.

Former Barrett student Alexa teaches the Barrett Beliefs cheer: We are Mindful. We are Helpful. We are Powerful. We are Barrett!

Up early to start my Year 33 at Barrett Elementary! First day of school fun gamification taking student attendance with inflatable planets, movement, sentence stem and tally marks plus Barrett Beliefs Cheer! #KWBPride @drgabyrivas.bsky.social #APSBack2School @apsva.us #EduSky

3 Strategies to Effectively Teach Science Vocabulary Using engaging, in-context strategies helps elementary students truly understand new terms.

By combining movement, art, and interactive word walls, science teachers can bring vocabulary to life in ways that help students learn! 🌟

#ITeachScience #EduSky

Happy to welcome students, their families & caregivers to our Barrett #KWBPride School Open House classrooms to meet teachers, staff, admin @drgabyrivas.bsky.social #APSBack2School @suptduran.apsva.us #OneTeamOneAPS

#BookCreator Teacher PD Guide video @bookcreator.com #EduSky #EdTech

Epic. Entertaining. Thought-provoking. Trevor Muir keynote at the Copenhaver Institute, Roanoke College #CopenhaverChats
Innovation should serve the purpose of school. Harness the power of story to deepen student engagement and create meaningful learning. #KWBPride #SummerPD @apslearns.bsky.social

Students wearing last day of school hats working at the table with magnet blocks

student on the carpet working on an endangered animals puzzle

ornaments students made for students in Panama as part of the Smithsonian migratory bird project, “Bridging the Americas“

Last day of school fun singing about NASA Europa Clipper Mission, making bird ornaments for our partner class in Panama, building, puzzles and lots of energy! #KWBPride

Students work together to solve the challenge

Typing hypothesis

Modules or levels

Listen to learn about the scientist and watch video of GPS tag for shark

On the last day of school #KWBPride students asked me to unlock another “level” in the digital simulation WaterWays where students tag and track sharks and develop solutions to problems like plastic pollution #ecology
#science #curiosity #EdGames #STEMed

Project Discovery Teacher Stacey Fernandez weeds in the courtyard garden

Science coach Carrie Lombardi checking on the garden beds of veggies and flowers

Bell pepper

Tomatoes

Teachers doing some gardening on the last day of school. Looking good! #KWBPride

I would love to purchase a table top one. We have a large Wind Tube that a retired engineer built for us bsky.app/profile/drsu...

Is that a mini wind tube?

What a great week teaching with Barrett former student Michaela Donovan, who is now an astronomer! #KWBPride #scientist #OneTeamOneAPS @apsva.us @suptduran.apsva.us @apsvaschoolbd.bsky.social

Chromatography Butterfly Science. Thanks for the STEM Kits Rosie Riveters #KWBPride

Student Friction Climbers in action in Project Discovery at Barrett Elementary School #KWBPride #EduSky #OneTeamOneAPS #STEM #SciArt

The friction climber character matches what the student is wearing

this student made her friction climber into a necklace at the end of the lesson

Student in the hall, pulling the string for her friction climber

student with iPad taking video and photos of the friction climbers to include in Canva presentation

Thank you Rosie Riveters for the Friction Climber STEM kits. The students loved the project and created Canva presentations on their iPad #EduSky #SciArt #Science #KWBPride #OneTeamOneAPS

Noodles races

Sack race

Student w water and popsicle

Water races

Field Day fun! Beautiful weather for Barrett students to enjoy games, races and cool off with water and popsicles #KWBPride #smiles #OneTeamOneAPS

Thank you Rosie Riveters for the STEM Pulley kits. The Barrett #KWBPride 3rd grade students loved building, lifting load of pennies, decorating and taking home to share with family #SimpleMachine #Science #SciArt #OneTeamOneAPS