Ricardo Recinos

🧵✨ From Identity to Imagination! Our students stitched their stories into a stunning digital quilt!
Sudents used @adobeexpress to explore GenAI, text effects & image editing.
Each square celebrates who they are: Vibrant, powerful & full of voice.
This is student creativity in full bloom 💫

🎉 Honored to be named a 2025–2026 Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert! Grateful to keep #HLPUSD at the forefront of innovation, edtech & global collaboration—creating access, connections & opportunities for our students. 🌍💡 #MIEExpert #EdTech #HLPUSD #FutureReady

Creativity connects us! It was incredible to see our students explore their identity & celebrate their diverse backgrounds during our digital quilt experience with @annkozma723 from @adobeexpress . Each piece of art is a beautiful story of culture. 🎨 #DigitalArt #HLPUSD #AdobeEduCreative

Our students are bursting with creativity and @annkozma723 is bringing the spark! Join us as we amplify student voice, celebrate identity & co-create joyful learning experiences. Teachers, bring your learners and let’s make this moment unforgettable!

🎬✨ Nothing beats creating with our students!
Our media tech class is bringing stories to life using Adobe Express, preparing videos to stream across campus.
Creativity, collaboration, and student voice in action! 🚀 @CastroCorner
#AdobeEduCreative #StudentVoice #HLPUSD #EdTech

Energized after an incredible PD with our educators! We dove into XR tech that empowers students to explore, create & connect across every subject. From AR apps to immersive VR journeys, every experience is intentionally designed to spark curiosity & deepen learning. ! 🎓✨ #XR #VR #AR

✨ Honored to keynote the HLPUSD CTE Advisory Dinner!
Students, your CTE journey isn’t prep, it’s your origin story.
In the age of AI, your humanity is your edge.
Not “soft” skills—POWER skills: creativity, collaboration, curiosity.
You won’t be replaced, you’ll be amplified.
The future is blazing!

🎓 Honored to keynote @haciendalapuenteusd’s CTE Advisory Dinner tonight with @castro.corner:
“It’s a Weird Future: AI, Spaghetti, Robots & the Superpower of Being Human.” 🤖🍝

Exploring how AI is reshaping workand how we help students thrive with creativity, identity & purpose. #CTE #AIinEducation

🎉 What a joyful night at our HLPUSD Preschool Programs Family Literacy Night! Families explored our classrooms, connected with our learning goals, and watched their little ones in action through QR codes linking to videos & photos. Learning, laughter, and love all around! 💡📚💖 #HLPUSD

🌿✨ What if your students could explore California’s sacred lands, ecosystems & cultures without leaving class?

@CAStateParks PORTS virtual field trips connect students to Indigenous stories, science, and stewardship.

Let’ us help you bring this to life.

Big news, HLPUSD! Microsoft Learning Accelerators just leveled up with LTI 1.3, making it effortless to assign directly in #canvas
From Reading Coach to Search Progress, these tools aren’t just smart; they’re transformational. Personalized practice, real-time insights & joyful learning? Yes please.

Creativity meets community @haciendalapuenteusd !
The incredible @annkozma723 is coming and students are designing digital quilt squares in @adobeexpress that celebrate who they are. 🌟
Identity, culture & creativity stitched into a class quilt of connection.

🌍✨ Dive into Ecosphere VR — the award-winning immersive series from WWF + PHORIA!
🎥 Part 1: Kenya, Borneo & Raja Ampat in stunning 360°
🌱 Part 2: Journeys — new stories, interactivity & a path to Colombia + beyond
Bring conservation to life for your students! 🦋
#VRinEducation #EcosphereVR

🕊️ Today, our @hlpusd students stepped into history through “Surviving 9/11: A VR Experience,” reliving one woman’s powerful testimony from the Twin Towers.
This is more than tech. It’s empathy, memory & connection. #edtech #NeverForget #VRinEducation

AR/VR in K12 isn’t just tech. It’s a portal to imagination, where engagement skyrockets and creativity knows no bounds.
You haven't seen anything yet!

🌺 Hawaiian Day brought learning to life! Students used @AdobeExpress to turn descriptive writing into vibrant visuals; combining culture, creativity & tech.
🎨📚 Engagement soared as students saw their words come alive!
#AdobeExpressEDU #StudentVoice #HawaiianDay2025

My Story, My Voice: AI-Powered Storytelling YouTube video by Adobe Live

💥 What. A. Session. 💥 Stories + strategies proving every student’s voice matters. With @techtosas & @thetechprofe, we saw how @adobeexpress + AI spark creativity across cultures, languages & experiences. 🎨 Design 🎤 Narration 🌍 Stories that travel 🎞️ www.youtube.com/live/TxuH_f-...

Join me + @TheTechProfe for Adobe Live: Education Edition: where creativity meets power and inspiration doesn’t wait.
🔥 High energy
🔥 Hands-on exercises
🔥 Real strategies you’ll use tomorrow
🔥 Surprises you won’t want to miss
🗓️ Friday, Sept 5
⏰ 11am PT | 2pm ET

Honored to present to our @hlpusd Teacher Induction educators! 💫 Explored key EdTech tools to spark classroom magic:
🔗 @ClassLink
📚 @Canvas_by_Inst
🧮 @AeriesSIS
📣 @ParentSquare
🖥️ @LanSchool
Building brilliance, one tool at a time! @CastroCorner 💥 #EdTech #EquityInAction

Happy #LaborDay to our incredible @haciendalapuenteusd teachers, students, families & partners! 🌟
Your dedication fuels a thriving, joyful learning community.
Take a bow and a break, you’ve earned it! 🎉💪

#HLPUSD #CommunityStrong

🚀 From gears to genius! Our POE students in Mr. To's class didn’t just build Advanced Motion Projects; they authored their innovation journeys using @bookcreatorapp Every page pulses with creativity, engineering & student voice. 📚✨ #StudentCreators #POE #EdTechWins #BookCreator

Too adorable not to share again! 😍📚✨
At HLP Amar Children’s Center, Head Start & State Preschool, creativity is in full bloom. 🌸 Big thanks to TOSA Delia Castro & our young scholars for designing the cutest bookmarks with @canva 🌈💡 #EdTech #EarlyEd #CanvaInClassrooms

YouTube video by TRansformational Tech Unlock Student Confidence - Speaker Progress Made Simple in Canvas

🚀 Empower your students’ voices with Microsoft Learning Accelerators!
Speaker Progress is now just a click away in @canvaslms via our new Microsoft Education LTI 1.3.
✅ Build confidence
✅ Improve communication
✅ Prepare for future success
Start today! #EdTech #FutureReady 🎞️ youtu.be/ONY4DQUJpRM

🎨 From pixel to pedagogy: Students built Funko Pop versions of themselves, learning AI literacy through rich prompts. 💬 They saw how inputs shape outputs—while Gemini for Education keeps data safe: no training, no collection, just creativity. 🔒 #EdTech #AIinEdu #StudentVoice

What a powerful PD day w/ our MTSS TOSAs! 🚀
Explored how Reading Coach & Reading Progress fuel Tier 1–3 supports:
📊 Universal screening & progress monitoring
🎯 Targeted + personalized practice
Plus, Ethnic Studies on culturally responsive teaching & rich data talks w/ MTSS & ELA TOSA leads.

💙 Every grade tells a story and our fellow educators deserve tools that make that story seamless.
With canvas + aeries sis Grade Sync + microsoftedu LTI 1.3, teachers can pass back grades effortlessly & unlock learning accelerators that actually accelerate learning.
For our students. For our future

YouTube video by TRansformational Tech Gemini for Students - Your AI Study Partner - Unleashing Gemini in Canvas

Students - Leveling up learning is now in your hands! 🚀 @googlegemini in @canvaslms empowers students with on-demand support for complex concepts, personalized study plans, & creative brainstorming, all without a teacher's direct help. #StudentSuccess #AIinEducation #CanvasLMS 🎞️ youtu.be/SrwzeLQHDVY

🎉 Big shoutout to our Media class @grandviewgrizzlies Academy! Today we dove into @adobeexpress to power up student-led newsletters that shine a spotlight on our incredible Students & Teachers of the Month. Creativity + recognition = unstoppable 💥 #AdobeExpress #StudentVoice #CelebrateEducation

YouTube video by TRansformational Tech Gemini in Classroom - Save Time on Prep, Focus on Students

🚀 Gemini for shortcuts - more time for what truly matters: our students.
From instant lesson plans & rubrics to quiz generators & real-world examples... AI shortcuts are shifting the focus from tasks to teaching.
Let’s transform learning, one smart assist at a time. 💡📚 youtu.be/m8-JJQL9DCM

YouTube video by TRansformational Tech Empower Students with Math Progress - Transforming Learning with Microsoft Learning Accelerators

Math Progress is now live in Canvas via Microsoft Education LTI 1.3 or via Teams Assignments! 🎉
Empower students with personalized practice, real-time insights & formative assessments. All designed to build math confidence and close learning gaps.
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