“ Great job! We will use what was presented as early as tomorrow.” Tracy Ducar, Instructional Technology Coach “There are so many useful apps to try and share with my staff. What Your Colleagues Say About Your Presenter In one day, you will gain a wealth of strategies, apps and ideas you can implement immediately using your iPad in reading, writing and math centers. Mary presents seminars that are fast-paced, inspiring and above all, practical and research-based. Mary is the author of iPads as Literacy and Math WORK STATIONS: Increase Student Engagement and Achievement (Grades K-6), the extensive resource handbook you will receive at the seminar. You will also learn creative ways to use numerous features already on your iPad for projects, assessing, documenting work, recording video and audio - all with the goal of engaging your students in active learning during center time.
With a focus on free or low-cost, Mary will give you dozens of apps that work especially well for practicing and applying skills in reading, writing and math that are aligned with the Common Core State Standards. As an avid user of iPads and iPad apps in the K-6 classroom, Mary will spend the day showing you best strategies for using and managing iPads in work stations, whether you have one or many. BUT.Mary Peterson is a highly experienced elementary teacher, acclaimed presenter and is passionate about using technology as a tool to motivate students and increase their learning. (That's Tracy little red Honda civic in the bottom right hand corner.)Īnd for clarification, I like to believe that I am Tracy #1 Fan - but in reality Chris truly is. Wanna see what Mr & Mrs Ducar's mansion looks like? Here's a picture curtesy of their own homepage. Hopefully next summer he'll be in Atlanta when Tracy plays there and we can cheer her on together. He is always very friendly and it really surprised me when he recognized me this past summer at the Courage game. I have met Chris on several several occasions (post game reception in 1999, UNC soccer camp, Carolina Courage game, UNC game) and he is a really great person. Hey Tracy, is that what happens when you get old - you start losing your memory? By the way - the song was "Have I Told You Lately that I Love You?" and NOT the Rod Stewart version - it was Van Morrison all the way baby."Ĭhris's nickname is "Bird" or "Birdman," both which come from "Big Bird." I had heard Akers refer to him as "Birdman" before but it really surprised me when Jamie Kinney (a former UNC gk) asked me how I knew "Bird" - that made me laugh! Sarah Powell thinks that's appalling and has hung a note inside Tracy's locker with the song written on it so that it won't happen again. "Word has it that Tracy is having trouble remembering her wedding song (don't be mad Chris ). I know I'll never hear the end of that one."Ī cute thing from a Boston Breakers newsletter: Anyway, like an idiot, I told them about Noonan's surprise proposal, and guess who the guy was. So I kept talking, figuring eventually I would dredge up their faces and names from somewhere in that hazy memory of mine. I was sure I knew them from somewhere, but for the life of me, I could not figure out where.
As par for the course, I couldn't remember where I knew these guys from.
Weeks later, I was chatting with some guys from Soccer Plus Goalkeeper School (Tony's camps). When it was finally over and she reported the details of her big night at practice the next day, we all celebrated with her. She told us her plans and arranged it with Blake, the owner of the restaurant (and friend of mine), so there was a big build up to it. Tracy proposed to Chris in Orlando in one of my favorite restaurants (Colorado Fondue). "I have a funny story about Noons and her now husband, Chris Ducar.
Here's a story Michelle Akers tells about Tracy & Chris in one of her books: