Civics teacher & CT lead @GlasgowMS 🐾 @williamandmary alum 💚💛 History nerd and outdoor enthusiast. Serving @FCPSR2 w/ my other half @MrsDipertSabol 🏳️‍🌈

Alexandria, VA
Joined February 2020
Had so much fun celebrating a year well-planned with the best CT around! We finished off with a potluck and Civics End of the Year Awards. Thankful for a team as supportive & dedicated to kids as this one. Onto next year! @GlasgowMS #GMSCivics
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Last week all 8th grade @GlasgowMS students had the chance to attend presentations w/ @ConstitutingUSA and we had a blast!! Not to brag, but our Panthers came ready to show off their Constitutional knowledge & aced the quiz 😎 #CivicsEducation #knowyourrights 🇺🇸
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Thank you to @CarmenAndersen for planning the assemblies for us and to @ConstitutingUSA for the excellent conversations & for making learning fun!
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The million dollar Sabol bucks have returned 😎 students took on the role of #Cabinet Secretaries and tried to convince President Sabol that their exec. dept. deserved another $1,000,000 in the budget! We had a lot of fun researching exec. branch agencies & programs! #gmscivics
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When the best coach ever @CarmenAndersen gifts your team their own GAVELS for our upcoming mock Congress >>>> 🤗🥳 Nothing gets #GMSCivics teachers excited like parliamentary procedure! @GlasgowMS
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Because we don’t do anything halfway over here, today @GlasgowMS #Civics returned from Winter Break and immediately jumped back in w/ a field trip to JA Finance Park! It was an awesome hands on application of financial literacy skills 💰✏️ – at Arlington, VA
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And… it was a huge team effort! 👏🏻 Thank you to all of the sponsors, volunteers (including my favorite MIL @CINC_House ) and teachers (s/o @CarmenAndersen & @kndmarin ) for making it happen. Looking forward to the entire 8th grade getting to experience it this week!!
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#TwinDay with the best team out there! 👫👫 @GlasgowMS #Civics has one important message: go VOTE! 🗳️✅
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Students wrapped up our Political Process unit by creating mind maps. 🧠🗺 These 5 made our “Make Yourself Proud” board- such great thinking serves as a great role model for peers looking to make edits to their own work! 🏅 @GlasgowMS @FCPSR2 @FcpsSocial
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Born #OTD in 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt was called “First Lady of the World.” Marrying FDR, they formed a powerful political team. She was an advocate for children, workers, women & minorities, constantly traveling & speaking out for positive change.
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So glad you could drop by and see our 8th grade student activists in action! ⚖️🪧🧑‍🎓#civicseducation – at Lincolnia, VA
How have you made yourself proud today? Maybe by advocating for yourself?! Our individuals and societies teachers are always gathering student experiences and voices! @GlasgowMS @FCPSR2
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Semi-hesitantly decided to include daily notebook use in my class this year…definitely felt like I made the right choice when I walked by this student’s self-designed review page today! Giving students flexible note taking & journal response options has been 💯 so far.
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Nothing like a little class competition to shake things up! Students raced to sort terms into “#Civics” and “Not Civics” categories as we started the year off by discussing what #8thgrade Social Studies is going to be all about #FirstDayFairfax
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Back-to-school BBQ with the @GlasgowMS Civics team! Can’t wait to welcome our panthers back next week for another year of learning 🐾💙📖 #civicseducation #BetterTogether @FCPSR2 @VictorLeonPowe1
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Circular Flow came to life the past 2 days in Civics! Ss were given the role of a business or a household and had to trade resources for $$ to end w/as many finished products as possible. Who knew Econ could be this much fun?! (tbh, even I was skeptical at first!) @GlasgowMS
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This week, I dug out my college graduation robes to turn class into Judge Sabol’s courtroom👩🏻‍⚖️ students had a great time taking on the role of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and members of the jury! #MockTrial #Civics #courtisinsession @GlasgowMS
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My students loved taking on the role of Cabinet Secretaries in the Sabol administration!👩🏻‍⚖️They researched their dept. & then made a presentation for our #Cabinet mtg. The task? Convince me they deserved a bonus $100,000. I wasn’t lying when I said there’d be a prize😂 #civics
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And big shout out to @MrsDipertSabol who made us the grand prize $100,000,000 bills - I’ve already gotten several requests to use them as the prize for all class competitions! 😂
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When the internet isn’t working… we audible! Luckily anchor charts and writing prompts never have technical difficulties 😎 #flexiblelessons #nointernetneeded #fcps #glasgowmiddle
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We’re showing what we learned this unit by making our very own #politicalcartoons! Students created analogies about their chosen election topic and then brainstormed symbols & labels to illustrate with. No kid is too old for some markers and colored pencils 😎 #civicseducation
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Pictured: John’s cartoon on the Two Party System. His analogy: “The Two Party System is like a rock wall race because there are two main parties rushing to the top, and the Third Party always gets kicked down to the bottom.”
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