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Katie Budrow

Katie Budrow

learner – leader – author – teacher – science nerd


  • April 27, 2018

    Breaking Silence

    Today in school, I was silent. For the second year in a row, I participated in GLSEN’s Day of Silence. The Day of Silence is a student-led event that happens in schools across the country, bringing awareness to the silencing effects of anti-LGBTQ+ name-calling, bullying, and harassment. Students (and teachers) from middle school to college…

  • November 28, 2017

    Move to the Middle

    Recently, I wrote a little about a concept I’m playing around with called Highly Responsive Teaching. Basically, it is centered around the idea that the teacher “moves to the middle”. I first heard of this phrase in Hacking Leadership by Joe Sanfelippo and Tony Sinanis, where they talk about being the link that connects people…

  • September 7, 2017

    The Plan is Not to Plan

    The school year is off and running, and I couldn’t be happier with my new batch of scientists. They are an eager bunch with a lot of great skills, and I cannot wait to see where they go. One of the things I find most fun about being a teacher is having to adapt to…

  • April 19, 2017

    Creating a Culture

    Creating a Culture

    I often catch myself looking around my room and thinking, “This is awesome. This is exactly what it should be.” Granted, I don’t feel this way every day. There are definitely some rough patches and some whirlwind hours. The wonderful adolescents that I work with are bound to have a few not-so-wonderful days (both individually…

  • March 15, 2017

    The Struggle is Real

    My students are starting a project this week that I am incredibly excited about. It’s a physics project where they identify a real-world problem and design a solution to it. I’ve done if for the past for years, it is so unbelievably cool, and I cannot wait for them to get started.   Knowing this…

  • November 17, 2016

    All In How You Frame It

    In a recent conversation in my room, we talked about the connections between the students’ language arts class and science class. We were on the cusp of a major project that has communication as its main objective (a skill that is very important to acquire for scientists of all ages). We started with the why…

  • October 28, 2016

    Get Out of the Way

    Today, I took a moment out of each of my classes to stop and look around the room.  Everywhere, there was activity and discussion, invention and debate, as well as reflection and perseverance happening in droves.  Heads were focused on their work, hands were pointing or gesturing in explanation, and exclamations of excitement were happening…

  • October 5, 2016

    Feedback FOR Learning

    My students are starting to wrap up their first project of the school year, which is to create a model of a food web.  They are doing some amazing work … and I couldn’t be happier with all they have accomplished so far.  At this point in the process, we start peer reviewing to get…

  • December 2, 2015

    Be Together. Not the Same.

    Ever looked at student work and thought it all looked the same? At some point last year, I remember flipping through something the students had worked on and thinking, “Man, that’s interesting. These are all the same thing”. I immediately went back and looked at the rubric. Of course it all looked the same, the rubric…

  • November 2, 2015

    Why Don’t Report Cards Look Like Social Media?

    Imagine it for a second.  What if report cards looked like Twitter?  Or Facebook?  Or Instagram? I’ve heard a few people toss this idea around recently.  At first, I couldn’t wrap my mind around it.  But the more I pondered the idea, the more it started to make sense. Think about it.  It could be really…

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