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Scrapbooks That Teach is a web-based business aimed at teacher leaders and home education parents using a motivation-to-retention instructional model. Promoting scrapbooking with the curriculum as an instructional technique to assist students to retain the curriculum, it is called academic scrapbooking, encouraging students pre-K-grade 12 to create a personalized experience with their teachers' lessons. Scrapbooks That Teach's Independent Practice activity (a component of the teachers lesson plan) is captured by the students with a camera and using creative visuals. The students' personalized experience is facilitated when they are able build a positive relationship with the curriculum. Students design a scrapbook page that is academically oriented, called a scraPPageTM, using their photos and creative visuals making for an interactive experience showcased by the completed product. Scrapbooks That Teach provides a touchstone by which the future of scrapbooking is re-directed along a motivation-to-retention path that can even be measured for skeptical teachers who need quantifiable student progress reports. Our key to success rests in our mission statement:
Personalizing the curriculum, motivate them, and assisting them to retain
And, the hallmark of our outstanding academic-oriented products is the accessibility for all students and their special needs, including those children with multiple-handicaps.
The founder and President of Scrapbooks That Teach, LLC has a 13 years history as a successful classroom teacher. A graduate from University of Pittsburgh with a masters degree in education, Willard's teaching focus has remained on creating and designing thematic curriculum units for her students, and using a variety technology and art mediums to present her lessons. Having also served on school districts' curriculum revision task force committees and having been invited to design curriculum activities, Willard is entrenched in the education world as a master teacher. As far back as 1997, Willard has incorporated photography and scrapbooking into the social studies curriculum, taking her motivation-to-retention instructional model using academic scrapbooking on the road to local, state, regional, and international conferences.
