After the last DEN STAR Ambassador meeting she attended, it was like a TNT blast of possible uses for DE exploded over  the typical “How was your day?” dinner conversation!   “…The possibilities for elevating our teaching and generating new avenues in which so many of my struggling students…” are not words we educators often hear from other teachers.  I cannot recall another time when my wife has been this sure of any instructional tool, and that night we stayed up way too late actually creating a mini “flipped-classroom” math lesson for my 4^th graders and assigned it using the Builder Tools.  I have assigned three such assignments thus far with nearly all my students completing the online activities outside of school and “Shazam”, their growth reflected on the Test C was off the chart.  Please feel free to view them yourselves if there are skeptics, of which I am sure there are many, especially my old-school history- teaching father.  Blossom even tried to get him on board by showing him how to log in and use the streaming search features.  Can’t say it was a complete success, but hey, I appreciated her audacity in the attempt.   Now the Data Assessment piece is really where she hits her stride; she is familiar with most data management systems, believing using student assessment data as a guide for her instruction is the sole reason for her kids’ success and I am fairly certain what she is accessing, analyzing, and utilizing via Discovery is pretty much the pinnacle of awesome in her book!  So from two educators who oftentimes have trouble seeing  eye to eye, props to Discovery for adding a little “spice” to our relationship (conversationally, that is)!