{"id":7685,"date":"2020-12-02T13:06:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:13:29","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bela-hybrid-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-bela-hybrid-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of a BELA Hybrid Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7689 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/b30e82d6-91b3-4103-a80b-ddf86c9460502.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/b30e82d6-91b3-4103-a80b-ddf86c9460502.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/b30e82d6-91b3-4103-a80b-ddf86c9460502-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/b30e82d6-91b3-4103-a80b-ddf86c9460502-510x382.jpeg 510w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/b30e82d6-91b3-4103-a80b-ddf86c9460502-480x360.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nMs. Celina isn't your average educator.\n\nShe teaches both hybrid and fully virtual STEAM classes at the Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy, an all-girls public charter school located in the Bedford-Stuyvesent neighborhood. With a mission to empower each young woman to be the best version of herself, BELA provides a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, service learning initiatives, and a commitment to cultivating a spirit of ownership within each young woman.\n\nHaving students both in-classroom and online, Ms. Celina keeps her 9th grade classes focused using a variety of ed-tech tools including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wacom.com\/en-us\/products\/pen-tablets\/wacom-intuos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wacom Intuos<\/a> tablets and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peardeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pear Deck<\/a>.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7703  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"333\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM.png 1430w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-1080x591.png 1080w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-1280x701.png 1280w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-980x537.png 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-12.12.46-PM-480x263.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7693 \" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"335\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM.png 1435w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-1080x592.png 1080w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-1280x702.png 1280w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-980x537.png 980w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-02-at-11.20.22-AM-480x263.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n&nbsp;\n\nFind out how Ms. Celina is bringing a fresh approach to hybrid and virtual learning with these tips for creating an engaging, interactive classroom:\n\n<iframe title=\"Virtual Teaching (Using Wacom &amp; Peardeck)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFM7EXkJJ2o?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n&nbsp;\n\nFollow BELA on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/belacharterhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/belacharterhs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BELAcharterschool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.\n\nLearn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belahs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a>.\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.belahs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7695 \" src=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/ScreenShot2018-02-03at9.56.38AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"152\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/ScreenShot2018-02-03at9.56.38AM.png 694w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/ScreenShot2018-02-03at9.56.38AM-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2020\/12\/ScreenShot2018-02-03at9.56.38AM-480x201.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2328,2329,2334,2656],"tags":[920,921,131,922,923,854,542,80,924],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elearning","category-intuos-and-intuos-pro","category-stem","category-education","tag-bela","tag-ed-tech","tag-education","tag-flipped-classroom","tag-hybrid-learning","tag-never-stop-learning","tag-remote-learning","tag-wacom-intuos","tag-wacom-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}