Irving ISD Curriculum and Instruction ELAR Specialist and former English 1 teacher who always has a book in her hand
Texas, USA
Joined September 2022
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The kids wrote an argumentative paragraph about whether Johnny was justified in stabbing Bob in the “The Outsiders.” They worked together in small groups to craft their responses. The final products are not pretty, but they represent growth and learning.
End of week 2!
Students are deep into learning and writing using their readers writers notebooks. Also our Academic Specialist showed their immense knowledge and expertise today at our first AS meeting of the year. It’s been a great start! #ExcellenceInAction @IrvingISD
Game night: HIGH SCHOOL edition! 🎲📚 Our high school teachers jumped into internalization, explored Building Better Writers, and got to work sharpening our thinking around grammar and writing. @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD #rlateachers #excellenceinaction
Ready to level up! 🎲 🎲✏️ Our middle school RLA crew rolled the dice on lesson internalization and cracked open Building Better Writers for both grammar and writing! High school team, you’re up tomorrow! @iInstructIrving @mrs_mbrooks @IrvingISD @NataliaESL – at Irving, TX
Kristen Ross retweeted
✨A great start to the 2026–27 school year! Today was filled with learning, collaboration, and growth. I loved helping facilitate our grade level lesson internalization sessions and can’t wait to see it all come to life in our classrooms! 📚 @IrvingISD @netzeroJMS #myIrvingISD
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Thank you RLA Team @MsRossReads & @mrs_mbrooks for the Sentence Structure Poster Bowie has them up. 😉@iInstructIrving – at Grand Prairie, TX
Mission accomplished! Our new teachers are ready to launch! 🚀 We explored the Irving RLA curriculum, unpacked the 5 instructional strategies that fuel great teaching and collaborated to build a strong foundation for students success. @IrvingISD #excellenceinaction
Wow 8th graders killed it!
#ToshShares #STAARredesign ECR score distribution for state 2026 spring, past years & overview linked docs.google.com/document/d/1…
My favorite data of the year!
#ToshShares The spring 2026 data went live, so here is the first of many data looks. The state averages for score 0s on the 10 point essay (ECR). How all students accessed the text & prompt gives us context when looking at our scores. docs.google.com/document/d/1…
So proud to call Hope Lee one of our fantastic RLA teachers! This honor is well deserved!
🎉 Drumroll, please… 🥁
Congratulations to our 2026 Irving ISD Teachers of the Year:
✨ Elementary: Marcela Vega Beck, Davis Elementary School
✨ Secondary: Hope Lee, Austin Middle School
And shoutout to our First Class Teacher of the Year:
🌟 Mary Molina, Singley Academy
Congratulations to these outstanding educators. Let's give them a round of applause! 👏
#ExcellenceInAction
Just got to read some amazing essays from Dr. Marchenko’s ESOL students! ☀️Their writing was so strong and showed incredible growth. This filled my cup. Dr. Marchenko is pure magic! 🪄#excellenceinaction #irvingisd
Happy Read Across America Day! Mr. Bolin and Ms. Cohen’s classes at @IrvingBowie_MS were incredible! Their love of reading made the visit extra special. Thanks @IrvingLibraries for letting me share the joy of reading! @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD
Kristen Ross retweeted
Feeling inspired at the @Region10ESC Literacy Sparks series with @NataliaESL! 📚✨ Focusing on building stronger writers through instruction at the sentence, paragraph, and composition level. So glad to have our Bil/ESL team with us learning and growing together! #LitSpark2
Practicing our Think Sheets in Ms. Walker’s class at @SamhoustonMS!
@iInstructIrving @IrvingISD #excellenceinaction
It was so fun! These were some awesome students!
Thank you @MsRossReads for your time and for the fabulous session on Romeo and Juliet, think sheets and annotations. My English 1 students loved it and learned much! You’re awesome! @IrvingISD
Kristen Ross retweeted
Happy holidays from our Secondary RLA team! 🎄✨
Wishing all educators a restful break filled with joy, rest, and a little extra coziness.
@iInstructIrving
So thankful for all our RLA leaders!
🦃✨ Grateful vibes at today’s Secondary RLA Department Chair meeting! We dug into data and mapped next steps to strengthen internalization and text interactions. @iInstructIrving
Throwback Thursday! Taking it back to some awesome PLCs this fall! Shout out to @NimitzVikings and @Crockett_MS for having some amazing Lesson Internalization and team time. @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD #excellenceinaction
Kristen Ross retweeted
🕸️ What a spooktacular day brewing up The Write Concoction with our #RLAmazing instructors! 💀✍️
We stirred eerie ideas, hauntingly good writing, and snap snap moments of intentionality while internalizing Unit 3. 🖤 Shout out to the @iisdbil_esl team for partnering!
