📚Continuing the work from ALLSA, Literacy Coach Tristan Phillips facilitated a session at Danielsville Elementary on assessment purposes, alignment, and digging deeper into upcoming module assessments. RLC Courtney Kerlin also joined as a learner and coach!

✍️ NEGA RESA’s Kathy Harris & Dove Creek’s Katie Collins partnered to bring targeted Science of Writing PL to grades 2–3! Through modeling & reflection, teachers gained practical strategies to strengthen sentences, deepen thinking & build independent writers! @OconeeCoSchools

👑 The Behavior Queen was in the house at NEGA RESA! Educators gathered with Amie Dean for practical classroom management strategies, valuable resources, and ideas for creating positive learning environments. Thank you, Amie, and all who joined us! 💙 #NEGARESA #AmieDean

NEGA RESA Leader Academy Cohort B explored core values, leadership influence, and supporting teachers throughout the school year. Thank you, Dr. Michael Williams and Mr. Justin Mewborn, for sharing your insights! @JCSchoolSystem @BCSchoolsGA

NEGA RESA Leaders explored their Highlands Ability Battery Results and how what they attend to repeatedly creates culture. #LeadWithIntention

Coaching that moves from learning to action! 🚀 Jennifer Adams, Courtney Kerlin & Kathy Harris partnered with Madison County literacy coaches to reflect on their coaching culture and Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle. Coaches left ready to build capacity & impact students! 📚#NEGARESA

🎯Clarity creates momentum in Madison County! Jennifer Adams and Courtney Kerlin partnered with district leaders and principals to unpack HB 1193 updates and regional support—building shared understanding of roles, responsibilities, and next steps to strengthen literacy coaching.

🌟 Coaching in action! NEGA RESA teamed up with Social Circle leaders, coaches & SOR for More to observe UFLI instruction & provide real-time feedback. Teachers sharpened their practice, students benefited, and everyone shined! Teachers & students = ROCK STARS! ⭐ @SCCschools

Great things are happening at Bethlehem Elementary! 📚✨ RLC Courtney Kerlin joined SBLC Katie Edwards to see Tier 1 instruction in action—phonological awareness, decoding, encoding & access to complex text through HQIM. So much to celebrate! 🙌 @BCSchools1

Oconee County Schools surprised Colham Ferry Elementary 3rd-grade teacher Jennifer Mitchem with the NEGA RESA Literacy Teacher of the Year award! 🎉 She is one of 16 regional winners now eligible for Georgia Literacy Teacher of the Year. Congratulations, Ms. Mitchem! 📚

✏️ Strong writers start with strong foundations! NEGA RESA led K–1 Emergent Writing PL connecting speech, phonics, spelling & writing. Educators gained strategies to build sentence skills, stamina, independence & confidence—equipping our youngest learners to thrive! #NEGARESA

👀 The classroom tells the story! Kathy Harris, NEGA RESA RLC, partnered with Jenny Slaughter, MCES Literacy Coach, & administrators to observe student engagement, rigor, & instructional strategies —using evidence to strengthen instruction & student outcomes. @morgangaschools

Strong writing starts with strong instruction! NEGA RESA’s Kathy Harris + Dove Creek’s Katie Collins tailored Science of Writing PL for 4th–5th grade teachers—combining targeted learning, classroom modeling & reflection to strengthen student thinking and writing! @OconeeCoSchools

✍️ From learning to action! NEGA RESA’s Kathy Harris & Dove Creek’s Katie Collins equipped K–1 teachers with Science of Writing strategies through PL, modeling & reflection—building confidence and strengthening daily writing instruction. @OconeeCoSchools

📚 Small Groups, Big Impact! Kathy Harris, NEGA RESA, partnered with Sarah Jones & Hillary Stapp, MCPS, to equip teachers with research-based phonics strategies that strengthen small-group instruction & accelerate reading growth. #NEGARESA @morgangaschools

Kathy Harris, NEGA RESA Regional Literacy Coach, partnered with Kadijah Carey, High Shoals ES Literacy Coach, to observe Fundations instruction, align best practices, giving students more consistent, explicit instruction to build skilled, confident readers. @OconeeCoSchools

Tamara Byars, NEGA RESA, & Allison Funk, Pioneer RESA, were honored to partner with GaDOE at GACIS Curriculum Directors’ Day to present “Calling the Next Play”—helping leaders create clarity, build coherence, respond to data & turn professional learning into instructional impact!

🌲 Helping students THRIVE at Morgan County Primary! Jason Byars started the day greeting students & families, then joined classrooms to strengthen Tier 1 supports—proactive routines, engagement, movement, positive feedback & logical consequences. #THRIVE #PBIS @morgangaschools

The Northeast Georgia RESA community could not be prouder to celebrate our Executive Director, Laurie Allison, who has been named the recipient of the GACIS Deborah White Distinguished Service Award for Supervision of Instruction!

✏️ Strong writers need strong structures! Amy Godfrey & Courtney Kerlin led teachers through strategies in The Writing Revolution that help students organize ideas and lift the cognitive load. Teachers created activities they can immediately put into practice!