Instructional coach, H.S. English teacher, Women in Leadership advisor, literacy interventionist, reader, writer.
Lenexa, KS
Joined May 2015
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So proud of the 14--14!--@SMWestOffice teachers who are presenting virtually in @theSMSD iFair today. . .because sometimes the best PD is from the teacher down the hall. . .or down the street.
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Educators: want to reduce your stress levels?
Nurture relationships with your colleagues 👉🏻 bit.ly/4fYBnyO
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Want to get your students reflecting and talking? 🎲 Try these dicebreakers and debrief activity templates for some classroom fun!
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#edutwitter #teachingideas #k12
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Encourage your students to engage with texts before, during, & after reading!
Get an active reading strategy for any learning landscape now: bit.ly/3zUIcB9
#engchat #litchat #literacy
1st #womeninleadership meeting @SMWestOffice this morning! What a great group of leaders we have this year! @SMSDWiL
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🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process.
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This is what leadership looks like! Up bright and early cleaning up our home away from home. @SMWestOffice @SMSDWiL
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This is a fantastic post with tips for avoiding teacher burnout!
Teacher burnout “is a side of our profession that teacher preparation programs don’t always fully address,” and this can leave many new educators feeling overwhelmed. These tips can help you build a support network, save time, and decompress. ⭐ edut.to/4ePOdOr
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One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writi… ✍️
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📙 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This new A3 poster captures some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy!
🫵 REPOST and download a FREE HQ copy here: jamieleeclark.com/graphics
📙 READ MORE: explicitinstruction.org
Kenna is so missed! She would love this so much!
William (5th from left), senior @ @SMWestOffice, attended the Jayhawk Debate Institute through a Kenna Campbell Kobin Memorial Stepping Stones Scholarship. He attended 26 lectures & had 228 pages of notes! Family & friends of Kenna Campbell Kobin helped make this possible!
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🙌🏻 Want to put some new small-group instructional strategies into action in the new school year?
Use my template: “5 Strategies for the Teacher-led Station” ➡️ bit.ly/48ZxDtt
#StationRotation #EdChat #EduTwitter #EduChat #EdTech
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Prepping for fall PLC discussions with your math team? Bookmark this strategy, including a ready-to-use math interview protocol!
(Via @edutopia)
edutopia.org/video/simple-st…
ALT Handout with a table titled "The Math Interview." The left column has questions students can ask each other about math, such as, "What did the problem ask you to solve?" The right column has space for notes.
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Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and even teachers!) reflect on this.
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I have some plans for the first day of school.
I would love to hear yours! What are your 5 acts?
jaywamsted.medium.com/the-fi…
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My (unpopular) opinion is to NOT skip the icebreakers - but make sure they’re purposeful. A friend and I were nerdy enough about the topic to write about it: ascd.org/el/articles/why-ice…
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🙌🏻 #ChoiceBoard enthusiasts, rejoice!
Here’s my favorite tool for #reading strategies! Copy + download now: bit.ly/48viVu0
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