Dr. Dina M. Weiss

👩🏻‍🏫Elementary Educator, 🤝Teacher Leader, 🙌🏻Ed.D. Administration and Instructional Leadership, 📝Adjunct Professor, 📖NCTE Member/Presenter, 💙Mom

[Dr. Dina M. Weiss @DinaMWeiss]

Using @INV3_Math , 4th graders are creating a deck of 40 fraction cards that each evidence fraction numeracy using visual representations and equivalency. Deep math talk + working collaboratively= a whole lot of learning success✅ @HES1929 @SosnovskyHES

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@JSerravallo After a mini lesson, prior to them “doing the work,” we engage in a metacognitive routine where they identify their level of understanding and ability to be successful w/ the task. It empowers them to take active ownership over their learning.

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@JSerravallo Anything by Kate DiCamillo especially The Tiger Rising and The Tale of Despereaux yields deep reflective conversation. We also adored Joe from Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan! Maribeth Boelts picture book: A Bike Like Sergio‘s leads to a fantastic discussion.

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⚡️Electrifying and energetic learning with @FOSSscience as we worked collaboratively in lab groups to test materials for conductivity using a motor circuit with a switch, pushing ourselves to use Tier 3 vocabulary. @SosnovskyHES @BrianHTerryEdD @HES1929

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#WorldReadAloudDay2025 “It all begins with the opening of a book.” My favorite part of instruction is performing an interactive read aloud. Today, I had the joy of sharing a favorite text with @MsWagner_Krauss third grade scholars. @SosnovskyHES @HES1929

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True Community of Practice: Unprompted students supporting and relying on each other to learn and create, mediated by the work of literacy. The beauty of a student empowered workshop. 💫@SosnovskyHES @HES1929 @TCAdvancingLit

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🌟Cultivating Literate Identity: Student led writing workshop small group rereading for literary essay details. Engagement. High level academic talk. Productive. @HES1929 @Academics_HWPS @SosnovskyHES

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Routines to Build Reading Community: Every time we gather as a group of readers we sit in stillness for several minutes reading our independent books beside one another creating a reading energy that then allows us to be ready for new learning, PRIOR to the mini lesson. @HES1929

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Honored to be a presenter of Building Literate Identities, and share this wonderful moment with @LucyCalkins, my longtime inspiration for studying sociocultural theory in practice, at #NCTE24 @HES1929 @MossflowerRWP

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Honored to have been a presenter with @tedsclassroom, @drlindseymoses and Meredith Ogden at #NCTE24 sharing our work on cultivating literate identities in our students through communities of practice, authentic experiences, and student-voice empowered assessments. @HWPS14

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Incredibly excited to be a presenter at #NCTE24 Annual Convention in Boston, next week! I’m looking forward to sharing learning theory in practice, and learning from others! 💜🖤💚🩷 @ncte

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I teach a reading group a strategy for deeper comprehension, then I step away availing a student in the group to continue leading the lesson. Total engagement, ownership, yielded from instruction focused on building a literacy identity. Less me,more them. @HES1929 @SosnovskyHES

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Reading partners referencing my small group reading binder of anecdotal notes of them. Making reading instruction transparent builds community, cultivates literate identity, &engages ownership in learning. “She taught us this so remember to try it today.” @HES1929 @SosnovskyHES

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STEM&Habits of Mind: Save Wendell the Worm from his capsized boat! Constraints: no hands, just 2 paper clips; he can’t touch the water (desk)! Get him into his life jacket in his boat w/ his oar working ingeniously and collaboratively. Learn from mistakes. @HES1929 @SosnovskyHES

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My favorite Class Family start of year activity: Using personal artifacts to discover what we have in common and what makes us unique. Cultivating a positive social/emotional climate is key to year-long success! @HES1929 @SosnovskyHES

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@DinaMWeiss is setting expectations from day one! Students shopped for just right books and then enjoyed silent reading time. Practicing sustained reading is vital to building stamina!

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@MsWagner_Krauss 👯‍♀️🩷

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Given the criteria of lighting a bulb w/ 1 wire and 1 D-Cell energy source during a @FOSSscience inquiry launch, this team was the 1st to light up with success! They’re beaming✨w/growth mindset and teamwork. Tomorrow we dive into content of electric circuits. @HES1929 @TLT_HWPS

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The work of literary essay is layered w/a synthesis of literacy & self management skills. We push ourselves to say something remarkable yet grounded in text evidence about various complex short stories. Expectations were high but our thoughts were deep! @HES1929 @TCAdvancingLit

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@MsWagner_Krauss @GirlsWhoCode @TLT_HWPS @HES1929 This! More of this! ✨