I am a Title 1 teacher at Buchanan Elementary in the Pierre School District. I love teaching, curriculum work, data, and leading professional development.
Make Tier 1 THE priority.
The results?
Greater achievement
Higher morale
Closed gaps
Lesser discipline
More growth
The method?
Be intentional in 2 things:
Building relationships
Designing learning
That's our work & where the solutions lie.
Lead with passion.
Fuel up with optimism.
Have faith.
Power up with love.
Maintain hope.
Be stubborn.
Fight the good fight.
Refuse to give up.
Ignore the critics.
Believe in the impossible.
Show up.
Do the work.
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You don’t have to be an administrator, grade level chair, or department head to be a leader in you school. Your title doesn’t matter. You just need to care about making it better.
Passion and commitment can transform any culture.
“We want to see equal amounts of attn devoted to both helping children decode and understand how decoding works, and also to understand the language-basis of reading.”
The emphasis on phonics alone as ‘the science of reading’ leaves out half the equation
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