Sara Merkle

Molloy College Alum🦁 Reading Specialist💛 B.S. Gen. Ed B-6🍎 M.S. Teaching Literacy B-12📖

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Ready! @wilsonlanguage #WilsonDyslexiaConference

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

First full week of October = Dyslexia Awareness Month in full swing!! Please ~donut~ forget about our most struggling readers and how to best support them! 🍩💛 #dyslexiaawareness

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

An awesome night at our “POW (power of words) Readers are Leaders” event! All do the readers and writers did a wonderful job reading to teachers, peers, family & friends! A great night for our community! Special shout out to our spectacular reading challenge ambassadors!

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Read your shirt day!! 🤓📖👚#literacymonth

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

March is literacy month! But 1st- I always ask my Ss to read for fun. I admit that I don’t always listen to my own advice! I just finished “The Nightingale”. 1st book that made me feel SO many emotions in a while! Glad to have gotten this spark of inspo as I enter March w/ my Ss!

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

3rd grade students have been working hard to strengthen their oral reading fluency skills while practicing their readers theater scripts based on Aesop’s fables! I can’t wait to see their performances next week!

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

@SirakisVivian You too!!

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Happy first day of school!! Here’s to a great year ahead! 💙👩‍🏫📖

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

LOVE Canva!!

Excited to share that I just earned the Teacher Essentials certificate with Canva Design School! Learn more at @CanvaEdu #Canva #CanvaEdu #CanvaDesignSchool https://t.co/2KUEQYT4JZ

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

@Pride_Pedagogy Oh yay! Definitely adding this to my summer to-do list!

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Our last in-class fluency check of the year! 3rd grade readers showed off their oral reading fluency by performing a Reader’s Theater on our outdoor “stage”! A fun way to review and get some fresh air! 🎭☀️

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

You’re telling me they HAVE to graduate?! All the end-of-year festivities are in full swing and the feeling is bittersweet as I send my 5th grade graduates proudly off to the middle school! 🥰🥹

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Blown away by the talented 5th graders who performed in tonight’s Spring Concert! Can’t wait to see the 4th grade musicians next week! 🎶🥁🎺🎻🎹

[Lindsay Kemeny @LindsayKemeny]

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! This week is ALL about amazing educators who make a difference every day! To celebrate, I'm giving away a prize EVERY SINGLE DAY this week! Today's prize is a signed copy of 7 Mighty Moves! To enter:
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[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Excited to have earned my @credly badge from @newpaltz for completing the SOR Microcredential! What a great refresher of the 5 pillars of literacy and how to effectively implement them in the classroom. Thank you @SirakisVivian for sharing this great opportunity with me! #SOR 📚

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Love this! 🧡

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Excited to have finally achieved this certification after utilizing Google all of these years! Google Certified Educator!👩‍💻💻 @GoogleForEdu @Google

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Happy National Poetry Month from my very talented student that made an already sunny day even brighter!!☀️🥹 How lucky am I?! #enormouslysmart

[George Couros @gcouros]

My learning from this week...

When you are confident in your own experience and knowledge but humble enough to know that you can still learn and improve from the meaningful input of others, there are no limits to your growth.

This is what I thought about when I worked with @CommackSchools this past week. There are so many wonderful things going on in their school district that I felt so blessed that I was able to share my own ideas and experiences, but I was open to improving on what they were already doing. I am sure, like any school district, things there aren’t perfect, but wow, they are pretty good.

The best organizations I have worked with are already doing incredible things yet still strive to get better. Superintendent Dr. Jordan Cox @LI_Educator shared with me that “Above and Beyond is our Baseline,” and that is what they expect from themselves, not only in their school experience but also in how they take care of themselves outside of school.

This week was a reminder of why I love what I do. To be surrounded by enthusiasm and people who want to continuously get better makes you gravitate to those traits yourself.

3 More Things I Learned This Week

1. A great routine can be constantly modified to become better. Small tweaks can lead to big results.

2. The best things in life often come with the most obstacles. Sometimes, when you are struggling in the moment, take a step back and think about what it will look like when you achieve your goals. That can be the fuel to keep going. Don’t get caught up and assume your current struggle is how it will always be.

3. With every birthday, I hope to use that day to celebrate others and let them know the impact they have had on me. As I get older, I become more grateful for those closest to me who have supported me over the years.

What was your big learning this week?

[Sara Merkle @Miss_Merkle]

Still feeling inspired after this past week! Thank you @gcouros !! #commackschools

[Commack Schools @CommackSchools]

Spectacular start to Superintendent's Conference Day on Wednesday with keynote speaker @gcouros! "I can feel your enthusiasm," Couros told the capacity crowd of educators inside the CHS auditorium.