Nicole McCord

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Today, @HawkesBluffElem, @ChapelTrailElem, and @PantherRunElem teachers teamed up for standards aligned professional learning at Hawkes Bluff ES. “Standards complete, data in progress—teacher magic happening!”

[Katie Policastro @DirPolicastro]

Thank you @NewWorldsFL and @DanMarino for your support today at Driftwood Elementary school! What an awesome opportunity to share the love of reading! ❤️📚

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Thank you @BHEPrincipalFam and our Boulevard Heights family for opening your doors for our Coaching Connections sessions. It was an amazing month full of learning, collaboration, and rich conversations. ❤️

[Alan Strauss @AlanStraussbcps]

Congrats to Pembroke Pines ES for being recognized as a National Unified Champion School by Special Olympics. @browardschools @HowardHepburn @BCPS_DeputySupt

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Congratulations to Principal Bell and the amazing team @PembrokePinesES. Today they were recognized for earning the 2025 National Unified Champion Schools® Banner from Special Olympics Florida. Fostering inclusion matters! PPE also set aside extra time for fun.

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Thursday, Driftwood opened their doors to host the Regional Principal Meeting. Principal's engaged in learning, participated in collaborative walkthroughs, and shared feedback. Data coach, Melissa Santiago, came in and shared Progress Monitoring reports! It was an amazing day!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Thank you, Principal Bell @PembrokePinesES & her amazing team for hosting the South Region Principal Academy today. Thank you SR Data Coach Melissa S. for guiding the quest of data. A positive and productive day of Collaboration & Calibration for Standards Alignment and Rigor!

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Our October Coaching Connections has come to a close! THANK YOU to @GatorRunElem Run for hosting our first run of this initiative. Instructional coaches had the opportunity to observe, collaborate, and reflect with their colleagues around the South. We can't wait for next month!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Thank you Principal Collins @davieelementary for hosting Tuesday's Magnetic Reading Leadership Session for admin & coaches. Thank you Cari Rodriguez @iReady for facilitating From Insights to Impact: Aligning Instruction with Purpose-Instructional coherence & promising practices.

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Thank you to @HawkesBluffElem for hosting the first Cross Regional Principal Academy facilitated by directors Meredith Weiss-Schnur and Thomas Correll! Principals engaged in sessions on Rigor in ELA, Performance Matters Reports for Principals, and Problem of Practice Discussion.

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Our first Coaching Connections was a success! Today our coaches participated in collaborative walkthroughs, engaged in professional learning on instructional coaching, and learned from one another. THANK YOU, @GatorRunElem, for opening your doors to our coaches this month!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Thankful for the combined work of our @BCPS_South and @BCPSCentral Data Coach Specialists who led a Performance Matters B.O.Y. Reports Refresher last week. With their guidance, our schools are digging into data to make instructional decisions that matter!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Shoutout to the teachers @countryisles for investing time in standards-aligned instruction PD this week! Thank you, Principal Morgan, for supporting this important work and making it possible.

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Thank you @BHEPrincipalFam for welcoming fellow South Region teachers and allowing them to observe Benchmark Advance instruction in action. We appreciate your collaboration and commitment to shared learning!

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Principal Collins and the Davie Leadership Team took Friday's Instructional Round safari trekking through their plan to reach their WIG!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Kudos to Principal Palacios @WestHollywoodES for providing teachers with professional learning opportunities after school. Kudos to the amazing teachers who shared best practices with their peers on data driven small groups and standards aligned math practices.

[Samia Said @ssaid0205]

Thank you to @ManateeBayElem for hosting today's Principal Academy. It was an amazing day full of reflection, collaboration, and learning from one another! Principals definitely left with a few new tools to add to their belts!

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Embassy Creek ES graciously hosted the Principal Academy for our amazing South Region Principals! A day of welcoming classroom visits and the journey continued with professional learning focused high quality implimentation of practices to strengthen rigor across classrooms.

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

This week @PrincipalMendez and the Watkins ES Leadership team presented their data and their plan to respond. Level Up! Instructional Review 1 is checked off.

[Nicole McCord @SouthRegionIF]

Today was a bright day filled with learning and smiles @PantherRunElem Thank you, Principal Del Sol, for hosting two sessions of Intervene to Accelerate Growth in Math today. Whitney and Karen from @BCPS_ElemMath did a phenomenal job from start to finish with hands on learning!