Toni Shipley

Dallas ISD 💙
Curriculum Coordinator 👩🏻‍💻
Former ELAR Teacher 📚
Llama Llover 🦙

[Toni Shipley @ToniShipley1]

Feeling grateful this week for the dedicated teachers @dallasschools. At Dallas Environmental Science Academy, Ms. Martinez’s LAB time was all about student choice, engagement routines, and one-on-one student conferences. 🦃🧡🍁

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Teachers @LongfellowCEA include career connections in their lessons: 6th - character change and psychology. 7th - Phineas Gage and railroad foremen. 8th - Frankenstein and cloning scientists. Critical thinking is fun at Longfellow Career Exploration Academy!!

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Teachers @Stockard_ms are using active reading strategies to keep their students engaged with challenging texts. Way to go Panthers!

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Teachers @GreinerAcademy are working hard to support students’ reading and writing with a variety of scaffolds. Thanks for meeting your students where they are!

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Not even Homecoming could distract the teachers and students @GarciaMS_DISD! Gallery walks, TPR, and family trees brought this instruction home!

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The RLA instruction Zan Holmes MS is “ZANtastic!” We loved seeing the curriculum in action with Table Talk, text-to-self connections, postcard writing from yellow-fever-stricken Philadelphia, and a CBLI Word Wall. Keep up the great work, Zan Holmes!

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RLA teachers @dallasschools T. W. Browne MS is in their Engaging Students Era!!!
Peer editing ✔️ Writing scaffolds ✔️ Essay exemplars ✔️ Activating prior knowledge ✔️ Intentional instruction ✔️
Text-to-self connections ✔️ Classroom JOY ♥️

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Writing instruction @dallasschools Dade Middle School is “Very rigor. Very mindful.” 👏🏻 Teachers are using mentor texts, graphic organizers, RACE, and appropriate scaffolds to help their students Level-up their ECRs. Way to go Dade!

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More great instruction @dallasschools Madison High! English III students are reviewing characterization through dialogue and strategy!

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English teachers at Lincoln High School are ACE-ing it with complex texts!

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English teachers at @RooseveltHS_Dal are rockin’ and rollin’! They are using ECR scaffolds, discussing Apartheid, and finding textual evidence in Beowulf! Great visit today with @AbramJoseph5.

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Summer reading is off to a great start @dallaslibrary Hampton-Illinois Branch.

[@DallasReads @DallasReads]

We are ready for a fantastic night of poetry!

[@DallasReads @DallasReads]

Join us this Friday evening for our district Poetry Slam!

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Dallas ISD students enjoyed the book selection at the African American Read-In. #DallasISDBlackHistory

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At C. F. Carr Elementary School, Ms. Bell’s 4th grade students turn and talk (and smile) about Treasure Island.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives. And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone.

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I love google classroom. #BowieMSNation

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First twitter chat! #dpvilschat

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Hello Twitter! #myfirstTweet