Darrin Nicholas

Devoted Husband/Father, Administrator at Raytown Middle School

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We had a blast today! Thank you!

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Come out and enjoy the show! 6th-8th Band Winter Concert just starting! 7:00 PM! More pictures to come!

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One of the best ways to impact a student’s life=Team Sports! What a great week for RMS! Let’s Go Bluejays!!! #WeAreRaytown @DrPenK @RaytownSchools @RQSRaytownMidd

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@RQSRaytownMidd Let’s Go! Teachers are back and we are ready to kick of the school year! Because of you, anything is possible for the students in our building!

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Learning from Peter DeWitt tonight through zoom! “I calendar my time so I can make sure I’m getting into the classrooms everyday!” -Peter DeWitt
That’s my ultimate goal! @BryanMcDonaldPD #UCMOEDLEAD #fortproud

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Will you see what you know or know what you see? How do walk into a classroom with a different lens? Lead by asking questions. From an Admin, come from a place of seeking to understand someone’s teaching strategies before proving effective feedback. #UCMOEDLead @BryanMcDonaldPD

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Unwrapping Priority Standards. Wow! The power of vertical unwrapping across grade levels brought on some great conversations. Not only across grade level but getting the insight of the power standards taught by specials teachers, gave it more power! @BryanMcDonaldPD #UCMOEdLead

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importance and urgency: Understanding that not everything is important or urgent as it might seem. You don’t need to allow distractions of the daily aspects of the building involve you always. Prioritizing your schedule=meeting your goals! @BryanMcDonaldPD #UCMOEDLEAD

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Instructional Leadership 6 Components: Implementation, a focus on learning, student engagement, instructional strategies, efficacy, and collective evidence to understand our impact (DeWitt, 2019) These are my goals as a lifelong learner! @BryanMcDonaldPD @UCMOEDLEAD

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Digging DEEP into curriculum tonight! How’s your district doing when it comes to priority standards? Are you having convos across grade levels and making sure we are all on the same page? What are we doing to set kids up for success from K-12th? @BryanMcDonaldPD #ucmoedlead

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What type of a leader do you want to be? The passion that drives my day to day is the value I feel I offer as an instructional leader. I want to be in the classroom with my most valuable stakeholders - my students and my teachers #ucmoedlead @BryanMcDonaldPD

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FPUE has been rollin with Reading MTSS these past few years and meeting the needs of all our readers! From the lens of a leader, we’re beginning first steps towards Math MTSS this year and the WHY behind it! Great conversations yesterday! @BryanMcDonaldPD #UCMOEdLead

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@readleadlearn @BoyerBaker @rachelbarzee You as well! I hope you and the whole entire Buckner team have an amazing school year!

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2022 Convocation! Great way to start the year off with some conscious discipline PD! We got this! #FortProud #FortFamily #FPTimberwolves @BoyerBaker @rachelbarzee

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Having a blast working with our FP Whelps today! Very excited to have them part of the Fort Family especially as part of the Fire Prairie Timberwolves! There’s nothing more refreshing then seeing these young new teachers eagerness to learn! #FortProud @BoyerBaker @rachelbarzee

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Anyone else excited about getting back to work!? I know it’s hard walking away from our summer breaks, but I’m excited to grow teachers and students towards their full potential! Teacher leader to building leader! Let’s go! #FortProud @BoyerBaker #FirePraire