Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D.

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@KetteringMiddle Happy Birthday Principal Green!!!

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@Principal_KMSSI @KetteringMiddle Congratulations 🍾🎈🎊

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

First week back to work…
❤️Attended the Summer Leadership Institute…Principal Principal Kafele shared some valuable nuggets with our PGCPS district leaders!!!
❤️Ended the week back in my building but attended the groundbreaking ceremony for our NEW 3-8 Academy (2027)
#pgcps

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@mssimley Happy Birthday 🎉🎁🎂

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

bruh wtf?

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@OPLLpgcps Love me some THEM!!!

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

Just drinking ALL of the KoolAid…smh#iykyk

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Sometimes, learning can get a little loud and a little messy.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Project 2025 explained by a Yale Law Graduate.

[Principal Project @PrincipalProj]

Mentoring is often the first form of professional learning a teacher receives – and it can be instrumental in shaping who teachers become.

(Via leader Sharron Helmke & @LearningForward)

https://t.co/mAYIRaDWS4

[TCEA @TCEA]

💬 Student-Led Discussion Strategies for Whole Class Discussion 💬

https://t.co/abKFfiUtmI via @lindsayannlearn
#teachingtips #teacherlife #education

[Emily Paschall @EmilyAPaschall]

Recently, I have been asked by several parents, “What do I need to do to prep my kid for kindergarten?” Typically, they anticipate my response to be centered around what they need to know academically, but I think there are skills more important than that. It isn’t about knowing all of their letters and sounds to be kindergarten ready. If they do, GREAT. They are ahead of the game. But the more important thing is that they learn social and independent skills that will help them be successful in the classroom.

🔺Help them learn to say their full name when someone asks them (not their nickname).
🔹Help them learn to ask for help.
🔺Help them learn how to speak to other people who are not family members.
🔹 Eat dinner together. At a table. With the tv off. ➡️ They will learn about table manners, how to stay in their seat an entire meal, develop vocabulary through conversation, and benefit from quality time.
🔺Help them learn how to compete a task and work all the way through until they complete it.
🔹Help them learn how to wait patiently. 🤪 Maybe they are waiting in line while friends go to the bathroom, or maybe someone is needing to talk to their teacher. Waiting is a hard thing for littles!
🔺 Read books every night. ➡️ Their world will be enlarged, they will develop new vocabulary, and they will benefit from quality time.
🔹 Help them learn to share.
🔺 Help them sharpen taking care of their basic needs by themselves - using the bathroom, washing their hands, blowing their nose.
🔹Tell them no.
🔺Teach them nursery rhymes. There is so much research behind this and how it supports brain development.
🔹Help them understand it is ok to make mistakes.
🔺Help them practice putting things in and taking things out of their backpack. Their teacher will thank you! 🤪
🔹Help them learn to follow two step directions. For example, “Take off your shoes and hang up your jacket.”
🔺Help them learn to sit and wait without having to be entertained. Can they sit and wait without having to be handed a device?

There is so much more than academics that goes into helping a kid be “kindergarten ready”. Social and independent skills are life skills! If you aren’t practicing some of these things regularly, give yourself some grace. And if your child is older than KG age and cannot do some of these things yet, it isn’t too late! I am still working on these in my home too! We are about 5 weeks away from the start of school. The more they are able to do independently, the more successful they will be!

Giving kids the opportunity to develop their emotions, compassion, and social skills is one of the greatest gifts we can give kids to prepare them for this thing called “life”.

Let’s go!

[LaTanya S. Sothern @LaTanyaSothern]

This is MAJOR. As a parent of two children who suffer (and one of whom had to make a hospital visit today,) I feel this. Inhalers need ro be kept in multiple places - at home, at school, in the backpack. This will save lives!

[Bren, Living One Day At a Time🥳🫣🤷🏻‍♀️🥰 @bkaydw]

Do you know much about the Tulsa Race Massacre?
They go out of their way to never mention it.
#wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #Fresh
Believed to be the single worst incident of racial violence in American history…during the course of 18 terrible hours on May 31 and June 1, 1921, more than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, 35 square blocks, while credible estimates of deaths range from 50-to 300. 𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿. By the time the violence ended, the city had been placed under martial law, thousands of Tulsans were being held under armed guard, and the state's second-largest African American community, Greenwood, home to wealthy, middle class, and poor, had been burned to the ground.

Almost immediately after Greenwood burned, efforts began at the highest levels to suppress what happened during the massacre.
When this massacre occurred, Tulsa was becoming the oil capital of the world. It was trying to position itself as a cosmopolitan city.
But the actions of white Tulsans during the massacre showed how false that image was. While some white Tulsans initially boasted of their role in the violence — some sold postcards depicting the destruction — everything soon disappeared as Tulsa officials realized the potential harm to the city’s reputation.
The mayor and other politicians and the Chamber of Commerce and other people who ran the town realized that the massacre was this horrible ‘public relations problem’. So they determined they’d “tamp it down.”
They go out of their way to never mention it.

https://t.co/ogT2lAmoLT…

Historians say the strength of Greenwood’s residents and their determination to rebuild both their neighborhood and their lives after the violence inflicted upon them by their neighbors should never be forgotten.
“Imagine how gutsy it was for these maids and cooks and dishwashers and chauffeurs to then a week later go into the white community, to their jobs,” said Ellsworth. “They don’t know if the people they’re seeing had just been shooting at them — the courage of those people is just amazing”
(I cut/pasted this from my previous posting)

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@flywithkamala Praying for your family @MichelleObama

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@Kristoferwrites @BelindawoodUS 🤣🤣🤣

[Richard Johnson @HhestagJohnson]

All of our best wishes go out to the @HHES_pgcps Elementary Science Bowl team as they compete in their semi-finals match-up today. Mr. Allen and the team have been preparing for months and are ready to compete. Go Mustangs! @PGCPSTAG @PgcpsScience @TaskerAva #Mustangpride

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@KetteringMiddle @Iam_mrgreen Go Mr. Green!!

[Lorraine Philyaw, Ph.D. @dr_raine]

@HeatherHillsES celebrating the successes and growth of our SWD for their Fall and Winter IREADY Reading and Math scores with an Everything is Popping Party!! We popped popcorn..sparkling apple cider…and test scores!! WhoooHoooo!!!
@McKennaLewis14 @Area1PGCPS