Melodie Harris

I am grateful ❤️

[Paul David Tripp @PaulTripp]

This year to come:
- Keep a weekly sabbath
- Stay within your limits
- Don’t try to control what only God can.
- Pursue gospel community.
- Let your Bible be your daily guide.
- Count your blessings not your complaints.
- Rest in God’s grace,
- Celebrate Jesus everyday.

[Doug Lemov @Doug_Lemov]

Reading aloud w students is one of the most important things teachers can do. When students read w prosody & embed meaning in their expression we get double value: prosodic oral reading leads to better silent reading.

A clip to help create the culture:

https://t.co/6eHYB3f8A1

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

@TexasLonghorns 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[Faith Moore @FaithKMoore]

When you read aloud to your kids, do the voices. Read with animation and enthusiasm. Put the emphasis in the right place and pause for punctuation. You're teaching them how the reading voice inside their head should sound. And that's huge for comprehension.

[HornSports @HornSports]

ICYMI: During yesterday’s halftime show, Longhorn fans witnessed a memorable collaboration between @LonghornBand and @lhab to commemorate a 125 year history. #HookEm

[Jesse Hawila @JesseWFAA]

Here’s your in-depth, North Texas weather review:

[Institute for Multi-Sensory Education @IMSEOG]

🎉 Exciting news for #TeacherAppreciationWeek ! 🎉 RETWEET for a chance to win an OG+ Decodable Fluency Slide Bundle - K-2! 📚 Boost fluency with our digital slides designed for K-2nd grade. Improve reading accuracy, speed, and prosody effortlessly.
5 lucky winners chosen!

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

@DrJosh_Garcia @KaufmanISD Awesome!!🦁🦁

[BEVO XV @TexasMascot]

Celebrating my 9th birthday today! #HookEm

[Elise Lovejoy @EliseLovejoy]

Happy Holidays!

Dear Educators,
I am giving away 25 full subscriptions to our Teacher's Platform. @ExpressReaders

Just repost this post & I will choose 25 educators to have access for an entire year!

An ENTIRE TK-2nd Grade Foundational Skills and Reading Program, 1000's of printable resources, decodable books, visual lessons, information, Teacher Planners, a daily PA program, and more!

Thank you for being an educator!!!

[Matthew Gutiérrez, Ed.D. @DrMattGutierrez]

After 4 special sessions, #txed to receive:

💲0️⃣ for STUDENTS
💲0️⃣ for TEACHERS
💲0️⃣ for SCHOOLS

This is outrageously unacceptable as schools face deficits, budget cuts, & a staffing crisis. It's disgraceful and disheartening to withhold funds from 5+ million students. #txed

[LHN (Longhorn Network App) @LonghornNetwork]

*in complete control of emotions*

Texas beats Kansas State 33-30 in OT

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

Good question!

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

@KaufmanTennis Good luck🖤💛

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

👏🏻👏🏻

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

I love this❤️

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

Next time you see a Rainbow be reminded that God keeps His promises!

[Kyle Umlang @kyleumlang]

Which Texas logo is your all-time favorite???

#ThisIsTexas #HookEm 

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

@archi_tradition @ilhan1077_ Switzerland😍

[Melodie Harris @melod611]

@archi_tradition My favorite!