Cindy Hookstra

Wife, Mother, Grandma, Grower of Tomatoes, Reading Specialist, and Student of all things succulents...

[Toby Price @jedipadmaster]

Principals … here’s an awesome ice breaker your teachers are guaranteed to love…it’s called “Go work in your classroom.” #edutwitter

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

@JesseFrisinger agree!

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

@spencerideas You don't have enough pizza.

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

THIS!

[Emily Paschall @EmilyAPaschall]

There’s something so exciting about brand new teachers’ classrooms and watching them get it ready all summer long. So much wonder. So much self-drive. So much innocence.

The sad part is when we see a new teacher lose that because they don’t feel supported during their first year.

Support your new teachers.
🔺Check on them daily.
🔸Model lessons for them.
🔺Provide them an automatic coaching cycle with the instructional coach on day 1.
🔸Provide specific feedback.
🔺Model the first phone call home.
🔸Pre-plan their first parent conf and do it with them.
🔺Simply ask, “How can I help?” And ask often.

Teachers will be more likely to stay in the profession when they feel supported. Plain and simple.

What did I miss?

[Helen Proulx @HelenProulx2]

“The truth is that teaching reading requires the capability to teach phonological understanding AND support the establishment of comprehension including the use of contextual cues. Teachers have always understood this.”
https://t.co/yeYI5W2e3j

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[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

“If your job is to go get the donuts, you bring the freshest donuts & you do it in a way that everybody notices, ‘That guy gets the best donuts in the history of the donut business.’ That’s how you have to do things.”
—Dabo Swinney #LeadersMind #Standards
https://t.co/UyV5AfBJkY

[Dr. Jim Afremow @goldmedalmind]

“If you’re an average player, you want to be left alone because you want to be able to slide by. If you’re a good player, you want to be coached. If you’re a great player, you want the coach to tell you the truth every day."
—Nick Saban #TheLeadersMind 🏆
https://t.co/UyV5AfBJkY

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

"Only extraordinary education is concerned with learning; most is concerned with achieving: and for young minds, these two are very nearly opposite."
-Marilyn French

[Dr. Erika Garcia Niles @flyingmonkey13]

Principals and leaders, the way we we speak about our teachers and staff matters. People are listening to what we have to say. If we aren't supporting them, who will?

I am going to continue to try to center my people instead of myself, join me?

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

Find the door that will let them in.

[Crane School Dist. @CraneSchools]

👏 👏👏 Crane’s very own Chief financial Officer! @ponderd

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

I + 1

[Mme Lockhart @MmeLockhartLDS]

Teaching our students to read a book is the end goal, not the starting point, of reading instruction. So what foundational skills do students need BEFORE they can read & enjoy a book? #BackwardsDesignOfReading
@SoRclassroom @BenisonMrs @missypurcell1 @melbrethour @embracethesor

[Melissa D @Dean_of_math]

Food for thought: Are we grading compliance? Or are we assessing learning?

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

Seriously...

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

This! 🙌

[Kareem J. Weaver @KJWinEducation]

Our beliefs and good intentions don't give us the right to functionally deny children their right to read.

If that isn't at the center of your politics, then your politics a̵r̵e̵ ̵t̵r̵a̵s̵h̵... don't put kids first.

[Ms. Benison- @BenisonMrs]

In a world of peaches and roses every child would love reading…in the real world, many don’t. When we teach every child how to read we give every child the choice to love reading or not. #TeachThemHowToRead
#TeachTheCode

[Dr. Cathy Pressnell @CathyHWhitehead]

“Our goal should not be higher test scores, but to teach children to read so well that their test scores reflect the improvement.” @ReadingShanahan

[Amplify @Amplify]

📈 A new study suggests what we know to be true: a knowledge-building curriculum, based on the #ScienceOfReading, leads to impressive student outcomes.

⬇️Learn more @educationweek.
https://t.co/DWKAiVD8Cw

[Cindy Hookstra @MrsCindyLuHook]

Meet them where they are! I + 1

[Doria Sullivan @DoriaSullivan6]

Re. EL and ML students…

“Educators should build on student assets and resources, not just their needs”
“English oral language should be developed simultaneously with literacy”

#optimistic #scienceofreading #asset-based approach https://t.co/jrLmFSooom