Natasha (Burry) Oxford

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[Natasha (Burry) Oxford @nburry]

📌 Reminding myself!

[edutopia @edutopia]

As soon as we've learned something, we start to forget it. Here are 5 research-backed strategies you can use when you need to make something stick.

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

The more I cared about grading, the more my kids cared about grading.

The more I cared about learning, the more my kids cared about learning.

No, they are not the same thing.

Dare to care differently.
#Project180

[NLSchools @NLSchoolsCA]

Without literacy, it would be impossible for people to acquire the knowledge, skills, values, and behaviours to foster strong communities. This year’s theme for #InternationalLiteracyDay is "Promoting multilingual education: Literacy for mutual understanding and peace."

[Natasha (Burry) Oxford @nburry]

Excellent read! Not a principal? No worries! Its message is applicable to all senior staff as we welcome new and aspiring teachers to our team this year. 🧑‍🏫

[Jen Schwanke, Ed.D. @JenSchwanke]

A few scrolls ago, I posted about my article in @ELmagazine. If you haven't gotten your print copy yet, here's the digital one. Oh, and while I'm at it... thanks to all #principals for the freakin' amazingness of what you do every day.

https://t.co/SUmk0dCqIU

[edutopia @edutopia]

—@MarcusLuther6

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Can't administrate excellence!

[edutopia @edutopia]

—@SteeleThoughts

[Weston Kieschnick @Wes_Kieschnick]

Engagement isn’t a synonym for fun. We aren’t held accountable for fun. We’re held accountable for achievement. Achievement lives in our ability to use effective instruction to cultivate curiosity, increase participation, & nurture perseverance in kids. https://t.co/SPANdCPsxW

[Meghan Lawson @Meghan_Lawson]

My expectations for learning are high,

My expectations for how we treat each other are even higher.

[edutopia @edutopia]

Plants do more than spruce up the place—studies show they have tangible benefits for your learners. 🪴

[Natasha (Burry) Oxford @nburry]

This lays it out nicely. 🤫

[Natasha (Burry) Oxford @nburry]

➡️3️⃣ I always have been and always will be. Quiet does not mean disengaged or not passionate about or not actionary. Quiet does mean thoughtful, reflective, wait and see what I can do.

[Principal Project @PrincipalProj]

With the school year's volume turned down, find a quiet moment to reflect on your own identity as a learner – and how you might support the educators around you.

🔗 Tool and insights from leader @AllysonApsey here:

https://t.co/q9DXsXzZVB

[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!

[Principal Project @PrincipalProj]

When your team sits down to look at school data together, this guidance from @caselorg keeps the discussion inclusive and meaningful.

https://t.co/WzocGyXeNp

[edutopia @edutopia]

Too many popular strategies for teaching reading aren’t actually supported by research. We sifted through to find the ones that are most effective! 🔍

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Always comes back to relationships!

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

Someday, we’ll realize school is not an opportunity for competition; it’s an opportunity for connection.

School should bring humans together.

Of course, someday is usually too late.

So, let’s start today.

This year: #SmilesAndFrowns

Connections matter.
#Project180

[Natasha (Burry) Oxford @nburry]

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