Executive Director of the Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium (MISIC). Literacy consultant and author for ASCD. Former Curriculum Director and teacher.
@chuckwoolery Tired of parents trying to absolve themselves of guilt. They signed the permission form, obviously knowing their son was mentally ill, then try to blame the background check by someone who had no insight into this kid’s sanity.
MISIC Director, Sue Beers, presented on Re-Energizing the Curriculum during the MISIC Meeting on February 17th. Check out her presentation here. https://t.co/Lg88oql46Q
@MarcusAllenHOF Thank you for making a great memory for my grandson yesterday at FOD signing. He was the kid who was 2nd in line and who you found out later had MD. He and his dad are at the game today cheering on KCF! Your warm and sincere greeting of them was outstanding!
@Blondebrowneyes@tedcruz@JoeBiden He didn’t really do this. This is the result of coming out of a pandemic and increasing the federal deficit to the point that our great grandchildren will be paying for it. And just wait till inflation hits full force and energy bills skyrocket.
This free collection of resources is organized by foundational skills topic: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics & word recognition, and fluency. Use the activities to provide more practice for your students in kindergarten + grade 1. https://t.co/H4nQJ4nB6B #reading
How do the mathematics standards connect to one another across grade levels? What tasks represent the work students need to be able to do to master them? Our Coherence Map aims to answer these questions for teachers! Take a look today: https://t.co/TVMPWdAduw #mathchat
One of the first steps in connecting with a challenging student… is to LIKE them, rather than “put up” with them. It’s amazing how the attitude of the adult can affect the attitude of the kid.
Fluency practice meets options for different learning formats! Check out these routines to develop accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody . . . all by reading the same grade-level text in different ways over the course of a week! https://t.co/bN0bGsd8fA #elachat
Student Achievement Partners and @skcommonground collaborated on Family Guides that inform family members about what children should know and be able to do, grade by grade, in math and literacy. https://t.co/JLvdL0lrs6 #PTchat#elachat#iteachmath
@leisagrace Presented at two conferences in Dubai and did a keynote at a conference by Zoom in Cyprus last spring and contributed to 21st Cent Skills project in Saudi Arabia. Great educators in the Middle East!