Mary Mathias

Educator/technology integrator/writer/Google Level 1/Webmaster of Northern Shores Elementary School/2020-2021 NSES Teacher and Reading Teacher of the Year.

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Identifying phonemes with play dough to sound out and spell words is so much fun! Thank you Veronica Peek for this awesome idea! @NSESDolphins @Jody4edu @SPSEnglish

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Detective Mathias here. Just the facts, ma’am! Cracking the case of drawing conclusions with my students makes for a very engaging start of the week! @NSESDolphins @Jody4edu @SPSEnglish

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

This is SO thoughtful! I LOVE serving as a curriculum writer with our district’s social studies department. What a thoughtful note ❤️ @kscary05 @KierstenRWright

[Jason Kennedy | Stop Teaching & Design Learning! @letsquitteachin]

District/School leaders:
Support more than you supervise,
Lift more than you lead,
Connect more than you comment,
Give more than you guide,
Minister more than you mandate,
Relieve more than you relegate.

The job is about doing for others.
Not about getting others to do.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Treat your teachers well this year! if you want to keep the best teachers, treat them like they are the best. Few teachers leave an environment where they feel valued, supported, appreciated, and treated like professionals.

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

What an awesome idea for appreciating staff during the beginning of the year 👏🏽

[Emily Paschall @EmilyAPaschall]

Today our parents surprised our entire staff with ready to bake dinner for our first day of school. 🩷🙌😭 I can’t even.

This is the most thoughtful gift. Sharing for anyone who is looking for ideas on how to love on a teacher at the beginning of a school year.

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Thank you @KelGreening for visiting us today!

[Kelly Greening @KelGreening]

Had to recognize our amazing summer school admin and teachers who are supporting hands on math! #mathisnotaspectatorsport

[LEGO @LEGO_Group]

Number one green flag?
- Has a collection of LEGO sets ✅

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

We had fun today creating our number lines, modeling our facts, and of course, making the spiders jump! 🕷️

[Nicole Blankenship @n_blanke22]

Multiplication Number Line Models, but make them giant! Jump ropes were the jumps and spiders were the end points. The students in Ms Mathias’ class had so much fun in math today! @SPS_Mathematics

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

@MrsCzak @AulanderITRT @MrsK_ITRT_SPS @CoachHaebs @PaulaP_ITRT @stace208_ITRT @Sabrina_Hayes20 Love it!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

@SufVAschools My summer school students LOVED this lunch this week! Keep good food like this coming!

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Responsive leadership > Reactive leadership

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

What’s sweeter than convincing the class you chose the best piece of candy? We used adjectives today to give our opinion why our choice was the best in an introductory activity for writing about fact and and opinion. Writing has never been sweeter! @NSESDolphins @SPSEnglish

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Nearpod is always a student favorite when exploring Ancient Greece 🇬🇷🏛️🏺 I never tire of their screams of excitement when we virtually explore the Parthenon and they see it lit up at night for the first time! @NSESDolphins @SPSHistory_buzz

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

It’s amazing how a simple water cycle activity can spark joy in the hearts of third graders ❤️ Watching and observing our water cycle bags day by day for evidence of evaporation. @NSESDolphins @ScienceSPS @KatelynLeitner1

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Enjoying some popcorn while listening to @drjbg3 read chapter 1 of “Cleo Edison Oliver: Playground Millionaire” as part of our All Suffolk Reads kick off. The excitement is palpable!📚📖🍿@NSESDolphins #nsesdolphins #buildingthebestsps @mtwisdale1

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

What happens when it rains and you can’t go outside? You bring out the eyeballs in a jar with numbers on them and have each group of kids work together to add and subtract with regrouping! 👀👁👀👁 @NSESDolphins @SufVAschools @KelGreening #buldingthebestSPS

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Remembering your “why” in the midst of all that we do is important. My action plan is to print out my “why” and hang above my desk because I am a visual learner and struggle with object permanence as a neurodivergent learner myself 😎 Thank you @thomascmurray #BuildingtheBestSPS

[Mary Mathias @tech_ventures]

Okay @KelGreening they just dropped a new episode @NobleBloodTales about the never crowned Nazi sympathizer King Edward VIII 🫅🇬🇧 So good!!!