Educator/technology integrator/writer/Google Level 1/Webmaster of Northern Shores Elementary School/2020-2021 NSES Teacher and Reading Teacher of the Year.
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
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
This is SO thoughtful! I LOVE serving as a curriculum writer with our district’s social studies department. What a thoughtful note ❤️ @kscary05 @KierstenRWright
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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