Always learning, making mistakes, learning some more. Love trees, books, people, qualitative data. Ideas expressed are my own or those of people I respect.

Joined August 2009
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Alissa Casey retweeted
Powerful, meaningful, and engaging presentation! ⁦@mrsthewlett⁩ ⁦@WIDA_UW⁩ ⁦@MCPSDELME
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Using párrafo ambulante from @DRMLARA Toma la palabra, for participants to co-construct paragraphs summarizing the importance of approaching EMLs through a multilingual perspective #WIDA2023 @LaProfeBilingue @MCPSDELME @yared_mr @mrsthewlett
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19 Oct 2023
We are so honored to have you attend our session, @AndreaHonigsfel!
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@MCPSDELME presenting at #WIDA2023 -- what an honor to see my work with @MariaGDove during this session "Co-Teaching & Co-Planning: Pivoting from White Supremacy Culture To Justly Serve Emergent Multilingual Students"
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@MCPSDELME presenting at #WIDA2023 -- what an honor to see my work with @MariaGDove during this session "Co-Teaching & Co-Planning: Pivoting from White Supremacy Culture To Justly Serve Emergent Multilingual Students"
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@MCPSDELME We had a great day of learning for our SLIFE ELA & Math PLCs. From a fishbowl on collaborative planning in ELA w/ specific decisions about SLIFE, to collaboration & asset based focus during math planning/ instruction, the learning was great! Thank You math & ELA teams!
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@MCPSDELME I get to work with this amazing group of people. Yes- be jealous! ❤️@TeachbiahG @KatieHo74 @LaProfeBilingue @AlissaLearning @Kristiskim @halleymoses @2_idiomas @yared_mr @NZVillavicencio Thank you for all that you do for our emergent multilingual learners EVERYDAY!
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@mcpsdelme great learning today on the @WIDA_UW Framework. Content teachers are language facilitators. We are ready to give this staff more so that our students thrive! Let’s go!!!
Partnering with @2_idiomas & @yared_mr to build the capacity of our staff, so that all students can have access & teachers have a diverse tool kit. Great impact today team! Left our staff wanting more! 🙌🏽🎉💙🐾🤍@mrsthewlett @MCPSCommunitySc
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@MCPSDELME Full house at our All Elementary ELD learning today! We are so excited to be engaging in deep learning with our ELD teachers!
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Alissa Casey retweeted
We appreciate the collaboration with @Colleen_Schaper to help intermediate elementary teachers understand how to work at the grade level while reaching back and teaching the foundations! @mrsthewlett
SLIFE coaches kicking off our first #SLIFEELA PLC. Connecting content and language to support students @MCPSDELME
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Alissa Casey retweeted
Awesome recap! Exciting seeing my tweet included.
17 Oct 2022
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@KristenJones47 @MGRodriguez83 @GretchenPOliver @abatchelder3 @JeremyBorland @caryknight240 @shengxiao_yu @COsborne_ELD @mrsthewlett @leech_the_teach @tofubeth Check out this article, your #WIDA2022 Tweets are featured! ⬇🙌
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Alissa Casey retweeted
Lots of great events going on this month. Save the date and spread the word. @MCPS @MCPSEspanol @PODEReducators @MCPS_HAE @BONDEducators @mcpsequityteam @MCPS_RJ @MCPSDELME @MCPSSpecEdSup @MCPS_StaffPRIDE @MCPSLeaderDev @EquityWarrior @mcpsslu @EMGLoaiza
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Listening to @WIDA_UW keynote speaker @futuromedia Maria Hinojosa as she celebrates the complexities and gifts of being multilingual. #WIDA2022 @MCPSDELME
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This is how I teach reading skills: Sentence Lifting I only do this ONCE for the entire article because it is quite cognitively demanding and time-consuming, but worth it in terms of developing students' reading skills.
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12 Jun 2022
Celebrating @NZVillavicencio doing great things! @TeachbiahG @AlissaLearning @LaProfeBilingue
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Councilmember Will Jawando: "The disconnect that happems between 'wokeness' and understanding . . . is a gaping hole." #BONDSummit @BONDEducators
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"If schools were better places for boys of color, more would become teachers. If schools were better places for men of color, more males of color would remain teachers." @BONDEducators #BONDsummit
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Extremely important to understand and educate others about individual AND systemic oppression. Find your place in that and work from there. @willjawando @BONDEducators #BONDsummit
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Dr. Julius Davis: "What are our commitments and what are we willing to put work into beyond this point?" #bondsummit @bondeducators
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