Hi teachers & friends! To celebrate the upcoming release of my 25th book, I am giving away 2500 copies of I Survived the Dust Bowl over the next 10 days.
Today: 10 class sets of 25. To enter, like this post & retweet. Winners announced tomorrow am. β€οΈ
These Louisiana Ss are ready to ZEARN IT! πͺ
@LLeinhardt and @prissygalliano put together this bulletin board for @RiviereES to help motivate their Ss in their math learning. π§
Make one for your classroom or school with our free, downloadable resources: bit.ly/3RaZjnb
ALT Bulletin board with the text "What have you 'ZEARNED' today?" and the Zearn logo at the bottom. There are cartoon pig stickers and labels from Mission 1 to Mission 8 arranged around the edges.
Just because some teachers would rather stay in the classroom than go into administration doesnβt mean they arenβt leaders. In fact as a leader, seek their input and feedback if you want to build a highly effective school culture.
2nd grader Gael Cruz from Marie Riviere Elementary recites the pledge of allegiance in Spanish at the start of the Jefferson Parish School Board meeting. Of Jefferson Parish's almost 48,000 public school students, more than 16,000 are Hispanic.
The best teacher I knew had a game where any adult entered her room(staff, admin, parent) had to answer a question. The students loved this because she would ask tough questions based on the lesson & they often knew the answer when the adults didnβt. Fun outside the box teaching!
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These "TAG" feedback prompts give Ss a playbook for productive peer-to-peer feedback!
(πΈ via educator @ErmaLuis1) #TeacherTwitter
ALT Image of a poster titled "TAG Feedback!" Below the title, there are three categories: Tell, Ask, and Give. Each category includes sentence prompts that encourage students to tell things they like, ask thoughtful questions, and give positive suggestions.
Effective leaders know to create the best team that you have to spend time with the team. And that doesn't mean long weekly meetings, but daily in the hallways, classrooms, bus line, cafeteria, etc.
π‘"The strategy I used was..."
π"I agree with..."
β "Can you explain why?"
π"I wonder if..."
How T @MrsBrooksPUSD's Ss discuss their work during #math class:
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ALT Graphic of fifteen different boxes, each of which contains a sentence stem that indicates learning, agreement, disagreement, a question, and a continued thought. Examples: "The strategy I used was..."; "I disagree with ____ because..."; "That solution makes sense because..."