Instructional coach, H.S. English teacher, Women in Leadership advisor, literacy interventionist, reader, writer.
Lenexa, KS
Joined May 2015
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Melissa Wienands Guinto retweeted
Educators: want to reduce your stress levels?
Nurture relationships with your colleagues 👉🏻 bit.ly/4fYBnyO
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Want to get your students reflecting and talking? 🎲 Try these dicebreakers and debrief activity templates for some classroom fun!
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#edutwitter #teachingideas #k12
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Encourage your students to engage with texts before, during, & after reading!
Get an active reading strategy for any learning landscape now: bit.ly/3zUIcB9
#engchat #litchat #literacy
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🏗️ Scaffolding Think, Pair, Share can help facilitate deep discussions and drive thinking from ALL students. This handy resource is designed to help students master the WHAT, WHY, and HOW of the process.
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This is a fantastic post with tips for avoiding teacher burnout!
Teacher burnout “is a side of our profession that teacher preparation programs don’t always fully address,” and this can leave many new educators feeling overwhelmed. These tips can help you build a support network, save time, and decompress. ⭐ edut.to/4ePOdOr
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One page overview of sentence structures from The Writing Revolution douglaswise.co.uk/blog/writi… ✍️
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📙 EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION! This new A3 poster captures some of the main ideas from the excellent book ‘Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching’ by Anita L. Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend you pick up a copy!
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📙 READ MORE: explicitinstruction.org
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🙌🏻 Want to put some new small-group instructional strategies into action in the new school year?
Use my template: “5 Strategies for the Teacher-led Station” ➡️ bit.ly/48ZxDtt
#StationRotation #EdChat #EduTwitter #EduChat #EdTech
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Prepping for fall PLC discussions with your math team? Bookmark this strategy, including a ready-to-use math interview protocol!
(Via @edutopia)
edutopia.org/video/simple-st…
ALT Handout with a table titled "The Math Interview." The left column has questions students can ask each other about math, such as, "What did the problem ask you to solve?" The right column has space for notes.
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Disciplinary literacy - The way that a historian reads, writes and thinks is different to how a mathematician operates. Each subject context has different needs and requirements. It's useful to point this out and have students (and even teachers!) reflect on this.
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I have some plans for the first day of school.
I would love to hear yours! What are your 5 acts?
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My (unpopular) opinion is to NOT skip the icebreakers - but make sure they’re purposeful. A friend and I were nerdy enough about the topic to write about it: ascd.org/el/articles/why-ice…
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🙌🏻 #ChoiceBoard enthusiasts, rejoice!
Here’s my favorite tool for #reading strategies! Copy + download now: bit.ly/48viVu0
#EdChat #EduTwitter #UKEdChat #EdChatEU #AussieEd
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Mentoring is often the first form of professional learning a teacher receives – and it can be instrumental in shaping who teachers become.
(Via leader Sharron Helmke & @LearningForward)
learningforward.org/journal/…
ALT Screenshot from the article, featuring a table that outlines a support plan for new teachers. This table is available as a PDF in the article.
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Ted Sizer urged us to shadow a high school student for a full day or 2 to understand what it's really like to attend a traditional H.S. - & thus how urgent it is to rethink this model of schooling. One teacher did so & emerged shaken. An eye-opening read: ow.ly/E5bum
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🤔 Do students need to attend every station in a #StationRotation?
No!
Watch to learn more about a fun variation of this blended learning model called “must-do, may-do!”
More on my blog: bit.ly/3UIYXr3
#EdChat #EduTwitter #StudentLed #BlendChat #EdTech
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25 writing prompts every writer should use to:
• Write quality ideas, faster
• Reach & engage more readers
• Build your timeless library of content
• And attract new opportunities online
Let's get started:
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Banning smartphones in schools is good for learning and well-being.
New study of 400+ middle schools in Norway: after smartphone bans, girls had fewer mental health issues & better grades. Boys and girls were less likely to be bullied.
Smartphones belong at home or in lockers.
