PE Teacher, mom of three, coffee lover, serial over-committer, and lifelong learner. 🤓📚

Alexandria, VA, NY'er at heart
Joined February 2012
I continue to be inspired by the Title I Novice T Cohort. So much fun thinking about designing inquiry and demo focus lessons. Such a reflective and dedicated group! @FCPS_TitleI @BrookfieldES @BaileysES_FCPS @WeyanokeES @LortonStationES @RiversideFCPS @Clearview_ES
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Also, have you ever been lucky enough to observe @GraceKChoi teach? Magical! 💚⭐️
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The clocks go back this weekend, which is basically the worst day of the year, but EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE FINE, bc look what finally arrived! @SaraKugler, thank you for sharing your brilliance. I can’t wait to dig into this!!! #betterbookclubs
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Such an incredible group of teachers! And, presenting with my brilliant colleague and friend @GraceKChoi is an absolute dream. @FCPS_TitleI
So excited to be teaching session 2 of our Title I Teacher Cohort! @MKDeRose is my PD presenting soulmate. ❤️🤩 @FCPS_TitleI
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We did it again!!! Down to the shoes, this time! ☺️ The best way to start a Monday. ❤️ @MKDeRose
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Happy 1st day! We’ve got the Mount Vernon Pyramid covered this year- @woodleyhillses @W_WhitmanMS @MVMAJORS #FirstDayFairfax @ShawnDeRose @FCPSR3
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❤️ ❤️ I may have cried when I read @SaraKugler ‘s introduction to her new book. The way she writes about children as readers, as action takers in their world, makes me long for this kind of reading community for every child.
Excited to announce that this new favorite from @SaraKugler is now available for preorder. Shipping this fall! Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation by Sara... amazon.com/dp/1625313926/ref… via @amazon
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If you've been lucky enough to learn from and alongside my brilliant friend and colleague, @SaraKugler, then I know you are just as excited as I am to get your hands on this!
Excited to announce that this new favorite from @SaraKugler is now available for preorder. Shipping this fall! Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation by Sara... amazon.com/dp/1625313926/ref… via @amazon
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What do YouTube videos, writing workshop, and student talk have to do with one another? They’re all part of @GraceKChoi‘s #StenhouseSomethingToTalkAbout blog post, “When Talking Is Writing”. #StenhousePubs hubs.ly/Q016GDvn0
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Labsites Affirm, Assess & Advance Ts & Ss skills and understandings. Thanks to @SaraKugler leadership, this method has been a way to transform cultures of learning for teams & schools. @FCPSR3 @FCPS_OSS @FCPS_TitleI @FCPSElemLA
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What an incredible afternoon of learning led by the brilliant @JeanSowers2. Lots of powerful reflection and responsive planning for 1st and 2nd grade readers!
We were able to successfully schedule and offer KLAP PD for our 1st, 2nd and Multiage teams today 💚💚💚@FCPSR3 @FCPS_TitleI @MKDeRose
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What an amazing day with these @BucknellElem 2nd graders! They had lots of thoughts to share as we read @KevinHenkes Sheila Rae the Brave, and one lucky S had the fabulous @GraceKChoi as a T/T partner! 💚@FCPS_TitleI
It’s really an extra special and dreamy Friday when you get to teach in a classroom and have rockstars like @MKDeRose and @Erica__Beckett as your co-teachers! Love these brilliant second grade @BucknellElem Bulldogs!
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Disregard the author tag- not him! 😂🤷‍♀️
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“A rigorous classroom believes that all students are brilliant learners and provides opportunities for all kids to succeed.” Check out this must-read by my brilliant colleague, ⁦⁦@RavenACompton⁩ ! blog.stenhouse.com/otymt-rav…
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.@GraceKChoi is a visionary. Thanks, ma'am, for your work.
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Love this! Talk is such an essential part of a writer’s process!
Joined a writing club with @msyazdani28’s poets and WOW!! Thanks to talking with my partners, I now have so many more ideas about poems I can write! @PrincipalTLES @FCPS_TitleI
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Check out this post by the brilliant @MrazKristine sharing authentic and engaging ways to use Google Jamboard for storytelling, teaching HFW, and interactive writing.
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Mary Kate DeRose retweeted
Exhausted by the either/or/all/nothing approach of the reading debate? "There is scientific evidence for the components of a Balanced Literacy approach, and there is scientific evidence for the need for more explicit and systematic instruction of phonics and phonemic awareness."
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Yes! Please explore this incredible module. It’s everything we need right now, especially for our youngest learners. #joy #engagement #connection
New module on play/social groups! Helping our little ones build relationships and make connections is so important right now and leads to higher engagement and stronger oral language skills. Search “Time to Play” on myPDE for this self-directed asynchronous PD!
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