Executive Director of the Mid-Iowa School Improvement Consortium (MISIC). Literacy consultant and author for ASCD. Former Curriculum Director and teacher.
Jewell, IA
Joined December 2009
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MISIC Director, Sue Beers, presented on Re-Energizing the Curriculum during the MISIC Meeting on February 17th. Check out her presentation here. icont.ac/4IFme
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“If teaching were easy, everyone would do it.”
Massive respect and love to all the educators out there doing their best for kids!
#NextLevelTeaching
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Here’s all you need to know about why the Iowa Regents schools are dropping the ACT requirement for admission. Really eye opening data.
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This free collection of resources is organized by foundational skills topic: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics & word recognition, and fluency. Use the activities to provide more practice for your students in kindergarten + grade 1. bit.ly/2TfByQp #reading
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How do the mathematics standards connect to one another across grade levels? What tasks represent the work students need to be able to do to master them? Our Coherence Map aims to answer these questions for teachers! Take a look today: bit.ly/2pFhwNN #mathchat
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One of the first steps in connecting with a challenging student… is to LIKE them, rather than “put up” with them. It’s amazing how the attitude of the adult can affect the attitude of the kid.
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Fluency practice meets options for different learning formats! Check out these routines to develop accuracy, appropriate rate, and prosody . . . all by reading the same grade-level text in different ways over the course of a week! bit.ly/2VtPQKV #elachat
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Student Achievement Partners and @skcommonground collaborated on Family Guides that inform family members about what children should know and be able to do, grade by grade, in math and literacy. bit.ly/3kq3fi6 #PTchat #elachat #iteachmath
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You can’t control the quality of your students’ weekend. But you can have a huge impact on their Monday morning.
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MS/HS ELA teachers: Have you seen the Quad Text Set approach? Check out this quick read from @JenniAberli and Lauren Trahan for an engaging (and easy!) way to build knowledge and vocabulary...and support all students' access to complex text. bit.ly/3hkYeJb #elachat
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Let's not make power ELA standards and talk about why we didn't. For real --> and here is a good starting point. @achievethecore @TNTP
In a time of reduced in-person learning, it can be tempting to seek "power standards" to streamline instruction. This collaborative post from @TNTP and @achievethecore explains why this practice shortchanges students in ELA/literacy. bit.ly/3o0Dsjs
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Are you a teacher looking for resources to assess and build student fluency and improve reading comprehension? Check these out. For elementary, middle, and high school! bit.ly/2ItxNfM #elachat
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Funds support professional development and effective online and remote instruction. bit.ly/3dE9gpp #IaEdChat