This is an inspirational leader here in Texarkana! Congratulations, Liliana Luna !

PLEASE SHARE: We have a Tornado Watch in effect through 1am for the area in red! Please stay alert! wkrn.com/radar?utm_medi…

Last but not least in our House System series this week is Lingdao! It is the house of leadership.
We asked Kindergartener James to describe why he loves Lingdao. His mom is staff, so he has always been around even before kinder! James says he has been in Lingdao since he was 3!

Writers Challenge! I am starting a unit w/ my ELLs over the rainforest. I'm trying to front load 50 words that appear in the text. The link is the word list. I'm looking for poems, short fiction, or nonfiction that contain the words. Have fun writing!

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Our students are doing a research project and writing narrative on the rainforest. Anyone know people we can connect with and bring in virtually?

Has anyone out there ever heard or used graded readers? It seems they are more common in Europe than the US. #esol #esl #TEFL #TESOL #ellchat

Check this out! 𝕊𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕪 𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕣 #OneWord2023 EMBRACE made this to share w classroom teachers all the ways she can help. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Awesome idea!

With our curriculum, @eleducation, students “tap out” the sounds they hear when encoding (spelling) words. This 2nd grade student was using the strategy when completing their Skills spelling assessment!

You don’t need a lot of tech tools to be successful teaching online, but teachers looking to add to their technology toolboxes before schools starts —> Essential Apps for the Physical and Digital K-12 Classroom | Edutopia #blendedlearning #onlinelearning edutopia.org/article/essent…

The Spider Web Approach: How to Facilitate Effective Online Discussions #onlinelearning #engagement #BlendedLearning k-12talk.com/2020/07/30/the…

10 Strategies Designed to Engage Elementary Students Online catlintucker.com/2020/08/engage… #onlinelearning #blendedlearning #distancelearning #elementary #elemchat #TOSAchat

Engage the Middle Absolutely! I LOVE online icebreakers…starting virtual conferencing sessions with a high/low check in or Brene Brown’s two word check-ins inc.com/betsy-mikel/ho…, asynchronous icebreaker discussions (Google Classroom, Padlet or FlipGrid) are fun too! #SyncUpChat

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Our field crew for the night 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

If there was ever a year to purchase and donate school supplies to teachers, this is it. These Brown Academy School of Innovation (and many more across Hamilton County Schools ) are making individual supply boxes for each student to help keep everyone healthy. #ThanksTeachers

Clifton Hills Elementary School AP, Aaron Marvel (in virtual top hat and monical) made a Flipgrid greeting page for our Online Learning hub! Digital Equity? Despite many innovations we are not quite there #yet . Chromebooks on loan & WiFi hotspot in the parking lot are helping.

Please retweet and pray this student of ours at Clifton Hills returns soon and safely.

This is one of our Clifton Hills students. Please share and pray for Lucy's safe return!

From Brain Research: Implications for Second Language Learning by Fred Genesee and Mcgill University. #ESL #SLA #literacy

One of the 12 days of Christmas Fun w staff was a holiday jingle....we were inspired by a SNL skit “I wish it was Christmas Today” 🤣😂🤣 Love what you do & do what you love.
(We do not have rights to this music) #SNL #PIA #ChristmasCountdown #FridayMotivation #teacherlife

Today Clifton Hills Elementary School our students received backpacks filled with holiday treats from some of our amazing partners! As my 4th graders unpacked their socks and fruit and coloring books, I asked for words to describe their feelings: