What is your favorite reward for students? What do you celebrate? In first grade we set many small goals to get to a larger goal like learn 10 sight words or read 10 books. Each Friday as goals are met I give an invitation to lunch club. Students eat with me and we chat or watch a quick show while we eat. It has been a favorite for many years.

My best advice to any educator is to SAVE YOUR YES! You will be asked to do all the things. It is important to practice saying no. I’m doing this right now ask me again later. Save your yes for what you are passionate about and it will never feel like work. I love literacy, equity & inclusion, and growing our profession. I save my YES for those areas and even when I am doing a lot, I am doing what I love! Write it on a sticky note in all your spaces to SAVE YOUR YES! Let me know how it goes. 🫶🏽

My class is doing a First Grade Zoo project in which students in all grades and parents will be joining us for an oral presentation in which my students present and others can ask questions quickly. I have worked with a newer student with no English language from Guatemala. Other than Google Translate what can I do to include him in the presentations Friday? We have his poster and paragraph in English and Spanish, I am wondering if there is anything else out there to create independence for my ELL student in this activity?

What are some good resources for science of reading?

What are some great new reads for teachers?

I just finished Lifelong Kindergarten and it was FANTASTIC!! What are other suggestions?

What is an effective tool that I can use in my classroom to support learning?

Here is a quick video on one of the many ways you can use playdough to aid in reading fluency!

What are some ways that you help yourself grow as a professional?

Where can I print inexpensive 18x24 or larger sized posters for professional training presentations etc? Or do you have any recommendations for a home printer that could do this?

Do you have students in your classroom who have difficulty staying on the lines when writing? You can buy spiral notebooks that have every other line highlighted in blue or you can easily create your own: https://pin.it/7JnnPXr1Q

Do you have any exemplar resources to help teachers track accommodations in the classroom?

How does your district approach testing? Progress monitoring students? Do you have an assessment team? And do teachers test?

What strategies could be used to support an upper elementary student with a learning disability and speech language impairment in constructing grammatically correct sentences. Often, for these students on my caseload, I find that they struggle to apply conventions when writing down their ideas. Run-on sentences (or even just seemingly jumbled words) are frequent!

How do you get 2nd graders interested in writing? I like to use pictures and have students write down what they see. I also like to use story starters.

What Kagan strategies do you find most helpful for cooperative learning?

Does anyone know of an organization that helps to fund field trips for students?
I used to apply for Target Field Trip grants, but they no longer provide funding.

I have two questions.
1. What are some resources you use for math tier 2 interventions k-4?

2. What are resources for enrichment and extension for math k-4?

Thanks!

I often use charts to help students compare/contrast texts, organize events in a story, or to capture character feelings over the course of a text. What are your favorite charts to use for building comprehension and other literacy skills?

How do you build relationships with tough parents? What are some things you do to build trust so that you can have tough conversations with them when needed?

Does anyone have any amazing resources for grants or scholarships to present/attend large professional development conferences?