Heather
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Wife, Mother, Instructional Leader at Cherokee Elementary School, Cubs Fan, #mysteryskype #ChoiceSeating *Tweets are my own*
Alabama, USA
Joined April 2012
Back 2 School team building fun with a #GooseChase within our community #iLoveTeaching #RETtigers #TtownTigers #Tlap #Culturize
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It’s been a great two days at the #innovativeschoolssummit Looking forward to learning from more amazing presenters/authors tomorrow!!
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Reminder from T @MrsHunter_OAK: You can't get to the deep learning without going through the discomfort of mistake-making! #GrowthMindset
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“Love them enough to change their story.” 🥰
It’s easy to get discouraged by *that kid* and say, “I didn’t sign up for this.” The reality? Yes. We did. We did sign up for this. We signed up to teach KIDS. 🔸*That kid* who is crying every morning when they get to school? We signed up for it. 🔻*That kid* who is in the 8th
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Our grade level math data meetings at Cherokee Elementary today included our data wall creation, analyzing the data, and then discussing celebrations, changes, and the next steps in our tiers of instruction #CEStribe @AMSTI4all
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🦺 Kindergarten was a construction zone today & finished up their Open Court Unit on Homes by building sentences, letters, CVC words, & high-frequency words in Reading. In Math they built cities with addition and subtraction equations. @amstiuna @Alabama_Reading #CEStribe
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Here’s to the weekend! Yay! A new episode of the podcast will be waiting for you tomorrow.
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Every kid can and will succeed when they have a champion who believes in them. The magic ingredients? 🔹Compassion and grit.🔹 Meet them with empathy first. Then love them enough to change their story. #multiplyexcellence
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"it's not the structure of the tree that makes the tree healthy, it's the invisible things that contributes to its health." -@marioacosta31
@MarzanoResource
#HRSInstitute
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Great 2nd day of learning & collaboration at the HRS Institute. #HRSinstitute Loved meeting and learning from the amazing Tina Boogren! @THBoogren #LeadingTheWay #LightingThePath
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How true this is. Kids who have faced deep trauma are often the most difficult to reach. Behaviors such as withdrawal, escape, and defiance are often what comes to surface. It’s easy to take it personally and mishandle the situation. (Been there. 🙋♀️🤦♀️) While I don’t have the
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NEW EPISODE of The Interview Chair - Who Is Moving Your Big Rocks? Are you just kicking pebbles down the road? Vision without Focus is meaningless my friends. Let's take time to #Recalibrate this week and get back to the 30,000-foot view to keep your eye on your vision. Click
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What are your big rocks? Are you focused on them? If you are simply kicking pebbles down the road you can’t move the big rocks. Get back to the 30,000 view this week and recalibrate your vision with your team. When you spend every day putting out fires at 1000 feet it’s hard to
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Busy & good day today! Started the morning off at the ALA Leadership Institute in Birmingham- heard Byron Franklin speak 🙌 . Then went to Cherokee’s Back 2 School Bash and ended the night with the Barbie movie.
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