Melissa McCray, Ph.D.
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Wife & Mother...Served as a teacher, principal, principal coach, and an admin. consultant...currently Director of Elementary Curriculum, Instruction and PD
Mississippi, USA
Joined August 2012
🎆🎉 Mississippi is proving what’s possible in literacy! NAEP’s latest data shows record-breaking progress: ✅ Highest-ever rate of students scoring proficient or advanced in 4th and 8th grade reading ✅ #1 in the nation for achieving highest score increases in 4th grade reading
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I was just listening to a recorded presentation from Dr. Jan Hasbrouck and of course, as always, she was brilliant, and when I heard her say this I knew I HAD to do an infographic.
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Truth, @KJWinEducation.
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NEW RESOURCE: ExcelinEd launches early literacy coaching modules to equip coaches with skills and strategies needed to support teachers. https://t.co/gYPa5CgNOi
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ExcelinEd promotes 18 principles of comprehensive early literacy policy that support teachers, administrators, students and families with strategies to
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“If I’m not modeling the type of high-engagement teaching I’m looking for, how can I expect to see it?” #BeTheExample #ModelIt
Here's to all the ways you learned alongside your staff this school year! (Via leader @AllysonApsey)
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We’re 1 day away…please register using the link below to join us and learn more!
Greetings to Educators and Friends! Join an awareness meeting on Tuesday, June 18, at 6:00 pm CST to meet the leaders of the Mississippi chapter and learn more about how you can get involved with The Reading League at a local level. Register here:
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☝️Dylan Wiliam said that Cognitive Load Theory is ‘the single most important thing for teachers to know’. This poster summarises some key ideas from CLT and offers 6 strategies to optimise instruction and maximise learning. 👊 REPOST and grab a free HQ copy here:
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Greetings to Educators and Friends! Join an awareness meeting on Tuesday, June 18, at 6:00 pm CST to meet the leaders of the Mississippi chapter and learn more about how you can get involved with The Reading League at a local level. Register here:
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This is a VIRTUAL meeting on June 18, 2024, at 6:00 PM (CST). All participants will receive a confirmation email the Zoom link information. Thank you!
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🆕 Did you listen?! Episode 188 🆕 Hear Katie Pace Miles talk more about Ehri's theory of orthographic mapping and how we read words by sight. 👀
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If you are a school district and you think you can do a patchwork that includes the balanced literacy and structured literacy approach to teach reading to novice readers, not only you are wrong, but you are also wasting: -money that does not belong to you -time that you can't
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Literacy IS a civil right for ALL children!
"It's not simply the future of these kids, it's the future of this nation." @levarburton @NYCMayor @DOEChancellor #literacyisacivilright #TheRighttoRead
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Writing letters by hand leaves clearer memory traces in the brain than typing them does, indicating deeper learning. ✍️ Brain scans of preliterate children reveal crucial reading circuitry flickering to life when kids hand-printed letters and then tried to read them.💡
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Save the dates June 11-13, 2024 for the next PaTTAN Litearcy Symposium! This FREE, virtual literacy symposium opens for registration opens February 28, 2024!!! Over 75 literacy presentations from the best in the literacy world with keynote speakers: Dr. @HollyLanePhD,
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