Encourage students to write and reflect in the new year with these starters: bit.ly/3ZUZxEv

Pajama Day, cookies & cocoa celebrating the best team of tutors! 🤍

“Mrs. Garcia, you made the nice list!” 🤭

My coworkers are the best, baby’s first hand-made booties! 💛

Getting to know new friends in a group using Kagan Publishing & Professional Development Question Cards and Talking Chips! 🗣️

Proud writers showing off their Imitations from #PatternsofWonder by Whitney La Rocca and @writeguyjeff

Welcome to Starbooks: Teacher Book Tasting and Tech Playground led by students promoting literacy materials and technology gems for staff to use in their classrooms. 🌟☕️📚👩🏻‍💻 Learn more at this year’s IDEAcon Conference! IDEA

This month students created reading and writing goals based on their self-reflections from Jennifer Serravallo, next we’ll identify the strategies that will help us get there!

The next Monarch Award IL list is ready, second year being a Monarch Reader has been fun now to keep the list under wraps!

These second graders are enjoying the hunt, searching for synonyms of new vocab words in a thesaurus! 🔎 D83Spartans

Students responding to a powerful quote all teacher leaders should live by! #BlackHistoryMonth

Had a blast at IDEA listening to inspirational keynotes, learning alongside so many passionate educators, and presenting with my D83Spartans team! #IDEACon2025

Second graders wrapped up their book club on Matthew Cordell’s Cornbread & Poppy at the Museum. They found fun new vocab words along the way and visited real museums using VR with the Tech Coach!

Such a fun time meeting Matthew Cordell!

Character day with these lit friends!

Tissue Box Challenge for #ReadAcrossAmerica, making The Pigeon’s dreams come true 🩵

Self-care day at our school with fun giveaways, relaxing activities and yoga led by a teacher! 🧘‍♀️ D83Spartans

Kindergarten families enjoyed a Book Buddies party to celebrate the joy of reading! Party, party, party! D83Spartans

My little book worm is one month old! 🐛

Soaking up the last bit of summer weather!