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.

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

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

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

YAY! Day one was amazing; I’m already excited for day two!!!! #hrsinstitute Marzano Resources

"it's not the structure of the tree that makes the tree healthy, it's the invisible things that contributes to its health." -Mario Acosta Marzano Resources #HRSInstitute

Great 2nd day of learning & collaboration at the HRS Institute. #HRSinstitute Loved meeting and learning from the amazing Tina Boogren! Tina H. Boogren, PhD #LeadingTheWay #LightingThePath

Here’s to the weekend! Yay! A new episode of the podcast will be waiting for you tomorrow.

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

Yes, handwriting needs to be taught explicitly too.

🦺 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. AMSTI UNA ARI / The Alabama Reading Initiative, ALSDE #CEStribe

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 AMSTI

This is an important reminder! 🙌 🎙 Brad Weinstein

Northern Lights in Northern Alabama 📷 Emilee J. James Spann

Don’t forget to water the grass. ⬇️☺️

Such a marvelous 1st day Ron Clark Academy #rcainspired

“Love them enough to change their story.” 🥰

Say. It. Louder. 👏 Let data be your flashlight, not your hammer! #multiplyexcellence

Reminder from T Mrs. Hunter: You can't get to the deep learning without going through the discomfort of mistake-making! #GrowthMindset

It’s been a great two days at the #innovativeschoolssummit Looking forward to learning from more amazing presenters/authors tomorrow!!