💜💜Thank you JC Harmon High music team for the lovely performances at CO. My day was absolutely made watching these four JUNIORS shine!✨They will always be KINDERS to me!💜💜 #myfirstclass #classof2025

☝🏼1st grade students Whittier Elementary celebrated Groundhog Day by learning about groundhogs in their #CKLA readers! My reading partner’s oral language AND decoding skills were 🔥🔥🔥

👟Kicked off my day MarkTwainBullpups in kindergarten. I saw some INCREDIBLE #CKLA skills instruction 🙌🏻 and some ADORABLE #100thday outfits.👴🏻

📣Calling all #CKLA Kindergarten teachers!!! Look at these chaining trays Douglass Elementary USD 500 . The sound boxes are Velcro so they can be adapted. 🤩 Then, students McKinley Elementary School reviewed letter sounds with a Family Feud style game! 🙌🏻

Kindergartners learned about spinners and weavers that were tradespeople during Colonial times. Then, students used looms, yarn, and plastic needles and became kindergarten weavers! Alli Rice #bettereveryday

I work with really amazing people. I get to support Dr. Ashley Udell this afternoon with math standards alignment and this woman is AMAZING!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #bettereveryday

First grade students Whittier Elementary kicked off their Amplify #CKLA unit about Frontier Explorers by traveling all the way to the mobiles to do some exploring of their own! Ss used binoculars and notebooks to check out three different areas. 🗺️🧭

Had a 🚀BLAST🚀 at this year’s Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools Diploma + showcase event! Best part was taking a selfie with three fabulous future KCKPS teachers🍎

🌟Grateful for leadership who believe in me and create opportunities for me to learn and grow. 🌟

☀️Elementary SUMMER SCHOOL teachers Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools are at CO this morning with SMILES preparing for our wonderful students!!!😎 #bettereveryday

C&I won’t be the same without this science guy around. Good luck on your new adventure Spencer!!!

🤗Today I joined the tiger fam NewChelseaTigers 🐅 to talk about the assets multilingual students bring to our classrooms that make Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools #bettereveryday

HAPPY NEW YEAR Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools!!! I kicked off this year supporting Welborn Elementary School. Thank you collette chaney for making me feel part of the Eagle Team of Champions today by gifting me a shirt! 🦅

Spent my afternoon with Dr. Ashley Udell supporting teachers hazelgrove_kck and we just couldn’t leave without taking a selfie with Principal Jayne Hafner 🐝

Tell me you’re a millennial teacher without telling me you’re a millennial teacher. Outfit vibes were twinning today with my other ELA half Dr. Kristin Chasteen 👯‍♀️

Look at all these Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools BLTs planning how they will support MTSS in their buildings this school year!!! 💪🏻Today I talked with these lovely leaders about small group differentiation during core ELA instruction 🤓

Took the boys to the Silver City Day Parade yesterday morning to walk with New Stanley Elem! A lot has changed since I first went in 2012, but the Argentine community is still thriving💪🏻