⭐️🌟⭐️Mark your calendars, OrangeCountySchools educators! Our second annual OCS Stars of Education conference will be on August 15, 2024! Help spread the word to your colleagues!⭐️🌟⭐️ If you are interested in presenting, fill out the application by 5/17! rb.gy/nnpreh

We have had 3 great days of professional development at our 2024 Leadership Retreat. Dr. Tabari Wallace was amazing!!! Thank you for bringing great strategies and humor. You truly made a positive impact. We are ready to Ride or Fly! OrangeCountySchools

Had the honor of spending day 1 of year 25 supporting the staff, students, and families at New Hope Elementary! I LOVE the nervous excitement of a new school year!!!!

So much learning, collaboration, and professional growth today for our ESL Specialists! Thank you to some of our phenomenal DLCs and Mariah Morris for facilitating some of our learning 📚🌎

From a college student hired as an ESL Tutor to being honored as our Beginning Teacher of the Year! How exciting it is to see her grow as an educator with huge heart for supporting our #linguisticallygifted students. Congrats, Layla!

Fantastic keynote from Quiara Alegría Hudes (award winning playwrite of In the Heights on Broadway and screen, and author of her memoir My Broken Language) to kick off #WIDA2024!

What opportunities are you providing for students to engage in academic discourse?

Returning home from #WIDA2024 with so much new knowledge that we can't wait to share with you!

In the aftermath of Helene, the students of Watauga High School wrote & produced a short play to process their experience of the flood. This is the opening song, an original. I am just…so proud & in awe of our young mountaineers. Link for entire play below. 👇🏼

Got to spend yesterday afternoon with our 🍊Orange County Schools CTE teachers modeling PWIM and Interactive Word Walls as instructional strategies to support our MLs! I can't wait for more opportunities to collaborate with this awesome group of teachers!

Too many people to thank for their part in supporting our 5th Grade PBL! Math, reading, writing, budget skills, and science were all applied while building model homes ready to withstand a hurricane! Excited to test and reflect tomorrow! #NHVoyagers New Hope Elementary OrangeCountySchools

I’m presenting at the 2025 WIDA Annual Conference! Don’t miss my session, A Collaborative Approach: Project-Based Learning and Language Acquisition. Learn more about #WIDA2025: events.wida.us

Congratulations, Mr. Johnson! We're so proud of you!!!

So much collaboration happening in our monthly ELD Specialists meeting today; unpacking the critical content of ELA standards through the lens of language acquisition AND drafting oral language rubrics aligned to WIDA PLDs. Great supports for our #LinguisticallyGifted students!

Let's do this! #WIDA2025

“Language learning is not simply a technical matter... it's always a matter of culture and politics" - Viet Thanh Nguyen, #WIDA2025 keynote

"When we engage in multilingual learning the possibility opens for us to learn about other people. Sometimes we have to be students, too." - Viet Thanh Nguyen, #WIDA2025 keynote

We had a full house for A Collaborative Approach: PBL and Language Learning Across Content Areas at #WIDA2025! So proud of these ladies and fortunate to present alongside them. OrangeCountySchools New Hope Elementary