Made it back from doing one of my favorite job tasks (PD with teachers) to work with some of my favorite peeps so we can host PD for building leaders next week!

If you’re interested in working for Richland One, you can get an interview right away during the district’s 2024 Interview Night Thursday, December 12 from 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Interviews are by appointment only. For more information: richlandone.org/details/~board… #TeamOne #OneTeam

“When students write about content, they’re thinking about content,” educator Kasey Short says. “Writing to learn provides natural differentiation and holds all students accountable for interacting with the content.” 📝 edut.to/496iBCR

Teams that went undefeated in the month of November!

So the Gamecock Football team has more ranked wins than 9 potential playoff teams have combined. Incredible.

Great ideas… but you have to know your people to pick the right ones. I work with awesome people and we all would have different preferences on this list - some ideas would actually make certain people uncomfortable…

Best trick is having some questions in your back pocket to make students explain their thinking - these are some good back pocket questions.

12 Cognitive biases that are holding you back

Ways to make decisions.

Most people are preparing for the wrong future— The skills that got you here won’t be enough to take you forward. The workplace is evolving fast. And the skills employers value most are changing with it. Some skills are becoming less relevant: 🔴 Coding fundamentals 🔴

Modeling the water cycle ⁦Hopkins Middle School⁩ ❤️❤️❤️ ⁦Richland One Schools⁩ ⁦Richland One Office of Secondary Education⁩

Play with one or two #pendulums and discover how length, mass, gravity, or angle affect the #period. Explore the energy in the system in real-time and discover the #conservation of mechanical energy. phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations… #PeriodicMotion #iTeachPhysics #SimpleHarmonic

It is teacher contract season… Justin Mecham you have great stuff here is a little edit for the education field…teachers are in short supply they hold the cards when choosing a great school!

All of these Richland One Office of Secondary Education Richland One Schools students from Hand Middle School & Crayton Middle competed at the University of South Carolina Region II Science and Engineering Fair - all projects from them were selected for Round 2 judging - awards announcements on March 23rd! Craig Witherspoon #STEMisHappening

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Do you know the difference between reading skills and reading strategies? 🤔 📖 Reading Skills are automatic actions for decoding and comprehension. 🔍 Reading Strategies are deliberate efforts to control decoding and understanding. #ReadingSkills #ReadingStrategies

Your plan might be flawless but still fail— Here's why: Because it’s not the plan that wins. It’s the strategy behind it. A plan lays out tasks and timelines, a strategy defines direction and meaning. Big difference: A plan says: ➡ Start here ➡ Do this ➡ Reach the goal

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Kudos to our Richland One Office of Secondary Education science consultants for working with SCDE to provide a rigorous deep dive into science standards today! Outstanding learning! #ProudED Richland One Schools