Crisis? What crisis? That's the response from the government to health care professionals at CHEO Ottawa helping kids who are in the hospital right now, struggling to breathe. Doug Ford honour the office you hold: #MaskUp indoors, #RepealBill124, and fund the healthcare we need.

Hexagonal thinking encourages students to work together to share their understanding of texts read, make connections among ideas and consolidate vocabulary. Always impressed by the richness of the discussion. MJ Drager Karen Tigani Huron-Perth CDSB #buildingstrongcommunicators

Check out how Elkonin boxes are helping students consolidate their writing and spelling! These innovative learning tools make it easier for kids to practice their literacy skills and develop a strong foundation for their future. #LiteracyMatters #ElkoninBoxes @StColumbanCS

Literacy coaching is some of the most powerful professional learning we can do. Digging into student data and sharing best practices and resources strengthens Tier 1 instruction in our classrooms. Huron-Perth CDSB Cathy Buchanan Karen Karen Tigani

Literacy coaching in K. Small group phonics instruction. Data driven. Reading and writing CVC words connected to decodable passages. MJ Drager Cathy Buchanan Karen Tigani Huron-Perth CDSB

Explicit instruction and practice of syllables and morphology … connecting decoding, encoding and vocabulary in junior literacy #tier1 #morphology Huron-Perth CDSB St. Mary's School Karen Tigani MJ Drager Karen

Students worked on sentence expansion connected to the text we had read. Lots of oral practice before writing sentence helps to build competency. Connecting writing to reading gives students the content the need for writing. Huron-Perth CDSB MJ Drager Karen Karen Tigani

So happy and grateful to join over 600 educators to learn from Christopher Such at the 2023 Literacy and Learning Conference. What an amazing experience. #LitLearn2023 IDA Ontario Huron-Perth CDSB Karen Tigani Karen Cathy Buchanan

Spending a sunny Spring Saturday fully engaged in learning (indoors!) is another example of how committed Huron-Perth CDSB is to advancing the Right to Read & continuing learning about critical shifts in teaching all students to read! #TogetherOnTheJourney IDA Ontario #LitLearn2023

“Literacy is the currency to move us forward in life” Dr. Tracy White-Weeden. IDA Ontario conference was an amazing day to learn and a reminder that we must use our literacy privilege to work tenaciously to improve literacy for all. MJ Drager Karen Tigani Karen

Great day when you get to observe the growth and confidence of young readers and are treated to a performance of the Readers’ Theatre plays that you authored! @stbonifacecs Karen Tigani MJ Drager Karen

YES!!

Love Anita Archer … excited to see her in April. Teach them well!

Using progress monitoring to make adjustments to Tier 2 intervention to ensure continued growth MJ Drager Karen Tigani #acadience #tier2intervention

Effective Tier 1 instruction supported by targeted Tier 2! MJ Drager Karen Tigani #ufli #mtss #structuredliteracy

Last night I had the opportunity to celebrate the retirement of my brother. I’m beyond proud of his achievements and dedication to mathematics education!

It was a pleasure to present to the Principals & Vice Principals of Huron-Perth CDSB today and share all of the things I wish administrators knew in order to be effective literacy leaders! Thanks for having me Karen Tigani Karen & team!

Students @stmaryslistowel worked collaboratively to expand their kernel sentences based on our text. When & where phrases, adding an adjective and swapping out boring verbs #writingrevolution

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Today launched our Junior Literacy PD. In addition to learning about Universal Screening, Grade 6 teachers applied new strategies from The Writing Revolution to their social studies. MJ Drager Karen Tigani Huron-Perth CDSB Caroline Thuss #explicitinstruction #thewritingrevolution