Friday visit to Coles ES and got to see an inclusive, student-led Element Meeting! Awesome focus on the whole child. Coles Principal

Today we used Nearpod to learn about our digital footprints. Then Ss completed a bubble map in #Wixie with social media posts & headlines that they want to see in the future when someone searches for their name. @pwcstechcoach Coles Principal Jessica Bushey

KG Ss take photos of living & nonliving things outside. Then use sentence stems to create ChatterPix @PWCSScience @pwcstechcoach Jessica Bushey Coles Principal

1st graders created their own books based on Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews #Wixie Tech4Learning @pwcsela @pwcstechcoach Coles Principal Jessica Bushey

3D printing meets vocabulary practice in this interactive word wall! MakerBot Shireen Hafeez @pwcstechcoach

Coles Principal Jessica Bushey @pwcstechcoach

Coles Principal PWCS Fall Festival 🍁 🍃 🎃

Our Roadrunners had a blast at the Monster Mash STEM Night! Marble mazes, BeeBots, tangrams, and more! Jessica Bushey Coles Principal PWCS

Our families enjoyed a terrific STEM/ Math/ Monster Mash last night! Thank you to our super staff and PTA for this collaborative family event involving learning opportunities!

Being bilingual is a super power! Co-teaching with @Ms_Keaney today using Book Creator Team to describe advantages of being bilingual Dr. Carol Salva @pwcstechcoach Coles Principal Jessica Bushey EL Instructional Services

Jon Smith Check out these Book Creator Team pages created by 4th graders! Our Ss are proud of their books! Coles Principal Jessica Bushey Dr. Carol Salva @pwcstechcoach EL Instructional Services

Fantastic PD on reading & math instruction this morning! Looking forward to implementing these strategies & supporting Ts with integrating tech too! Coles Principal Jessica Bushey @pwcsela Donna Stofko

Listen to "Being Bilingual is a Super Power!" by Roadrunner Radio. ⚓ anchor.fm/meaghan-martin… Coles Principal Jessica Bushey @Ms_Keaney Dr. Carol Salva EL Instructional Services @pwcstechcoach

Congratulations to Virginia's seven 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools, honored today by the U.S. Department of Education in Washington! #NBRS2022

We had a productive staff meeting Coles Principal on Thursday morning. The teachers practiced together, led by their math coach, on numberless word problems and drawing their understandings after visualizing the problem. PWCS LaTanya D. McDade, Ed.D. @maffeimath Mrs. Roscioli Mrs. Swadley

@Ms_Keaney Dr. Carol Salva @DesjardinMiss Coles Principal Jessica Bushey Dr. Casey Ward What an engaging way to kick off fact and opinion! Our Ss have so much to share and tons of questions! Looking forward to collaborating on this research project!!!

Co-teching with Mrs.Story, our librarian, about credible websites. 5th graders collaborated to review @LyleZapato Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies Coles Principal Jessica Bushey @pwcstechcoach VAASL

Effective teachers don't focus so much on rules, but more on relationships, routines, & expectations. If you focus mainly on rules, you will spend most of the year enforcing them. But if you focus on relationships, routines, & expectations, you rarely have to defer back to rules.

Thank you to one of our families for donating this AMAZING biopod, donating the plants, and spending their holiday with me this morning to set it up! This will be yet another small ecosystem our students will be able to observe growing, along with our frogs, when they are added!

An honor to represent Coles Elementary, last week, and the dedication and passion of our amazing staff and students in earning this prestigious National Blue Ribbon Award from the U. S Department of Education.