The energy, the candor & the joy ❤️!Opening moments of our inaugural Black Student Achievement Symposium w/ Dr. Dr. Tommie Mabry addressing participants & sharing his incredible and inspirational story! #excellenceandequity #CultivatingExcellence #proudtobeLBUSD

Today’s inaugural Black Student Achievement Symposium featured sessions for students & adults to explore strategies for success (literacy, parenting middle schoolers, experiencing college, dreaming BIG 💫). So glad to be a part of this moment. #proudtobeLBUSD

An inspirational day spent with our LB black parents, students, and so many dedicated leaders showing up in service of equity and excellence!

Thank you to the hard working & caring LBUSD principals!

The work of being a teacher is beyond imparting skills, it includes nurturing the hearts of human beings. Happy Teacher Appreciation!

"It’s time we recognize that transformation isn’t going to come from politicians but from school leaders and teachers." #EWOpinion edweek.org/leadership/opi…

Today, State Supt. Tony Thurmond hosted a special meeting with hundreds of local educational agency leaders and administrators from CA’s school districts and charters for a conversation on statewide and schoolwide efforts to ensure all students learn to read by third grade.

To truly engage students, be your most authentic self and model the behavior you want to see: bit.ly/3G4UyW5

Today is World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, also known as “Diversity Day”. Let us make space to think about the richness of the world’s cultures and its diversities as agents for inclusion and positive change, peace and development. #DiversityDay

Improve your students' learning of phonics with these instructional activities for Kindergarten and Grade 1: bit.ly/393LBNS #kindergarten #elemchat #elachat

SEAL 2022 Training Day 2! Learning how a community can shape & be shaped by individuals through activism and agency.

Nearly 200 teachers have been attending SEAL training the past few days, prepping for summer enrichment! Can’t wait to see what students learn and make. #ProudToBeLBUSD #SealShowcase K-5 LBUSD Math Office @HistoryLbusd @LBUSD_ElemELA LBUSD_Science 4InclusionShiz

The new self-paced course on Leveraging Divers and Complex Text in the Classroom begins this week! You can still register for it! bit.ly/3FZhcPX #elachat #educolor #educoach

This Juneteenth I’m Challenging Educators to Emancipate Themselves From a Colonized Curriculum @educatorbarnes #Juneteenth brightbeam.us/3xUK8oH

Check out our choice board of resources from organizations like EL Education and Edcite. Use #SummerChoiceBoardChallenge to tell us which one you tried. Each time you use the hashtag, you'll be entered to win a $25 gift card! Find everything here: bit.ly/390vvI0

The short guide to Placing Text at the Center of Learning addresses both short- and long-term strategies for improving reading skills. You'll find suggestions for actions to take and for actions to stop: bit.ly/3dnztI6 #reading #elachat #educoach

"...Unpacking sentences will give students the tools they need to make meaning from future sentences that use the same syntactical features, grammatical structures, and vocabulary—opening access to even the most challenging texts." bit.ly/2GiekAl #MLL #elachat

Our SEAL students working on symmetry and building! They are learning about themselves and ways to improve their school and community! Go #BurchamBobcats and #CarverCougars #proudtobeLBUSD

How should students read, write, & think like a scientist, historian, mathematician, or literary scholar? These lists "can act as starting points through which teachers can begin to think in terms of disciplinary literacy." ascd.org/el/articles/di…

What does it mean to use math lessons with #SEAD themes? Explore this collection! Then choose one to use with students, or create your own after seeing these examples: bit.ly/361eGeg #SEL #mathchat