K-3 teachers in Polk School District are analyzing their reading standards and learning how to confer with students. We are “Growing Readers in Polk County. GOSA Polk School District #gagrowsreaders GrowingReaders_GA

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Red Ribbon Week is October 28th - November 1st Here are our PSD celebration days!

This federal grant will boost our state partnership to raise literacy rates and ultimately improve overall academic success for GA students. Thank you, Georgia Department of Education, Bright from the Start, and GOSA for your hard work on this important issue. bit.ly/2LZL5VY #gapol

Love these wiggle breaks!

ICYMI: My short and focused blog post about how to keep your rdg conferences short and focused! Read it in 5-7 min to learn how to keep your conferences to that same time frame (while, of course, making sure they are powerful and impactful). middleweb.com/41336/effectiv… MiddleWeb

Annual Canned Food Drive Starts TODAY!!!!!

Red Ribbon Week begins Monday!! Get those Superheroes ready!

You can’t control the quality of weekend they just had... but you can have a huge impact on their Monday morning. If you work in a school, you will make a difference tomorrow.

Answering some questions we’ve gotten in the last week! Our goal is to maintain time for teachers to do what they do best — teach — and for students to learn.

Proud of these kids!

“We can be bad at what we do. We can be average at what we do. We can be good at what we do. Everybody has a choice as to what they want to do and how they want to do that” (Nick Saban)

Here's a resource I pulled together to help people. Check out this Padlet! Leveled Texts & Other Books padlet.com/rhondahayes10/…

The staff of Northside Elementary! ❤️❤️

“Failure is a comma, not a period.” Love this post!

Congratulations to Audra Broome, Northside Elementary’s Teacher of the Year!! GrowingReaders_GA

A little “Flashlight Friday” reading in our camping themed 3rd grade classroom.

We’ve got some little athletes over at Northside! Loved seeing a few of our students tonight doing what they love.

Reese picks this season’s game of the century Tennessee Football vs Georgia Football

GOOD MORNING ATHENS 🤩