So proud of the work New Hanover County Schools is doing to grow our readers! Our schools and teachers are changing the lives of our students by providing them with strong literacy instruction! Charles Foust, Ed.D Patrice Faison

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Look at our first LETRS Unit 2 PLC! Sorting sounds using the vowel valley! Love the hands on opportunities Andrea Raines and Adriana Sligh are providing for teachers to make the learning make sense! NCDPI Office of Early Learning

Check out these little podcasters! Today was the first day they recorded themselves after creating their own farm animal fact card! We loved working on using our strong voices to present 💚💙

On Wednesday morning we'll host this month's Parent and Caregiver Academy on supporting literacy at home. These tips will be great to take into winter break to help your first- and second-grade students keep growing in their reading. Hope to see you there!

Bringing Wit & Wisdom English to life Forest Hills GES with Virtual Reality! The students had a blast exploring the farm, space, the American west and extreme settings. I had a blast leading these lessons with Mr. Robinson today! Ready for day 2 tomorrow! Maureen Hill

Check out Ashley Keegan kick off to Wit & Wisdom English module 3 as students worked collaboratively with their peers as they explored different resources from the NC History Museum Civil War stories Forest Hills GES NC Museum of History Maureen Hill

2024 is officially “The Year of Public Schools” in North Carolina. The future of our state goes to class in a public school, and we must invest in that future. governor.nc.gov/news/press-rel…

We are proud to partner with NAACP for a free online screening of The Right to Read in celebration of Black History Month. Watch the film for the next 24-hours at therighttoreadfilm.org TODAY. #literacyisfreedom LeVar Burton Kareem J. Weaver Kymyona Burk, Ed.D.

Interventions work best when students are grouped by need across classrooms and staff members are assigned by expertise.  This is a much more efficient and effective way to intervene, in comparison to each teacher keeping her/his own students.

Thanks for visiting and seeing the amazing work being done in New Hanover County Schools! We are so proud of our staff and students! 💙

The excellent curriculum is not the solution. The excellent curriculum at the heart of an academically-focused, fully aligned system is the solution.

🌟Team work makes the dream work! 🌟Look at our teachers supporting each other, so they can learn and grow together with Wit & Wisdom English

Excited to share that NC Public Schools named us a "Promising Practice" district for our game-changing approach to literacy instruction. Excellent article on our strategies, outcomes, and influence here: drive.google.com/file/d/1_xtpXY…

It was a big week at the State Board of Ed for NHCS with two recognitions for innovative changes yielding big results. Very proud to receive these recognitions — and even more proud of the work our educators and staff have put into making big changes happen in NHCS.

Congratulations to NHCS Superintendent Dr. Charles Foust on being named the 2024-25 Southeast Regional Superintendent of the Year!

Learning about syllable types and suffixes is such a game changer on our reading journey! I Love and appreciate explicit phonics instruction! Maureen Hill

Had a great visit at New Hanover County Schools this week! Great things happening because of great leadership putting effective systems in place to support teacher and student success! #NCReadLeadSucceed

Really grateful for all the ways LETRS is changing our community for the better and for hard work of NCDPI Office of Early Learning to give us all this opportunity.