Thank you to our Area Superintendent, Ms. Corr for being our guest reader today for Literacy Week. Spirit Elementary

The excitement is building at the Mentoring Academy! #MentoringMatters #RelationshipsMatter #TeachingMatters

We are with Volusia LEADS, Volusia Recruits, and more than 100 teachers for the first #VolusiaMENTORS professional learning event. This group of dedicated professionals will be mentoring new teachers throughout VCS next year. #TeachingMatters #MentoringMatters

We use to think teachers came to us with education degrees, we now think teachers join us from many fields and need proper support to learn strategies, etc. Volusia LEADS #mentoringmatters #teachingmatters #relationshipsmatter

Volusia Mentors learning and discussing! #MentoringMatters #RelationshipsMatter #TeachingMatters Volusia LEADS

We are excited to be mentors because we get to work with all the awesome #VolusiaMentors as we help our amazing new teachers! Volusia Recruits Volusia LEADS #MentoringMatters #RelationshipsMatter #TeachingMatters

Hands-on, minds-on Science in Room 704, exploring Magnetism. #VCSManateeCove #ElemSci

Table Selfies with Motivating Mentors!! Volusia LEADS @#MentoringMatters#TeachingMatters#RelationshipsMatter#VolusiaMENTORS

Amanda Gang from Spirit Elementary! Wonder Woman! #VCSNumberTalks

A1 6 x 100+ 6 x 20 + 6 x 5. Decompose 125 by place value #VCSNumberTalks

A2 124 / 4= 100 /4 + 24 /4 25 + 6 =31 #VCSNumberTalks

A3 16 x 4 8 x 4 + 8 x 4 or 16 x 2 + 16 x 2 #VCSNumberTalks

Amanda Gang, Spirit Elementary. I am thankful for my children, who teach me something new everyday #VCSNumberTalks

A1 Qs are open ended. Requiring authentic thinking/learning=conceptual knowledge instead of memorization #VCSNumberTalks

A2 getting Ss used to hand signals, not just in Number Talks but throughout instruction #VCSNumberTalks

A3 build conceptual knowledge & number sense early/Learn procedures to use in next grade level. #VCSNumberTalks

A4 sharing success stories. Video a Number Talks session or invite teachers in! #VCSNumberTalks

Spirit’s 5th grade scientists waiting to be interviewed #VCSscienceEXPO Spirit Elementary #SpiritBlazin

Spirit’s 5th grade Science Fair winners! Spirit Elementary #VCSscienceEXPO #SpiritBlazin

Hands-on Science Stations! #VCSscienceEXPO Spirit Elementary #SpiritBlazin