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Soroya Smith

@soroyasmithmed

Curious Lead Learner serving as Assistant Principal @masoncityschools | committed to designing spaces of belonging-joy-authentic learning & creativity

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“I might’ve been born to lead, but I wasn’t born great. You develop into your greatness.” The amazing Kara Lawson consistently inspires us to “handle hard better” 💙 🖤

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“Fireworks and Feedback: ask students to celebrate and share their fireworks—learning that sparked joy or a moment where a concept really clicked—and feedback, input from peers or teachers that helped them take a step forward.” 🎆 🗣️🎆🗣️

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“all students are capable of high intellectual performances when teachers use seven practices that motivate self-directed learning and self-actualization (see sidebar).” Teaching Up to Help Generation Alpha Flourish ascd.org/el/articles/te… via ASCD

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“Our underlying assumptions (about everything) impact tone greatly and come across plainly in our phrasing and language choice during our interactions with students.”

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“There’s a lot going on here: a spiraling curriculum that revisits and builds upon themes year after year; an explicit teaching of underlying patterns; new vocabulary words, and a progression from the simple to the complex.” kqed.org/mindshift/6331…

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“We must make space for the inquiry, the hesitation, the hunch that pops up in their minds and asks “Is this true? Is there more?” Help Readers Discover What a Text Is Hiding middleweb.com/51359/help-rea…

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“The strongest link between parent talk about math & a child’s math performance was detected when researchers didn’t tell parents to do a math activity. Parents who naturally brought up #s or shapes in normal conversation had children who scored higher” kqed.org/mindshift/6435…

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“Girls need to know that they can take risks in that space, that it is safe to learn from one another, to fail in front of each other to get back up & take it as a lesson or a success” For Girls to Succeed in STEM, Confidence Matters as Much as Competence edsurge.com/news/2024-10-1…

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“When Ss work interdependently, each member is adding value to the group project… The goal here is to craft project protocols where each S is individually accountable but they also need to work w/ one another” spencereducation.com/group-collabor…

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“People can show you whatever they want, but it’s how they make you feel that counts” #HolidayCalendar via Netflix Holiday Mode in progress 🥰

“People can show you whatever they want, but it’s how they make you feel that counts” #HolidayCalendar via <a href="/netflix/">Netflix</a> 

Holiday Mode in progress 🥰
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“When people say math is boring, maybe it’s because the focus is on the final answer rather than on listening to other people’s thinking.” 7 Ways to Balance Joy With Rigor in Math Class | Edutopia edutopia.org/article/7-ways…

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“encourage the participation and the thanking of non-teaching staff like office staff, custodians, and cafeteria workers. Students often find supportive relationships with adults who aren’t their teachers at school.” greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/t…

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They had me at glimmer journal ✨ “One way to be more present is the 5-4-3-2-1 method, in which you notice five things you can see, four things you can feel, three things you can hear, two things you can smell and one thing you can taste.” kqed.org/mindshift/6430…

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When they have figured out a hard question, ask: How did we figure that out? What do we attribute our success to? Discuss the repeatable strategies they used, like using prior knowledge, reasoning, drawing a picture, discussing with a neighbor” edutopia.org/article/strate…