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An easy way to pick the wrong career is to put your image above your interests and identity. A motivating job isn't the one that makes you look important. It's the one that makes you feel alive. Meaningful work isn't about impressing others. It's about expressing your values.

The purpose of education isn't only to impart knowledge and skills. It's to instill a love of learning.   Intellectual curiosity is seeing as much beauty in ideas and data as you do in art and music. A mark of a great teacher is a room filled with intrinsic motivation.

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Refreshed, renewed, and ready to change the world! Thank you North Polk CSD for the amazing opportunity! #rtiaw @PaulaMaeker Luis F. Cruz Mike Mattos Nicole Dimich (she/her)

It’s an AND not an OR. I agree this absolutist mindset has got to stop.

Advice learned from my mom, a 37 year retired educator: “If you always do what’s best for kids there will always be a place for you in education. You will also piss some people off along the way. Get used to it.” Tag a teacher who always does what’s best for kids👇. #thatonekid

It’s the end of an era. Friends, best of luck on your new adventures, you will be missed. 🖤❤️

“It’s always a great day to be a Cyclone, but some days are better than others.” - Eric Heft ❤️💛💚

Let kids read books IN their hands, NOT on a screen. 👏🏼

Back to School 2022 ✏️📓❤️🖤

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I wrote the first sentence for him. I wrote the second sentence with him. He wrote the third sentence with me. He wrote the fourth sentence for himself. He kept writing. It was an assessment. But that will skew the grading. Who said anything about grading? We were learning.

When embracing the "science of reading" ensure that science includes phonics & decoding AND ALSO the science of comprehension, vocabulary, fluency & self-regulation. Keep top of mind,learners differ. We teach readers, not just reading. Let's Talk About Literacy Dr. Mary Howard #cpchat #edchat

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For Tier 1 to be what it should be, we must not lower the bar. Our job in Tier 1 is to set the bar, make learners aware of the bar & what it takes to reach it, & then lift ALL learners to the bar. Lowering anything amounts to nothing. We raise the learners up instead.

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Congratulations to our state soloists yesterday. 2nd - Marley Ali 4th - Mia Doonan 6th - Alivia Rediske 7th - Wrigley Reynolds #GoComets

Drink every time you hear an NCAA tournament announcer say that the SEC was the deepest conference in the history of the sport this year. (Right now they are 4-4)