Adelfa Castillo

@CarlaJano Wishing you the best!!

1st Day at HISD B. Ross Elementary 🚸🥰👩🏽‍🏫🏫🎒🚌

@PISD_Innovation @traci_powell ✨ Wishing you a happy birthday full of blessings…and many more ❣️

🎉 Happy birthday to THE @traci_powell 🎂 Your leadership drives our success every day. Here's to a fantastic year ahead!

This gives me goosebumps! Praying for our linemen I love how they’re praying together!! Yes, God protect them! 🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🥰🥰😇😇✝️

We want to welcome our 24-25 ETLA LAR members! We had a great first session learning all about leadership styles! Looking forward to seeing all the wonderful literacy initiatives these ladies implement on their campuses. #PISDETLA #PISDLACHAT

📢 We’re back with another Canvas Conversation! 🎉 @adelfa65 from #PomeroyElementary is sharing how essential @canvas_by_inst gradebook setup is and how she’ll support her teachers back on campus. 📝🏫 #EdTech #CanvasLearning #TeacherSupport

My LAR partner, Ms. Castillo led our Map Data PLT and showed teachers how to set class and student goals. Powerful conversations were shared and we are praying for strong student learning outcomes 💪💜🐾

Enjoy collaborating and learning from each other.

✨Class set giveaway!✨ Teachers, I'm giving away 25 signed copies of my novel, THE ONE AND ONLY FAMILY, and I'd love to send them to your classroom. 🦍🐕🐘 RT + follow to for a chance to win! I'll notify a random winner this Tuesday, 8/27. @HarperChildrens

@Tellez_Stephani Welcome back to our group!! ✨🤍 🌟

Big changes happening…super excited to be back at a campus this upcoming year & to be joining the Gardens family! I miss seeing kids everyday & working alongside teams. Being a campus coach has ALWAYS been my favorite role. Can’t wait to get back to what gave me the most joy. 🐊

As school begins this fall, remember there is no work-life balance there's just life. And while you may be replaced relatively quickly at school, you're irreplaceable at home. Take time for yourself, friends. and family next school year.

Admin, If a formal observation is the first time you are in a teachers classroom, then put the evaluation form away. Just sit, listen, and leave a note of thanks, praise or encouragement. Relationships first!

I keep thinking about how traumatized my and my parents’ and grandparents’ generations were by the footage of the JFK shooting. I was very little but we all stood in front of our televisions when the recording was released and it still replays in my mind. I’m so sorrowful for the life lost at the rally and for the trauma of a crowd reacting to gunfire but I’m also profoundly grateful the bullet failed its full intention. For Trump and his loved ones’ sake certainly. But also because this generation would have taken that horrific sight to the grave. These are such perilous times. My scripture reading this morning ended with the words of Jesus, “In this world you will have trouble.” Lord Jesus, we’re having trouble down here. Trouble heaped upon trouble! “but take heart!” Jesus, sometimes it feels like we have lost our hearts entirely. Help us find them again. Hate has overwhelmed us. Unstopped, this violence will destroy us. “I have overcome the world.” You and you alone. You, Jesus. There is only you. Overcomer, come quickly.

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5 Life Changing Quotes 1.

Let’s do our part to make the world just a little bit better by raising others up today! #KindnessIsPowerful #KindnessMatters

Love this! 🧡

As many school leaders begin their new role today think about this. “Why can’t school be like Disney World” Our passion for the work, leading with love, and a smile costs absolutely nothing ❤️ School culture starts with us.

@MrDBlevins @PISD_RISE Yes, it’s always best to not react! It’s a skill that takes practice but it will bring positive outcomes.

@PISD_RISE A16: Not everything in life is personal, and there is always the opportunity to think. It's better to stop, take a breath, and think, than it is to immediately "react" based solely on emotion. It may not always feel that way, but it's important to be aware of it. #pisdRISEchat

Q16: Choose and share your biggest Aha! moment while reading about conflict. How does this change your perspective/thoughts on conflict or shape your approach in working through conflict? #pisdRISEchat (Note: Reply with A16: and include #pisdRISEchat in your reply.)

@JKelxMilSS @PISD_RISE Journal writing will be helpful in so many ways!! It may also be something they can carry into their lives as they grow.

@PISD_RISE A15: In my classroom, I plan to use journal entries and "start statements" to help teach resilience. Forming healthy relationships with our students will help us identify opportunities to teach resilience. #pisdRISEchat

Q15: We cannot develop resiliency in others because it can only be developed, practiced, and refined by an individual. How might you create opportunities for students to build resilience in your class? How do you determine what types of opportunities are necessary?

@PISD_RISE A16 My Aha! was the survival mode our brain automatically goes into during conflict. This is something to remember to consider when facing conflict and our reaction to it. #pisdRISEchat