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It's Toolkit Tuesday, and we are already thinking about next year! We have one last Evidence-Based Practices Network session coming up on April 22 at 3:30! We will be sharing ideas for planning how to use high-leverage instructional practices with our high-quality instructional materials. To register, go to forms.gle/CnXczBwBpAAw5b…

If your parents are 65 and above, please listen. They are not going to tell you they are running out of time. That is not how they were built. They will wave you off, say they are fine, tell you not to worry, because they spent a lifetime protecting you from hard truths and they are still doing it now. But time is not asking their permission. Look closely the next time you see them, really look. The hands that once seemed so capable, the voice that used to fill a room, the eyes that still light up the moment you walk in, because you walking in is still, after all these years, one of the best parts of their day. You are so busy becoming while they are quietly diminishing, and both things are happening at the same time and nobody talks about it. The repeated stories are not a malfunction. They are what mattered most to them, they are trying to pass something to you before they go, so receive it. One day you will be mid-sentence and suddenly remember the exact way they laughed, and it will stop you cold, and you would trade almost anything to hear it one more time in real time, not just in memory. That day is coming, you do not know when. So call, not when you have time, because you do not have time, nobody does, but call anyway, visit anyway, sit in the quiet with them and let it mean something. Give them your presence while they can still feel it, not later. Now.

@fostersenn @stuart_lake Just so darn proud!! Big George would approve!!! Go Cocks! Go Rebels!!!

Newberry County’s, Mid-Carolina’s @stuart_lake

Do you serve students with ongoing, intensive, and individualized support across multiple areas of their lives, including academics, mobility, self-care, social skills, and behavior? If you do, this community of practice is for you. Join our next community meeting on March 31 at 3:00. For more information and to register, go to academicalliancesc.org/communities-of…

Get ready, registration for SC TEAMS Summer University on June 9-10 will open on April 1. Lots of opportunities for free professional learning and networking with others!

Monte Lee has made some big changes to his coaching staff in his new interim head coaching role. Most notably, Stuart Lake, who's been in the radio booth as a color analyst, will take over as the Director of Program Development. on3.com/teams/south-ca…

Pulling for the former Lugoff-Elgin Demon @CoachMonteLee to help right the ship in Columbia. Gamecock fans need to get out and support the team. Tough transition for any program to be in. #Gamecocks

South Carolina picks up their first SEC win of the season. The boys are fired up and I love it

“When you allow your children to grow up it’s a direct, direct reflection of your parenting. If you hover over them all the time and they can’t work through problems, they’re going to have some issues. You’ve got to let them work through problems because they’re working through the things you’ve instilled in them,” Dawn Staley Let them learn.

Fire us up Coach 🤙

@chrimelt Rest! Always, self care! Love you!

Friends, forward progress does include rest stops . Be kind to yourself .

Testing season is coming, and now is the time to be intentional with practice. We are throwing back to one of our oldies-but-goodies on practice! Check it out at academicalliancesc.org/resources/prac…

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It's Toolkit Tuesday! Our AASC Applications are resources to share with parents. Check out our newest one on accommodations and modifications. You can find it on our website at tinyurl.com/34fd2z6v

Standardized testing is developmentally inappropriate in elementary school. And here’s why. According to the stages of development described by Jean Piaget, young children learn very differently than standardized tests measure. In the early years, learning is social and relational. Children learn through play, conversation, movement, exploration, and interaction with others. Logical, structured thinking begins developing around age seven, but it is not consistently solid for many children until around age eleven. Yet we start standardized testing years earlier. Before many children are developmentally ready for it. In the early years, the real work of learning is happening here: Self-regulation Social skills Curiosity Confidence Learning how to focus, handle frustration, and keep trying Those are the foundations of learning. When we replace play, exploration, movement, and social interaction with early testing, we are not increasing rigor. We are pushing academics before the foundation is built. If standardized testing is used at all, it makes far more developmental sense after age eleven. Elementary school should be where children learn how to learn.

@Jacktveltri @FamouslyGarnet If it works, ✔️it!! Go Cocks!!

I've made it over to the ballpark a bit early this morning, but here's the lineup for South Carolina today. 1. Craddock, 2B 2. Bak, CF 3. Scobey, SS 4. LeCroy, C 5. Randolph, DH 6. Jamison, LF 7. Evans, 1B 8. Yuhasz, RF 9. Reynolds, 3B Probably PM's most unique lineup so far.

I fell in love with this sentence: As you grow older, you begin to understand: your father was just a man trying his best with what he knew. Forgive him. He was living life for the first time, too.

@GamecockBSB Let’s go!!!!

Gamecocks and Gators meet for game two of the series. Links: bit.ly/BSBGAMEDAY

Your Parents Are Getting Older. 30 Things To Do With Them Before Time Moves On. 1. Record their voice telling a story. One day that voice becomes a sound you can never hear again.

If Luke Combs is gonna cut a check to the App State NIL fund, he’s got a few non-negotiables