Kristen Ross

Just got to read some amazing essays from Dr. Marchenko’s ESOL students! ☀️Their writing was so strong and showed incredible growth. This filled my cup. Dr. Marchenko is pure magic! 🪄#excellenceinaction #irvingisd

Happy Read Across America Day! Mr. Bolin and Ms. Cohen’s classes at @IrvingBowie_MS were incredible! Their love of reading made the visit extra special. Thanks @IrvingLibraries for letting me share the joy of reading! @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD

Feeling inspired at the @Region10ESC Literacy Sparks series with @NataliaESL! 📚✨ Focusing on building stronger writers through instruction at the sentence, paragraph, and composition level. So glad to have our Bil/ESL team with us learning and growing together! #LitSpark2

Practicing our Think Sheets in Ms. Walker’s class at @SamhoustonMS! @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD #excellenceinaction

Some beautiful Think Sheets at JMS! @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD

It was so fun! These were some awesome students!

Happy holidays from our Secondary RLA team! 🎄✨ Wishing all educators a restful break filled with joy, rest, and a little extra coziness. @iInstructIrving

So thankful for all our RLA leaders!

Throwback Thursday! Taking it back to some awesome PLCs this fall! Shout out to @NimitzVikings and @Crockett_MS for having some amazing Lesson Internalization and team time. @iInstructIrving @IrvingISD #excellenceinaction

🕸️ What a spooktacular day brewing up The Write Concoction with our #RLAmazing instructors! 💀✍️ We stirred eerie ideas, hauntingly good writing, and snap snap moments of intentionality while internalizing Unit 3. 🖤 Shout out to the @iisdbil_esl team for partnering!

@DrKatRoberson @and_mrsharris @IrvingISD @netzeroJMS I love this so much!!

I was graciously invited to co-teach by Ms. Martinez! She was excited to apply strategies from the RLA Megalab modeled by @MsRossReads & @and_mrsharris. The artifacts highlight her engaging facilitation & visible student growth! @IrvingISD @netzeroJMS #studentgrowth #PD

It’s RLA MegaLab day! 🎓 Our Secondary RLA teachers are hands-on with student writing and model lessons. Huge thanks to the amazing @Austin_Broncos for hosting this immersive day of learning and collaboration! 💪 @iInstructIrving

✨Happy Boss’s Day to our fearless leader!!✨

✨Great day of learning with our Secondary Academic Specialist and EB Coaches as we dug into the observation and feedback cycle while calibrating our lens for effective instruction. Big shoutout to @netzeroJMS for letting us learn from their amazing classrooms! @iisdbil_esl

The @netzeroJMS RLA team is rocking their HQIM implementation (even during Eagle Time)! So many strong text interactions and student dialogue! ✨@iInstructIrving

Lesson Internalization in full swing at Nimitz! English 1 and English 2 went deep into their texts and are creating some great Tier 1 instruction! @NimitzVikings

PLT with @netzeroJMS, STAAR data Deep Dive with @IrvingBowie_MS and @Crockett_MS, E3 and E4 PLT at @NimitzVikings and a Department Chair Meeting! What a busy and beautiful week it was! I love working with our teachers to level up! #excellenceinaction

Today our department leaders dug into lesson internalization, exploring how to level up this process by aligning to key objectives and layering in strategies to maximize impact. Grateful for their leadership as we fine-tune and strengthen this practice together! @iInstructIrving

🎸 What an epic day with our RLA rockstars! We came together to: ✨ Explore powerful connections across texts ✨ Share strategies to keep learning engaging + meaningful ✨ Rock the energy moving into unit 2 Together, we’re turning up the volume on teaching and learning!