Susan Booth Thornton

@Alabama_Reading The Moves from coaching community in action!

Explicit, systematic, differentiated small group instruction abounds @RESelem

Charts from today's SOR Spotlight School visit @RESelem (I failed to capture a picture of the 4th team's chart.) We witnessed outstanding instruction aligned to the SOR across each 3rd grade classroom. Student-centered coaching and embedded professional learning were evident.

Writing was evident across @RESelem 3rd grade at our SOR Spotlight School visit. Look at what these students produced!

Thank you to Colbert Heights Elem for hosting a Learning Lab focused on OCR! The vulnerability by the principal & teachers to open their doors for others to observe OCR instruction after 6 weeks of implementation was very much appreciated by those in attendance. #strongertogether

Check out this amazing tool! I am so thankful for all the innovative people that work to create helpful tools such as this for educators in Alabama👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Bite-Sized Professional Development Series: just-in-time, high-quality professional development for AL educators that is aligned to the Alabama Achieves Strategic Plan! Scan the QR Code for more information or see tweet that follows! Every child. Every chance. Every day.

Agreed!!!! It is definitely a special place! Great job👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 @DrAmyJones @angelarich2016 @MGreenhill74

Teaching practices we should no longer utilize when instructing students on how we read and spell words...

Another takeaway from today's Science of Reading Spotlight School visit was the focus on explicit vocabulary instruction! We witnessed it in every 3rd grade classroom! Changing the trajectory @RESelem by utilizing LETRS strategies for vocabulary 📚👏

Thank you, @RESelem for hosting today's Science of Reading Spotlight School visit. We had 32 in attendance. Those who visited witnessed exemplary 3rd grade ELA instruction aligned to the SOR.

Student Centered Coaching during small group using our new Open Court Reading resources📚 and strategies learned in LETRS

Student Centered Coaching using Sound Wall @tools4reading

Side by Side Student Centered Coaching @MSCSTrojans @SweeneyDiane

Ms. Scott’s kindergartners @WeedenElem are working in Open Court Reading @McGrawHillK12 with the letter ‘Kk’ and ‘ck’ sound. @SusanARIWORLD was here observing and provided feedback to the reading specialist/IP, @RachelGraves256. #FCSLearn

So proud of this amazing @north_alabama student teacher leading an Open Court Reading lesson in Kindergarten! She and her cooperating teacher @Martin051813 have been working so hard together to learn the program during CPT and teach it together! Keep it up ladies!

Today we read one of the best articles I’ve ever read about reading instruction. The conversations we had after reading were amazing! “We abandoned what worked because we didn’t like how it felt to us as adults”. We have to remember we are here for the students, not us! #FCSLearn

“Teaching is an act of love” ⁦@CCSBOE⁩ superintendent speaks about the importance of teaching the whole child. Excited for this ⁦@AlabamaAchieves⁩ ⁦@AlabamaMTSS⁩ partnership ⁦@kpshankles⁩