Coles Principal

Congratulations to Virginia's seven 2022 @NatlBlueRibbon Schools, honored today by the U.S. Department of Education in Washington! #NBRS2022

Effective teachers don't focus so much on rules, but more on relationships, routines, & expectations. If you focus mainly on rules, you will spend most of the year enforcing them. But if you focus on relationships, routines, & expectations, you rarely have to defer back to rules.

Being bilingual is a super power! Co-teaching with @Ms_Keaney today using @BookCreatorApp to describe advantages of being bilingual @DrCarolSalva @pwcstechcoach @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @ELOfficePWCS

@theipodteacher Check out these @BookCreatorApp pages created by 4th graders! Our Ss are proud of their books! @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @DrCarolSalva @pwcstechcoach @ELOfficePWCS

Fantastic PD on reading & math instruction this morning! Looking forward to implementing these strategies & supporting Ts with integrating tech too! @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @pwcsela @DonnaStofko

Listen to "Being Bilingual is a Super Power!" by Roadrunner Radio. ⚓ anchor.fm/meaghan-martin… @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @Ms_Keaney @DrCarolSalva @ELOfficePWCS @pwcstechcoach

@Ms_Keaney @DrCarolSalva @DesjardinMiss @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @CaseyWard2709 What an engaging way to kick off fact and opinion! Our Ss have so much to share and tons of questions! Looking forward to collaborating on this research project!!!

We had a productive staff meeting @ColesRoadrunner on Thursday morning. The teachers practiced together, led by their math coach, on numberless word problems and drawing their understandings after visualizing the problem. @PWCSNews @LDMcDade @maffeimath @MrsRoscioli @Ms_Swadley

Co-teching with Mrs.Story, our librarian, about credible websites. 5th graders collaborated to review @LyleZapato Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight @pwcstechcoach @VAASL

An honor to represent Coles Elementary, last week, and the dedication and passion of our amazing staff and students in earning this prestigious National Blue Ribbon Award from the U. S Department of Education.

Thank you to one of our families for donating this AMAZING biopod, donating the plants, and spending their holiday with me this morning to set it up! This will be yet another small ecosystem our students will be able to observe growing, along with our frogs, when they are added!

@ColesRoadrunner @PWCSNews Fall Festival 🍁 🍃 🎃

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1st graders created their own books based on Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews #Wixie @Tech4Learning @pwcsela @pwcstechcoach @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight

3D printing meets vocabulary practice in this interactive word wall! @makerbot @deafkidscode @pwcstechcoach

Our Roadrunners had a blast at the Monster Mash STEM Night! Marble mazes, BeeBots, tangrams, and more! @j_r_straight @ColesRoadrunner @PWCSNews

Our families enjoyed a terrific STEM/ Math/ Monster Mash last night! Thank you to our super staff and PTA for this collaborative family event involving learning opportunities!

Friday visit to Coles ES and got to see an inclusive, student-led Element Meeting! Awesome focus on the whole child. @ColesRoadrunner

Today we used @nearpod to learn about our digital footprints. Then Ss completed a bubble map in #Wixie with social media posts & headlines that they want to see in the future when someone searches for their name. @pwcstechcoach @ColesRoadrunner @j_r_straight

KG Ss take photos of living & nonliving things outside. Then use sentence stems to create @ChatterPixIt @PWCSScience @pwcstechcoach @j_r_straight @ColesRoadrunner