Jen McCann Thomas

Pine Tree kicked off the Winter Kindness Olympics by learning about the Olympic torch and making their own. Can’t wait to watch our students “compete” in kindness events in the next several days! Bring on the Winter Games! @OrioleTweets @jmac8229

Step #1 to becoming a Model PLC at Work School! Proud of our school! Structures are in place. Commitments for all are established! This is truly a special group of educators. (Not pictured-amazing support staff) #promisingpracticeschool @SolutionTree @OrioleTweets @jmac8229

👀👀👀 only 4 students absent and all staff present! This is how we grow! #attendancematters @OrioleTweets #PineTree @jmac8229

Pine Tree Staff wore red today to show the 2nd and 3rd graders we know they are Red-y to rock the test! #allinittogether @OrioleTweets

The Pine Tree IREAD Prep Dream Team pumped up our 2nd and 3rd grade students to Rock the IREAD assessment next week! We are ready to GLOW and show what we know! @jmac8229 @OrioleTweets

Love is in the air and content & language objectives are on the board! Yes!! MLs need these objectives but they also need to interact with them before the lesson begins. They act as a navigation system that provides guidance as they journey through the lesson. #teaching #ESL #ESOL #Language #languagelearning #languages #teachingideas #teachingkids Read more here… valentinaesl.com/blog/posting-c…

55,000 PTE tokens earned for showing Pine Tree’s expected behaviors! What a fun visit from Boomer today. #pbisinaction @OrioleTweets @jmac8229 @Pacers

@AvonPTPrincipal @OrioleTweets BIG congrats to the classes with a week of 100% attendance and the class with the highest attendance for the month at almost 99%! Their students were PUMPED to see their teachers dump the slime buckets! 💛🖤 #allIN #gameon

We did it! Over 96% average daily student attendance at Pine Tree for the month of September! As promised, we got SLIMED! Great job! On to October! Game On! #ChallengeAccepted @OrioleTweets @jmac8229

Developing a complete picture of multilingual learners is more than knowing their English language proficiency. Deeper development uncovers who multilingual learners are as humans and how their other languages and experiences interact with new language acquisition. Each multilingual learner is uniquely made. #teachingideas #teachingresources #teachingkids #teaching #educacion #educación #bilinguismo #bilingue #bilingual_kids #eslteaching

Congrats to the ⁦@PTE_ACSC⁩ Teacher & Support Staff members of the year - Mrs. Chambers & Mrs. Dillon! Both shared how much they love the amazing team they work with everyday at Pine Tree!

Our school community is working hard to be at school every day! 97% daily student attendance average for the month of April! Ready to see what we get to do for May? Need 96% or higher! We’ve got this!

I used @GreatMindsEd Wit&Wisdom to create writing tasks that mirror WIDA writing prompts. Modeling language for Ss to copy and use their phonemic awareness. Also providing scaffolds like pictures with the text. These pictures come from the text Ss have read for the unit.

I love that the tradition continues!

Great professional learning session on creating spaces for ALL learners. And, what a better way to end the session than with new books for each classroom! @PTE_ACSC @jmac8229 @Jgatlin74

We are so excited to welcome families in tonight @PTE_ACSC for our Title I Fall Reading Night - Camping Style!! A big thank you to Sarah Van Duzer, our fabulous PTO, and all of our teachers who are volunteering their time! 💛📚🖤

Thankful for the leadership of our PBIS Team @PTE_ACSC as we work through the ORID process to analyze data and discuss how to effectively use restorative practices as we support our students and their learning opportunities! #leadingandlearning

Visible learning targets and success criteria in @JamieLRogers5 class means Ss have clarity around their learning🙌🏻 #wegrowlearnersandleaders

Check this out! Amazing AP having some fun! What would we do without her?!?!

Lots of learning all around @PTE_ACSC

Thankful for these leaders who were vulnerable & modeled a PLC team meeting. We collaborated to create a progression of learning & named specific teaching strategies. @jshay94 @cnshepard @CedarAP @angela_rasor @L_Lee918 @MrsMoodyAP @jmac8229 @FantasticFays @SycamoreACSC