Russel Johnson

New secondary teachers learned about some of the instructional goals in the district with our New Teacher PD! This session focused on Strategic Teaching and Classroom Management! By equipping Ts with research-based strategies, we can #empowerALLstudents

We had a great district professional development day to kick off the year! So grateful to our teachers, administrators, and community partners for sharing their passions, insights, and strategies to all secondary teachers today!

@DrKLDonaldson Great teacher, awesome coach, even better person! Congrats, Coach Burgess!

Congratulations to our very own Mr. Brett Burgess. He is Madison city schools 2025-2026 district secondary teacher of the year. #jcistheplacetobe

Thanks @BlakeBusbin for visiting in-service centers across the state to help teachers dig into the new social studies standards. Also thankful to our awesome Madison City Teachers for taking time out of their summer to grow and learn!

Fantastic last professional learning at @DMSPanthers1 today led by a great team at DMS! Ts shared successful strategies from their classroom that aligned to the PD focus for the year using the fish bowl strategy! These teachers are so amazing and creative!

@BlakeBusbin @AUEARIC @AlabamaMTSS @jsuinservice @UofARIC @UM_RIEC @ALSDEOSL So excited about this!! Really appreciate the intentionality in helping schools and districts learn about, and make plans to implement, new standards!

Looking forward to taking our new #AlabamaHistory standards on a PD road trip this summer. Be sure to sign up for one of these opportunities to learn more about the new Alabama social studies course of study. #AlabamaAchieves #SummerLearning

Happy Assistant Principal’s week. Thank you for always keeping me on track and for being GLAMTASTIC servant leaders for James Clemens High School. The culture that you provide makes JC the place to be! #jcistheplactobe

@RachelEvans05 @Go_ALET @trashpandas

When you have an @Go_ALET region meeting at the @trashpandas stadium… 💯 👏🏼 ⚾️

@journeyjaguars What a dynamic duo!

A huge thank you to two incredible individuals who make a world of difference in our school community – Chelsea Young and Katie Dannelley! Your dedication, passion, and unwavering commitment to fostering a love of reading and learning in our students are truly inspiring. 📚💡

@DMSPanthers1 She is the best!

Happy Librarian Day! DMS is so proud of Caroline Miller, our library media specialist!

Diving into the new Social Studies standards with @BlakeBusbin! Great seeing the K-12 overview and intentionality behind the new standards that will support Ss as knowledgeable and responsible citizens!

Health Science CTE Teachers from each secondary school dove into their new standards today! The whole day was planned and facilitated by Tammy Brooks, who is shared between @DMSPanthers1 and @journeyjaguars! What a great day of learning and collaboration!

Got my signed copy from @effortfuleduktr today! Excited to dive into this book to learn more about learning! Very cool for our local bookstore, Blue Apple Books, to support and promote Mr. Harvard and his new book!

So much excitement and fun in Ms. Veizer’s 7th grade math class at @LIONSLMS! Squid games inspired activity to introduce conditional probability!

Had an amazing day of learning with @BlakeBusbin leading our middle school Social Studies teachers through best practices in writing!

Spring District PD today for all secondary new teachers! Our learning focused on Quality Questioning and Differentiation. Very appreciative to our district behavior specialists, federal programs specialist @JaneWHerndon, and admin sharing their expertise!

Awesome embedded professional development today at @BobJonesHigh and @journeyjaguars! Exciting to see the new Bob Jones IP, Mrs. Staples, jump right in by leading her first training and making connections with the faculty!

@BlakeBusbin Merry Christmas!

From the Busbin family to your family, best wishes for a joyous and holy Christmas season

To continue celebrating #CSEdWeek, industry professionals in CS came to @BobJonesHigh to speak to students in CS classes about their experiences! We are so fortunate to have such great community partners investing in our students!

Kicking off #CSEdWeek with students from @James_Clemens leading coding lessons with students at @hrznes 5th graders! Thanks, @regibbs_mcs, for setting up these cool learning experiences across the district!