Beth Smith

So grateful to have the chance to celebrate Darlene Ewing today! Darlene retires at the end of the month and she’s been an amazing part of @CobbSchools for 10 years! Darlene, thank you for all of your support, warmth, and grace under fire. We will miss you!

@ChickfilA I don’t know if it’s just my location, but your chicken tortilla soup is way too hot (temperature-wise). Probably by at least 20 degrees. 😬

Love seeing our teachers excited about professional learning! Skilled teachers build skilled readers! #EastSideEaglePride @CobbSchools

@GracyGriffith Love this!

It’s going to be a great year building fluent readers and writers through structured literacy practices with these teachers! #BlackwellBest #cobbearlylearning

Shout out to our @CobbInTech partners Leanna Anantaraman and Jena Parish for delivering quality technology content to our 6-12 ELA teachers today! #CobbELA @CobbELA @CobbSchools #engagecobb

Could not be prouder of this group and the way they will continue to serve as multipliers in @CobbSchools. Grateful for @smventura’s expert guidance and leadership. Let’s go, @COBB_ELA! @BethTeaches @elizabethcobia

I had the most incredible experience working with the Cobb County English Language Arts Task Force. We spent two days creating learning targets and success criteria for Georgia's new ELA standards. These 60 elite educators made both days a tremendous success. #collectivegreatness #achievementteams @CobbSchools @BethTeaches @jen_shiers @COBB_ELA

Take a peek into the K-12 ⁦@COBB_ELA⁩ Standards Task Force teacher clarity two-day PL experience with ⁦@smventura⁩! ⁦@elizabethcobia⁩ ⁦@BethTeaches⁩

Powerful Conversations ...Powerful Collaborations.... Powerful Connections @CobbSchools @COBB_ELA @jen_shiers @BethTeaches @MsRandall_Edu #ela @smventura ❤️🫶🏽

@SherylDCollins @COBB_ELA @CobbSchools @jen_shiers Thank you! It’s easy when you lead the best of the best!

These ( 3 ) are a force! @COBB_ELA @CobbSchools #thetechnique @jen_shiers @BethTeaches 📚🫶🏽💯📚

Thankful for the opportunity to improve the quality of the content our students consume. Developing learning targets & success criteria will strengthen Ts/Ss ability to articulate what they are learning. 🙏🏽 @smventura for facilitating this engaging professional development .

Day 2 of our ELA Standards Task Force engaging in Teacher Clarity training with @smventura. Our mission is CLEAR! @COBB_ELA @elizabethcobia @jen_shiers @AMMorris123

Proud to hear from our very own @AMMorris123 as she shares @CobbSchools’ successes with the science of reading implementation and key takeaways about best practices in our journey. @kelmetcalfe @cmallanda @deniseosborn72 @BethTeaches @LexiaLearning #lovetoreadhere

Truly honored to work with these amazing PLCs! @FineArtsCobb @BethTeaches @jen_shiers @d_lanilovesmath @STEMTania @alanadavis1233

The 18 @COBB_ELA #ctla24 teacher leaders are game changers! @BethTeaches & I tremendously enjoyed our time with these passionate, committed, and skilled practitioners. The sky is the limit for them! @Cobb_PL #lovetoreadhere

10 years…a decade of Cobb Teacher Leader Academy! We invite you to apply today! @Cobb_PL #CTLA

What a great story! ❤️❤️❤️ From a friend. -- My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose. I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside. Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside. We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters. When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty. Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free. Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates. We could all learn a thing or two from these bees. Bee kind always.

The Office of I&I enjoyed visiting @Mabry_MS_Cobb & seeing student engagement in classrooms—so much student agency & creativity! #chargersleadtheway @AMMorris123 @SeaboltKeelan @CobbSocStudies @cobbscience @COBB_ELA @CCSDLanguages @Cobb_PL @CobbMathDept #cobbearlylearning