Did you know this month is Sucker Moon? The 4th moon of Creation is Sucker Moon, when sucker goes to the Spirit World in order to receive cleansing techniques for this world. When it returns to this realm, it purifies a path for the Spirits and cleanses all our water beings.

This is amazing! Look at their growth & it’s only Feb! 👏🏼👏🏼

Amazing that you organized this for your whole school! They’re so lucky to have you and your dedication!

Being bilingual is a powerful gift! And one that all kids deserve to unwrap. #bilinguismo #bilingue #bilingüe #multilingual #multilingualism #teachingkids #éducation #language #languagelearning

My best tips for teaching vocabulary. 1. Don’t teach it insolation. Teach it as part of your fluency and content instruction. 2. When you start new social studies and science units introduce the most important words for understanding the unit. 3. When you read a text as a

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In our latest episode 🎧 Blythe Anderson shares her top 10 Vocabulary Talk Moves. Read this article to learn all 32 moves! 😍 🔗 ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Hey #ocsb K-3 teachers--whatcha doing on the Tuesday morning after the Break? Why not join us for this awesome read aloud with author Yolanda T. Marshall? Register here: forms.gle/V799faAKksoDh4… Ottawa Catholic School Board Yolanda T. Marshall #ocsbStandingTogether

If you're looking for a simple, research-backed strategy to support all readers: Synchronous Paired Oral Reading Techniques. This one’s for you! 🎧 Listen Now: ow.ly/ib6Q50VLZTl

Scarborough’s Reading Rope is a model that illustrates just how complex the reading process is. It is imperative for teachers to know and understand how to effectively teach each of the strands and understand that the implementation of one program is not suffice for most students

Get started with Science of Writing Instruction! This resource provides and overview of thinkSRSD, an approach to provide structured writing instruction as outlined in Strand D of the Language curriculum. Find the resource 👉 onlit.org/resource/writi…

Yesterday, we launched the program Science of Writing Instruction as a school. We had educators who were interested work through modules together. Today, teachers shared their different ideas for implementing TIDE! #ocsbLiteracy Robyn Matheson Mrs. Riley St. Gianna OCSB

Combining some of the shared ideas from yesterday and writing a GIST sentence as our topic sentence! We have worked hard all year on writing 5 sentences about a topic - now we are really working on topic and ending sentences Science of Writing Instruction #ocsbLiteracy

Love love love this!!❤️ you must be so proud of seeing your instruction being put into action!

Hello Ottawa Catholic School Board colleagues! Join Ms.Bacon and me for an informative summer institute session on leveraging TVO Ontario in your classrooms to support your curriculum teaching! St. Monica School Holy Family School #ocsbsummerinstitutes

Join 𝕃𝕚𝕤𝕒 𝕁𝕠𝕪𝕔𝕖 and I for "Fun with Flyleaf!" Form Here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…… Flyleaf Publishing Student Success Elementary #ocsbLiteracy #ocsbSummerInstitutes

Today marked the end of an era — our final event as parents of @OttCathSB students! 🎓💚 The commencement at St. Pat’s was beautiful and so well organized. Thank you for 19 wonderful years of Catholic education, community, and growth! St. Patrick's High School

Have you tried tvolearn in your classroom? If not, come check out what it can do for you and hear Ms.Bacon tips as she has used it in her classroom! Join us at our summer institute! Ottawa Catholic School Board #ocsb_literacy #ocsb_math #ocsb_science

Hot off the press! UF Literacy Institute now has an Intervention Placement Test to help you figure out where to begin interventions for specific students. Scoring patterns tell you which UFLI lesson you should start with. This is going to be really helpful! ufli.education.ufl.edu/wp-content/upl…