While roughly 79% of Americans can read, less than 53% actually read for pleasure.

Get your beach balls ready! Here’s a fun way to strengthen #phonemicawareness AND #phonics skills… See how many words students can think of that begin with the isolated phoneme. Let’s get the ball rolling (in the comments) w/other skills to practice using beach balls. Institute for Multi-Sensory Education

Power that comes from investing in people, like identifying teachers who are effective leaders and can help implement bold changes in literacy instruction and foster buy-in with peers.

Who has old pool noodles around?! 😝

Students in Mrs. Slade’s class had a special guest reader this week! One of her former students came back from 3rd grade to read a book and model her fluent reading! #relationships #WeAreHCS Capt. John Smith Elementary School LaShaunda Slade HCS Title I Program

Choose people wisely! 🙌

Playing “Magic ‘E’ Shark-No” with some of my favorite 2nd graders! ⁦HCS Title I Program⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Hester⁩

Playing “Nasal War” w/ our Shark Literacy Cards! ⁦HCS Title I Program⁩ ⁦Elizabeth Hester⁩

So true 💯🙌

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Let’s normalize teaching children how to appropriately handle failure and disappointment instead of rushing in to save or fix every every difficult situation for them.

Classroom management is a form of self-care! tiktok.com/t/ZT8FosacA/

You can’t “𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐞” 👟with Mrs. Slade’s third grade class. 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐇💨 💙🐾 #WeAreHCS #kraftcubs #cubnation #blazernike #slade3rdgrade #cubroom114 #checkthenike

Locs and Smiles in 3rd!!! #Twinning #Relationships1st Kraft Elementary

Phil Jackson said, "Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go." Ken Blanchard said, "We works better than me." Great leaders believe they work for the team not themselves. ~ via @CoachAJKings

Everybody needs to spoiled sometime…especially 3rd graders that help their teacher find her glasses! #RelationshipsMatter #WeAreHCS Kraft Elementary

I found my Awesome Twin in kindergarten! ⁦Kraft Elementary⁩