The learning is still going strong on the last day of Summer PD! 📚✏️ Douglas Frank Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads Roberto Gonzalez Dr. Elena S. Hill

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We started our morning at E.D. Walker Middle School & saw 7th and 8th-grade students adding details to their writing & making reading connections. It's great to see high level of engagement in the second week! Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Dallas ISD Academic Services @DallasReads Anne-Lauren Marrs

Students were fully engaged with the curriculum this morning at Bayles. @DallasReads

We saw so many students writing today at Conner! @DallasReads

Are we sure it’s only the beginning of the second week of the school year? Routines and procedures are already solid! Students were engaged in writing, and teachers were completely prepared. Thanks for welcoming us, Truett Elementary! @DallasReads

We also visited Benjamin Franklin Int'l Exploratory Academy 7th and 8th-grade classes where students refined their writing by including specific verbs, and they had an opportunity to share their sentences with a classmate! Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads Dallas ISD Academic Services

Our first of many Just in Time PLCs start today! We look forward to seeing you today and all the upcoming ones that RLA will be hosting.

We started our day visiting Casa View Elementary classrooms to see students in Kindergarten, 2nd, & 3rd grade classes. We always appreciate the time we spend on campuses! Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads

Thank you Dan D. Rogers for joining us on walks in your RLA and Dual Language classes today! Students we clearly engaged in all the classrooms we visited. Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads

Our team is always fast and flexible to help provide clarity as needed. Stay tuned for a quick video on some of our instructional scaffolds for writing and best practices for using them in the classroom. 🎥

Literacy ILCs and RLA are collaborating to ensure standards mastery checks are ready for students! #readerleaders @DallasReads Roberto Gonzalez Dr. Elena S. Hill Douglas Frank Felicia Gray Toni Shipley Robert Hobbs

At Mockingbird Elementary, students are working through their Knowledge lessons. 1st graders were writing about the sketetal systems and 2nd graders were continuing to learn about Greek Gods and Goddesses. Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads

During our campus visit Lakewood Elementary 3rd grade students were focusing on text features during their Animal Classification unit. We saw plenty of examples of student work being celebrated at the campus too! Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads

English teachers at Lincoln High School are ACE-ing it with complex texts!

More great instruction Dallas ISD Madison High! English III students are reviewing characterization through dialogue and strategy!

Thank you, Kramer IB World School , for joining us today to visit PK, 2nd, and 5th grade classes today! We saw teachers using engagement strategies to allow time for student discourse as it connected to the lesson for the day. Dr. Elena S. Hill Roberto Gonzalez Anne-Lauren Marrs @DallasReads