Hey elementary scientists, are you ready for a special delivery?! 🎁 Science Santa and her elves are packing up some goodies to be delivered very soon! 📚 Keep your eyes out for your new books and send us some unboxing pics!🥼💚 Thank you OCPS Printing Services for all of your help!

It was great having Dr. Brown-Cannon, Julie Helton, Dr. James Russo aboard the S.S.Avalon to visit our first grade classes this morning! Dr. Russo enjoyed seeing all the UCF Football spirit our Mariners were showing for tonight’s home opener! Go Knights! 🖤💛

📚Remember your Sora digital library is always open! Check out eBooks, digital magazines and audiobooks 🎧on the Sora app on LaunchPad or on your personal device. Keep reading 24/7!

The Elementary Instructional Leadership Institute is kicking off now! Special thank you to our Principals. ⁦⁦ocpsnews⁩ Curriculum and Digital Learning⁩ ⁦⁦Dr. Rahim Jones⁩ ⁦Mike Armbruster⁩

Elementary Instructional Leadership Institute: Year 2 kicks off today! Curriculum and Digital Learning Dr. James Russo

We kicked off Year 2 of the Instructional Leadership Institute today! Elementary principals explored how to monitor early literacy foundational skills instruction and engaged in a mock MTSS problem solving team meeting. Curriculum and Digital Learning ocpsnews

School and district-based instructional leaders continue learning about best practices for early literacy instruction at the Instructional Leadership Institute. Curriculum and Digital Learning

It has been an amazing 2 days of learning during the ILI for Elementary Principals. Huge kudos to our ElemELA and MTSS/Interventions teams for their hard work and dedication to planning and facilitating this learning. Below is a snap of them debriefing to plan next steps #OneOCPS

It was another exciting day of ILI for the other half of our elementary school principals! We even had a special guest show up. Thank you Dr. Armbruster for your inspiring words as we continue our journey with the Science of Reading. Curriculum and Digital Learning

I’m grateful to have been invited to share with the Orange County Retired Educators Association yesterday morning about the “State of the Arts” in OCPS. Thank you to Monica Johnson for the invitation (and for wearing a Gator Band shirt). #ocpsarts Curriculum and Digital Learning 🩰🎶🎭🎨

Today's Elementary CREW Meeting was buzzing🐝 with energy! The EL, PLs, and SAs used Air Heads to explore the three types of rocks, looked at Math SBUA results to determine misconceptions and interventions, and dug into ELA SBUAs using a reciprocal teaching structure.

CDL has gathered LaunchPad digital resources 💻📚 🎥to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Check them out at tinyurl.com/SeptCuratedRes… Incorporate them into your lessons in September and October!

One of my favorite groups! Secondary Literacy Leads are gathered at East River HS to dive into content, coaching competencies and literacy strategies. Curriculum and Digital Learning

OCPS Coach Meeting Session 2. What instructional trends do you see when observing small group reading instruction at your school? ⁦Curriculum and Digital Learning⁩ ⁦Taylar Wenzel⁩ ⁦Julie Helton⁩ ⁦Dr. Rahim Jones⁩ ⁦Mike Armbruster⁩

Shout out to Cheney Elementary - OCPS for making math visual! We love how students are using concrete manipulatives and representing their thinking using white boards! Way to go! Curriculum and Digital Learning

OCPS Elementary Literacy Coaches learned and collaborated at their September meeting today Curriculum and Digital Learning

Mandy Butterfield East River HS Curriculum and Digital Learning Thank you to our collaborative partners, Nicollette Allen Kinisha Rice for supporting our first Literacy Leads session! Great things happening to support LITERACY across our district🎉

3rd Grade IMPACT participants are diving into data to determine reteach and scaffolds from previous benchmarks and engaging with upcoming content this morning. #3rdGradeRocks Curriculum and Digital Learning Julie Helton @lwicox_ocps

📢ATTENTION OCPS📢 Let’s make this year’s Rock Your School experience legendary. Get your shirts, rally your team, and let’s rock education together!! theschoolyardstore.com Rock Your School

🏴‍☠️AARRGGHH! Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19! Need some digital resources to add to your lesson plans and activities? Check out eBooks and more here: tinyurl.com/SeptCuratedRes… 💻 Sora, by OverDrive Education Lumio 💛 Learning A-Z Nearpod