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As we step into 2025, let's embrace the fresh opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. This year promises to be filled with new learning experiences, innovative teaching methods, and the continued growth of our vibrant educational community. Together, let's inspire and support our students to reach new heights. Here's to a successful and fulfilling year ahead! 🎉📚✨

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles." – Jimmy Carter

Growing Readers teachers at Belair Elementary provide students with daily opportunities for independent reading practice. They provide meaningful opportunities for students to discuss, evaluate, and reflect upon the texts they read independently. Students are encouraged to talk around text and confer with their teacher and each other, ensuring independent practice time is accountable and authentic. As these teachers grow readers, they are also honing their skills with 1:1 conferring, strategy group lessons, and high-impact routines. Belair Elementary School is growing readers every day!

Growing Readers isn’t a reading program—it’s a sustainable system of learning that changes the game for both students and teachers:
✅ Structured Independent Practice empowers students to grow as readers every day as they apply what they are learning.
✅ Teacher-Facing Coaching Support provides professional learning combined with on-site classroom support that helps you refine your craft and make the most impact.
✅ The learning? It’s forever—knowledge that can never be taken away!
Ready to create lasting growth and a love for reading? Let’s grow together! 🌟

READBowl is the FREE global reading competition where PreK-12th grade aged teams around the globe compete to read for the most minutes. The competition begins the week before the American College Football National Championship (2nd Monday in January) and culminates with a live crowning of the World Champions of Reading on the morning of the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl Sunday.

The purpose of this document is to provide mathematics teachers and leaders with evidence-based, pragmatic scaffolds and supports for English Learners (ELs). This guide is a useful tool to help teachers provide high-quality instruction aligned to Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards, adopted in August 2021. The strategies presented in this guide provide support with implementation of language scaffolds and mathematics frameworks that impact teaching and learning in Georgia. The goal is to help ELs master the newly adopted standards through accessible, useful, and easily implementable instructional strategies by mathematics content teachers and teachers of English to Speakers of other Languages (ESOL).

This Resource Companion is intended to provide teachers with specific, evidence-based strategies and supports for multilingual learners to support mastery of Georgia’s K-12 Mathematics Standards.

January

January 13: GaDOE ELA Standards Tour - Foundations and Language for Grades K-5

January 14: Making Math Matter with Manipulatives - Grades K & 1st

January 14: GaDOE ELA Standards Tour - Adolescent Literacy, the Science of Reading, and Georgia's ELA Standards for Grades 6-12

January 15: Youth Mental Health First Aid

January 15: Making Math Matter with Manipulatives - Grades 2nd & 3rd

January 16: Making Math Matter with Manipulatives - Grades 4th & 5th

January 17: Making Math Matter with Manipulatives - Grades 6th - 8th

January 22: A Domain Day: Practices - Georgia K-12 ELA Standards

January 28: ELA (Grades K-2): What is Structured Literacy?

January 29: ELA (Grades 3-5): What is Structured Literacy?

January 29: Oconee RESA & CSRA RESA Teaching and Learning Winter Summit (This session will be held at Oconee RESA. Use this link to register: Course Details | Oconee RESA)

February

February 4: ELA (Grades 6-12) What Lies Beneath...the Surface?

February 11: A Domain Day: Language - Georgia K-12 ELA Standards

February 11: Emotional Poverty

February 14: Social Studies Mini Conference

To register for any of these sessions: registration.csraresa.org/PL_Session_List_Public_View.asp

January 23 - February 27: Gifted Training for AP/IB Teachers

February 3 - May 2: Dyslexia Awareness Modules

To register for any of these sessions: registration.csraresa.org/PL_Session_List_Public_View.asp

For more information about either of these sessions, contact Cindy Hoops: choops@csraresa.org

January

January 14: Low Incidence Teacher Collaborative

January 29: Developing Appropriate, Legally Defensible IEPs for Students with Disabilities

January 30: Developing Well Written, Meaningful Transition Plans and Summary of Performance

February

February 5: Repeat Session: Developing Well Written, Meaningful Transition Plans and Summary of Performance

February 13: Repeat Session: Developing Well Written, Meaningful Transition Plans and Summary of Performance

February 27: Repeat Session: Developing Well Written, Meaningful Transition Plans and Summary of Performance

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