The Literacy Design Collaborative has chosen a group of educators from across the nation to Learn and Lead Fellows at the Southern Regional Education Board's Networking Conference in Atlanta. Three DCPS educators are presenting at the conference this week.

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Sharon Thurman, DCPS district literacy staff developer, along with East View Elementary instructional coach Kari Kinder.

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They are joining six other Fellows on the national team and will post blogs about their work during the Atlanta conference through Wednesday.

Thurman and Kinder will share their presentation ("The Challenge: NGSS Modules Worth Sharing") twice at the conference and will also host a table at the literacy sharing session where conference attendees will be able to ask questions about LD work in Daviess County. Their presentation will detail the process and two modules developed for fourth-grade science Next Generation Science Standards by DCPS educators Shelley Hammons, Angie Howard, Christina Taylor, Melanie Duckwall, Sandra Tichenor, Kinder, and Thurman.

In addition, Thurman and Jana Bryant, who serves as DCPS district math staff developer and is a Hope Street Group Kentucky Teaching Fellow..

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She had a proposal selected for presentation at the conference. "LDC and MDC: Part of What We Do" will share how the DCPS district has scaled and has sustained Literacy Design Collaborative and Math Design Collaborative programs by developing teacher leaders in all schools through training, modeling, and ongoing support.

Following the Atlanta conference this week, Thurman, Kinder, and Bryant will travel to Raleigh, NC to present at the National Education Association's Regional Summer Resource Institute.

Way to go!

 

 

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