State Regional Literacy Director at @KyDeptofEd. Lifelong Learner. Continuous Improvement. Structured Literacy. 🏈 wife. 🐶 mom.
Bowling Green, KY
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You know what? ROLL THE COACHES’ HIGHLIGHTS! 🎞️
#E2W | #MatterOfPride
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1600 KY educators and administrators are joining us for the KY Reads to Succeed Summer Conference. There is a literacy movement happening in KY! Momentum is building, educators are leading, and students are the beneficiaries. #KyReadstoSucceed
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From the young guy with big dreams, to the amazing man you are today, you’ve always made an impact on others. 🥳 Happy Birthday @CoachGriffith
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Have you ever read something that completely changed the way you teach? 🤯
For me, it was Placing Text at the Center of the Standards-Aligned ELA Classroom. I shared it with EVERYONE. 🙌 You can read it here: ow.ly/Hktl50X2RXR
🎙️ Listen here: ow.ly/3ITN50X2RXS
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Happy Anniversary @CoachGriffith - 21 years of love, laughter, and doing life with you. ❤️💍
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Ky Reads to Succeed Conference if off and running! We’ve had a great day so far with a keynote from Dr. Anita Archer and our first sessions wrapping up. #KyReadstoSucceed
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It's the Eastern Kentucky Colonels on this fine Sunday afternoon!
I've been to Richmond, Kentucky and I am hoping to get back there one day!
Thank you Coach Wells and @EKUFootball for sending this package over, let's go COLONELS!
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KDE employees came together this week to support a colleague within the Office of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Director Ashley Hill, who lost her son Eli in 2023. After the Team KDE meeting, employees celebrated Eli by eating his favorite food, popcorn.
#PopcornForEli
ALT Kentucky Department of Education employees ate popcorn in honor of Eli Hill after the Team KDE meeting this week.
ALT Kentucky Department of Education employees ate popcorn in honor of Eli Hill after the Team KDE meeting this week.
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Happy birthday @CoachGriffith! 🎉❤️Another year older, wiser, and even more wonderful. Your kindness, strength, and love make every day brighter, and I’m so grateful to share this journey with you. Here’s to celebrating you today and always. Love you forever! 💕🎂🎈
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This team! 🙌🏼 Their passion, knowledge, and unwavering dedication to transforming literacy in our state inspires me every day. We are making changes that will impact KY students. I’m thankful for their commitment to excellence and proud to be a part of this journey every day. 📚
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JCPS welcomed the Division of Early Literacy with open arms and allowed us to learn and calibrate as a team while observing their HQIR implementation. It always makes for a great day when we get to be around happy and engaged students. #kyreadstosucceed
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Thank you @KyReadingAssoc for the invitation to present at this year’s conference. I know our messages reached those who were open to listen and learn. And just like the starfish story, we CAN make a difference. #KyReadstoSucceed #DELleaderhsipteam #ImproveLiteracyOutcomes
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The early literacy leadership team presented seven different sessions at the KRA conference in Lexington today. I admire and am in awe with this team’s passion about changing literacy in KY. Also inspired by the educators we were able to speak to today! #kyreadtosucceed
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20 years ago today, 6.19.04, I married the man of my dreams. I am so blessed to have a husband who loves me, supports me, encourages me, challenges me, spoils me, and shares the same goals and dreams as I do! I love you big @CoachGriffith! Here's to many more! 💗
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Happy 20th anniversary to this beautiful babe! May the adventures continue! Love you! @GriffithT
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🆕Registration for Cohort 3 of the Kentucky Reading Academies LETRS Professional is now open!
The Division of Early Literacy is highlighting educators participating to share the impact the program has had on their teaching and students’ learning.
More: bit.ly/KentuckyReadingAcadem…
ALT “LETRS completely changed the way I viewed almost everything about reading and teaching reading and writing to my students. I've been teaching for 18 years and there are some things that I was hearing for the first time, and other things that finally made sense.” Brittany Thomas, Northern Elementary, Scott County, 1st Grade Teacher. KDE logo, Lexia Letrs logo and "Join us for phase 3!"
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Tara Griffith, Ed.S. retweeted
🆕Registration open for Kentucky Reads to Succeed Summer Conference on June 20.
The conference is FREE to Kentucky K-12 public educators and will offer focused learning paths to meet the needs of teachers and administrators.
Register: bit.ly/RegisterReadToSucceed…
ALT KY reads to succeed, summer reading conference sessions now available!
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📚Commissioner Robin Fields Kinney joined Senator Jimmy Higdon at Glasscock Elementary School in Marion County where they had the opportunity to read to students enrolled in the Summer Boost program!
ALT Commissioner Kinney with a student reading a book
ALT Commissioner Kinney and Sen. Higdon reading to the students
ALT Kids and leadership smiling for a photo
ALT students listening to the reading
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