Danville Encore K-12 educators spent the morning with Jacob Sisson, Arch Ford System Support Specialist, exploring eight high-impact practices to enhance core instruction and student achievement. Teams worked collaboratively to redefine instructional strategies, focusing on setting clear learning targets, employing rigorous questioning and assessment, strengthening comprehension and writing to support ATLAS, and designing instruction that ensures bell-to-bell learning and engagement. This dedicated team is committed to driving achievement forward in 2025!
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Recently, Arkansas Dyslexia Specialists came together to share effective methods for supporting districts and students. Together we're paving the way for brighter futures!
Conway K-4 ALE was visited by Groovy Smiles Pediatric Dentistry to show the students how important dental health is. They learned how to properly brush their teeth and also got to hug the mascot. #yourBESTsolution #ArchFordServes
Mentoring Program Specialist Bethany Hill and Conway School District's Sarah Jerry visited novice teachers at Sallie Cone Pre-K Center! They walked through right-brained and left-brained classrooms and saw the impact of Fueling Brains on their students. Great things are happening here, and it was an awesome reminder of the bright futures our young children have! #ArchFordServes #yourBESTsolution
Students at the 5-8 ALE Campus in Conway decided to give back to the community by brainstorming ways to help out. They came up with helping the homeless, volunteering at animal shelters, food drives, cleaning up litter, and volunteering at the nursing home. After they voted, they decided to go with helping the residents at a nearby nursing home or rather the nursing home residents helping them. The students wrote letters to the their elders asking for advice on various topics. Their "elder buddy" wrote them back! What a great way to span a couple of generations! #yourBESTsolution #ArchFordServes
Curriculum Coordinators met today at Arch Ford to discuss regional interim data, ATLAS updates, and to collaborate on PLDs for high impact teachers. It was a great day of networking and collaborating! 🎄
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Students at the Conway HUB campus contributed to Project Linus, which is an organization that makes blankets and quilts for children in need. After getting the go-ahead from the organization for them to be donors, they became “blanketeers.” This project allowed the Conway HUB students to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need through the gifts of new, handmade blankets and afghans, lovingly created by volunteer “blanketeers.”
It also provided a rewarding and fun service opportunity for interested individuals and groups in local communities, for the benefit of children. If you want to know more about Project Linus, go to the following website. http://www.projectlinus.org #yourBESTsolution #ArchFordServes
Mentoring Program Specialist Bethany Hill facilitated a session for North Little Rock School District teacher leaders. These incredible educators are supporting novice teachers in their buildings. They learned how to tell the difference between stress and burnout, and focused on several areas of support for new teachers. These leaders are reflective practitioners who are making a huge difference! #archfordserves #yourBESTsolution
Tis the season to be sweet AND spicy! This group of interventionists worked on analyzing PLDs for math, using their HQIM along with good teaching practice for intervention, and had a little fun with their facilitator, math specialist, Tara Sanders. Christmas games, Christmas PRANKS, and lots of great math discussion made for a fun and productive day!
At the Arch Ford River Valley AE campus, the teachers held an underground spirit week for staff only. Monday- All wore Red. Tuesday-Anything but a Cup Day-Staff drank from unusual items like a spray bottle, hummingbird feeder, a coffee pot, and more. Wednesday-Workout Wednesday-Throughout the day the staff engaged the students with silly workouts. Thursday-Royalty Day-The staff were Queens for a day...including the Baking Queen, Iced Coffee Queen, Campfire Queen, and more! Friday-Duck Hunt Day-Numbered ducks were hidden all over the building and students looked for them throughout the day. At the end of the day, the staff drew numbers and the student with that duck received a prize. #yourBESTsolution #ArchFordServes
Math Specialist, Tara Sanders, LOVES Christmas so pausing to play reindeer games at our December CGI Year 3 session was, of course, on the top of the agenda today. That, and loads of discussion on fluency, subtraction, and using CGI purposefully with HQIM. #archfordserves
Perryville Elementary is always buzzing with learning, even for the teachers! Here, Math Specialist Tara Sanders, Curriculum Director Jennifer Denn, and Perryville Elementary's 2nd-grade teachers are working together to implement HQIM strategically, learning from the best: their students.
Early Childhood Coordinator Beth Harness distributed Child Find information at Greenbrier School's Success Fair. Families were provided information about early childhood special education services available to preschoolers on behalf of the school district. #ArchFordServes
Today specialists, Tara Sanders and Jacob Sisson hosted over 70 Geometry and Algebra teachers to work on topics like The 5 R's, PLD mapping, DOK levels, AI, and HQIM. #ArchFordServes
Novice teachers and support people, join us in January for this day of learning focused on brain-based discipline! Register here:
https://www.escweb.net/ar_esc/catalog/session.aspx?session_id=528168
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Congratulations to our very own Systems Support Specialist Jacob Sisson who was awarded the Linda Griffith Math Leadership Award today at the AAML Conference. We are so proud of you and the work you do to support our educators!
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The mentoring team recently spent the day with novice teachers and their support teachers focusing on increasing rigor in their classrooms. They discussed depth of knowledge, generating higher order thinking questions, dialogic instruction, and maximizing internalization of their lessons for authentic engagement. #ArchFordServes #yourBESTsolution
Dover High CTE, Fine Arts, and Novice teachers recently spent the afternoon working with Systems Specialist Jacob Sisson to align essential standards to assessment and DOK. Teams coordinated assessments to unit plans and set targets to measure student achievement for the year! Great work in building systems at the secondary level. Go Pirates! #yourBESTsolution #ArchFordserves
Principals met today at Arch Ford to network and discuss a variety of topics, including behavior teams, supporting new teachers, literacy look fors, ATLAS data, and more!
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Mentoring Specialists Bethany Hill and Jacob Sisson facilitated a session on tier one behavior systems recently. Participants and behavior teams worked on universal language for expectations, collective commitments for the way adults respond to students, the role of trauma investment as a baseline for the system, establishing essential behavior standards, and analyzing the use of rewards and incentives. Full behavior teams from the West Side and Atkins school districts were in attendance, as well as single participants representing their districts. It was a great day of collaboration and learning! #ArchFordServes #yourBESTsolution
