Educator Empowerment Committee
Committee Mission: Our goal is to empower TALE members in ways that develop voice, ownership, and leadership of their professional literacy landscape.
Committee Director: Kristi Morale
Committee Members: Stephanie Jenkins, Lashera McElhany, Carolyn Davis, Laurie Sharp, Ramona Pittman, Tommye Hutson, Suhua Huang, Maline Golding, Pearl Garden, Kristi Morale, Silvina Salazar, Elaine Hendrix, Tasha A. Vice, Amy Sharp, and Tara Wilson
Committee Director: Kristi Morale
Committee Members: Stephanie Jenkins, Lashera McElhany, Carolyn Davis, Laurie Sharp, Ramona Pittman, Tommye Hutson, Suhua Huang, Maline Golding, Pearl Garden, Kristi Morale, Silvina Salazar, Elaine Hendrix, Tasha A. Vice, Amy Sharp, and Tara Wilson
Remove Learning Resources
We would like to share a few resources that you can use for planning your Distance Learning lessons from ILA. This blogpost provides a plethora of links to not only research articles, reading lists, and links to education companies that are offering free subscriptions and resources due to COVID-19. https://literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2020/03/16/engaging-learning-through-disruptions
Also, please check out all of the valuable resources and advice from First Book at https://firstbook.org/coronavirus-educator-resources/ and UNICEF’s Read the World at https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/read-the-world
We would like to also share that Texas PBS and TEA are working in collaboration to provide At-Home Learning through educational programming collaboration. Teachers are encouraged to use TEKS-Aligned materials at www.PBSLearningMedia.org. We encourage you to set up an account and use these resources, remember we have TEKS for multi-modal texts now. Here is the link for more information on this partnership: https://tea.texas.gov/about-tea/news-and-multimedia/news-releases/news-2020/tea-and-texas-pbs-announce-educational-programming-collaboration-0
TEA also has a parent-friendly, grade level digital and print resources to support at-home learning need. This is a great resource for both parents and teachers https://texashomelearning.org/
A few notable authors and illustrators have been doing a variety of things online and through social media, here are a few:
Here is a Google Mix motivational videos in commemoration of Teacher Appreciation Week!
Thank you for being a member of this great organization!
Malene Golding, TALE Chair
www.texasreaders.com
We would like to share a few resources that you can use for planning your Distance Learning lessons from ILA. This blogpost provides a plethora of links to not only research articles, reading lists, and links to education companies that are offering free subscriptions and resources due to COVID-19. https://literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2020/03/16/engaging-learning-through-disruptions
Also, please check out all of the valuable resources and advice from First Book at https://firstbook.org/coronavirus-educator-resources/ and UNICEF’s Read the World at https://www.unicef.org/coronavirus/read-the-world
We would like to also share that Texas PBS and TEA are working in collaboration to provide At-Home Learning through educational programming collaboration. Teachers are encouraged to use TEKS-Aligned materials at www.PBSLearningMedia.org. We encourage you to set up an account and use these resources, remember we have TEKS for multi-modal texts now. Here is the link for more information on this partnership: https://tea.texas.gov/about-tea/news-and-multimedia/news-releases/news-2020/tea-and-texas-pbs-announce-educational-programming-collaboration-0
TEA also has a parent-friendly, grade level digital and print resources to support at-home learning need. This is a great resource for both parents and teachers https://texashomelearning.org/
A few notable authors and illustrators have been doing a variety of things online and through social media, here are a few:
- Ralph Fletcher “Writing with Ralph”
- Jason Reynolds “Write. Right. Rite.”
- Dav Pilkey “At Home”
- Jarrett Krosoczka “Draw Every Day with JJK”
- Kate Messner “Read, Wonder and Learn”
- Debbie Ridpath Ohi “Picture Book Read Alouds”
Here is a Google Mix motivational videos in commemoration of Teacher Appreciation Week!
Thank you for being a member of this great organization!
Malene Golding, TALE Chair
www.texasreaders.com
ELAR TEK Resources for Texas Educators
The new ELAR TEKS is an exciting new chapter for Texas educators, students, and agencies. TALE is committed to assisting all organizations and agencies with sharing newly developed resources. As you develop resources for the new ELAR TEKS, we invite you to send them to TALE.empowerment@gmail.com. We will forward your resources to our members and place them on our website (www.texasreaders.org/).
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