Alissa Alteri Shea
@alterishea.bsky.social
Teacher, Instructional Coach, Writer. Believer in justice for all. Favorite place to be is outdoors with the kids.
Mapping Your Curriculum Like It’s a Road Trip: For all the teachers starting out on a brand new school year. Here is a way to look at curriculum that helps you reach all your important destinations. Here's to new beginnings and all that lies ahead. I hope it is an exciting journey! @edutopia.org
Mapping Your Curriculum Like It’s a Road Trip
Break down your year into important destinations, determine how long you should stay at each one, and know when to linger.
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Want to end your school year strong? Check out this podcast from @edutopia.org! It has some great ideas for adding easy, joyful celebrations to end your school year strong. It is well worth a listen. #teachers #endofschool #celebration www.edutopia.org/podcast/14-e...
Podcast: 14 Excellent Ways to End the School Year
Looking for creative ways to celebrate the last weeks of school? Here’s a toolkit of delightful, memorable activities from veteran K-12 teachers.
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When classroom management feels tough, you don’t have to figure it out alone. Explore our *new* collection of educator-tested strategies for building routines, relationships, and consistency. 🤝 #ClassroomManagement #EduSky
The Educator’s Guide to Excellent Classroom Management
From quick conflict resolution tips to common classroom management mistakes, this collection of articles and videos brings together research-backed, teacher-tested strategies for keeping your class…
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3 days left in our January Jam Session! 🌟 Join the conversation here: edut.to/3Zc6sb2 Have some questions about the warm demander approach to classroom management? Want to talk through a challenge you’re facing? @alterishea.bsky.social and other educators are here to help!
Sometimes that's all it takes, we both wear cowboy boots, to get a "You are my best friend, Ms. Alissa." #connection #lovemyjob
Ready to talk about the warm demander approach to classroom management? Jump into our January Jam Session: edut.to/3Zc6sb2 Join us, @marcusluther.bsky.social, @amirtaron.bsky.social, @jessicacabeen.bsky.social, and @alterishea.bsky.social for tips, resources, and advice you can use right away!
I’m co-facilitating an @edutopia.org Jam Session this week with @alterishea.bsky.social. If you or anyone you know faces challenges with classroom management or if you are skilled as a Warm Demander, jump on the space and get active with us. #EduSky www.edutopia.org/ask-and-answ...
January 2026 Jam Session: The Warm Demander Approach to Classroom Management
Here’s how to join the chat: Drop your questions, share a challenge you’re facing, or post a strategy about balancing high expectations with deep care—the heart of the warm demander approach. Welcome!...
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We’re here in Portland, OR with nurses, healthcare workers, bus drivers, teachers, medical providers and others, holding a vigil for those hurt and killed by ICE. There are more than 1,000 vigils across the country this weekend.
Looking for a way to get your whole community involved in literacy? Try an Open Mic Night! 🎤 #literacy #EduSky #ElementaryTeacher
Planning an Open Mic Literacy Night
This fun event gives students the opportunity to perform poems and short stories in front of their families and teachers.
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Planning an Open Mic Literacy Night www.edutopia.org/article/plan... The perfect way for student voices to be heard and celebrated: an Open Mic Night for kids!
Planning an Open Mic Literacy Night
This fun event gives students the opportunity to perform poems and short stories in front of their families and teachers.
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“Data can bring hope, especially when it shows we are on the right path to achieving student growth,” instructional coach Alissa Alteri Shea says. Here’s how to use it to understand students’ needs, monitor progress, and support their success. 📊 #EduSky #InstructionalCoach
How Instructional Coaches Can Help Teachers Use Data More Effectively
Continuous progress monitoring aids schools in designing targeted interventions to help all students learn.
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After a natural disaster, this California school was dedicated to supporting students and teachers. Here’s its thoughtful, trauma-informed approach:: #EduSky
Easing the Return to School After a Natural Disaster
A thoughtful approach that addresses immediate and academic needs ensures that students and staff feel cared for.
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Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
Thank you @jimknight99.bsky.social for the inspiration to do the work and to @edutopia.org for sharing it! How Instructional Coaches Can Help Teachers Use Data More Effectively www.edutopia.org/article/prog...
How Instructional Coaches Can Help Teachers Use Data More Effectively
Continuous progress monitoring aids schools in designing targeted interventions to help all students learn.
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History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like. Stand tall against right-wing extremism. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...
Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech
Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.
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Public education is the backbone of American democracy. In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.
