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Around my work in districts, you can find me at the following events & conferences...
Around my work in districts, you can find me at the following events & conferences...
Literacy Conference
ESC10 Richardson
6/9
TEKS-based RLA instruction
Destination Literacy
ESC17 Lubbock
6/11
Revising: All the Things!
Cross Curricular Conference
ESC16 Amarillo
7/15-16
Constructed Response
LitCon
ESC3 Victoria
7/23-24
ECR & Organization Connections
Professional Development: Sessions & Share Sites
Professional Development: Sessions & Share Sites
Presenter & Trainer
Presenter & Trainer
Designing and delivering engaging and responsive professional development for educators is something that I have enjoyed doing for the last ten years. When I left my English Language Arts classroom seven years ago, I wanted to devote my energies to improving what professional learning can look like for teachers.
My experience as a certified Abydos trainer and district digital learning specialist gave me both research and technology-based tools to use with educators. And, my experiences creating and delivering personalized professional learning for many districts when I was at ESC Region 11 broadened my understanding of action-based and data-driven professional learning. Serving as the Secondary English Language Arts Coordinator in McKinney ISD during the adoption of new RLA TEKS allowed me to support and grow teachers using data, sound pedagogy, and job-embedded professional development in a district setting.
My state conference presentations and titles are below.
Resource Curation Sites
Resource Curation Sites
With all of the work I was doing on the 2017 ELAR TEKS at ESC11, I decided to collect everything into an online space (smore.com) to share with ELAR teachers and curriculum friends statewide. I have done the same thing with my STAAR Redesign resources. Recently, I began working on a more user-friendly share site using Google Sites. Teachers who want to receive weekly email updates from me, subscribe on my Google Site. I currently have over 1,500 Texas teachers subscribed to my free Friday resource updates.
I spend a lot of time on the road visiting Texas districts. These are some of the districts who have brought me in to work with their teachers & curriculum teams. I am grateful for every opportunity to join in the work to improve literacy outcomes for Texas students!
I spend a lot of time on the road visiting Texas districts. These are some of the districts who have brought me in to work with their teachers & curriculum teams. I am grateful for every opportunity to join in the work to improve literacy outcomes for Texas students!
Promotional Flyers for Recent Sessions
Promotional Flyers for Recent Sessions
Twitter Testimonials
Twitter Testimonials
Memberships & Contact Info
Memberships & Contact Info
TCTELA member & Ambassador NTCTELA Communications Coordinator
TCTELA member & Ambassador NTCTELA Communications Coordinator
certified Texas English Language Arts Teacher 4-8, ESL supplemental
T-TESS appraiser Texas ASCD Curriculum Leadership Academy Fellow
toshmcgaughy@gmail.com 817-504-4200 bio sheet
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
ESC 3 LitCon
ESC 16 Read, Write, Connect
ESC 14 Elementary Literacy Day
ESC11 Bilingual Extravaganza!
NTCTELA 2024
ESC 10 The Rest of the Story Conference
TCTELA 2024
ESC 2 Empowering Writing Excellence 2024
Metrocrest: Put Your Test Foot Forward 2024
Texas ASCD 2023
Texas Assessment Conference 2023
Game Changer: Region 10 &11 Assessment Conference 2023
Texas ASCD 2022
Texas Assessment Conference 2022
Texas ASCD 2021
Texas Assessment Conference 2021
TASA Midwinter 2020
Texas ASCD 2019
North Texas Visioning Conference 2019
Converge Digital Learning Conference 2019
TALE 2019
Focus Conference 2018
G3 Conference: Gerry, Google, & GT 2018
Leveraging Canvas Conference ESC11 2018
Admin Assistant & Secretaries Conference ESC11 2018
Assistant Principals & Counselors Conference ESC11 2018
E-MERGE Technology Conference ESC11 2018
LOTE Mini-Conference in WSISD 2018
FWISD Literacy Conference 2018
Birdville ISD Flavors of Literacy 2017
Denton TIA 2017
Abydos Annual Conference 2017
Texas ASCD Ignite Conference 2016 & 2017
TCEA 2016 & 2017
#TXGOO 2016 & 2017
TCEA Campus Digital Specialist Academy
2016 & 2017
Session Titles
Session Titles
Authentic Writing & Revising Practices
Growing the ECR & Focusing our Revision Practices
Engaging Mini-lessons to STAART Writing 3-5
Coherencia, coherencia, coherencia: How Writers Create It
SLAR STAAR: Spanish Resources for Teachers
Branching Out: Embedding Constructed Response in Any HQIM
Rooted in the Rubric
Focusing On Our Revision Practices
Personalizing Our Editing Instruction with Small-group Tasks
Growing the Extended Constructed Response
Empowering Writing Excellence: Redesigned RLA STAAR
Word Play: Sentence Manipulation with Diverse Mentor Texts
Constructing Meaning with Those Extended Constructed Responses
Constructing Meaning with Short Constructed Responses
Using New Question Types in Eduphoria for Daily Formatives
Spiraling with New Question Types
Leveraging the New Question Types for Critical Thinking
Data Points Everywhere
Tapping Into New Response Standards in All Content Areas
New ELAR TEKS for District Administrators
Math + Reading = Thinking Literacies
Response TEKS for all Content Areas
Inclusive Texts for K-12
TEKS Deep Dives for new ELAR TEKS
Digital Differentiation Tools for ELAR Classrooms
Bookends: Putting the Fun in Functional Paragraphs
Texas Writing Pilot Scoring Training
Vocabulary Strategies with Sketchnotes
Questioning Strategies for Increasing Engagement
Blended Learning Models to Personalize
Literacy Supports for New Definition of Literacy
Authentic Writing Tasks Toolkit
Coloring for Coherence
Scaffolding for Inference Skills
Formative Assessment for LOTE Teachers
The Fundamental Five Experience
#makingsocialmediaworkforU
Smore Than You Bargained For
Making Grammar Tangible
Portfolio Ponderings
Site-Seeing: Google Sites for Student Portfolios
Hyper for Hyperdocs!
Autocrat Magic to Transform Forms!
Digital Tools for Authentic Reading & Writing Tasks
Digital Portfolios & Rubrics
Critical Writing, Reading, Speaking & Listening
Google Sites
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