09/28/2026
Inspiring Professional Learning at ! 📚✨
Last week at the 2026 GADOE Curriculum Leaders Conference and the 2026 GACIS Fall Conference in Athens, Okefenokee RESA proudly led three powerful sessions supporting educators across Georgia:
🏈 Peeking at the Playbook: How a Collaborative Approach Can Grow Your Team
Highlighting the foundational and transformational literacy work of South Central GLRS, OKRESA ELA Specialist Leslie Giraldo shared strategies the GLRS team used to guide systems in pairing in-depth literacy data (particularly from the Core Phonics Survey) with targeted professional learning, such as morphology. This kind of partnership is important as we navigate Year 2 of Georgia’s K-12 ELA standards.
✍️ Visual Sentence Patterns: A Foundation of Writing Success
In this interactive workshop, Giraldo demonstrated how Jeff Anderson's visual sentence patterns empower students to craft sentences intentionally for greater clarity and impact.
🧩 Morphology Matters
Giraldo highlighted how morphology provides students with a predictable, rule-based system to decode English—building confident, independent readers. Participants engaged in a sample morphology protocol and explored numerous ideas for retrieval practice.
Thank you to all the leaders and educators who joined our sessions!
