Beryl Irene Bailey, Ed.D

06/06/2019

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04/18/2019

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11/19/2017

Dr. Bailey's program teaches basic punctuation to ages 6-12 via a team of original animated characters and an accompanying rap song.

08/26/2017

Dr. Beryl Irene Bailey, Educational Consultant and CLOSE Reading Expert, launched her long-awaited Punctuation Posse Patrol on iTunes! I can't wait to hear my students engage with this culturally responsive teaching tool, and internalize the meaning and understanding of how punctuation serves their writing and use of language❣️DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY TODAY

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07/28/2017

Can You Calculate, Describe and Comprehend? A workshop revealing the connections between Literacy and Numeracy that engages the minds of attendees with deep thinking about CLOSE strategies for math in addition to CLOSE Reading. Dr. Bailey conducted this workshop for the National Youth Music Conference in Fitchburg, MA at the Great Wolf Lodge.

05/28/2017

From Pages to Pedagogy, LLC is an educational consulting and publishing company dedicated to providing job-embedded professional development in evidence and research based instructional and assessment tools aligned to the college and career ready and content specific standards. Topics include releasing close reading and writing to student independence,generating text dependent and document based questions, and developing performance tasks.

05/28/2017

Veteran teachers see the relevance in teaching students to use meta-textual markers to analyze complex text as early as 2nd grade!!❤️

From: gregg, valerie (PES Teacher)
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 10:02 AM
To: williams, wanda (PES Admin/teacher)
Cc: president, kadeshia (PES Secretary)
Subject: Re: Emailing - Gregg 11.14.16 Feedback Form.pdf

Thank you!!!!! I appreciate your willingness to come in and see me getting my feet wet. Luckily, we were trying this in Science and SS when working with vocabulary, so I felt they were ready to move to the next step. My students LOVE this and it is so relevant to ALL instruction! You have a winner in Dr. Bailey. Thank you for the opportunity to enrich us all! WCW, I love you!!!!!!!!!! Words cannot say it enough! xo, val

05/28/2017

Direct communication and modeling with teachers and students.

From: "van patten, martha (PES Teacher)"
Date: January 10, 2017 at 1:13:08 PM EST
To: "[email protected]"
Cc: "vonkeller, shuana (PES Teacher)"
Subject: Thursday JPES visit

Good afternoon, Dr. Bailey,

Robin VonKeller and I (5th grade) were wondering if you’d be able to model the Metatextual markers when you visit our classrooms Thursday. We’d love to see the teacher-role modeled. We’ve been attempting to use the markers, but with our limited time with you, we feel it would be more beneficial for us to see a model of what it looks like in the classroom.

I’ve attached the pdf we are using. We already have copies for the kids of pg 22 (Annexation of Hawaii – circle level).

If you could let us know if you’d be willing to do this, we’d really appreciate it.

Thanks!

Marti Van Patten
Joseph Pye Elementary
5th Grade

05/28/2017

Teachers are EXCITED about the evidence of student learning!

On Jan 20, 2017, at 12:22 PM, williams, wanda (PES Admin/teacher) wrote:

More feedback from 2nd grade. Making strides!! Thanks for sharing Jennifer. 🦋

W2

Wanda Carroll-Williams, Principal
Joseph R. Pye Elementary School
Dorcheser School District Two

From: manning, jennifer (PES Teacher)
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:40 AM
To: williams, wanda (PES Admin/teacher)
Subject: Text Dependent Questions 2nd grade

Here are some examples of some of the work my kids did yesterday in a small group. I did model this with them.

05/28/2017

Direct communication between teachers and Dr. Bailey...

On Jan 19, 2017, at 5:51 PM, thaxton, virginia (PES Teacher) wrote:

Hello Dr. Bailey,
My name is Ginny Thaxton and I teach 2nd grade at JPES. I attended the “Reading is FUN-but-MENTAL” Close Reading training on January 12. I missed the training my team mates participated in back in October, but they were wonderful about sharing the information. I am so grateful my principal, Wanda Carroll-Williams, made it possible for me to be a part of your training in last week so I could see it firsthand. My students are getting the hang of it and it has really changed the way they respond to text and make connections. I have been blown away by the conversations that take place and new questions that arise as we have used the highlighters. I just wanted to tell you thank you for sharing this amazing resource with us. I have been so excited each time we use the highlighters because of how it has changed the way my students read and respond. We are learning together! Today I asked them to share one way the highlighters have helped them/why they like using the highlighters. Here are some responses:
“The highlighters help me remember the details in the passage.”
“When I look at the passage and see what I have highlighted, it helps me answer questions.”
“I like highlighting the vocabulary words because it helps me understand what the author is trying to tell me.”

I just wanted to share this with you! Thank you again for providing a wealth of incredible information. Have a wonderful weekend!

Ginny Thaxton
M.A. T. Elementary Education
Joseph Pye Elementary School
[email protected]