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The Importance of Early Literacy
GCPS Early Literacy experts explain the innovations behind structured literacy and share tips for how parents can help at home.
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Amber Melander, 2026 Teacher of the Year Finalist
This finalist delights in working side by side with her students, co-investigating complex questions. While her students investigate how to make a robot move in the direction they want, she is investigating how to make sure each and every one of her students can move in infinite directions, engaged so thoroughly in their learning that they acquire confidence, computational thinking, and future-ready STEM skills.
Sharese Colbert, 2026 Teacher of the Year Finalist
This finalist puts the “active” in reading activity! Not seated and stationary or struggling with texts, students in her classroom are active and engaged with their reading. Free from experiencing reading as a tense exercise, students in this finalist’s classroom jump and cycle and bounce from one workstation to another, guided to experience reading as a fun and useful method for unlocking meaning and investigating their worlds.
Mia Johnson, 2026 Teacher of the Year Finalist
If math is a sport, then this finalist is her students’ head coach and proudest cheerleader. Inside the vibrant gymnasium of her classroom, she offers students ample space and support to grapple with problems and understand the reasons behind the solutions. Math in this finalist’s classroom is not only a muscle to fortify, but a way of thinking, a tool in her students’ toolkit, and a pathway to the future.