{"id":13410,"date":"2018-06-07T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=13410"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:14:09","slug":"tonia_haislip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2018\/06\/07\/tonia_haislip\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching Towards Individualized Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tonia Haislip<\/h2>\n<p><strong>I am an AACPS:<\/strong>\u00a0Literacy Coach,\u00a0<em>Bates Middle School\u00a0<\/em>| <strong>2016 Teacher of the Year Nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My career as an educator has led me down several paths: classroom teacher, reading specialist, and literacy coach. All of these positions have only served to strengthen my commitment to education. I believe that building strong literacy skills leads to student empowerment, which in turn provides two of the greatest gifts we can provide to children: choice and freedom. As a literacy coach, I take great pride in facilitating student and teacher growth through an alchemy of collaboration, dedication, research-based methodology, and creativity. I am passionate about providing students with the tools that will allow them to blossom.<\/p>\n<p>I am always aware that I work with a wide variety of people who all have unique stories and needs. Whether I am with students or teachers, the one goal I have is that of individualized growth. I never forget that I have an opportunity to impact lives. This effect may be large or small, but it should always be positive. My strengths as an educator can be distilled into several categories.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Respect:<\/strong><\/em> This includes honoring diversity, maintaining professional expectations for students and colleagues alike, and fostering authentic relationships.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Perseverance:<\/strong><\/em> Knowing that failure isn&#8217;t a dead end is integral for learning. Teaching perseverance by example and through reflection provides students with an invaluable life tool.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Relationships:<\/strong><\/em> Building and maintaining connections is what facilitates learning. I enjoy getting to know my students and colleagues, laughing with them, and providing support when they need it. Sometimes, listening is the most important thing I can do.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Expertise:<\/strong><\/em> By collaboratively sharing a broad knowledge base of pedagogy, best practices, and allowing for accountability via the use of data-driven instruction, I grow and learn with and from my students and co-workers.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Creativity:<\/strong><\/em> Inquiry and passion are the heart of learning. Combine these qualities with imagination and the most powerful learning will occur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teaching is part of who I am, and thank goodness there is still much to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Teaching is part of who I am, and thank goodness there is still much to learn.&#8221;&#8211;Tonia Haislip, Bates Middle School Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":13420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,130,132,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annapolis_stories","category-aacps_story","category-employee_stories","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13411,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13410\/revisions\/13411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}