Beverly Thompson 🍎 4th grade teacher and life long learner
Lockhart Tx
Joined August 2018
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When that “ah ha” moment in Science hits you! My student experimenting with static electricity ⚡️⚡️⚡️ I just ❤️her face!
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BEFORE YOU CRITICIZE A TEACHER… SPEND A DAY IN THEIR CLASSROOM.
See the child who hasn’t eaten.
The child who barely slept.
The child carrying anxiety, anger, grief, trauma, or problems at home they don’t have words for yet.
See the teacher trying to reach all of them, while teaching everyone else, answering emails, managing behaviors, completing paperwork, and buying supplies with their own money.
Then watch some of those educators leave school exhausted and go to a second job just to make ends meet.
And tomorrow? They come back. They show up for our kids again.
If we want better schools, we have to stop expecting educators to fix everything by themselves.
-Volunteer.
-Speak up.
-Support fair pay.
-Attend school board meetings.
-Advocate for more counselors, social workers, psychologists, paraprofessionals, and mental health resources.
-Ask teachers what they actually need—and listen.
Less blame. More support.
Less criticizing from the sidelines. More of us stepping onto the field.
They keep showing up for our kids. It’s time we showed up for them.
If you know an educator who keeps showing up, share this for them.
Aaaaaaand document all behaviors with multiple BIPs.
Teachers are said to make around 1,500 decisions EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. 🤯
That’s roughly 4 decisions every minute.
“Can I go to the bathroom?”
“Where’s my pencil?”
“Can I move seats?”
“He’s looking at me.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Can you help me?”
“What are we doing?”
“Is this for a grade?”
And somehow, while making all those decisions, teachers are expected to teach, motivate, redirect, encourage, assess, communicate, manage behavior, and make every kid feel seen.
So if you get home after school and your brain has absolutely NOTHING left…
There might be a reason. 😂
Teaching isn’t just physically exhausting.
It’s decision fatigue on another level.
Teachers, you’re doing more in a day than most people will ever see. ❤️
#schoolofengagement
We rocked hat day @CFELISD and used high yield vocabulary strategies with FSGPT in our Savvas lesson today by working in groups to create visuals and sentences with our words! ❤️🤘
Can't believe we are in our 2nd year of Ballet Folklorico at ClearFork Elementary! What was once just a sparkly dream in my mind, these kiddos breathed life into! Proud of the CFE Percussion Club too, and our collective showcase at Carver! #LockhartLeading
Watching these students perform never gets old for me! The @CFELISD Ballet Folklorico performed at the community health fair this morning at LJHS. Proud teacher here! 😍❤️ @LockhartISD
ELA STAAR Camp in full swing! We are discussing vocabulary, making predictions, inferences, and using hashtags to summarize! @lead4ward @CFELISD @LockhartISD
Love our CFE cafeteria staff! They are the best! Mrs. Christina gave me a beautiful dessert today and it was the highlight of my Friday! ❤️
Proud of our Lockhart HS track team today and all their hard work! Go Lions! My daughter Autumn and her valentine Emilio gave their best efforts in triple jump and relay events! 🦁@LockhartISD #LockedOnExcellence
Happy Valentine's Day from Mrs. Thompsons class! We had a sweet day with ice cream sundaes and smiles @CFELISD ❤️🍦🍨
Creating sentences with prepositional phrases in Savvas this week in Writing!Students worked in groups to identify the prepositions and objects of the phrase by integrating a fun activity with movement! 📓📚🏃🏻♀️✏️#LockedOnExcellence @LockhartISD
Go Support the @LockhartTxSO at the Caldwell County Justice Center! We painted lots of smiling faces and saw Santa! They are open til 4! 🎅🏼🎄🤘🏼@LockhartISD
Space Odyssey Night at CFE was a blast! Yes, I actually painted my whole face green and glued 10 googly eyes to my forehead in the spirit of Christmas and STEM activities! Love my @LockhartISD Thank you @_MrsLawrence_ for coordinating this awesome event for our students! 👽🤘🏼
So proud of our CFE talent show participants! They shined so bright! I'm already brainstorming for next year's show!
I'm so blessed to have such amazing mentors and colleagues in the LISD lever leader academy! I learned so much this week, ran into my old pal and former mayor of San Marcos Daniel Guerrero, and received some great new literature as part of the course! @stepharillo @LockhartISD
We are prepping for Custodian Appreciation Day @CFELISD! We love and appreciate all of the hard work they do for our campus everyday!
