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During a recent visit to Carrollton Elementary School, Dr. Sarah met this precious little kindergartener named Hollis. She is the great-granddaughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. M. Fulbright. Dr. Fulbright was Dr. Sarah’s high school principal and hired her for her first teaching job in Houston County. He is cited in the “Read with Sarah…
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“Sometimes people witness history and don’t even realize it. That’s what happened in Dublin, GA on April 17, 1944, when a 15-year-old named Martin Luther King Jr. stepped to the lectern at First African Baptist Church. It was a statewide public speaking contest organized by the Elks Lodge. It was King’s first public speech and,…
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Two wonderful days of very hard work for administrators, teachers, and Dr. Sarah at Carrollton Elementary School recently. Their use of “Read with Sarah” and AlphaSkills Pre-K curriculum with all students is showing real progress. The 99th day of school included individual mid year review sessions with 18 first grade teachers and small group sessions…
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The Georgia Department of Education is awarding a total of $260,000 to rural school districts to help them expand the fine arts opportunities available to their students, Twenty rural districts are receiving stART grants, which can be used to create or expand arts initiatives that significantly improve students’ access to the arts. Dr. Sarah is…
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Sand Hill Elementary in Carroll County is NOW a National STEM Certified School! Sand Hill joins the 2% of schools across the nation with National STEM Certification recognition. Dr. Sarah sends her congratulations for your hard work in earning this award. She will see you soon for our “Read with Sarah Mid-Year Reviews”. #weareVR #24strong…
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Thank you, Governor and First Lady Deal, for your eight years of service to our great state of Georgia. We thank each of you for the supportive roles you have played in education, especially, reading education that is dear to our hearts at AlphaSkills, Inc. We love this portrait with you standing side by side,…
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Two great sessions of the “Vitamins R(Reading) and L(Literacy) Project in Twiggs” with two and three year olds and their parents today. We discussed ways to extend vocabulary with wh questions and pictures of animals (what, where, when, who, and why) and how to use the Dialogic Reading format, using prompts, expanding, and recall, with…
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AlphaSkills, Inc. was excited to welcome 2019 by delivering 62 boxes of materials to Macon-Bibb County Economic Opportunity Office. Dr. Sarah trained about 50 Early Head Start staff members from Agnes Barden, Walter P. Jones, Monroe, Joshua House, and Child Care Network sites located in Bibb and Monroe Counties. Thanks for your interest, enthusiasm, and…
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As our family prepares for 2019, we shared a very special day together. The Smiths kindly took down all Christmas decorations at our home. As they worked on that, I prepared Griffin’s favorite foods to celebrate his 20th birthday with a few items for good luck in an early New Year’s Day meal (pork chops,…
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