Loveteachbless with Nita Creekmore

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✨Welcoming Wonder: TCTELA 2027 Speaker Announcement✨

We are thrilled to reveal the incredible speaker lineup for the 2027 TCTELA Annual Conference & Exposition! Join us at the Embassy Suites in Denton, TX, from February 5–7 as we explore our theme: Welcoming Wonder: Transforming Literacy Education with Inquiry and Imagination.

We invite literacy educators from all backgrounds, experience levels, and positions to come together and bring wonder back into our ELAR classrooms.

🌟 Our 2027 Featured Speakers Include:
* Carole Boston Weatherford
* Whitney La Rocca
* Stephen & Kayla Briseno
* Mychal Threets
* Towanda Harris
* Kass Minor
* Tosh McGaughy

📅 Mark Your Calendars:
* 🗓️ Late July: Registration officially opens
* ⏰ December 11: Early bird pricing deadline (Register early to lock in the best rate!)

Where are our Texas literacy changemakers at? Comment below if we’ll see you in Denton! 👇

26-27 Planner update! (Yup, I’m THAT person! 😂)

I got myself a new lesson planner. I wanted to have a place for everything for next year without having a bunch of different notebooks. I wanted a place for meeting notes, planning, monthly calendar, grades, literally everything. I was able to get that and more. I can’t wait to use it next year. I have more videos that I will place in my stories above. Are you like me and want your planner ready to go for next year?

We didn’t have a traditional honeymoon.

On June 1, 2013, we promised ourselves that we eventually would. And ever since we said, “I do.” We’ve been honeymoonin’. 💕 We’ve continued to pour into us, our family, our love and our day-to-day. We knew our commitment to each other and to our family each and every day is what mattered. It always has. AND at our 10 year anniversary, we said, “I do” again in the beautiful Kauai, Hawaii. 🌺

Here we are at year 13 of being married and I say “I do” again and again. I love you, Michael Creekmore, Jr. At last, My king. 👑🤣 Cheers to more years of US. 🫶🏽

This book? Read Outside Your Bubble 🫧 It’s personal.

It came from the moments where I realized…we can’t keep teaching the same way and expect to reach every child. We just can’t.

Read Outside Your Bubble is about doing the work.
The real work.
The uncomfortable work.
The necessary work.

It’s about looking at our classrooms and asking,
Who’s not being seen?
Whose stories are missing?
How can I do better and be better?

Because before the lessons, before the standards…
our students need to feel seen, valued, and heard.

And that starts with us.

This book will push you, remind you, and hopefully ignite something in you because our kids deserve educators who are willing to grow too.

If you’re ready to stretch your thinking and expand what’s possible in your classroom…this is book for you.

Let’s do this work together. 🩷🫶🏽🤟🏽

-Nita
LTB, Love. Teach. Bless.

Presenting on Explicit Instruction

I had the opportunity to co-facilitate to 5th grade teachers learning and engaging in the work of explicit instruction in reading, and it was such a meaningful experience.

This is the kind of work I care deeply about. Being clear, intentional, supportive, and responsive in how we teach reading really does make a difference for our students. When we slow it down and make our thinking visible and teaching explicit, we give more kids access and confidence in their reading.

I appreciated the conversations, the engagement, and just being in the room with educators who are doing the work every day for kids.

“Today’s celebration of Memorial Day, recognizes dead soldiers and in particular, those who were in combat when they served. Yet, Memorial Day origins actually trace themselves back to formerly enslaved and free Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina who honored Black Civil War soldiers buried in disgrace.” -The Arc Republic

In Leah Henderson’s children’s book, A Day for Rememberin’, tells the story of the first Memorial Day celebration from the perspective of a young African American boy whose family has recently been freed following the Civil War. This book is a beautiful story and depiction of honoring lives fought for the freedom of Black lives.

How many times have I heard from others they could never teach 5th grade? 50 million eleven times 🤣😂.

I used to be one of those earlier in my 22 year career. Saying I would never 🤣. And here I am loving 5th grade. But truly my 5th graders bring me so much incredible joy. We laughed together, learned together, had hard conversations together, we chatted about how we are going to change the world 🌎.

One thing I know for sure is that those kids that walked through the door on Day 1 have grown academically, socially and emotionally. They are not the same kids that left on Day 180. They are confident, inspired and motivated to shake up this world of ours! I’m here for it. I cannot wait to see what they do. One thing I told them often was that when they change the world, 🌍 to remember their little ol’ 5th grade teacher that believed in them and told them they would.

Reading is…