Pre-K-12 public school teacher/instructional specialist and sub who is currently substitute teaching and supporting substitute teachers.
Joined March 2022
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A listener wrote on Spotify: "Megan Conklin offers concrete advice on how to address the pervasive issue of finding and retaining substitute teachers and education support personnel." Listen to @ConkEdPerspect here: open.spotify.com/episode/2NT…
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Eleven years since Sandy Hook & all we’ve managed to do is train a generation of kids to hide in a corner when the code red sounds
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She needs a reteach.
He needs food.
They need sleep.
She needs empathy.
He needs attention.
They need directions.
She needs time.
He needs therapy.
They need a shower.
She needs friends.
He needs money.
They need a smile.
And that's just one fraction of one period of one day.
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On Juneteenth, we commemorate the anniversary of the delayed but welcome news of freedom reaching the enslaved Black folks in Galveston, Texas. It’s a reminder that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope — and a reason to keep building a country that lives up to its highest ideals.
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My one-year-old son just looked up from Twitter and said, 'Mummy, why have you made these very real children sad with your heinous yet unevidenced bigotry?' Then he ran upstairs and burned all his Potter books. I was so damn ashamed I almost forgot the kid was imaginary.
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I have posted this before but ..
26 years ago, a gunman entered
Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK
govt responded by enacting tight gun
control legislation. In the 9400+ days
since, there have been a total of O
school shootings in the UK.
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As a teacher I’m of the opinion that if ballistic shelters start to make sense something is deeply deeply wrong
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Mental health is health. I’d rather a staff member miss a day or two or three to take care of themselves than resign because they didn’t feel like they could.
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So many teachers are not okay, but, because they keep showing up, keep smiling and keep quiet— everyone thinks they are just fine.
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🤔 Wondering what best practices your colleagues will be sharing during tonight's #PrincipalOfficeHours?
👇 Take a peek below – and get ready to join leaders @burgess_shelley, @VictoriaTheTech and @itsAPCosgrove at 7 p.m. ET!
ALT #PrincipalOfficeHours: Join the conversation: Thursday 1/19 7 p.m. ET. Q1: Shout out the most inspiring things you’ve seen in classrooms this month! Q2: How can leaders help teachers feel energized to tackle this semester’s learning goals? Q3: What’s one great thing your coaching team does to build trust with teachers? Q4: When you visit classrooms, how do you know if your staff’s instructional coaching is working? Share your “look-fors”! Q5: Fill in the blank: My top tip for getting teacher buy-in on classroom observations is ________. Q6: Fill in the blank: My top tip for getting teachers’ feedback on instructional coaching is ________. Q7: What’s a piece of coaching you received as a teacher that you’ve always remembered?
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Today I subbed in a 5th grade classroom. Library time was on, luckily, but with a substitute. There was no art specialist time (so, no planning) because of an unfilled substitute position. We need to address the #subshortage – at Olympia, WA
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As a district person - I can not find a reason to disagree - and would go so far to say it would be a good idea to toss school leaders into that - but at other schools so they can see how different buildings operate. Has the potential to be an embedded learning opportunity. – at South Carolina, USA
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It's the teachers and building administrators running around putting out the sub shortage fires ALL DAY LONG that is killing us. I'm convinced of it! We NEED district office support 👍 – at Olympia, WA
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If you are a K-12 teacher who started teaching prior to 2020 and want to aid in my dissertation research on what you want from admin, please follow this link:
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Today, whilst questioning, I told a kid to:
‘Tell me why.’
But I sang it Backstreet Boys style.
Half the class replied, in sync, with:
‘Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache…’
Then we continued the lesson as if nothing happened and this is why I became a teacher.
#edutwitter
