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🎉 We did it. SB 2821 - the bill for free period products in all @HIDOE808 schools - passed the final committee hurdle yesterday. It now moves to the Hawaii House for a final vote.
16 years as a teacher & I don’t think it gets better than this. ❤️ #PublicSchoolProud #EndPPinHI
✌️ Twitter - fellow radical educators, see ya on the other platforms.
I don’t know if we’ll ever find a space like 2016-2020 EduTwitter, but I’ll stay hopeful.
“Years ago, someone once asked what ‘radicalized’ me as a teacher,” Milianta-Laffin said. “Looking back, if wanting our students housed, fed, cared for, and given the best free and public education possible is a radical idea, then yeah, I’m a radical.” bit.ly/3ekFJkU
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My mom, a principal, told newly hired teachers: “Your moral obligation is to push up against the system. I’m not saying break it down. I’m saying ASK QUESTIONS. Make us better.”
🤯@HSG_HI @teacher2teacher @MiliLaff @RyanCanoneoM @KristiOda @HIDOE808 @ncte @edutopia @hawaiiest – at Kapolei, HI
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“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.” #WrinkleInTime
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Marta magic 😈
🎥 @OurGameMagazine
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Witnessing my former student’s folklórica performance & later a chat w her about her USC experience.
When they leave hs, I always hope that their dreams are realized and that they have the determination to reach them.
Times like these I love being a teacher so deeply. 🩵
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If you support eliminating the Department of Education, you do not support our students. Period.
@USEDgov provides funding for:
✅Students w/ disabilities
✅Rural students
✅Programs that make college affordable
This would be bad for students, and bad for America.
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Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them
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I have said this before, but it's weird when you realize that what you thought was rock bottom was actually somewhere around rock middle
Ready for class tomorrow @CrookedMedia
So I enjoyed today’s pod, but it felt like @jonlovett was Sam and @JessicaTarlov was Ainsley.
So curious what’s being said around the @CrookedMedia office today.
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When I taught HS we used to ask what the MS teachers were doing with their time
Now that I teach MS I know. Surviving. That’s what MS teachers are doing
It’s all a mess, y’all. Everyone is doing their level best to get some educating accomplished. Just back off the blame game
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Yeah we do have "after birth" executions they're called school shootings.
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THANK YOU ALEX 🫶
And in the 13th minute, Alex Morgan leaves the pitch for the final time. The No. 13 that we've all grown up with, looked up to, and loved hangs up her boots. Your impact as a player and a person will live on. There's only one AM13 🥹
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I get asked why I went from being open to limited school voucher systems, to being a fierce critic now.
Answers:
1) the results came in—and they were horrific.
2) what’s kept them going is a Christian Nationalist moment I reject and denounce.
It’s okay to change your mind.
Your podcast challenges me @citizenstewart. I came to teaching via TFA & lost my youth to teacher martyrdom in TX. My friends burned out at KIPP, YES Prep, IDEA charters
I found union support & I’m not looking back. Yet, I’m 19 years in & only make $60k. vox.com/education/368756/tea…
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I was touched to see Gus Walz’s joy when his dad @Tim_Walz took the stage last night. Thankful for you showing us all what real love looks like, Gus.
Let’s be a nation that embraces this kind of warmth and vulnerability, instead of making fun or mocking it. We could all use some of Gus’s example in our own lives.
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Walz: "If you have never experienced the hell that is infertility, I guarantee you – you know somebody who has." Amen.
