Mrs. Everts

Fun elementary teacher in NYC and Mom to two wonderful children.

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Important!

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Fact #13:

The student who cares the least often receives the most attention.

[Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” @MrDanielBuck]

This teacher is right

Scaffolding and differentiation are just eduspeak for do the work for the student, dumb down the content, and "pass them along"

[Mrs. Everts @Ae61095]

@oelma__ In a heartbeat! 💓

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

One of the most valuable skills a student can learn: do the work even when you don't feel like it.

[Ken | The Real Marvel Teacher 🍎 @MarvelTeacher2]

Things #Teachers don’t talk about:

That unpaid hour before school where you’re setting up the room, printing papers, and trying to mentally prepare for the day.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Teachers, if someone tells you how “lucky” you are to have summers off, remind them they don’t have to be jealous.

America is currently short more than 400,000 teachers.

They can become a teacher too.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

When kids choose NOT to brush their teeth, should we blame the dentist? Obviously not.

Why do we blame teachers when students choose NOT to complete even the most simplest of assignments?

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

I interviewed a teacher 3 years ago who decided to leave early.

Why did you resign?

“I have a Master’s degree & worked really hard for my students. I loved teaching kids and was good at it. I did it for a low salary. All of that and I had never felt so disrespected by so many.”

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

Parents, I’m begging you, read to your children. Get them books. Lots of books. Silly books. Fun books. Chapter books. Anything.

Get them to read consistently from 5-18 and they will be light years ahead of their peers when they get to college.

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

Every once in a while, we should have a PD session where all school staff talk about teaching simply.

No jargon. No acronyms. No data slides.

Just an honest, human conversation about what really happens in classrooms—free from all the pedagogical clutter.

[Caitlin Huey-Burns @CHueyBurns]

I'm sorry, it is absolutely absurd that the United States Congress has left town on a two-week recess amid the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown in history--during a peak travel season and a war. In what other industry is that abandonment of job duty acceptable?

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Delta announces all members of Congress will lose special status on the airline as TSA continues to work without pay. Love this. Continue to believe all members of Congress — and their staffs — should lose their pay for the entire year every time the government shuts down.

[David Portier @davidportier]

Dear restaurant owners:

We all hate the QR code menus. Stop.

-everyone

[Hadi @lolnvmtho]

Normalize doing NOTHING on sundays for your nervous system.

[Jonathan Alsheimer @mr_Alsheimer]

Yep

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

A child who reads twenty minutes a day encounters millions of words in a year.

That exposure builds vocabulary, background knowledge, and language patterns.

No worksheet can compete with that.

Reading widely is one of the most powerful learning engines we have.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

My home insurance rate increased by 12.5% and I didn’t make a claim.

My auto insurance rate increased by 15% and I didn’t make a claim.

My health insurance premium increased by 8%.

𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚 2% 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐞.
🤔😐😔

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

What’s best for the classroom?

Removing the student who constantly disrupts learning
OR
Expecting the teacher to spend most of their time managing that one student while everyone else waits?

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

The American education system is fixated on finding the latest method or system to get students reading and writing.

Unfortunately, no hack exists. Reading is sometimes dull. Writing is often hard.

You can’t entertain yourself to an education.