Colleen Scott

Daughter, sister, aunt, niece, cousin, friend, critical consumer, life-long learner.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

A brutally sad, yet accurate, anaolgy.

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

Imagine a classroom welcomes in a pitbull

It has a history of fighting, biting, and attacking.

Unsurprisingly, from day one, it attacks students and spends all day barking out the window and growling at passerbys.

School administrators say you can't blame the dog. It was brought up poorly.

Instead of a shock collar, muzzle, or removal, the administrator suggests petting sessions and lots of treats.

We need to teach the dog to behave. Punishing it or removing it doesn't actually teach the dog anything.

When other families complain, administrators assure parents that this is a chance for their child to learn patience and empathy.

A gifted child is placed as this dog's handler. He's regularly nipped at and can't focus on his own work. But he learns leadership through it, the teacher assures his parents.

Every time he bites this student, which is often, the administrator recommends feeding the dog and giving it a treat.

Anyways. That's essentially how discipline policies work in schools right now with misbehaving students.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@BasedRedWolf Not with grades online (electronic reporting), parents receiving automated absence notifications via calls/texts, and the use of Google Classroom for posting assignments and announcements. Teachers communicate enough. Parents need to step it up and parent.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@BasedRedWolf In this day and age teachers shouldn’t have to use their time to call home.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@FixingEducation 1, 3, 4.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@jenteach13 Social promotion is ruining us.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Hey Educators. What word/phrase annoys you the second you hear it?

I’ll start…”PBIS”

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@FixingEducation June. (Canada for context.)

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

ABSOLUTELY NOT. 🛑🛑🛑
Stop right there. Teachers are not the failure with MTSS. The failure is the system that refuses to give teachers the needed time to identify, collaborate, implement, and revise instruction for a student on MTSS. Not to mention it’s not uncommon for a teacher to have 10+ students on MTSS. This post triggered me. 😡

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@FixingEducation Yes. Quite possibly anything else. Still in consideration…
Or, perhaps a move to another country where things are done differently; somewhere teachers are paid for the work they do (work day plus OT), students have to meet expectations, and teachers are respected - as a few.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@TheMattViera Where (which state) does this person teach that they make $177k/yr?

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

Educators can’t do their job if the parents aren’t doing theirs. And walk into any public school and you’ll see in 30 minutes which parents do their jobs and which don’t regardless of teacher effectiveness.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@anenglishteachr Sad but very true.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@helpless_vol @educator4ever36 @fcpsnews This would be awesome, imo. It would allow for me to actually get some of the non-teach responsibilities of the job done and lessen my unpaid OT.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@FixingEducation It was never easy, and it’s getting more and more challenging.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@loobah_l @NinaPanickssery Probably b/c at this point in their lives those activities should be their priority/ies. They already raised their children. They shouldn’t be expected to raise their grandchildren.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@NinaPanickssery Because raising your children is not your parents’ responsibility.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@KeruboSk I have other more important things in which to invest my time, energy and money.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@KeruboSk Every damn day. Not dying my hair either. The world has far too much false bravado in it already. I just can’t bring myself to the fake side.

[Colleen Scott @Colleen__Scott]

@ThrillaRilla369 In retrospect, I would’ve loved to have been able to stay home and run a cozy home-maker life. But not then or now did I, or would I, want to raise babies.
I recently shared with a few colleagues that, knowing what I do now, I would have preferred to have been a kept woman.