Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her)

Educator, Teacher, Writer, Thinker. Anxious. Fierce. Foster Care survivor. Founding Director of Project Imagine, LLC. Tweets my own. #Imagine4edu

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@ILReadCouncil Idea: conference is free for ALL presenters, not just educelebrities. #tooexpensivetolearnthesedays 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Scott Bayer #THEBOOKCHAT co-founder @Lyricalswordz]

Lots of policing kids behaviors coming across the timeline, so I offer this: as we rethink schools, consider transforming the traditional roles of power and positionality. Students are not coming to schools, but rather we are guests in their homes. How should we act accordingly?

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@pgorski By “ppl like me” I mean ppl who love to engage but tend to overthink everything to the point where it is hard to engage (see, I just did it—overthinking my terminology).

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@pgorski I’m so struggling with this balance. I feel Twitter is a poweful tool to connect, learn, and advocate. . . but oh the anxiety it brings me. I also think the space is dominated by the ppl with the most followers, and doesn’t make room for people like me. That’s my anxiety maybe.🤷🏻‍♀️

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

My daily emotional reactions to national news:

😢🤬🤢🤮😲😭😩🤢🤢🤮😳😢🥴🤮🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😢🤤😴😳

Yet, I’m still expecting better news tomorrow. Like that somehow powerful people will wake up and decide, nah not like this—it’s not working. It has to get better. Right?

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@natebyr0n

[Dwayne Reed @TeachMrReed]

Instead of getting mad at your child’s teacher for wanting to stay alive, get mad at the government for refusing to provide monthly stimulus checks, more unemployment money, rent freezes, and childcare subsidies. The government has failed to act, not teachers.

[Julia E. Torres (MAEd., MA, MLIS) @juliaerin80]

Fight for your libraries and librarians or they (we) will be gone. Do not talk to me about non-proficiency in reading if kids have not learned to love to read and do not expect ELA teachers to do yet another job on top of the many others they are expected to do.

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[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

I’ve never retweeted myself, but every day this is the thought I come back to.

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

If this experience doesn’t get everyone’s minds right about compassion, equity, and justice. . . I don’t know what will. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

Whether it be in my personal or professional life, I know that every hater/challenger has contributed to my own growth and insight. For this, I thank each one of them.

But, sometimes I don’t want to learn all these life lessons. Sometimes I just want people to be less shitty.

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@stammer_teacher I was always really good at worksheets.

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

This 🧵!!! Why?!

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@juliac17792634 @alicekeeler I understand your framing! I prefer to “assess” reading comp skills by providing opportunities for Ss to read and discuss, monitoring process and identifying challenges alongside in a more authentic way. I’d argue that the system makes us think we need other measures. We don’t.

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@juliac17792634 @alicekeeler Google can be a tool to support learning or it can be a tool to lookup “answers.” Major pedagogical differences in how those beliefs play out in classroooms.

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@juliac17792634 @alicekeeler Was your identity visible in the content? What do you want to know more about? What perspectives have been left out of the discussion? What past learning experiences framed your learning on the topic? What barriers did you face in navigating the learning?

[Dana Onayemi, EdD (she/her) @EdDOnayemi]

@juliac17792634 @alicekeeler Are the resources you learned from valid? What questions would you ask an expert on this topic? Was this topic meaningful to you? What conversations with your peers stretched you the most? What can you do when teachers ask all the questions?