EllieD

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@educator4ever36 Teachers can be leaders without becoming admin, and some actually love teaching and don’t desire to enter the admin world. Your post comes across as pure arrogance.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@educator4ever36 Way to make a hard-working teacher (most likely using her own $$) feel like crap for making students in her classroom feel comfortable. Teachers get enough bashing on social media as it is.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@muheediva01 Go hug my parents and cat.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

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[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

How accurate is this for your school district?

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

This is the definitive rendition of our National Anthem. Whitney Houston didn’t just sing it—she made us feel it. Patriotism. Pride. Purpose.

A moment that reminded us why we love this country.

Happy Birthday, America. 🇺🇸

[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

Happy 250th Anniversary to the greatest country in the world. Lest we forget, without America’s Veterans, America simply wouldn’t exist. All gave some. Some, gave all. God Bless America.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@notheydontcare Not “elitist mentality” at all. It’s trying to instruct while metal bottles fall onto the floor, get passed around, opened/closed, hands constantly raised to go refill in the middle of class. They are the baby bottles of this generation of students.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@MrDixonMath Thank you!

[The Principal’s Office @educator4ever36]

I think one of the biggest mistakes in American public education was eliminating isolated vocabulary instruction. Gone are the days of memorizing (oh the harm!) words, learning root words, prefixes, suffixes, etc. Sure we hated vocabulary lists, but I’m pretty certain spelling and writing skills were better then.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@Catlin_Tucker So which group gets to do the warmup first? Which one the mini-lesson? The other groups jump right in to the activities then before the above? How? I never understood the logic.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Shout out to everyone who takes the back off the remote control and rolls the batteries around instead of just replacing them.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@ananavarro You are so full of yourself and filled with immediate hatred and anger for the right. JD Vance was polite and well-spoken, but he refuted some of your comments and you didn’t expect that. Get over yourself.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

World Cup visitors, your Buc-ee’s, tornado, humidity, free-refill, deep-fried videos are saving us. In a country that only hears how awful it is, you’re showing everyone there’s still plenty worth celebrating. Thank you — we needed this!
God bless America 🙏🏻🇺🇸

[Rashi Arora @rashi_aroraa]

Read books. Read articles. Read research papers. Listen to music. Listen to podcasts. Listen to people who think differently from you. Dance to the songs you love. Go swimming. Go for a walk without carrying your phone. Go hiking. Go for coffee hopping. Buy magazines. Read old newspapers. Sit in a library. Visit a museum. Watch the sunset. Watch the sunrise. Stare at your walls. Stare at the ceiling. Stare at the stars from your terrace. Sit in a garden and observe people passing by. Watch the trees move with the wind. Listen to the birds. Listen to the rain. Sit in silence without feeling the need to fill every second with content. Write things down. Carry a notebook. Journal your thoughts. Sketch badly. Paint something. Learn an instrument. Grow a plant. Cook a meal from scratch. Call an old friend. Travel somewhere nearby. Get lost in a new neighborhood. Visit a bookstore and leave with a book you weren't planning to buy.

this is life all about.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

PAPER TOWEL COMMERCIALS ARE SO FAKE. ITS ALWAYS A KID SPILLING JUICE AND NEVER A CAT THROWING UP.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@MeghanMcCain It doesn’t matter what he says or replies. They are out for venom no matter what because they’re all nuts.

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@educator4ever36 10 years minimum. They have to be able to experience several trend-changes throughout those years.

[˖ Ritz 𓂀 ݁˖ @ridhima_z]

The struggle between reading my book, watching my show, and scrolling my phone is very real.

[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #14: Count the administrators in your district. Then count the teachers. Then ask who is in the room with your child.

Let me break down Fix #14.
Pull up your district's organizational chart. Count every assistant superintendent, every director, every coordinator, every specialist, every instructional coach who does not have a classroom. Then count the teachers. Then ask yourself which number has grown faster over the last ten years and which one has not kept pace with what the kids actually need.

What does it mean in practice?
It means every dollar that funds a coordinator of academic services is a dollar that did not fund a teacher, an aide, a reading interventionist, or a classroom library. It means every central office position added is a decision about priorities, and that decision has consequences inside every building in the district. It means the people closest to the kids have the least power and the least resources, and the people furthest from the kids have the most of both.

How does this help kids?
A child is not educated by an organizational chart. She is educated by the person standing in the room with her every day. When we fund the room, staff the room, and support the person in the room, kids learn. When we fund the office instead, kids wait. The bloat at the top does not show up in test scores with a label attached. It shows up as thirty-two kids and no copy paper. It shows up as a teacher buying her own supplies in February. It shows up as the gap between what we say we value and where the money actually goes.

How do we make this happen?
We need district budgets that are transparent and readable by anyone who wants to look. We need school boards that ask hard questions about the ratio of administrators to teachers and demand honest answers. We need communities that understand the difference between a principal who is in the building every day and a director of curriculum alignment who has not been in a classroom in fifteen years. And we need to stop assuming that adding a layer of management above the teachers is the same thing as supporting the teachers. It is not. It is often the opposite.

The goal is not to eliminate every administrator. The goal is to make sure the people closest to the kids are the priority, not an afterthought.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[EllieD @EllieD62]

@AmericaPapaBear I was 100% for it when I was teaching. Bring it on. Let parents tune in and see what’s going on.