Enjay DeGuzman

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[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Seems like a great time to get back on here, amirite? 🥴

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Do I return to conferences in 2021?! Maybe??? 🥳

[Nicholas Emmanuele @NAEmmanuele]

#PAProudEducators: Join #PCTELA21 this October in-person or virtually! Check out our call and submit a proposal by 4/5/21.

https://t.co/yIkn5wsDEc

Message cochairs @NAEmmanuele or @JENTONEY with questions!

@PCTELANews is an @ncte state affiliate. #NCTEVillage

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

But seriously, it's bonkers that new teachers (first year ever or first year at the school) are expected to do everything a veteran teacher does PLUS stuff like induction, etc. Absolute 🍌🍌🍌.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Can we talk about how teachers are content creators and creative professionals?

Also how first year teachers at a new school should have zero additional responsibilities lol

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

(I'm fine, btw. At least partially bc I have given myself permission not to complete one of those additional responsibilities to the best of my ability. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

@DrPSchmidt I'd have assumed everyone went through security everyday like they do at airports (and schools...). Silly me!

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Wait. People who work in the Capitol don't already have to go through metal detectors everyday? 🤔

[Paul Cogan @PaulCogan]

Hitler was found guilty of treason and sentenced to five years in prison after the Beer Hall Putsch. He served nine months before he was pardoned in the name of "unity and healing." And after that, as we all know, everything was fine.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

To be clear, not saying we shouldn't teach questioning skills.✌🏽

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Still thinking about this days later so Imma RT. #MediaLiteracy #EdChat #NCTE

[Crystal Lee (@crystaljjlee on all platforms) @crystaljjlee]

Given yesterday's events, I want to talk about how woefully inadequate media literacy is for thinking about...violent fascism and the spread of a pandemic, + how focusing on this elides bigger problems about white supremacy / a fundamental epistemological rift in the US (1/n)

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

These all can easily lead to right wing conspiracies seeming to make sense.

How are we changing our teaching of media literacy?

"Diversity" isn't enough.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

The fact that school could be a place where a student feels safest, when it's also where they practice active shooters in a pandemic, breaks me.

Here's a pic of Wednesday's sunrise.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

This week, students have expressed they are scared, in disbelief and shock, that school is the only place they feel safe. I also lost a family member to covid pneumonia. We go back to hyflex Monday.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

I'm OK, but my cognition, concentration, & focus are completely shot. I feel like a puddle of goo. Like I need to sleep for 12 hours. Like I need to eat half my body weight in chocolate and pasta. Like I need to just sit and stare at a wall for awhile.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Yes, it's about inequality of treatment of peaceful protestors vs these domestic terrorists. And I'm no expert. But not sure you can have it both ways. Things in thinking about.

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

Seeing lots of "they should all be arrested." But something tells me some of those tweets are coming from people who were all over prison abolition a few months ago?

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

@k_frazerwilson Went to Popeye's myself!

[Enjay DeGuzman @EnjayDeGuzman]

@k_gately Deactivating FB was one of the best things I did for myself. My rage and energy is better spent elsewhere.