Amy G 👩🏻‍💻

Mom, middle school teacher, ally. Public Education advocate.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@JasonHarmon2 @DMAreaOcho @2footgiraffe 🤣

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@JasonHarmon2 @DMAreaOcho @2footgiraffe Good thing that what you think isn’t important. Better luck to you.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@JasonHarmon2 @DMAreaOcho @2footgiraffe Yep.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@2footgiraffe Does anyone else notice the commenters who bash teachers are “proud conservatives”? 🤔

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@WalshEB57 @2footgiraffe Yes, I see the traffic jams because I’m in them. Because I don’t leave with the students. You think it’s easy? Go get a teaching job. I dare you. 🤡

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@Icesquirrel76 @JasonHarmon2 @2footgiraffe BOT.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@SBeitelshees @JasonHarmon2 @2footgiraffe Funny, I work 180 days and get paid for 180 days. Do you get paid for days you work? You think it’s easy? There are plenty of teaching jobs available- I dare you to take one. 🤡

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@JasonHarmon2 @DMAreaOcho @2footgiraffe BOT.

[Brian Tolentino M.Ed @TolentinoTeach]

When I teach, I focus heavily on the academic side of each lesson.

It is essential that students learn how to read, write, and think for themselves at a high level.

But the longer I teach, the more I realize that school is also where students learn many of life’s hardest lessons.

And I worry that, at times, we are unintentionally taking some of those lessons away.

When we grade too easily, we send the message that effort and mastery are optional. I know it sounds cliché, but failure can be an excellent teacher. It forces reflection, adjustment, and perseverance.

When we give endless warnings for poor behavior without meaningful consequences, we teach students that expectations are negotiable.

When we become overly lenient with tardies and excessive absences, we risk teaching students that showing up is optional.

When we tolerate disrespect toward substitute teachers, staff members, and elders, we miss the opportunity to teach students how to treat others with dignity regardless of status, title, or convenience.

The longer I teach, the more I realize that schools are responsible for more than academics. They are also places where students learn some of life’s most important lessons.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@jenteach13 I have a student who has over 70 tardies in my 7th grade first hour. Talked to mom- she can’t be bothered. She has to get herself ready for work every day. Mom’s a teacher. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@Dragonflynda @TolentinoTeach Sure Lynda. Whatever you say. 😉

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@Dragonflynda @TolentinoTeach Like a teacher isn’t going to let a kid with an ostomy bag the bathroom. 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@fearnley_n @AHairyApeFUT @TolentinoTeach Lucky you.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@JLazzarino14890 @FixingEducation They are certainly captive, but rarely captivated. Nothing interests them anymore.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@blueoldlady24 @FiredCoaches No amount of classroom management is going to prevent situations like this with students who are out of control.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

There should be a teacher on every school board…
and at every table where education decisions are made.
Because right now, we’re making policies for classrooms
without the people who actually live in them.
You wouldn’t design a hospital system without doctors.
You wouldn’t build a plane without pilots.
But in education…
we leave teachers out of the room

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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For additional information, please refer to the Norwegian Nobel Committee: https://t.co/HqL1ZR8Bos

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@RoKhanna They FA and FO. Womp womp.

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

“Teachers knew what they were getting into!”

Actually, I didn’t.

I didn’t know that my teacher paid for the supplies I was using in class.

I didn’t know that my teacher was working extra jobs to survive.

And I didn’t see all of the unpaid hours of work they did at home.

[Amy G 👩🏻‍💻 @Gwizzy]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Groceries. 🙄