Mr. Davis

For every tree is known by his own fruit. #educator #writer #amquerying #picturebooks

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

@askjcp Hi! My groomsmen & I are wearing the J.Ferrar slim fit suits in “new navy” for my wedding in May. I wanted to get a vest, but it seems like you have all other colors except “new navy.” There’s a big & tall one but I need regular. Does a new navy vest exist?

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Least favorite teacher feedback loop: teaching requires more work than you’re given time for, so you go in early / stay late to do it, get tired / sick from not enough rest, can’t stay late / go in early because you don’t feel well, more work piles up, repeat forever (but harder)

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

How successful would hospitals be if doctors weren’t given enough time to scrub in or read scans or do charts?

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

I always get jealous of the characters on Grey’s Anatomy because they’re given enough time during their work day to fill out / review patients’ charts.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

I wish I had the amount of planning time that the 22-page math unit guides think I have.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Will make anchor charts on commission. Only $500 each. Anybody?

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

In middle school I built robots out of scrap metal, RC airplane servos, and motors from conveyor belts. They fought each other in a lexan cage. Today I’m on the other side of the competition, facilitating an event I wish I had when I was younger. Full circle. @firstlegoleague

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Grabbing lunch means I get back to my classroom w 10 min to eat (assuming it only takes 5 min at the restaurant to get my order). It’s a lot easier for someone working a desk job to munch & type than it is for teachers to facilitate math stations with a chalupa in their hands.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Coles ES is the same area & isn’t getting daily food trucks.

5min from…
KLC: Subway, Domino’s, Tony’s Pizza
my ES: Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s, Padrino’s

No shade to our cafeteria (🔥crispy chicken sandwich), but our options are pretty much pack your own or drive 5 mins, too

[Hamkae Center 🥁 #KnowYourRoots @hamkaecenter]

These new standards are not only alarming, they're also racist, factually-incorrect, + age-inappropriate- and were made without ANY public input. We made a 1-click action for y'all to email the Board of Education to reject @VA_Supt & Youngkin's standards: https://t.co/S3jgyWK4MW

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

@StephanieEvers Sorry, didn’t mean to brag about occasionally having some planning time to plan over here 😐 hahah

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Pretty neat that the KLC is getting different daily food trucks as lunch options (in addition to their cafeteria) while I’m lucky if I can shove a sandwich down my gullet in 20 minutes while doing work I couldn’t do in the weekly 80 minutes of meeting-free planning time.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Literally the opposite of equity. If anyone should be getting food options delivered to their doorstep it’s the people who have a smaller window to eat with greater consequence if we’re gone for too long. They can even eat at their desk after their break — we can’t.

[K_Mesterhazy @KMesterhazy]

@HiMrDavis Amen so fair huh

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Teaching is a lot like iPhone games that are advertised as “free” but actually require $10 monthly subscription fees to make the game anything better than a horribly unfun experience, but replace microtransactions with doing multiple hours of work outside contract hours.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

It’s a perfectly crisp fall afternoon and teachers all around @PWCSNews are stuck inside preparing for conferences & finishing report cards because our normal end-of-Oct work day was taken away in a year when there are even more responsibilities & requirements than ever.

[Prince William EA @PrinceWilliamEA]

BREAKING NEWS:
The super majority Democratic PWCS School Board just passed an anti-union collective bargaining resolution AFTER educators shared concerns of:

1. Unfair election process
2. Limited scope for bargaining
3. Weaponizing strike language

Educators deserve better.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Why did no one stop me from watching yet another school board meeting where people who were never teachers make decisions that they aren’t qualified to make? Did I learn nothing from 2020?

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Watching teachers pleading at school board meetings, fighting for common sense policies like it’s a summer 2020 @PWCSNews school board meeting about “”””concurrent”””” learning. Ahh, nostalgia.

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

I spy a @BedfordFallsBks book fair arriving! @MNEStheBest #mnestbest

[Mr. Davis @HiMrDavis]

Half of the things I have to do after work today is more work for work so I can do work at work.