Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈

Director of Curriculum and Instruction for One World Education.
We transform students into writers with voice, knowledge, and purpose.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@smerrill777 @edutopia Platforms like Clever can be great, but if students are only ever reading bite-sized snippets of text that are meant to be forgotten, how can we expect them to care about reading? (3/3)

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@smerrill777 @edutopia What person of any age can be excited about doing something hard when there are games to be played? I also wonder if stand. testing, prep, & blended learning have caught up with students and extinguished their desire to learn. (2/3)

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@smerrill777 @edutopia This article encapsulated a lot of what I'm seeing: https://t.co/1mIS63N0a2 (1/2)

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@PBC197 @smerrill777 @edutopia That's always been true, though, I think, but substitute "performer" for YouTube star for 2001, when I started teaching.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@MarcusLuther6 Listen...you have not won any of these YET.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@MarcusLuther6 @MsPhanLearns I'm so excited that you annotated this one, and that more students will get to read it! I can't wait to hear how they respond. Feels like a superb example of describing a universal experience by using specific details.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@Larryferlazzo You are one of the most publicly thoughtful educators I follow! Can you give yourself a break and do what you did last year? Even if it's imperfect, the deliverer is YOU, and you have so much to give and need to take care of yourself. (advice I need to give myself, too!)

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@MarcusLuther6 @MarisaEThompson This is unbelievably beautiful and utterly memorable.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@MarcusLuther6 This one also completely gets me: https://t.co/oIgMPpQB4v

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@MarcusLuther6 I've always loved this poem! Another one similar to this is Eve Merriam's "Cliche" (not the best website of record, but it's still the poem): https://t.co/cKK9aVwOos

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Before you begin your thinkpiece, the Supreme Court DID NOT strike down Affirmative Action

Admission preferences for legacies, donors, employee families and special recommendations are still allowed

The Court struck down Affirmative Action For everyone except WHITE PEOPLE

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

Not just proud of Mr. Foda--proud of Creative Minds for its movie star-like celebration graphic! (I thought for a minute they'd made a movie about it all!)

[Creative Minds International Public Charter School @CMIPCS]

Congratulations, Mr. Foda, for being selected to receive the Teacher Leader Award at the One World Education Graduation Celebration for SY2023.👏

Thank you, @OneWorldEdu!

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

Can we pause for a moment to appreciate the word "snooty"? It's just so great.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@LBirnstad @AllisterSBOE @DiyaBardwell So glad to hear about this! Congratulations!

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

One World Education celebrates our partner Teachers! #teacherappreciationweek @oneworldeducation

[Mandy Patinkin @PatinkinMandy]

Pay our writers! Meet their demands. The stories we tell are nothing without them. #WGAStrike @WGAEast @WGAWest

[DC PCSB #DCCharterProud @dcpcsb]

Wow! 🤩

We’re #DCCharterProud of @FriendshipPCS Southeast scholar, Makiyah Davis, for recently winning third place in the One World Competition - Board Presentation. Congratulations on a job well done! 👏🏾

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

@dcpcsb @FriendshipPCS Makiyah and her @FriendshipPCS Southeast teachers were an incredible part of @OneWorldEdu's program! A testament to the creativity and voice of young people in DC.

[Jessica Leader (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈 @JessicaLeader8]

Teaching employs a zillion skills! Many teachers made us who we are. Please, take a moment to thank the teachers in your lives, past and present!

[U.S. Department of Education @usedgov]

To us, every week is #TeacherAppreciationWeek - but this week we give special honor and celebrate teachers for putting in hard work & long hours to shape young minds and create a better & brighter future.

From all of us: THANK YOU!!

#TAW23 #ThankATeacher

[NY Public Library @nypl]

'Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir' by @lamyaisangry follows Lamya H from her youth in the Middle East to adulthood in New York City, carving out a hopeful story of courage and love.

#BookOfTheDay: https://t.co/cSav41EcEd