Mario Sinclair

Educator. 📚 Activist.✊🏾 Black.👨🏾

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

It takes courage for a child to participate in class. Educators, ask yourself: have I created a classroom environment that is safe to take risks, to be inquisitive, and brave?

[Charles Brockman III @TheOnlyCharlesB]

From the first day of kindergarten to college move in. Thank you dad.

[swm @sheathescholar]

I see KIPP got Ava DuVernay to come speak at their summit. Cool, cool.

Asking for a friend: Y'all still making kids do silent transitions and still giving them deductions for getting out of line, talking out of turn, and not aligning to your character traits?

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

My students haven’t seen me in a week. I was greeted with the “So where was you at?! Don’t be leaving and not telling nobody 😒” Translation: “Mr. Sinclair I missed you so much. I count on seeing you every day. ❤️”

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

@attachtrauma I am grateful for the many opportunities to connect, to learn, and to grow as an educator. The #TSS2019ATN Conference was incredible and transformative. Thank you so much for your work and passion in driving this work forward. ❤️

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

As I sit and reflect on the #TSS2019ATN Conference, I walk away with a greater passion for ALL of our students, especially the ones who challenge us every day to be better educators, better adults, better human beings. I am reminded of all the love & hope our kids deserve.

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

When discipline is about punishment, it puts kids on a path to the school-to-prison pipeline. A trauma-sensitive response to challenging behavior puts kids on a path to growth, learning, healing, and resilience. #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

Every child deserves an educator who will hold on to hope for them, especially during their most challenging moments. It is hope, this possibility that things will get better, that motivates students to endure every fall and rise back up to fight again. #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

A child can have an ACE of 0, but be encumbered by adverse community experiences. If we are to build resilient children, then we must address the historical trauma & inequity in their communities. Trauma sensitivity is an equity issue. #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

Being trauma sensitive is more than identifying students with high ACEs. It is about empathic listening, building resiliency, forgiveness, empowering students to believe and trust in themselves. Trauma sensitivity is a revolutionary act of love in our schools. #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

“Authentic love demands conflict, tears, and hurt, because our transition to freedom and to more human ways of being requires that we can ourselves out in order to call others in.” — Carla Shalaby #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

“If a doctor’s credo is ‘Above all else, do no harm,’ an educator’s is ‘Above all else, do not shame the student.” — Jeffrey Benson #TSS2019ATN

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

“Relationship: When someone accepts your past, supports your present, and encourages your future.” #TSS2019ATN

[Isral DeBruin @israldebruin]

The best teachers do this. The worst teachers think they can’t or shouldn’t, or they just won’t.

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

@kyairb @WitWisdomELA @BaltCitySchools This is my favorite module!

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

We use Lit Circles to unpack central ideas, discover new vocabulary, identify theme development, and to discuss plot events, setting, and analyze character actions and motives. @WitWisdomELA @MilwCollegePrep

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

Working collaboratively to trace the development of central ideas in “Code Talkers” using textual evidence to support each central idea. #StandardsMastery @WitWisdomELA

[Mario Sinclair @MSinclairMCP]

Our K-4 scholars spend time every day exploring and experiencing many different careers. This future doctor just wrote me a prescription after checking my heart. #blackexcellence #MCP