Kathy Blueford Daniels

Actually, increasing uncertified teachers is the point. In addition to being less effective and more likely to leave, they were never trained to assess curriculum or plan lessons, making them more dependent on (and less critical of) prescribed lessons and instructional models.

Dan_Dawer's tweet photo. Actually, increasing uncertified teachers is the point. In addition to being less effective and more likely to leave, they were never trained to assess curriculum or plan lessons, making them more dependent on (and less critical of) prescribed lessons and instructional models. https://t.co/j3Efm4ehgU

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Houston Education Association-TSTA/NEA

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Erika Carter

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Wife of Germaine, Lifelong learner, Proud and newly named Director of Aspiring Leadership, Teacher, and lover of all education!

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Kathy Blueford Daniels @mzkatdan

almost 2 years ago · Houston

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AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY

@AfricanArchives

almost 2 years ago

A nervous young girl sits in the front row. She is the only black girl in her class, Tennessee, 1957. —Lajuanda Street Harley who was enrolled in 1957 at Glenn Elementary School of Nashville, Tennessee. Her early days of first grade had angry parents present in the classroom. Her participation was part of the district's response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, with a plan to desegregate schools one grade per year starting with first grade. In 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school. On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation. The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing. Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones. Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated. By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children. That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning. 🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on https://t.co/16fHyPFENu (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

AfricanArchives's tweet photo. A nervous young girl sits in the front row. She is the only black girl in her class, Tennessee, 1957.

—Lajuanda Street Harley who was enrolled in 1957 at Glenn Elementary School of Nashville, Tennessee. Her early days of first grade had angry parents present in the classroom. Her participation was part of the district's response to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, with a plan to desegregate schools one grade per year starting with first grade.

In 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children.

That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.

🖋️if you love our content, please consider supporting our page on https://t.co/16fHyPFENu (follow the ko-fi page too for weekly posts roundup)

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Kathy Blueford Daniels @mzkatdan

almost 2 years ago · Houston

WOW! Celebration of our Queen. We can not Thank U enough 4 putting it ALL on the line to make communities and the world a Better Place. U are ALREADY missed! Thanks again @Donnieradio 4 remembering our mother's Life Celebration in April.❤️ @SJacksonLee @rolandsmartin @lucymcbath

mzkatdan's tweet photo. WOW! Celebration of our Queen. We can not Thank U enough 4 putting it ALL on the line to make communities and the world a Better Place. U are ALREADY missed! Thanks again @Donnieradio 4 remembering our mother's Life Celebration in April.❤️
@SJacksonLee @rolandsmartin @lucymcbath https://t.co/XrQe3BEvey

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Kathy Blueford Daniels @mzkatdan

almost 2 years ago · Houston

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mzkatdan's tweet photo. Affordable Fence repairs... An honest and great family team too! I HIGHLY recommend them!
Pics are of our fence repair and then we decided to replace the entire thing... #NoMixMatchPatching https://t.co/lQP6kDqKnc

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Zackory Kirk

@zackoryk

almost 2 years ago

This is the ONE TO SHARE! Please watch. How will Project 2025 impact Black and Brown communities? Let me break it down… This is part two of two. #project2025 #project2025explained

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Kathy Blueford Daniels @mzkatdan

almost 2 years ago

@CajunJBD @HisdMyrna Thank you sooo much for your and Silvie's support! Now let's get ready for Bora Bora (inside joke)...❤️

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Erica Lee Carter @EricaSLeeCarter

almost 2 years ago

I stand unapologetically with President Biden, because no, he should not drop out. We must not lose focus. Look at what Trump’s Supreme Court has done, look at Project 2025. There is no time to waste. The President will win this fight, and we must have his back. Enough is enough!

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Isaiah Martin

@isaiahrmartin

about 2 years ago

Folks have written Joe Biden’s political obituary, trashed it, and have re-written it over and over for years. We know the drill. Yet, they still don’t get that he wins because WE see through the foolishness. And now, with our rights on the line, we’ll make sure he wins AGAIN!