Judith B. Williams

HS English Teacher. #BLSE Grad Student. She/her. All tweets/RTs/replies/likes represent me, not RCS.

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

If we had a functioning democracy, our politicians would impose a new super-tax on private jet users, but instead, the entire cost of a private jet can be used as a tax deduction, while teachers can only deduct $250 for school supplies on their taxes.

[Justin Parmenter @JustinParmenter]

The pandemic and inflation have made this problem far worse, but here’s a partial list of policies our General Assembly has passed over the last decade making a career in teaching in NC less desirable:

#nced #ncpol #ncga

[Nils Headley🇺🇸🇸🇪🇸🇿 @NilsHeadley]

@ccarman602 @MoniseLSeward @JayWamsted @Lindsbinds621 I wonder how many of the “the money is less important than the kids” crowd have a spouse who earns significantly more?

[Caffeinatedrage @ragecaffeinated]

Students Have Been Watching How This State Treats Teachers For Years. No Wonder The Teacher Pipeline Is … https://t.co/ggFFGgVNCY

[Moriah “Tall Energy” Stephens @CallMeMoprah]

In the way I hold my students to high standards because I love them, I’m critical of this field and those of us in it *because* I love it.

Low expectations are for people you don’t care about.

I care about this work, I care about *us*.

[Maci K @karma_k_teaches]

Teacher Twitter is crazy. You could say
“I think smaller class sizes would benefit the kids.”
And get responses like:
“Why don’t you want to reach more students?”
“I teach 100 college students and it’s going great for me”
“You should just get a different job”

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

The Secret Service actually did the thing everyone accused Hillary Clinton of doing.

[Bryan Himes @bryan_himes]

In every political ad they talk about CRT. I do not know one administrator who has CRT in their school. We do have a problem finding highly qualified admin teachers & support staff. School starts < 30 days & over 1000 jobs are still open. Maybe we should focus on the real issues

[Jess Piper @EnglishTeach07]

Want to see something fail? Defund it…that’s why the Missouri GOP has refused to fund Missouri schools. They want to privatize public schools to line the pockets of donors and friends. They want public schools to fail so they can swoop in and privatize them.

[Angela 👩🏾‍💻👩🏾‍🏫 @wokeSTEMteacher]

Two schools districts I worked for are offering $2500 sign-on bonuses for new full time teachers for SY 22-23. One of them is offering $5000 sign-on bonuses for special education teachers. If only they'd done more to keep quality teachers in the first place...

[jannekeparrish.bsky.social @JannekeParrish]

I lost my job because I spoke to a man the way men speak to me.

This is why women leave the tech industry.

[Carolyn Nickelo (she/her) @CarolynNickelo]

I was today years old when I learned that a dash between the t and the u in a YouTube link prevents ads and, if posted to share with kiddos, has the video open full screen. 🤯

#teachertwitter #teachertechtips

[Julie Ann @edtechmathteach]

We need to start listening. When a former teacher of the year is on leave & thinking of leaving education, something is really freaking wrong & the powers that be need to do something or else public education as we know it will be dead...and soon. #teachertwitter

[julie sicks-panus @j6panus]

@DrMattParker @JayWamsted I wouldn’t be able to do my job. Working only within contracted hours AND getting my job done is impossible.

[Meaghan Burden @MeaghanBurden]

Any other teachers out there find Friday nights a write off because of physical and emotional exhaustion.

[Peter Greene @palan57]

It's a Kafkaesque bad office joke--let's make people spend more time drawing up reports on how the job is going so that they spend less and less time actually doing the job. 6/

[Peter Greene @palan57]

And it wouldn't cost the taxpayers a cent. But it would make test manufacturers and the Data Gods sad. "But we need the data to address the problem," say testocrats. 5/

[Peter Greene @palan57]

Want to address learning loss? Never mind tutoring and summer school. In most schools. you could add 6-10 weeks of instruction just by completely scrapping the Big Standardized Test. 4/

[Peter Greene @palan57]

People who have not been in the classroom for the last couple of decades have no idea how much education time has been eroded by high stakes testing. 3/

[Peter Greene @palan57]

Not just the test itself, but the time spent in test prep and just plain learning how to take that kind of test and speak the test manufacturers' language. Plus the pre-test tests (to see how well we're on track for the test) 2/