Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle

NYC Teacher and Champion for Education for All

[spooky skater clam. @stakethisclaim]

Two weeks ago in my class, I had a student tell me, "I'm really really bad at math, I fail all my tests."
"Hm. How do you do on homework and stuff?"
"That's whats so weird! I do fine on homework! But when I have to test, I fail!"

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Having migrated out of the classroom to curriculum world, the biggest W is being rid of the Sunday scaries. Sunday evenings used to be all panic and anxiety attacks and now it's just a regular evening

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

We've all heard that a watched pot never boils, but I'd much rather say watched plantain never crisp..must more culturally relevant. My Caribbean, African, and Latine ppl know!

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Hello everyone! I would like to announce that I now fully understand the unit circle.

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Words of encouragement from your teacher will always mean so much, even if you haven't been in that teachers class for over 15 years!

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

I hate the way NYCPS/DOE clogs up my email inbox with completely useless information. Yall talkin about an HR award when the HR phone wait is 2+ hrs long? #GurlBye

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

I've said it b4 & I'll say it again. Rather than stretching Algebra I into a 3+ semester course, put your struggling math students into a basic statistics class. It allows for remediation of foundational skills necessary. It builds numeracy & teaches applications

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

I envy all my friends that never have to think about work outside of their contractual hours

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

It's the workload. If I only had to teach 3 classes a day as opposed to 5, I would be able to stay a teacher for much longer. Working a full day and then coming home to work some more just isn't it.

[Dr. Ben Mueller @DrMuellersVoice]

Food for thought: Why does education burn teachers out to the point that most of them count down the years to retirement and almost all retired teachers are happy to never have to go back? Most of them will make comments such as “I don’t miss being a teacher”. The corporate world does not do that to their employees! In fact many corporate workers including my dad who had a successful career as a CPA never wanted to retire! My dad worked until he was near 70 and they had to basically make him retire. This is a post I am guessing will get nothing but crickets from educational leaders. It is time to actually respect teachers! I can hear the crickets chirping.

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

When your kids is struggling in school, it is ur responsibility as a parent to ensure that ur child is getting the resources & support (s)he needs. Think about it this way when your child graduates not being able to read/do math, the school ain't the one providing for him/her

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

As a teacher, lemme tell you that you have to 1000% be invested in your child's education. In Kindergarten and 1st grade learning used to frustrate me so much my dad held car classes and my uncle would teach me phonetics.

[MooKage @4theloveofmani]

Did yalls parents teach you how to read or did you learn in school?
This literacy crisis baffles me because… I thought kids were supposed to learn that in school. Parents can supplement at home but most of it was at school for me…

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

@njkraai Peer assessment is bad

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Does anyone want to hate buy my #TPT hit the link in my bio!

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

1 driving force killing teaching is Admin. I'm still boggled by it given admin were once teachers. Is the admin licensing test like the wand from MIB? Does it remove every memory of being a teacher to the point where admin thinks their job is to make life harder for teachers?

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

@heymrsbond Yes. This is a job with particular curricular companies or you can do your own thing and start your own consulting firm. I want to do something similar for math, just a little nervous/anxious about the unknown

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We've always had SEL in schools. It was called recess, play, & classes like Music, Art, Physical Education. But they have been reduced or removed to spend more time on testing, & then we wonder why students lack social/ emotional skills & misbehavior that comes with lack of it.

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

I have so many fun ideas to remediate my middle school classes after all this testing nonsense. Of course we are going to focus on fractions and what better way to do that than with pizza!

[Advocate GOAT @theDRAMAgoat1]

Students don't need their phones in school, even for emergencies. Contacting emergency services is the adult's job. Every single classroom has a classroom phone. Parents rushing to the school slows the response time of emergency personnel. There are protocols for reunification.

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Do you remember when you joined twitter? I hadn't realized it's been 5 yrs! #MyTwitterversary

[Profe Kay Slay DBA The Black Ms. Frizzle @Ms_K_Frizzle]

Raising Canes finally opened up in NY and my kids keep asking me about it. My response: Raising Cane's is alright but have you ever heard of Zaxby's