NYC Social Studies Teacher

Building knowledge is building power.

[Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי גרין 🟣 @AlonLeeGreen]

אנחנו חייבים לדבר על מה שקורה בגדה המערבית. על הניסיון לגלגל את המלחמה מעזה לגדה המערבית כדי לסכל את עסקת החטופים והפסקת האש, על המילציות של המתנחלים החמושים שפושטים על כפרים פלסטינים. ככה לא נראה ביטחון. ככה נראה כיבוש שמייצר אלימות.

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Our @aftunion members have a responsibility to all children. We don’t question the immigration status of our students or patients. We're respectfully asking President Trump to restrict ICE arrests at sensitive locations such as hospitals and schools. https://t.co/jOqIj0olPk

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

DeSantis changed the law to try to destroy unions; he forced “recertification” elections. Educators in 21 locals have voted for their unions. 21 to zip

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Listen to these teachers. You don't need to be a parent to be a great teacher. Educators dedicate their lives to our kids, regardless of having children of their own. Let's stand with them. They prove JD Vance wrong.

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

What’s up with JDVance? We on #TeamKid are working to give our students a great start to the year. Not JD Vance. Derogatory attacks on teachers, putting Haitian students at risk, calling school shootings “a fact of life”? And it’s just mid Sept. Enough. We can do better.

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

As teachers are digging into their pockets to pay for school supplies & welcoming kids and parents into their classrooms, we should all be celebrating the hope and promise of a new school year, not trashing it with gross, ridiculous comments @JDVance https://t.co/E5JMEYrrB4

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

I am old enough to remember when foolish people were singing the praises of Tulsi Gabbard as a progressive.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@Edu_Historian If you read the writings of the early teacher unionists, such as Margaret Haley, they are talking about the application of industrial organizational model to schools. Perhaps the precise term "factory model" wasn't used, but the essence was there.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@Edu_Historian Ordinarily, I agree with your analysis, Jack, but I have serious questions here. Long before Osborne wrote his pedestrian and superficial take, there was Raymond Callahan, writing about Taylorism in schools in Education and the Cult of Efficiency...

[Randi Weingarten 🇺🇸 🖇️👩‍🎓📚 @rweingarten]

Worldwide, the extraordinary drop in math & reading scores shows how detrimental the COVID19 pandemic & its aftermath was to student learning & highlights just how important it is that we prepare now. My statement on the @oecd results can be read here: https://t.co/KSsZr6eDKZ

[Leo Casey 🟣 @LeoECasey]

In "The Chutzpah of Eva Moskowitz," I take on her misrepresentations in a recent NYPost op-ed: her coverup of segregationist origins of school choice, her ties to extreme right figures such as Donald Trump, and the record of her Success Academy charters.
https://t.co/haGZjiF5Mz

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@NYBATs @educatorsofnyc @UFT As a social studies teachers, I am very suspicious of folks that lose a landslide vote, and suggest every possible reason for why it happened than the most obvious one: the message wasn't convincing.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@NYBATs @educatorsofnyc @UFT The contract had a 70% ratification vote. Your problem is with the rank-and-file membership, and all the hyperbolic attacks on the UFT won't change that.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at people who take up John Wilkes Booth's cry after he shot Lincoln, while pretending that they are the democrats.

[Educators of NYC @educatorsofnyc]

Mulgrew & @UFTUnity caucus have abandoned the rule of law and now have embraced full-fledged tyranny. Democratic votes no longer mean anything. They will change the rules and make up the rules as they go. Even as this bargaining unit voted this contract down. Sic semper tyrannis!

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@Kress_Sandy @alexanderrusso @kmclyons @karinchenoweth @1in5advocacy @BethNetherland @ColleenDippel @ehanford @karenvaites @The74 @NCTQ @AFTunion @rweingarten While the AFT and its affiliates provided in the trenches professional development to teachers in evidence based literacy instruction.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

@Kress_Sandy @alexanderrusso @kmclyons @karinchenoweth @1in5advocacy @BethNetherland @ColleenDippel @ehanford @karenvaites @The74 @NCTQ @AFTunion @rweingarten Meanwhile, the Bush administration, with which Sandy Kress was affiliated, set back evidence based literacy instruction in the U.S. for years with its completely bungled Reading First initiative...

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

Here you have it in a nutshell: no positive agenda, nothing that they want to accomplish, no campaign to win something for members: just stoking anger. That is why so many UFT members choose to not trust them with the leadership of the union.

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

I don't know that I caught all of the police in this video, but it appears to me that there are at least eights cops involved in arresting and handcuffing a guy for the dangerous crime of smoking a cigarette in the park. Really??

[NYC Social Studies Teacher @NYCSocialTeach]

This is hidden so well no one but you can find it, no matter how hard we look...

[Nick Bacon @UrbanGnosis]

Hidden @UFT Giveback #2: There is no explicit language in the new TA specifying class size caps for virtual schooling. We do not want to have to rely on an arbitrator if our implicit assumptions aren't shared by the City.