Mr. Clarke

Challenging the minds of the next generation with lit, wit, & compassion. Personal views only represent me.

[Mr. Clarke @RealMrClarke]

Don't find happiness.

Find fulfillment.

[Mr. Clarke @RealMrClarke]

This is NOT Spring Break.

This is Spring Broke.

[Mr. Clarke @RealMrClarke]

My first year of teaching, I spilled coffee into a bucket of testing materials.
Live materials.
It was reported as an irregularity.
I had to give students those coffee-crimped test packets and bubble sheets.

Teachers — what’s an accident or mistake you had to roll with?

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Your full potential exists within your limitations, not outside of them.

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Many districts are also top heavy on admin, committees, & trustees who benefit from the system as is.

A National teacher strike is quite literally the only option powerful enough to generate the circumstances that would lead to systemic and structural change.

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Partly, this is a state/Nat’l issue. My district would provide all the resources to us if it had them.
Untie the money from standardized testing.
Give it back to districts. Then they can get closer to providing for the needs of teachers.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

If school districts would take time to ask teachers, if you were to think about leaving, what would it take for you to stay. They would quickly find what they need to focus on to improve teachers working conditions.

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@shannonrwatts A few weeks ago, I was running late to school. There was a malfunction in the Active Shooter Lockdown announcement system.
It was before school. I wasn’t there.
What if it had been real?
Trauma on trauma on trauma.

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I wrote a poem. I had to get it out. It’s for my family, my kids, and anyone who has the desire to create or hope in a different America than the one we have. We can do better. It doesn’t have to be like this.
But, to be clear, this IS America.

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The images we create in our minds are as important to our beliefs as the things themselves.

How often have I settled for disappointment because I thought Hope wasn’t tough enough to keep getting up?

Doubt fears Hope.
She has his DNA under her fingernails.

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A new emoji request:

Can I get, like, a little yellow dude crying, but instead of tears, it’s money?

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I used to believe that it didn’t matter who people chose to vote for, that only exercising the right to vote was enough.

That was a naïve, privileged, and dangerous perspective for me to have.

The political candidates with whom we align ourselves absolutely matters.

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Does anyone know what happened to ⁦@SkylerinDallas⁩?? 😩😩😩
#WhereIsSkyler #WhatHadHappened #DidDesignerDisappear https://t.co/p1PvYO1bXN

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One of my absolute favorite sounds is the chirping gurgles of recently born humans.

Simple sounds can remind us that we are alive and that being alive today, right now, in this very moment — friend, being alive right now is not nothing.

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Still Tippin’ by Mike Jones and @paulwallbaby will never not be a classic banger.

Hits hardest in my minivan NGL

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“There are only two things on earth that will change a person, a mind, a perspective, or a heart:
1. An Experience
2. A Relationship”

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Things I shared today in class that I needed to hear at some point and maybe you, or someone in your feed, need to hear. Add to the list if you have something to share, too:

1. “If you let someone else decide what you’re worth, you’ll never be treated the way you deserve.”

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“Insecurity will have you believing criticism is an attack on your character instead of one perspective on how you can grow.”

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@DrMBland has a new Twitter handle. If you followed her at this one, you can now find her inspirational, optimistic, and gentle wisdom at @MsOnaJourney

Twitter has a tendency to reveal the darkness of humanity, but Dr. Bland is an absolute light.