What have these senators done to protect students since Uvalde?
Here is a link to the list of committee members. https://t.co/6P3NHLhxsZ
All email addresses follow the same format: [email protected].
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Therefore, the books in a library already reflect the values of their community.
This is nothing but a thinly veiled attempt to force the values of some communities on to others.
FYI schools are dangerous right now and it has 0% to do with library books.
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which is elected by their community.
Parents have a say in what books their children check out. If you don't like a book, you don't have to check it out.
Parents also already have procedures to challenge books at their children's schools.
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SB 13 by Sen. Paxton is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Education Committee tomorrow, March 29 at 9am.
Libraries already purchase books according to their district's selection policy,
which is approved by their school board,
#fREADom
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Please stop saying that we need to increase teacher salaries in order “recruit the best and brightest” as if the best and brightest are not currently teaching.
We need to increase teacher salaries because those currently teaching deserve and earned it.
Cultivating Conocimiento & Equity: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color TikTokers Resisting Colonialism. Watch out #AERA22! The future is now. THIS is the critical, asset-based research we need by @TWUliteracy doctoral candidate @SaezChristina.
Loved this session by @SaezChristina & Carmen Lazo on incorporating bilingual read alouds into your library program! The songs were great, too!#txla22
Some media literacy on trans issues:
1. When a piece about youth transition says "daughters" it's talking about young trans boys in a way that is priming you to dismiss them as silly and emotional and believe they need to be protected from themselves.
Never forget the goal of creating chaos in schools: privatization. They will defund your schools to create charters and private schools and funnel public tax money into private hands. They are transferring a public good into private hands for profit. It’s a scam.
We hope to share ways that educators can quickly begin enacting lessons which represent all of our students. The lessons are aligned to curriculum and include justifications. @DrMandyStewart#edchat#equity
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@ErinESilcox "how to meet student's needs in the cracks in mandates?" 🔥 We need to talk about how the pushback against and fear of CRT has affected practice and #fREADom in my area.
Continuing Texas Woman’s University’s legacy in the Literacy Research Association. Emeritus faculty, current faculty & staff, doctoral students, and doctoral candidates from @TWUliteracy at #LRA21!