Educators, it's time to find the joy, ignite your optimism, and surround yourself with people who lift your spirits! Let's spread the joy of learning and make a difference together! #FindTheJoy#OptimismIsContagious#EducatorsUnited @jeffeinerson
SAS Pudong ES has had a cool Books to Eat tradition in the #library for over a decade w/ @kimbrap. Today we held our first ever in MS. Tons of fun and some cool entries. Here were mine, #Holes and #ForgottenCity. Gummy bears on lemon grass for the win! #Books2Eat
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
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One of my favorite parts of the @AlphaSouthwest Regional Convention is the #C2C College-to-Career Pathways Mixer where I had the opportunity to speak to future K-12 educators. I was able to share tips that make candidates more marketable for districts. #alphaeducators