Tanya Salewski

Principal at St. Luke School

[Rick Wormeli @rickwormeli2]

In case it helps the department, grade level, or schoolwide conversations, here's a piece from February of this year from the Washington Post about grading or not grading homework. Yeah, I wrote it, so you can ask questions, pose concerns, provide insights, rail at the education gods, etc with the author. If not here on Twitter, I'm also at [email protected]. https://t.co/y2qfKXLkRM

[Tanya Salewski @TSALEW]

@NicholasFerroni Private school in Northern Va-happy to help

[National Congress of American Indians @NCAI1944]

A recently published scoping review of 20 years of research on Native "themed" mascots shows the evidence is clear: these mascots harm AI/ANs and contribute to health disparities of AI/ANs and Tribal Nations. Read the review!
:link:https://t.co/YPe8zLXmdc

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

Administrators are going through the pandemic too.

They have it tough too.

We need to also give them grace.

[Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher]

😡 So violence against teachers is encouraged by a social media platform? So Chinese govt is restricting tiktok use 4kids b/c it “corrupts them.” If we tolerate tiktok “slap a teacher challenge” and don’t start slapping the cancel button on tiktok-shame on us. It won’t end here.

[Bishop Michael F. Burbidge @BishopBurbidge]

St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus reminds us that love is at the heart of all vocations. You will spend time and energy today carrying out the work God has entrusted to you. But, it is all in vain unless love is at the center of all you do. When it is, you will produce abundantly!

[Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher]

My ❤️ hurts for exhausted teachers but it also swells with pride at the dedication of so many to do so much for so many who may or may not appreciate just how hard teaching is right now. I ❤️ you teachers. #YouMatter You are important. You are needed so much. ❤️ you! Admire you!

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

If we have to give homework to make school work, maybe we need to rethink how school works.

We built the construct, which means we can rebuild it, too.

Time for us to get our house in order, and maybe this time we’ll consider how to better serve those we invite into our home.

[TCEA @TCEA]

Homework can be useful to help students #learning, but isn't always the best strategy. Here are alternatives to homework.

https://t.co/WiPmzfBFhj @teachthought
#edchat #teachertwitter #globalED #education

[Association on American Indian Affairs @IndianAffairs]

Native children were required by Congress to attend Boarding schools by the BIA who was authorized to withhold food rations and supplies from families that refused to enroll their children and the atrocities remain largely unknown #Truth & #Healing Read: https://t.co/OPgXQTAO8F

[Dr. John Spencer @spencerideas]

Unpopular opinion but I’ll share it anyway: principals have been amazing this schoolyear. Thankless job. Angry parents. Constantly changing directives from politicians. Staff feeling beat down. Kids in crisis. And they showed up amid the chaos and did their best.

[Tanya Salewski @TSALEW]

@ElectConnolly @GovernorVA Insulin prices are outrageous- what happened to the insulin cap freeze? Cost today for 3 month supply of Fiasp was $552.

[Tanya Salewski @TSALEW]

Just got charged $480 for 75 day supply of insulin from Giant Pharmacy in Fairfax, VA-I guess the law isn't enforceable? #HouseBill66 @carterforva @GovernorVA

[National Congress of American Indians @NCAI1944]

"The racial slur can no longer be removed by the complicit, indifferent, tone-deaf ownership of the franchise, because the stain they have fixed onto their own name and enterprises is now permanent." - NCAI @PresFawnSharp

[President Fawn Sharp @PresFawnSharp]

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As President of the National Congress of American Indians, I am announcing that today we end the Washington D.C. NFL franchise's racial slur brand.

Players, #StandUpBySitting until they #ChangeTheName.

Retweet my column w/ @RandazzoTweets
https://t.co/WU24DCnMAP

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

In a massive nationwide survey, high school students were overwhelmingly negative about their experience.

Their most common emotions:
- "Tired'
- "Stressed"
- "Bored"

This is one consequence of systems that overvalue control & undervalue engagement.

https://t.co/8UgEinXPyY

[Melissa Lim @actionhero]

Does doodling boost learning? Do attendance awards work? Do boys and girls process math the same way? Here’s a look at the big questions that researchers tackled this year. 2019 Education Research Highlights by @YoukiTerada / @edutopia https://t.co/m2RzJ5U30g

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Effective teachers don't focus so much on rules, but on routines and procedures. If you focus on rules, you will spend most of the year enforcing them. But if you focus on routines and procedures, you rarely have to defer back to the rules.