Team 5 at LaGrange Middle School... a collaborative co-teaching team... we live to teach! Follow: @Team5SocialStud @team5ela @Team5Math @Team5LifeSci @Grade7PE
Overheard today in period 1:
Student 1: “I can’t wait to be 18.”
Student 2: “So you can move out?”
S1: “No.”
S2: “College?”
S1: “No.”
S2: “Job?”
S1: “No.”
S2: “Car?”
S1: “No.”
S2: “Ok... then why?”
S1: “I’ll be able to vote!”
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The fact that many of the same pundits and politicians who question teachers’ abilities to educate and manage a classroom now want to arm the very same people... 🤔
✔️Sharing honest feelings about school violence
✔️Debating the 2nd Amendment
✔️Committing to passionately advocate for change
✔️Writing letters to the victims, their families, & the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting
✔️ 4 very proud teachers @team5ela
A3 “Our” system needs to shift to “their” system... we need to encourage curiousity in our students, self-advocacy/agency, build skills to help them process and prioritize the massive amounts of information assessable to them... community building/civics, etc. #hacklearning
Ending a challenging week for anyone in the educational field with this great group of people. District equity team leaders reflecting on who we are at a critical time. Proud to be here at this moment 🖤⚓️ @Natalie_Zwerger @metronyu@ArlingtonCSD
LMS UVMS 7th Grade Mixer. Feb. 23rd. 6-8 pm. Tickets will be sold during lunch periods today-Feb. 21st. $4 price includes pizza. Snacks will be sold at the dance.
“The discussions we have in this class are sometimes really hard... that probably means they’re really important.” When talking about the role of African Americans in the Revoutionary War leads to debate over racism & equity issues in 2018. 🎤 drop moments by our students today!