amcclain

Teacher, Early Childhood Educator, Reading Specialist, Wife, Mom and Occasional Artist she/her

[Education Week @educationweek]

Elementary students matched with the same teacher two years in a row show improvement in test scores, according to a 2018 study. #FromTheArchives
https://t.co/LZG5R53C6b

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Tells you absolutely everything you need to know about this group. Maybe they should change the name to Moms For Hitler!

[Literacy Council of North America @mylitcouncil]

“Our children and the country deserve robust and substantive education reform, not false stories of failure and misguided blame and punishment.” @plthomasEdD

BLOG: https://t.co/xVWdgMdzPq

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

It used to be that 22% of college students majored in education.

CURRENT numbers are < 4%! 😮

Instead of figuring out why, states and districts are lowering the requirements for becoming a teacher. Then some experts will ‘wonder’ why test scores have been declining. 🙄😕😡

[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

There’s something people are missing about what happened in Tennessee.

This was personal.

Rep. Justin Jones didn’t only protest for stronger gun safety. He was the activist who played a role in the bust of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest being taken down from
the Tennessee Capitol.

In February 2019, Rep. Jones, then an unelected activist, staged a protest at the Tennessee state Capitol where he demanded the removal of a the former Ku Klux Klan leader before being arrested.

The statue was finally removed in 2021. However, it seems some relics of the past remain.

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@2StefanMoore 💔 what a beautiful smile. I wish that you didn’t have to miss her, it isn’t fair 😞

[Dr. Dana Suskind @DrDanaSuskind]

“We don’t have to see it as a choice between play or academics, play should be academics for preschoolers.”

A beautiful, important look at the critical role of play in feeding young children's brains—and spirits.
https://t.co/ixyCIg9q6R

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

And I would add that they should care if Kindergartners are being allowed to play, so that they can learn to get along and solve problems! It infuriates me that they are expected to be reading, test taking robots as littles that have only been on this earth for 5 years!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

No one should care how a kindergartener compares on a standardized test with kindergarteners around the country. They should care if the kindergartener feels cared for, valued, and actually enjoys coming to school to learn. Its Kindergarten!

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@moboland68 💔

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

One of the most significant things we could do to change education for the better would be to really acknowledge difference. We could simply accept that not all five year olds are ready to read, and not all 16 year olds are ready to do high stakes exams. 1/

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@2StefanMoore That’s so heartbreaking 💔

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@moboland68 Saw this earlier, couldn’t believe this was ever thought to be a good idea 🤦🏻‍♀️

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@WillardCarey1 @2StefanMoore I am so sorry 💔

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@2StefanMoore As should your beloved daughter 💔

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

Imagine… I feel this as a mom who has seen this in my own children and as a teacher who has watched for 30 years as education has completely changed into a money making test machine that doesn’t care about the well being of teachers or students.

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Imagine a world where we said, what’s going on with the children? So many of them are angry and distressed after school. So many of them are shut in their bedrooms. So many of them are anxious and unhappy. So many of them disillusioned at 15. 1;

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

If someone’s Child died, they don’t need your advice.

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

There will never be a good excuse as to why nothing can be done to help w/ raising the National Funding for #ChildhoodCancer These Children go thru the unimaginable suffering & STILL our Government believes that they’re ONLY worth 4%.

[amcclain @amcclainteach]

@lisadamps @NicholasFerroni Same! 💕