Bridget

Educator | PhD candidate | Writer | Reader. She | Her. Writing my dissertation: storytelling + community + displacement + postcolonial theory. Personal account.

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

I believe in public education.

[... @tamaranopper]

Toni Cade Bambara said, “Writing is one of the ways I participate in struggle… to join the chorus of voices that argues that exploitation and misery are neither inevitable nor necessary.”

“I don’t know all my readers, but I know well for whom I write.”

[... @tamaranopper]

Reading is so cool.

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

SAY IT AGAIN- access not accolades!

[Angel Jones, PhD @AngelJonesPhD]

Just because you needed a PhD to conduct your research doesn’t mean people should need a PhD to read or understand it. Our work should be about access not accolades.

[Deadric T. Williams @doc_thoughts]

The idea of "cultural competency" does not sit well with me for some reason. It feels like back-door essentialism. How about "structural competency?" -- places emphasis on the system that produces "cultural" responses.

[Jess Clark @jess_m_clark]

I’m at Atherton High School, where students are walking out in protest of anti-LGBTQ bills filed in the Kentucky legislature.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Can we please settle this debate already? There is no labor shortage. There is a living wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a child care shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage.

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

Love the AQ. Did this every day. Building community and laughing is the best way to start class ✨

[Beacon Press @BeaconPressBks]

Take it from @ruthbehar: In the times of our vulnerable world, it is no longer possible to pretend to be a distant, detached observer, whether of other societies or our own. https://t.co/RYytfjDh2u

[JCPS en Español @JCPSlatino]

Breaking News from the ESL Data Board
The total number of English Learners @JCPSKY is finally here⬇️

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

this thread 🥹
i love cats so very much

[Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @Jairo_I_Funez]

Colonialism is not an event nor an ahistoric structure fixed in time & space. To understand colonialism & decolonization at a planetary scale demands a close examination of our geopolitical intimacies & complicities, entangled histories & struggles, & concatenated worlds.

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

There will be how-to guides on being resilient.

There will hardly ever be how-to guides on eliminating the structural forces that require resilience in the first place.

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

needed this today
(as I scroll during a break from writing chapter 6 lol)
one day very very soon.

[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

One day I’m going to be a Dr

[JCPS en Español @JCPSlatino]

The view from my desk is great now that the secondary #ESLRTs are back in the office after a successful deployment to support schools and the @JCPSKY English Learners.

[EdSurge @EdSurge]

"Immigrant students shouldn’t have to feel scared or unwelcome in school. That’s not ok. Immigrants are scared in many places, but school shouldn’t have to be one of them." #schoolsafety #studentsuccess https://t.co/L0g5c2qWda

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

The number one need for teachers is always, always TIME.

[Bridget @bridgetvk]

This entire thread! Those who have never been in the classroom (or been outside of it for so long they’ve forgotten) should read this to get a better idea of why teaching, in its current form, is unsustainable.

[Tyler Rablin @Mr_Rablin]

I've had a bunch of close friends leave teaching and start working in the private sector. Without fail, every single one of them says they are less stressed, their work/life balance is better, and their mental health is better, even though some are making less money.

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