Eriece Colbert

Equity Coach for Cedar Rapids Community School District; adjunct professor Mt. Mercy University; racial and social justice advocate

[Brendan O'Sullivan 🇮🇪🇪🇺 @ImtaBrendan]

Questioning. We want participants not performers.

[CREA @CedarRapidsEA]

Today we had our first building representative/member monthly meeting.

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

This is for all of the state and local lawmakers.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

No one should be able to make decisions about education without spending time in the classroom. It would be a Reality check ✔

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

It was my honor to cohost the new teacher preservice today for CRCSD. The best part is having former students join the ranks as teachers. Welcome everyone to our family and to a great 2024-2025 school year!

[Christopher Emdin @chrisemdin]

I’ve been pretty silent about politics thus far but I’ll tell you this. Having a teacher as Vice President is a beautiful thing. Having a family of educators in the White House is even more beautiful. Tim Walz and his wife are teachers. There is a certain type of thoughtfulness, capacity to see beyond and humanity that educators have. To teach or to have ever taught changes you in the most magical ways. You need people with that outlook in power and in proximity to it.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Don't let others steal your joy!
https://t.co/hAWnZAU0ve

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

#TeacherAppreciationWeek 1st give away of the week. Relationships before rigor quote plaque! Just like and retweet for a chance to win. Winner will be announced Tuesday night 8pm.

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

It’s necessary!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

When teachers feel valued and their strengths are utilized, they are 6 times more engaged at school and 3 times more likely to say they have a high quality of life. Now imagine the amazing learning environment they create for their students. It's game changing!

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Want to RETAIN teachers? Do THESE!

•Make smaller class sizes happen

•Listen and advocate teacher concerns

•Improve the response to student behavioral issues

•Parent accountability

•Increase planning time

•Improve salaries

•Let teachers TEACH!

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

We all need this right now, it’s August! @DrBradJohnson

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Who needs a little inspiration for the new year? Just retweet for a chance to win a copy of #DearTeacher. Winner announced Monday 8pm https://t.co/ut4GZsFvnp

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Don’t skip this post without leaving a comment if you agree.

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

@janai @GMA The true dream team!

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

@janai @GioBenitez @WhitJohnson I’m excited about the future of the weekend edition of GMA. I am here for all of it!!! 😁

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

This!!!
#equitylens

[Truss Leadership @trussleadership]

Stop calling it classroom management system. Plan for engagement, inspiration, scaffolds, challenge, joy, learning, and empowerment. Then there won’t be much to manage. They’re children. Not workers. They’re kids. They’re already brilliant. 💡

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

Looking forward to next week.

[CREA @CedarRapidsEA]

Come out and participate. #buildingcapacity

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

Reread this and respond accordingly.

[Paul Gorski @EquityLiteracy]

Organizational leaders: Once you realize the people urging you to act more transformatively for equity & justice were right all along, how do you reward & compensate their physical, intellectual, & emotional labor? How do you ensure you don't get the credit for that labor?

[Paul Gorski @EquityLiteracy]

Hard, direct, critical feedback related to inequity is an invaluable gift, not an affront. It should be received with gratitude. In most organizations leaders view that feedback as an affront and reward silence and complicity with inequity, often under the guise of "community."

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

This!!!!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Teacher Hierarchy of Needs

[Eriece Colbert @colbertscorner]

The more we tell students that they can’t read something and use their critical thinking/processing skills the less likely they will change the world.

[EdTrust @EdTrust]

“Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison is about an unnamed Black man who tells you his life story in a racially divided society that refuses to see him as human. The award-wining book was deemed inappropriate & lacking "literary value" by a NC school district. #CantBeErased #BHM

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

This is the truth! 💯