Dr.Karen Andrade

Educator.Mentor.Advocate. Speaker. Mom. Netflix and Sports.Blessed. ¡Si se puede! 🇵🇷#useyourcompass #the5thgradechronicles #theeduchronicles

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Elon Musk: Trillionaire

Jeff Bezos: Billionaire

Public School Teachers: Can anyone help me get some pencils for my students?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center!

Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more.

Tickets available at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

If schools lack the courage to suspend the unruly, they are quietly expelling the innocent.

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

Not teaching students math facts because they can use calculators, spelling rules because they have spell check, historical dates because they can google it, or writing skills because they have Al is a travesty. Depriving students of these things enslaves them to technology rather than freeing them to flourish as human beings.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

When a state addresses its teacher shortage by lowering the standards to become a teacher, rather than focusing on making teaching a more sustainable and respected career, it signals a HUGE PROBLEM!

[NASA @NASA]

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo's Easter message:

"Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!"

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Standardized testing is developmentally inappropriate in elementary school.
And here’s why.
According to the stages of development described by Jean Piaget, young children learn very differently than standardized tests measure.
In the early years, learning is social and relational.
Children learn through play, conversation, movement, exploration, and interaction with others.
Logical, structured thinking begins developing around age seven, but it is not consistently solid for many children until around age eleven.
Yet we start standardized testing years earlier.
Before many children are developmentally ready for it.
In the early years, the real work of learning is happening here:
Self-regulation
Social skills
Curiosity
Confidence
Learning how to focus, handle frustration, and keep trying
Those are the foundations of learning.
When we replace play, exploration, movement, and social interaction with early testing, we are not increasing rigor.
We are pushing academics before the foundation is built.
If standardized testing is used at all, it makes far more developmental sense after age eleven.
Elementary school should be where children learn how to learn.

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

Michael B. Jordan, and the B is for Best Actor. #Oscars

[Roc Nation @RocNation]

.@sanbenito Sets Global Viewership Record for Most-Watched Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance of All-Time #AppleMusicHalftime

@NFL @AppleMusic

[CNN @CNN]

The majority of public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a survey released Monday by Gallup in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Walton Family Foundation. https://t.co/uHXRicmKr2

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

It’s time for us to get cell phones out of the classroom and create a healthier environment for both our teachers and our kids.

That’s why I called on the State Legislature to send a bill to my desk requiring our schools to implement a “bell-to-bell” cell phone ban, limiting distractions so that our teachers and students can focus on their learning.

Our teachers, parents, and kids need us. Let’s get it done.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

We don’t have a classroom management problem.
We have an emotional regulation crisis that teachers are being asked to handle.
Somehow, “classroom management” has turned into:
• de-escalating trauma
• supporting anxiety and depression
• calming panic attacks
• being the counselor, social worker, and crisis team
• carrying emotional loads no one sees
And then we remove the very things that help like
recess, movement, art, play, connection.
Teachers aren’t trained for that.
They shouldn’t have to be.
Classroom management is about relationships, structure, routines, and connection.
It was never meant to replace what families, communities, and systems failed to provide.
And until we stop offloading every societal failure onto schools,
teachers will keep drowning under expectations no human can meet.

[Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers]

IT’S ALWAYS DAME TIME ⌚️

[NBC Sports @NBCSports]

For Brazil. For South America. 👏

#WinterOlympics

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@BrettFavre With all due respect to one of the greatest QBs ever — I didn’t grow up knowing where the Packers played, what Lambeau Field was, or why people proudly wear cheese on their heads 🧀😄.
I watched. I learned. And now I get it.
That’s how @NFL football works. And honestly, that’s how the Super Bowl halftime show works too. It’s not about only watching what you already know — it’s about discovering what millions of your fellow Americans already love.
Bad Bunny isn’t “foreign” to the Super Bowl — he is America too 🇺🇸🇵🇷🎶. Different sounds, same country, same game.
The Super Bowl is big enough for frozen fields, cheese hats, country music… and Spanish lyrics.
That’s not losing tradition. That’s America showing how big the tent really is. 🏈❤️
And you should try Tembleque, Alcapurrias and Mofongo! Don’t be sad, be happy!

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, I AM A TREMENDOUS LOVER OF “THE SPANISH.” IT IS A BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE SPOKEN BY MANY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN THE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND ACROSS THE WORLD. I AM ALSO A HUGE FAN OF PUERRRRRRRTO RICO. THAT IS WHY I AM DECLARING TOMORROW IN CALIFORNIA AS “BAD BUNNY DAY” WHEN BAD BUNNY PERFORMS AT THE BIG GAME IN THE GOLDEN STATE WITH HIS SOOTHING, BEAUTIFUL VOICE, AND HIS VERY NICE LOOKS. MANY PEOPLE CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM ACCORDING TO MY “GUYS” AND “GALS!” (JESSE WATTERS IS OBSESSED WITH HIM ALMOST AS MUCH AS HE IS WITH ME!). WE LOVE BAD BUNNY! HE IS NEARLY AS “HOT” AS ME, WHICH IS A BIG COMPLIMENT, BECAUSE THERE IS NOBODY “HOTTER.” HAPPY BAD BUNNY DAY, AMERICA. ENJOY!!! —GOVERNOR GCN

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

This Black History Month,
I want to remind you of who we are.

As Earth, Wind & Fire sang,
“We are people of the mighty.”

As my father said, “Yes, I’m Black. I’m proud of it.
I’m Black and beautiful.”

We are human beings of varying roles who descend from a diverse people. Not all were kings and queens. Some were teachers, farmers, artisans, and more.

Still today, Black people in America are diverse.

Innovative. Industrious. Inventive.
Some formally educated. Some not.
Some prospering. Some not.

Our “status in life” does not determine our worth.

We are beloved of God as
postal workers and professors.
As a former First Lady and President.

As people.

We are not apes.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

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