Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸

Germanist & faculty developer. Chair of World Languages WTMA. Collaborates with teachers, speaks on career development. Opinions my own. She/her/Dr.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@Phil_Lewis_ @GeorgeFoster72 I think of it as everywhere in Maryland where you have a large population commuting into DC/working for the federal government. That muddies the waters a little, since Reston (where I'm from) would not fit under that definition as much now, I think.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@kateschaller This dovetails nicely with the AI tweet from last week -- our poor students are struggling with knowing when software can give help or not.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

Yes! While those "feisty" kids can be hard, they are also so very important to teach.

The number of times I have to say to some students, "That's a great question. I haven't thought about it. Here's how I'd start thinking about this...."

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Many of the adults that I most admire, they were not easy teenagers,” Russell Shaw says. He examines how feisty kids—who made some teachers quietly miserable—may possess a “moral fire” that deserves cultivation:

https://t.co/NpgI8lF0K5

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@GernmaiesFinn @jonathanbfine Elizabeth.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@kateschaller We have lots of conversations about AI, academic integrity, and why they want to put in the effort to learn a language (and not just get an "A").

I'm grateful that they're both thoughtful and receptive!

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@EWErickson I believe the schools here are acting the same way as they would toward a Christian student who missed school to go to Good Friday services.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@kateschaller I have kids. Every time it comes on the radio....woooohhooooooo!

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

I want there to be a day when I don’t have to share this speech anymore

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

A website has appeared in the USA that records the costs of operations in Iran every second.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BossRVA The variety gives them the illusion of choice (which is very important for toddler psychology). They love thinking they have a choice/get to have an opinion.

All that said: thoughts and prayers! It does get better!

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BossRVA Know that toddlers are notoriously picky. They need to try a food 10+ times (sometimes) before they'll accept something.
I would put three or four different things on the plate to let them try; I usually lead with veggies and proteins.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BreRVA This was just me with my mom. Thank goodness I can cancel class once a semester, and I pre-planned the make-up lecture so students could do their work while my mom was in the OR.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@kateschaller You can do it!
I pointed out to my kids that Vonn was 41 and mama was even older; I think my chance at the Olympics has passed (not that I ever had that level of skill or could obtain it!).

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BreRVA @Jusrangers I know better than to compare Nebraska to Virginia in terms of preparedness; of course Virginia doesn't have fleets of snowplows if we get one big snow every 3 years.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BreRVA @Jusrangers I can't say how much I get frustrated by people who don't get why the south can't deal with this, either. Yes, it's the ice. But also, having lived in Germany, Nashville, and Nebraska: different localities deal with different weather.

[Frau Doktor Edwards🇨🇭🇺🇸 @ewebwards]

@BreRVA @Jusrangers This guy must be really young. When I was in elementary school, we had an ice storm (in NoVA). Everything was coated in at least an inch of ice; school was out for at least a week.
I remember going to the playground with my ice skates.