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Lifelong learner, educator, supporter of libraries and literacy, writing teacher. #lovemylibrary #writingteacher #digcit

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Have you ever noticed it takes teachers a couple of weeks before they actually start feeling like it's summer?
There's a reason for that.
Teaching isn't just mentally exhausting. It's emotionally exhausting. For ten months your brain has been solving problems, making hundreds of decisions a day, reading the emotions of students, managing behaviors, worrying about the child who didn't eat breakfast, encouraging the one who's ready to give up, and trying to make sure every student leaves your classroom believing they matter.
You don't just shut that off because the calendar says June.
So if you're just now starting to relax, don't feel guilty.
Your brain isn't behind.
It's recovering.
Maybe that's one of the reasons teachers need summer more than they realize. Not because they need a vacation, but because they need time for their mind and heart to catch up with everything they experienced throughout the school year.
Sometimes the healthiest thing you can do isn't prepare for next year.
It's simply let your mind and body recover from this one.

[Weston Kieschnick @Wes_Kieschnick]

10 Second Truth:
24% of US students are chronically absent from school. We can’t intervene our way around an empty desk. #10SecondTruth https://t.co/7G18koILFx

[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.

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

@BCCHS_XCTF Way to go, Landon!

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

@bcchs_soccer @BCCHS_AD @BCCHS_Eagles Way to go, Luke!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Here's to 2024-25 School Year and Wishing you all the best year yet! Relationships are key, and make sure to give grace, patience and love to others, but also make sure to give plenty to yourself! ❤️

[Lee Ann Jung, PhD @leeannjung]

💡 Do we justify students' placements in special education rooms to meet the students' needs? Or the adults' needs? #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

@bcchs_soccer @BCCHS_AD Exciting game!

[Bishop Carroll Boys Soccer @bcchs_soccer]

With 1 City League game left for BC and two weeks left in the regular season. Looking to go Back-to-Back champions. @BCCHS_AD @BCCHS_Eagles @KansasHSSoccer

[Bishop Carroll Boys Soccer @bcchs_soccer]

Semifinals of the Maize South Tournament vs. Maize South at 6pm

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

@coolcatteacher @alicekeeler Thursday for me!

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

My girls had so much fun this week! Thanks @BCCHS_vball

[BCCHS Volleyball @BCCHS_vball]

One full week of volleyball camp fun! #bcvbtwoclapsonestomp

[Daphne McMenemy @McMenemyTweets]

Kids don't plan to come to school to get into trouble. Behaviour is a form of communication and quite often - the reason for it will make you sad, not angry.

[Bishop Carroll Catholic High School @BCCHS_Eagles]

Here's to BCCHS students and staff of the month. Congratulations!

[Danny Steele @SteeleThoughts]

If you want to evaluate a school’s culture, don’t read the mission statement on the wall; listen to the teachers talk in the hallway.

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

COVID relief for teachers - a stunning game changer @MichaelDell @laurenepowell @Benioff help us? https://t.co/XkjbRBwmq3 via @2screenteacher

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

@TpTFounder Amazing! Love TpT! #teacherspayteachers https://t.co/qbBzZWaVkY

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

Excited to get back at it today! Excellent training!

[foutsfiles @foutsfiles]

Any teacher who is willing to try can make use of this student-centered strategy. #edtech https://t.co/Ov66pvgVZI via @ShakeUpLearning

[Common Sense Education @CommonSenseEd]

Summer learning matters - especially this year! Join us, @BeALearningHero, @summerlearning, & @GreatSchools July 7 at 2pm ET, for our #SummerStrideChat to share amazing resources - on and offline that parents and families can use to continue summer learning. #SummerLearningWeek