Jennifer Kramer

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. - Marcus Aurelius

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@BHahnGHS @GoochlandHigh Oh my goodness, I love this!!

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

Please join me for a FREE webinar on building students' reading stamina. Thursday, April 18, 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Register here https://t.co/X7OElT27yz

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

This guy who loves to board himself uses a modified frame so that kids who can't normally enjoy skateboarding get a chance to enjoy it for the first time.. 😊

It's the little things that make the difference..

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@LakotaMan1 I believe we are on the cusp of this. 🌈🙏🏻

[Kelly Gallagher @KellyGToGo]

Penny @pennykittle and I have a rich conversation with Mike Schmoker, author of Focus 2.0 and Results 2.0, on what steps schools can take to help students achieve dramatic improvement: https://t.co/CnXWRClz5C

[Alice Keeler @alicekeeler]

Take your class roster from Google Docs

Send to a Google Slides to arrange a seating chart

🧩 Install Seating Chart Slides by Alice Keeler

https://t.co/AjF1mF7K3N

#ISTElive #googleEDU

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@alicekeeler @bekSF Many of us do not have unions and the education associations that are supposed to advocate for us are ineffective (no power). This is an example of the philosophical and ethical deficiencies in American policies towards teachers.

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@hankgreen

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

Reminder that every time you and another person vehemently argue on-line, based on a post that inflamed your emotions, somebody plotted the outcome and is making money from it.

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@beaglefacts #NationalBeagleDay requires an extra nap!

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@beaglefacts @LadyAdaBeaglier Agreed!

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

This 💯

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

When we Lakota say, “that person has journeyed on to the Star Nation,” we are saying they’ve passed away and are returning to the place of their inception. We believe we are the descendants of the Star People — and our original home is the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster.

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@beaglefacts @NotMean567 🤣

[Jennifer Kramer @jak598]

@LakotaMan1
This needs to be amplified! 😠 https://t.co/upqs2FMNoe

[Native Red Cloud🪶Maȟpíya Lúta~Hińhan Wakangli⚡️🦉 @Native3rd]

"The world was a library & its books were
the stones, leaves, grass, brooks & the birds
& animals that shared, alike with us,
the storms & blessings of earth.

We learned to do what only the student of nature learns & that was to feel beauty."

– L. Standing Bear (1868-1939)🪶✨

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Am I guilt shaming you or making you feel bad by sharing Indigenous history? No. Absolutely not. I’m simply offering you a factual account of how America was really founded. It’s not about being “woke.” It’s about being intelligent, compassionate and well informed. Agree?