DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni

My kids are at college so I’m gonna bead and sew. Snye Highway.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

Hey fellow teachers-

I hate to break this to you, but Natives did not cross the land bridge. I know, that’s what Mrs Smith told you in 2nd grade, but your science has since learned it’s false. Take a minute to update your curriculum and change the slides.

Nia:wen

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@RussDiabo I haven’t spoken to a single native who’s opposed…

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@Larryferlazzo A strict no AI policy. You can’t use AI until you’re tenured

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@Larryferlazzo Writing for Teachers

Syllabus:
Grammar review
Word processing
Emails basics
Basic writing review
Responding to parent emails
Sending parent emails (praise and problems)
Emails to students
Putting it in writing (admin communication)
Lesson plans
Objectives
Classroom newsletter

[Jarred Geller @jarredgeller]

Here’s what’s always buried in these stories. Teachers need the devices. Not the kids.

A typical public school classroom has gotten impossible to manage. They don’t hold kids back anymore. They don’t expel. They don’t really discipline at all.

So now you have classrooms full of violent, anti-social, distracting behaviors with some kids who can’t recognize their own names and some kids who can read Crime and Punishment.

The variance in the classroom is so high that teachers need the devices to just be able to breathe.

They can’t lesson plan for some kids who need Kindergarten materials and some kids who need 8th grade and everyone in between. Put them on the device.

They can’t manage the behaviors that are disrupting the classroom. Put them on a device.

The device is the band aid to the systemic problems of the education system that no one wants to address. It is very much a screen time nanny for the kids who diverge from the rest of the class.

The problem is… everyone has a device and it’s not fair to let the “bad” kids be the only ones who get screentime. Feels like a reward. So teachers cave and let everyone on, which exacerbates all the root causes and makes everything worse.

All that to say, removing screens won’t do much of anything unless you start bringing back common sense of the 90s and 00s. If you fail, you’re held back. If you’re a jerk, you’re removed.

When the classroom is relatively homogenous, there is no need for devices.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@DORlTOTACOS B
And I’m gonna double space after that period, too!

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

reading about hantavirus is how every teacher feels when a kid walks in with a fever, or tells you they puked this morning but feel fine…

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@ryangrim Similar situation at LeMoyne College in Syracuse NY-“in the Jesuit tradition”

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@Her_Nonymous_D I am assuming you’re telling me a story because I’m sending you to school to learn to figure shiz out on your own.

This story better end with “and I solved the problem on my own”

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

Yes

[Mr. Nobody @MmisterNobody]

Do you think schools should ditch Chromebooks and iPads and go back to pen and paper, using computers only in lab classes?

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@jbillinson There was more raw excitement at the ELO concert last year.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

No shoulders at mass

#iykyk

[evie @Eviemagazine]

Click here to read: https://t.co/WIrLQJO8Wr

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

If you could let me know before April 15th, that would be great

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Donald Trump’s attorney Solicitor General John Sauer needing to “think” about whether or not Native Americans are American citizens while arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the Supreme Court is absolutely wild.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

No Indigenous farmers

No Black farmers

No Latinx/Hispanic/Chicanx farmers

But he’s got a golden tractor…

[New York Post @nypost]

White House unveils 'OnlyFarms' website, welcomes farmers with golden tractor on South Lawn https://t.co/dVq1nAmLX6

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@effortfuleduktr In theory admin should have a long and strong classroom record.
In reality many do not. Many taught briefly and immediately went in to admin. Now, 10-15 years out of the classroom they have NO IDEA what it means to be a teacher because their knowledge is outdated.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

THIS! THIS! THIS!

The inability of district/building admin to think qualitatively is a real downfall. The over reliance on purely quantitative data is maybe weak leadership, but at best singular focused leadership that misses half of what’s happening in schools.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Make no mistake, there have been pockets of resistance.

I would echo @mikesully97 in suggesting that school and especially district administrators have been the driving force behind Ed Tech embrace.

"If it happens digitally, I can see it in a district dashboard!" = the mindset.

[NYSNA @nynurses]

More than 400 nurses at @official_tbhc have gone 6 weeks without health insurance after the hospital stopped paying into their benefits fund. Nurses still show up every day to care for patients. It's time for management to restore nurses’ healthcare now! https://t.co/BDz2fgXmPM

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

Your “JOB” is to represent the PEOPLE OF NEW YORK STATE in the US Senate.

If you want to advocate for Israeli defense GO WORK FOR ISRAEL.

It’s that simple.

[Decensored News @decensorednews]

SCHUMER: “I have many jobs as majority leader... and one is to fight for aid to Israel! All the aid that Israel needs, I will continue to fight for it!”

“We delivered more security assistance to Israel our ally under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that...”

“I will always fight to give Israel what it needs...”

This was just a few weeks ago at a Jewish Community Relations Council event in NYC:

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

If I’m caught 4 days after robbing the jewelry store…

You see where I’m going with this

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: I heard one of our colleagues across the aisle just say, “Well, yes, Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 does give Congress the exclusive, plenary, comprehensive power to declare war and not the president. And we could be debating it, but the president has already taken us to war, so it’s too late. It would undermine the cause for us to debate it.” 

What a humiliating, self-defeating argument for a member of the Article I branch of Congress to be making. Don’t you understand? That destroys our power to declare war if any president can plunge us into a war and thereby defeat our exclusive, plenary power over it—

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

Every English class reading I am Malala right now is full of text connections

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

I don’t think that the left is prepared for how much liberal politicians are set to shift on these issues and how good they might sound on them by 2027. We shouldn’t take for granted that any candidate of ours will enjoy a position as a lone truth teller.

[DR. JACook Ed.D. Waka’tha’hion:ni @jcookie92]

@HippyMomPhD Absolutely. I also think maturity plays into it as well. I see many 7th and 8th graders who struggle and when they visit in 10th they tell me they suddenly get it.