Mr. Purell Teaches 202

DCPS teacher in year 12, now at a Ward 4 school. Ward 4 resident here to read, learn, and sometimes jump in.

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@IMSEOG ❤️

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@PoPville dog spotted on blagden headed to beach drive NW, dog entered trail up to upshur entrance to Crestwood

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Can/should teachers wear shorts to school?

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Really missed having staff testing in school this week. Appreciated getting the results each week. Felt like a pretty good...layer.

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@heytheremsm Niiiiice! I hit 12k today!

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@TriciaWDC Of course!

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Spring break and I finally had the chance to check out my friends new restaurant Preservation Biscuit Co. in Falls Church and yeah, you should go too:

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“Teaching IS political.” RIP

[Mr. Purell Teaches 202 @lteaches202]

@ScholarNotScore And she’d respond and she’d keep your number to follow up

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RIP Liz. Your leadership was inspiring, passionate, and personal. We’re a big organization but you always took the time to listen. Thank you for your tireless work for our schools. You are so missed.

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DCPS school communities suffer from this desire to be new and innovative when it comes to initiatives and positions- like, they’re afraid to just stick to the basics and would rather put out some new initiative with a new acronym that’ll be forgotten about in a year or two.

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It’s infuriating because some of the policies that could have direct and profound impact on students are also the simplest!

A special education coordinator in every school!

A librarian and a library in every school!

Why are these even up for debate?

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Didn’t watch the hearing and trying to get caught up on budgets but looks like the same old shit made extra terrible, inexcusable, and insulting because of the pandemic and all the talk about supporting our students.

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DCPS teachers teaching remote in term 3 but not sure of term 4 assignment- should you choose yes or no when asked if required to work in person when pre-registering?

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@betsyjwolf Bringing back mandatory coordinators is such a simple change that will impact student growth and performance- maybe we need to design a fancy acronym for it.

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@DCWard7teacher Given that kids have been falling behind for a long time and we’ve just been told to continue ramming through grade level curriculum without addressing real gaps I’m really concerned what “accelerated learning” is going to look like.

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@allycrinerbrown I gave up my second planning period at my last school because it was clear that it was just going to be used subbing- and since I had two they never had to provide admin premium. So many coverage slips.

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@DCWard7teacher Yup, because it sure isn’t for the students. Teachers have plenty of data points understanding where kids are and what they need- PARCC is just another one and a really bad one at that.

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How are you going to say that distance learning has been bad for kids and they’ve lost so much learning and then turn around and waste instructional time on PARCC testing to measure them against standards that they supposedly haven’t learned due to learning loss?

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So yeah, it’s hard not to roll my eyes at all this talk about solutions that they’ve never addressed before and during the pandemic, especially when there appears to be little teacher voice in how to move forward.

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Students were falling behind before the pandemic and rather than listen to educators about the need for smaller class sizes/the ability to remediate and teach to students’ needs, DCPS went w/ cramming crappy curriculum in on pacing calendar that stressed exposure over mastery...

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We’ve had probably the biggest disruption to traditional education in our lifetime occur and the result from those in charge has been “how can we make business as usual happen?”