Blanca Badillo

teacher by day, grad student by night • #SíSePuede #FirstGen 🇲🇽 (views are my own)

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

Proud Texas Ex moment 🤘🏽

[UT Austin Center for European Studies @UTEuroStudies]

UT’s World Language Day fair is happening until 2pm today. Come visit us in 1.302 RLP to learn about the languages UT offers, study abroad programs, and the FLAS fellowship! @UTAustin

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@UTEuroStudies @UTAustin @LiberalArtsUT @GoGlobalED HOOK EM!!!! I love this!!!!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@alenord Que perfecto!! My students were just reviewing question words in the context of food this week & this is a great idea. Gracias!!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@KevinAbroad1 HAHAHA I’ve just resorted to saying “I understand this is familiar to some and brand new to others, but we will learn it together now” 💀💀

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@ModestTeacher As one does…. Those Scholastic book fairs will get ya!

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

Pacing guide?

Oh, you mean my kids.

Yeah, I got a pacing guide.

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@MonteSyrie I JUST talked to a colleague about this & that Im not sure where I am on the district scope/sequence but that my kids are learning what they need lol I don’t even feel bad

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@tmsaue1 O. M. G. We hear “we need to balance personal life and work” and all kinds of well meaning things, but the reality is that the aspect of my job that cause me the most stress and oppression are systemic and (sadly) the general conditions of our sector

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@SraWitkowski I said: just think lovingly of it your maestra when u read something or take the SAT and can figure out tough words!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@SraWitkowski I agree, especially because they’re also learning their own native language and sometimes those connections stick all around. My students have learned MANY new English words just off Spanish cognates 😂 like marmalade, masticate, etc. Even what adverbs are!!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@RebekahODell1 Little fires everywhere by @pronounced_ing

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

Omg thank you! The energy seriously comes from the Lord because otherwise they’d find me passed out behind my desk. Same for you, maestra!!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

MAN, I caught myself thinking “my kids aren’t able to..” today & then I began thinking of ALL the ways their lives have been changed by the pandemic. I’m taking what I need from this thread, which is: keep being positive, realistic, understanding, and treat kids like humans ✨

[Nicholas Ferroni @NicholasFerroni]

While we are all concerned about Covid, I’d like to remind everyone that EVERY SINGLE DAY elementary school teachers come in contact with mystery fluids and have to ask, over and over, “Why is that wet?”

[Kathryn Greene @MsGreeneEdu]

I just want one full day per week for lesson planning and collaborating. And 90 minutes per day to give students feedback and communicate with students and families.

Then I’d be where I want to be as a teacher.

Please and thank you.

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@MsGreeneEdu I love this!!!!

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

Gracias @cevmsjags PTA!!! 💜🐆 perfect lunch for a Friday

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@KevinAbroad1 I don’t think I ever feel unmotivated to learn a language- right now with Italian- so much as feeling that I don’t have time to or there aren’t classes that work for me? Etc. Same with French, but with French I didn’t have a positive experience with my teacher’s methodology

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@Prof_F_Henshaw @spanishplans @mme_wagstaff Especially if it’s JUST to get the grade

[Blanca Badillo @maestra_badillo]

@Prof_F_Henshaw @spanishplans @mme_wagstaff Well it’s something I think about. For example, say students who are very driven to get 95-100 no matter the task and no matter the conversations about proficiency, them wanting to re do the EdPuzzle or another similar task just to get that grade, it kind of seems passive?