Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚

EdTechie // Wife of a wife // Mama // Teacher // Life-long Apple fan (see photo) // #digitalwellness advocate // champion for needed educational paradigm shifts

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

In a broader sense- I was jazzed when the pandemic shook up K12 edu (curricularly) as I thought THIS IS IT, we're going to finally revamp the whole system. We're still shoehorning things in2 a long-dead paradigm. The wind of tech integration has gone out of the sails already, too

[Alice Keeler @alicekeeler]

We seemed to have learned no lessons from the pandemic.

Thinking school schedules should be "normal."

The industrial revolution is over can't we move on from bells moving us class to class and think how teachers and students can have more flexibility?

https://t.co/h8pBCxbZz6

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

OK next #hivemind question, specifically for my #mass teachers - Best practice tests for MCAS that aren't through TestNAV ? #itsbeginningtolookalotliketestingseason

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

@alicekeeler ...And definitely don't stand there and read your text word for word. 🙅‍♀️😵‍💫😂

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Hive mind! I'm sorry I seem to only come on here these days to ask advice.. but other #edtech-ies can attest to the difficulty of working in a silo sometimes.. What is your best platform as an #instructionalcoach to reach an entire district re: PD opps, articles, training, etc?

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

I think this might be the most important professional development we can offer our K-12 teachers as well. #teacherhealth #breathe #trauma

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

My new mug.

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Updated. This is a great resource, not just as a learning tool for students.. but for everyone. https://t.co/C5sHnnIFpt #medialiteracy #fakenews #understandingbias #edtech

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Not sure what happened to this account during the second half of last year, but here I am. Year... 13? 14? Do we count whatever we did during covid? 🙅‍♀️ #backtoschool #backinthesaddle

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

@VictoriaTheTech I'm feeling this! My first year as an instructional tech coach and it's amazing being trusted to do your job, even if it's not within the confines of the teaching schedule. Doctor's appointment? No problem, just make sure x is done on time. We're humans, yay! :D

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Teachers are struggling, y'all. Remember our 15 minutes of fame where folks appreciated us, applauded us for our hard work, and even thanked us? Not that anyone does it for the thanks, but... Oh how far we've fallen from here. https://t.co/e641RstfZr

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

This applies to education, but also just leadership in general. Did we just forget??? And also, why are we still fighting an uphill battle against folks who still won't comply?😵‍💫😷 #covidyear3

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Anyone else feel like last year was very carefully thought out and planned after the surge in spring 2020, and this year, nobody seems to have had any forethought as to what to do now that we find ourselves back in a surge.

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

@teachergrind 😵‍💫

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

@nrookie Like a big holding pen. Oooof. 😷😷😷

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

...Our education system has been silently imploding for decades. Even now, when it's painfully obvious to the world that it's in the alligator-death-roll stages, there is no major revolution on the horizon. Our. Poor. Children. #deepthoughts #tuesday #ripedu 😔

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Alarm bells, folks. ALARM. BELLS. Where are our advocates? Legislators? One morning we're going to wake up as a country and there'll be no teachers. What will parents say then? The new-age freedom fighters? Will they step up? I think the worst part is this is not a sudden thing.

[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

A follow-up to my last tweet: Like a good little educator, I paused before consuming the first cookie and asked what the objectives and criteria were for the assignment. #alwaysaneducator #tastetester #missedcalling #sotasty #iwantmore #hangry #feelingfestive

[Keenan @LearningwithKL]

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[Mindy = writing the next chapter 📖📚 @mbstarr9]

Unexpected perk of my office being in the high school = sometimes I am offered the opportunity to participate as a tie breaker vote for the Home Ec class bake-offs... today was Christmas cookies. WHY YES I THINK I CAN OFFER MY SERVICES. #yum #chocolatewon #merrychristmas #cookeh