Maureen Mead☮️

Innovative and creative educator; focused on reinventing education and repaying the education debt to BIPOC kids; grateful mother of amazing daughters; sober

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

One more week before school, and I am just halfway to my #DonorsChoose project. Please share and reshare and also donate to support #IndependentReading!
#ChoiceReading #reading #ELA https://t.co/eOvlYRqRYL

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

❗️❗️Application for student debt relief is now live ❗️❗️https://t.co/EW7dsK6X5q

[Libby Whittemore💙🪷🇺🇦 @libbage55]

🧵1. A post on FB…

“I am 14 and I’m struggling in algebra class. When I ask for help, the male teacher says, ‘I’m not surprised girls aren’t that good at algebra’.

I am 18 and go to my first fraternity party with girlfriends…

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

We make over four million students take the PSAT every year. They compete for one of just 2500 scholarships.

Their odds are roughly comparable to a random teenage football player making it to the NFL.

Just think about that waste of school time, energy, and mental health.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine taking a few Bible verses on human sexuality as literal divine commands from God for all society, but minimizing the +3,000 verses calling for the care of immigrants, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the poor to a personal choice.

[Professor Peter Arenella @arenella1]

Can you imagine working 16-18 hrs every day including mot of your weekends while you partner and kids complain about never seeing you. Becoming a ghost to your family for an extended period of time because you believe your work is a necessary component of the effort to save our

[ThingsMrGSays @mrbgilson]

When a teacher posts about the unrelenting exhaustion we are experiencing it doesn’t mean they don’t like teaching, don’t like their students, or that they have terrible admin. It could just mean that the weight of everything over the last few years is exhausting without healing.

[Jo Knowles @JoKnowles]

Anyone who truly wants to protect kids knows that taking books away from them, books that show them they aren't alone, books that show them a way through, that survival is possible, is not the way. Knowledge is power. And they do not want your child to have it. We know why.

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

One thing that has always struck me is the unflinching resolve that some yt folks have doubling & tripling down when they have been called out for racism. This is especially true in the UK. Being called racist is worse to them than acts of racism.

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

@msschilllax @Mr_Rablin I love this! I could do it with stickers!

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

This is a great thread! I bought a massage chair and roll around the room. It keeps me from having to bend over or lean over them and is also just a good seated position after being on my feet for a long time.

[Tyler Rablin @Mr_Rablin]

🧵 Here's a list of random little things I do as a teacher that actually have weirdly strong impacts on student behavior, engagement, and motivation.

I'd love to hear yours in the comments.

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[The PhD Place @ThePhDPlace]

Your mental health is more important than your PhD

[Jay Wamsted @JayWamsted]

When we routinely allow our profession to be labeled “a calling” we are setting ourselves up for exploitation.

See: teachers & nurses

[Lindsay Brown @Lidsville]

If you think you're on the left and you're not wearing a mask in public indoor spaces, you're not.

I don't know why this is hard to understand.

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

I see that ha-ha-funny white women are over on Tiktok appropriating Tariq’s adorable Black joy for their own clicks and likes in attempts to normalize disordered eating, so that’s cool, Karen.

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

@VernorsSoda I went to six brick and mortar stores to find the literal last 12 pack of Vernors in Madison, WI. What’s happening?!? Should I drive back to Michigan to stock up?

[Kevin Leichtman, Ph.D. @KevinLeichtman]

Definition of TEACHER BURNOUT (Directly from my dissertation)

A pervasive breaking down of every aspect of a teacher’s personal and professional life due to a fervent commitment to a job that does not provide the hoped for results and

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

@CarlaShalaby I love this so much that I am using with my juniors to talk about education reform and power in the classroom!

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

@CarlaShalaby @threadreaderapp unroll

[Maureen Mead☮️ @midwestmaureen]

@teachbk A colleague and I were dreaming about a system where each HS department had an admin assistant who did research for us to co-create curriculum. Imagine if that was part of the education program! What a treat to see how a department collaborates before you get your own classroom!