Margarita Altidis

Secondary English Teacher | University of Illinois Alumna

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

@mnplackett203 @MrsEbonyJBaker @Naperville203 @NeuquaValley @dlusby2 @mnplackett203 always one of my greatest supporters!! Love to share in this work with you 💜

[Lance Fuhrer @lancefuhrer]

Most weekends, our stages give students a chance to shine. Those days will return. Looking forward to 2nd Semester.

[Learning for Justice @learnforjustice]

We are thankful for educators who create critical conversations about improving curricula and ensuring more students see themselves in the work educators lift up. We appreciate the vital work of #DisruptTexts.
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[Lance Fuhrer @lancefuhrer]

You’ve got questions? We’ve got answers. Enjoy the break, Wildcats...

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

We’re remote AND we have a full day of meaningful poetry and rich novels on the agenda today for English 2, English 3 & AP Lit #IPEA37yearsofuninterruptedservice @CathyPiehl @karubas @NatashaSGrover @RaczakRaczak @laurieedonahue @mark_rising @susandemm28

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

Wonderful to safely see students. Many thanks to our admin team for this great event!! #GoWildcats

[Neuqua Valley High School @NeuquaValley]

This is How We Do It: Friday Night Lights...

[Melissa Wilson @MrsWilsonNV]

We can’t wait to see our Seniors tomorrow at Friday Night Lights! Learn more: https://t.co/u0GrrJWQOW @NeuquaValley

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one person"

--Czeslaw Milosz

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

There is, by every measure, reason for fear,
concern, a concert in the balcony of anxiety
made of what has also always been inside of us:
a kind of knowing that everything could break.

—Lee Herrick

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[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

The classroom looks different, but the energy is all there! #WeGotThis @nv_english

[Neuqua Valley High School @NeuquaValley]

Good Morning: Time to meet you, to know you, to care about you and to learn with you.

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

That August excitement has me ready to reconnect with my amazing colleagues as we embark on this adventure to support, engage, and connect with students #ipsd204 @NeuquaValley @nv_english

[Carol Jago @CarolJago]

Students long to return to school as it was: football, choir, food fights in the cafeteria, homecoming.

None of which is on the menu this fall.

[Clint Smith @ClintSmithIII]

I think some people really take for granted for much work it is for educators to set up meaningful, engaging lessons for their students over zoom. There's a bizarre narrative that online teaching is easier for educators, but I don't know a single teacher who thinks that's true.

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

@InnaKagan @joncoopertweets @DebraMessing @cjakubas Let’s do it!

[Margarita Altidis @nvaltidis]

@CarolJago you helped me quiet my heart today. Poetry is... that morning coffee that awakens the mind and warms the soul. What is poetry to you? @jayvphoto @mnplackettnchs @HobbsB23 @cjakubas #writeon @WRITE_Center

[Jason Verdin @jayvphoto]

For all the parents advocating for schools to reopen and risking health in the name of normalcy: education is not going back to normal. What kids will experience in the fall is just a return to the building they called school.

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

I am tired of little tight-faced poets sitting down to
shape perfect unimportant pieces.
Poems that cough lightly — catch back a sneeze.
This is the time for Big Poems,
roaring up out of sleaze,
poems from ice, from vomit, and from tainted blood.

--Gwendolyn Brooks