Martha Pantoja

[Martha Pantoja @pantoja1925]

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[Chris Gardner @chrissgardner]

SOME NEWS: Bono takes U2 on a break from Achtung Baby to perform “All I Want is You” and dedicates song to all women in world, on their crew, women experiencing hardship in world. Then he dedicates it to special guest in Sphere audience…”your First Lady, Jill Biden.”

[Justin Brooks @JustinoBrooks]

10 years later and this pic and @BrianBanksFREE’s story is still getting a gazillion likes and shares. Stories of wrongful convictions are important. Keep sharing!

[𝓛𝓸𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓪 𝓡𝓲𝓬𝓸✨ @LolitaRico_Edu]

💥Proud coach over here✋🏼 These incredible @CoyotesCves teachers coordinated their outfits to show their #PUSDVoyager spirit🎉 on our coaching day. Their smiles totally made my day! @PUSDinnovate

[Jackee Sheets @jackeesheets]

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[edutopia @edutopia]

4 Keys to a Great Year 🗝️

🖼️ Room arrangement
🛣️ Routines
🤝 Relationships
💜 Norms
https://t.co/Vb8ZcNSQ77

[Martha Bongiorno #AdobeEduCreative @MrsBongiornoEdu]

It's here. A labor of love.

A whole year's worth of Mindful Maker Mondays.

where crafting meets purpose, empowering creators to make an impact in their community while fostering global awareness through SDGs

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#tlchat #BossLibrarianPD #librarytwitter

[Martha Pantoja @pantoja1925]

Please consider helping me #clearthelist. 🙂 I will be teaching 2nd grade and need a few items to start off the year. THANK YOU!! #clearthelists2023
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[Martha Pantoja @pantoja1925]

Please consider helping me #clearthelist. 🙂 I will be teaching 2nd grade and need a few items to start off the year. THANK YOU!! #clearthelists2023
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[edutopia @edutopia]

Say "Hello!" Research shows the power of greeting students at your door. 👋

[edutopia @edutopia]

A playful strategy called "Milling to Music" gets students up, out of their chairs, and talking about ideas with each other—all while pretending to be at a sophisticated party listening to music. 🎶 See how it works!

#MakingLearningMorePlayful with
@LEGOFoundation

[edutopia @edutopia]

On modeling self-regulation through tone of voice: “The sweet spot is calm, neutral, assertive, and the teachers who get the best responses from kids are the ones that have mastered that the best," says Cynthia Robinson-Rivers of Van Ness Elementary in Washington, DC.

[Dr. Bryan Pearlman #MaslowBeforeBloom @DrP_Principal]

Quiet & Compliant Student…

I returned to the building after a meeting and my assistant principal and counselor were at the front door waiting for me. They informed me that they were very worried Emily, a fourth-grade student, was going to harm herself. Emily was an above-average student who had won several attendance and character awards. She generally flew under the radar. She did not seek attention and preferred to work by herself. Emily was the definition of a quiet and compliant student.

Emily was not working in class, ignored the teacher’s directions, and was not acting like herself. The teacher sent her to the counselor’s office. The counselor met individually with her and Emily articulated a detailed plan on how she was going to kill herself after school today. The counselor attempted unsuccessfully to reach her parents. She was not able to contact them or the other emergency contacts.

As a team, we decided to call for an ambulance so that Emily would get an emergency psychiatric evaluation. While waiting for the ambulance, I tried to talk to Emily. She had her head down and did not respond. I decided to give her a pen and some paper. I let her know that she could draw or write until the ambulance arrived.

When the paramedics and a police officer arrived, they walked Emily to the ambulance and the counselor went along with them. I let her know that I would finish the school day and then meet them over at the hospital.

We had a school assembly, a parent meeting, and then we finished our dismissal procedures. When the day was over, I returned to my office and began to pack up to head to the hospital. I looked across my office and noticed a folded-up note on the table next to where Emily had been sitting. I thought to myself that this was weird. I generally kept the table cleared off and didn’t remember setting anything on it. The folded piece of paper had writing on the outside that said “To Dr. P.” I unfolded the paper and read the note: “Dr. P, I’m sorry for ruining your day and causing such a big problem today. You probably don’t know who I am. I am very sad most of the time and alone. My parents don’t get me, and every day is pretty much the same. I don’t have any friends. I really can’t see things getting better in the future. I feel bad and hopeless most of the time. I wonder a lot about whether it is worth being alive at all. Your student, Emily.”

I put the note down and started to tear up. I thought about Emily and remembered that she came in third place in our school spelling bee earlier that year; she was the second fastest runner at our annual school run; and, I even remembered the power point that she presented in her class last year about pollution. How could there be such a disconnect between what we knew about Emily and how Emily was feeling right now? I sat there puzzled because in my mind she had everything going for her — she was smart, athletic, and very kind. At the same time, she was only a few hours away from taking her own life before her tenth birthday.

The psychiatrist at the hospital said that he was fairly certain that Emily would have made an attempt that day. She had a plan, she knew when her parents and siblings would be out of the house, and she was ready to go.

Emily has been an active participant in therapy for several years, has a supportive friend group, graduated college, has a boyfriend, and just started a great job!

I am so appreciative of the school staff who recognized that Emily was not acting like herself. They did not wait days to get involved. It is so important to look for changes in behaviors, changes in attitude, and changes in appearance.
What have you done to ensure that every student is on someone's radar (even the quiet and compliant students)?

From the book: “Whatever It Takes!: For All Students to Succeed in School and Life”: (https://t.co/gDlQoij54k)

Join the “Maslow Before Bloom” Facebook group: https://t.co/015cLKjJ1m.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

This is a truly wonderful story from Bruce @springsteen and I hope you listen to the end of it.

It's a reminder to all artists...be humble, be grateful.

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Let’s talk about language-rich environments.

One of the determining factors in both the speed at which your child develops language and the size of his/her early vocabulary is exposure to (direct & interactive) caregiver speech.

Even before your baby is using language conventionally, he/she is soaking up all of yours. (And I do mean ALL… keep it G-rated.)

One way to support your baby’s language/brain development is to narrate your life together. (Engage your child by talking about the steps you’re taking as you fold the laundry, for example. Or describe what you’ve received as you sort through the mail.)

This grandpa gets a gold star here - not only narrating, but turning the simple act of rolling a ball back and forth into a thrilling TV sports play-by-play that includes the baby’s name and actions over and over.

What a lucky little guy to be so immersed in language. He’ll be better off for it… just you wait and see!

What strategies have you used to ensure your child is surrounded by interactive talk?

🎥 Kesler.Brian IG

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Gabriel sent us this photo from Arvin CA where the grape harvesting season is just starting. The high yesterday was 110°.

Gabriel nos envió esta foto desde Arvin CA, donde recién comienza la temporada de cosecha de uva. La máxima de ayer fue de 110°.

#WeFeedYou #CALOR

[CNN @CNN]

President Joe Biden plans to name a new national monument after Emmett Till, a White House official told CNN, honoring the Black teenager whose murder in 1955 helped galvanize the civil rights movement. https://t.co/qBr6jWcpAh

[Toby Price @jedipadmaster]

Principals … here’s an awesome ice breaker your teachers are guaranteed to love…it’s called “Go work in your classroom.” #edutwitter

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Sharon, my mother-in-law.

She taught me it’s important work to see someone for who they are and not what you expect.

When my wife got leukemia at 30, when our world was shattered and changed forever, Sharon very quietly and very firmly stepped into the role she was born for. She moved, with her dependent Vietnam vet husband, into our house and became Michele’s caretaker too.

When I first met my mother-in-law I had a hard time understanding her thick south Virginia accent. And she seemed a little bossy in that southern passive aggressive polite way. But I knew she was important to the love of my life, so I accepted her grudgingly as some of us do when family is forced on us.

After 5 years I still didn’t really know her.

Over the last two years she bought most of the groceries, cooked almost every meal, did most of the laundry and cleaning, drove both dependents to almost every one of the 300+ doctor appointments, sorted tens of thousands of pills, and made sure they were all taken on time at every hour every day.

And she did this when she herself was diagnosed with cancer 6 months ago. When she was getting a mastectomy. When she is going through chemo.
She hums when she works. She talks to herself when there’s no one to listen, and she goes about every day with humility and grace.
I took this photo before I left work this morning. She didn’t know I was there.
This, friends, is what greatness looks like in a quiet moment. Waiting on oatmeal to cook for her daughter for the 300th time since she got sick.

Not everyone gets to have a real-world superhero in their lives. And for this I am filled with gratitude every day.

Credit: Scott Mann

[CNN @CNN]

Every child under the age of five in California is now qualified to receive a free book in the mail every month, thanks to the state’s expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. https://t.co/cY8kZzdUF5