Heather Watson-Perez

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[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

10 yo: "SOooooo, if vampires can't go out in the daylight b/c the sunlight will kill them, why can they go out at night. Moonlight is just the sunlight reflecting off the moon. It doesn't make sense. 😑🙄😏"

Me: "😳"

10: "yeah, science is really killing my favorite horror."

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

"Before we get going, are there any Moms for Liberty in the house? No? Good. then hands will not need to be thrown tonight."

Host LeVar Burton kicks off this year's National Book Awards ceremony. #NBAwards

[Hi, it’s Tee 🤷🏾‍♀️ @MyFlorevolution]

Ion wanna hear yall saying “ASL should be taught in the K-12 + college classrooms” while in the same breath criticizing the grammatical, phonological, morphological, syntactic, & body-language structures of ASL every time yall see a Deaf interpreter on the screen ever again.

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

@MsBteacherlady Years ago I taught IB and I was sent to a training. It was helpful because they did a lot of small group discussions as well as practical application of ideas for your subject area, plus tons of teaching materials from what I remember.

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

THANK YOU. The young ones just don't get this. We legit thought it was real!

[Mr. Malvik @mrmalvikscience]

Y’all are damaging these kids with percentages. My 3rd grader comes home with a spelling test with 59% on it. As a parent, I tell him I don’t care what grade comes home as long as we fix it together and learn from the mistakes. But as we corrected it, he was in tears.

[big honkin caboose @itsbighonkin]

And can I be honest. I do not believe that everyone complaining about using this over fresh really cooks for themselves regularly sorry. It’s an opinion that I can understand people who love cooking on a higher level could have and that is not most of u

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

The "to-do list" feature is THE WORST thing Canvas ever decided to do. Students only click into the to do list then send emails about the course being confusing...because they only see the assessment from the to-do list and none of the related module info. It is MADDENING.

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

Asking my students to decide which Emily Dickinson line they would get as a tattoo and then holding a vote to choose the best one may not be the most pedagogically robust class exercise but I can recommend it as an icebreaker

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

This is my hub's curmudgeonly complaint: our kids don't go outside & roam like he/we did. BUT he's also really protective of them & gets very worried when they go out by themselves. I try to remind him that a) we roamed b/c of stuff at home; b)kids are not welcome outside now.

[Robyn Pennacchia @RobynElyse]

The silliness of this aside — I always want to point out that we have largely barred teenagers from the kinds of public spaces they used to inhabit, and that it is weird to do that and then wonder why the kids aren't hanging out.

[Roopika Risam @roopikarisam]

I think the moral of the story is that academics are trained to write, not to manage, and therefore this is a common story. Management is a skill and it can be hard to learn, especially when you’re socialized to individualist modes of work.

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

@ProfessorDLugo Omg I was JUST wondering how you were doing these days! Glad to see you happy and busy, friend! 🥰

[Dr. Alec Couros @courosa]

The news is filled with stories of professors boasting about "catching" students who've submitted AI-generated assignments. I'd much rather see professors boasting about how they've altered assessment strategies or gotten to the heart of why students
cheat in the first place.

[Structured Success @StructuredSucc]

I understand that it's well-meaning, but when articles from trustworthy sources about ADHD include "reduce distractions," "establish a routine," "practice mindfulness," and "get enough sleep,"

It starts to feel a whole lot like the "you're just lazy crowd"

[Heather Watson-Perez @profdubpea]

@ashleyann_atx I use it when a situation is frustrating in the exact way I predicted it would be.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Miss Beasley was the first black woman to be regularly published in a major metro newspaper when she became a columnist for the Oakland Tribune

Miss Beasley was born in Cincinnati in 1871. She began writing for her local paper at the age of 12 and later became a columnist for the Oakland Tribune.

Beasley’s column “Activities Among Negroes” reported on the positive achievements and happenings in the black community in the Bay Area and nationwide.