One of the diversity speakers for one of our HS classes was African-American. She shared that she loved music but when she was in high school, the marching band wore uniforms which were Confederate Uniforms & how that impacted her. I hope that caused every student to reflect.
What is white privilege?
We asked @JohnAmaechi, psychologist, best-selling author and former NBA basketball player to explain it for us.
👉 https://t.co/t7LIENTnPn
I had hoped it was a glitch, but no...The @CDCgov hospital capacity dashboard has gone dark. @CDCDirector has said CDC still has access to the data but apparently the public no longer does.
Teachers are preparing their wills and school districts are preparing form letters to share in the event of a teacher or student death related to COVID. This is not the job I signed up for. 😢
am I understanding this correctly? covid-19 is so deadly that Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen had to be released from prison early, but it's also so benign that we need to be packing the nation's children back into their schools pronto? ok cool, that checks out
MATH IS NOT APOLITICAL.
Y’all ever seen a misleading graph? Seen people with power use numbers manipulated for their benefit to win arguments/contracts? How about who’s ideas are valued and how we portray “genius” in film?
MATH IS NOT APOLITICAL.
So, I sometimes write new @STEMTeachTools in my dreams. Last night I was dream-writing about qualities of equitable learning environments and came up with:
🍃Does the learning community use multiple truths or models to make deep sense of a shared moment or phenomena?
#NGSSchat
This newly released guidance document identifies instructional content priorities for K-8 mathematics and K-12 ELA/Literacy for the 2020/2021 academic year.: https://t.co/n8eQLLlDQg #coreadvocates#backtoschool#suptchat
THIS is what happens when teachers are given a platform for voicing concerns about returning to school "full time" in the fall...Thank you NJ teachers for compiling!!
https://t.co/U0LfoBY2BR