sandylewan

Retired Superintendent on a journey to raise my racial consciousness.

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

Thanks to our great educators, paraprofessionals and support staff who voted us into the Top 100 workplaces in Minn! 29th place to be exact.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Obama just said what everyone’s thinking but too many are afraid to admit: If he had done even a fraction of what Trump’s doing—blacklisting press, punishing dissent, targeting student protestors—the outrage would’ve been deafening.

But now? Silence. Because when the Constitution gets torched by someone in your tribe, suddenly principles are optional.

This isn’t about policy anymore—it’s about power unchecked and hypocrisy on full display.

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

"Don't let this be another day in America!" Senator Cory Booker.

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

Republicans’ “anti-DEI” bill is a disgrace.

On one hand, it says that racism doesn't exist. On the other hand, it says there’s rampant “reverse racism."

This is the unserious work of the Republican Party.

P.S. they should keep MLK’s name out their mouth.

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

Moving to Bluesky. Looking forward to seeing other Twitter users there.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.

As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.

It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.

I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.

I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.

I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.

We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.

There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.

I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.

I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

This is so very well written and informative for all of us:https://t.co/IYUdncuJc1

[Children First @Children1st_SLP]

1/3 Wilder Research is conducting a study on early childhood exclusion & would like to speak with parents who have a child born after 2013 who was suspended, expelled, or otherwise excluded from a childcare, preschool, or other early childhood education setting in Minnesota.

[EdAllies @EdAlliesMN]

“This has been a pretty troubling process,” @mattmcshaver said. “There are ways to make it a much more inclusive and fair process for the folks who aren’t carrying sidearms to the table.”
https://t.co/7RWMTmFMmz

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

Kevin Piette, paraplegic since an accident, made history today by carrying the Olympic flame with his exoskeleton! 💪

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

Advocates Fear Minnesota Students Will Again Be Subject to Restraint Used on George Floyd @The74 https://t.co/yCL3dEC0vG

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

New Report: School Cops Double Student Arrest Rates and Race, Gender Key Factors @The74 https://t.co/HG1XhaIy7x

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

@District287 YES!

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

OPINION EXCHANGE | Counterpoint: Into American history without fear https://t.co/qGx13mLaKd

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

@BernadeiaJ Best of luck Bernadeia!

[sandylewan @sandylewan]

This is so worth a listen!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

The workers presumed dead in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse were immigrants from Latin America.

"We don’t know how long all of them lived and worked in America. We do know their work was, on the very best days, backbreaking and perilous." -@MajorCBS

[NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas @NBCNightlyNews]

A memorial park honoring slaves will open next week in Montgomery, Alabama. @LesterHoltNBC shares an emotional journey into America's racial history.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

In memory of Nex, we must all recommit to our work to end discrimination and address the suicide crisis impacting too many nonbinary and transgender children.

[National Assoc. of Secondary School Principals @NASSP]

“When we do talk about mental health, it’s often about the mental health of our students, but it should be about the mental health of everyone in the classroom, everyone in the building.” 👏

@Koolbeck at National School Leaders Advocacy Conference #PrincipalsAdvocate

[Raffi Cavoukian 🇨🇦 @Raffi_RC]

so aware of privilege, and so grateful for every day blessings like a good night's sleep, nourishing food and my Luna 🐕 companion. my wish during my career as children's troubadour & then in my #ChildHonouring work is for every child to have universal/irreducible needs met.