a hidden challenge of parenting is how easy it can be to momentarily forget you’re talking to a child. today my 5 year old was like “I’m so hot should we just eat more popsicles?” and I was two seconds away from being like “YES BITCH”
It’s always “protect the children” until it comes to guns.
It’s always “free speech” until it comes to certain books.
It’s alway “medical freedom” until it comes to women.
It’s always “parental rights” until it comes to the parents of LGBTQ kids.
This is a report on district leaders’
perceptions of teacher practices.
District leaders who didn’t teach through a pandemic, who, in many cases, imposed rapid & drastic mandates w/out input from actual teachers and who are now complaining about what happens as a result.
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@heymrsbond You have explained what I have been struggling to put into words, so thank you. My husband is an amazing partner and parent, but some things are just so deeply ingrained that I fear there will never be “equal labor” in the home
I don’t know if anybody cares on here (twitter is mostly where I scream into the void!) but I wrote a children’s book and think it’s pretty cool, so check it out
https://t.co/bCT2ia3pCs
I’m putting together a collection of Cabin Movies, which is like …the kind of movies that were on VHS that you’d find at a lake cabin as a kid and I need more suggestions
This is a training for the most popular elementary math teaching approach right now - “building thinking classrooms” by Canadian consultant Peter Liljedahl.
It goes against everything experts know about what works.
If you say things like “I support teachers, just not teachers’ unions” then I hate to break it to you, but you don’t really support teachers…but y’all already knew that.
Project based learning!
Where kids will spend lots of time putzing around with PowerPoint animations, one kid does all the real work, and no one actually learns any worthwhile content.
Hooray education fads! Very learning, much engaging!