Marissa Peronace

Love to learn, love to teach, becoming a better teacher every day.

[Marissa Peronace @surfloverrissa]

@CosmicAbe it’s been on my mind for about a year now. it’s reassuring to know i’m not the only one thinking about the long-term effects. no clue what else i’d be this good at though.

[Marissa Peronace @surfloverrissa]

the pandemic has been so hard on beginning of career teachers. i’m in year 5, there are decades of my career ahead of me and the work is exhausting. the most experienced teachers at my site are struggling to keep up. what does that mean for me when i’m 20 years in?

[Cher @cher]

Merry Xmas 🐥🐣.
Things Come & Go But
Mostly im Cool

[Marissa Peronace @surfloverrissa]

but they can’t find the money to invest YOUR tax $$$ in your healthcare, your child’s education, veteran’s health and mental health, public transportation, postal service, libraries, parks, ETC ETC ETC.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

BREAKING: The House just passed an $858,000,000,000 defense bill.

This is an absolute disgrace.

[NEA @NEAToday]

New report: The educator shortage is not the result of an insufficient number of potentially qualified teachers.

The shortage is, instead, a shortfall in the number of qualified teachers willing to work at current wages and under current working conditions.

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

Laughs in teacher

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

When teachers strike the focus is how it's bad for students. When nurses strike the focus is how it's bad for patients. When railroad workers strike the focus is how it's bad for the economy. So who's left out, every time? Workers.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The United States, sadly, is the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee paid sick days. Pathetic. In a modern civilized society, it should be a no-brainer that if you or your family gets sick, you should have paid sick leave. End of discussion.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

You cannot simultaneously snuff out the only leverage workers have (striking), cheer about snuffing it out, then feign concern workers don’t get what they asked for. This doesn’t make any moral or logical sense. These two sentiments are in direct contradiction

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Senators who have unlimited sick days and make $174,000 TAXPAYER dollars per year had the nerve to vote against giving rail workers 7 sick days.

[Danyal Kade Doyle Griffiths @kdgriffit]

Ilhan Omar and AOC voted in favor of smashing the rail strike

[Howie Hua @howie_hua]

If anyone wants to know where I am mentally until the end of the semester:

[The Modest Teacher @ModestTeacher]

What if instead of wasting time teaching summer school, teachers spent the month of June in serious professional development—revamping curriculum, learning researched based teaching strategies, collaborating with their colleagues, and prepping for the upcoming school year?

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

My books looking at me as twitter burns to the ground

[the moon’s wife @bookishseawitch]

and if my only “career goal” is to simply eat a brie grilled cheese with fig jam and sit with my friends in a meadow and read poetry? what then?

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

CEO total compensation of defense contractors:

Lockheed Martin: $18M

Raytheon Technologies: $23M

General Dynamics: $23.5M

Boeing: $21M

Northrop Grumman: $19.8M

“Support our troops” actually means supporting the pockets of the military-industrial complex.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

Some schools are so focused on getting teachers to use a specific textbook series or resource that they forget to train their teachers on the principles that underlie these materials. So teachers end up not knowing how to teach and the materials aren’t used how they’re intended

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

JUST IN: California becomes the second state in U.S. history to enshrine abortion rights in their state constitution, joining Vermont.