I had the AMAZING opportunity to listen to @BLoveSoulPower speak tonight about abolitionist teaching and celebrating our Black, Brown, & Indigenous students’ CREATIVITY & IMAGINATION. What an awesome event!! Thank you for hosting, @CalPolySOE
FINALLY submitted my last assignment (chapters 1 and 2 of my dissertation!) for the semester and I am DONE.
…for a few weeks 🥴
Three semesters left! 🎉
#PhDEd4SJ
“I suggest that we may learn from spaces of silence as well as spaces of speech, that in the patient act of listening to another tongue…we may disrupt that cultural imperialism that suggests one is worthy of being heard only if one speaks standard English” (hooks 194:174). 💙
Obituary: bell hooks, a Hopkinsville native who went on to an international career as an author, critic, feminist and public intellectual, died on Dec. 15 at her home in Berea. She was 69. @lbblackford https://t.co/aYwR0vTjQx
My friend: “you wrote a whole PhD chapter over a single weekend after stressing about it and doing nothing for six months?”
Me: yeah that’s how ADHD works.
61 years ago today, 4 federal marshals escorted 6-year-old #RubyBridges to her 1st day of school (1st grade), as the 1st Black student to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Your Dissertation is not your entire life
It is and will always be a work in progress. A good dissertation is a DONE dissertation!
Stepping away and taking breaks is ESSENTIAL!
Read this one more time 😊
#phdlife#phdchat@PhDVoice@AcademicChatter#AcademicTwitter
Happy National First-Gen Day to all our first-gen kin! Today we celebrate the brilliance, persistence, and impact of first-gen college students nationwide.
Remember: We matter. We belong. And we will succeed. #FirstGenDay#FirstGenCelebration#CelebrateFirstGen#FirstGenDocs
A learning disability is NOT the same as an intellectual disability. A lot of people think that learning disabilities are related to intelligence. WRONG! Most people with LD have average or above-average intelligence.
Don’t miss out on our first #BLM Social Justice and Advocacy Series event this week! We have two amazing speakers, @bunb79 from Pearson Middle School Library and @WinnieElizabeth of Books N Bros. Sign up! Open to all! Register 👇🏽
https://t.co/MB3JRNPQkq