Petra, Ed.D.

Educator, TLI graduate, Educational Leadership, Social Justice Activist, Hope Street Fellow

[Petra, Ed.D. @verstand54]

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[Jen @jenteach13]

You want to fix education?

Fix #14: Count the administrators in your district. Then count the teachers. Then ask who is in the room with your child.

Let me break down Fix #14.
Pull up your district's organizational chart. Count every assistant superintendent, every director, every coordinator, every specialist, every instructional coach who does not have a classroom. Then count the teachers. Then ask yourself which number has grown faster over the last ten years and which one has not kept pace with what the kids actually need.

What does it mean in practice?
It means every dollar that funds a coordinator of academic services is a dollar that did not fund a teacher, an aide, a reading interventionist, or a classroom library. It means every central office position added is a decision about priorities, and that decision has consequences inside every building in the district. It means the people closest to the kids have the least power and the least resources, and the people furthest from the kids have the most of both.

How does this help kids?
A child is not educated by an organizational chart. She is educated by the person standing in the room with her every day. When we fund the room, staff the room, and support the person in the room, kids learn. When we fund the office instead, kids wait. The bloat at the top does not show up in test scores with a label attached. It shows up as thirty-two kids and no copy paper. It shows up as a teacher buying her own supplies in February. It shows up as the gap between what we say we value and where the money actually goes.

How do we make this happen?
We need district budgets that are transparent and readable by anyone who wants to look. We need school boards that ask hard questions about the ratio of administrators to teachers and demand honest answers. We need communities that understand the difference between a principal who is in the building every day and a director of curriculum alignment who has not been in a classroom in fifteen years. And we need to stop assuming that adding a layer of management above the teachers is the same thing as supporting the teachers. It is not. It is often the opposite.

The goal is not to eliminate every administrator. The goal is to make sure the people closest to the kids are the priority, not an afterthought.

#YouWantToFixEducation

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Thank a Veteran for the freedom you will enjoy this weekend and remember ….. Memorial Day celebrates those who gave their all. 🙏🏼

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

WHO’S WITH ME?? 💙🌎

[Petra, Ed.D. @verstand54]

@jenteach13 We need to seek a balance between paper-pencil and technology.

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

My high school math teacher was the first person who helped me realize I liked math and was pretty good at it. That’s what public schools do. But Trump’s voucher program will drain them of the resources they need. I’m fighting for every kid to have what I had.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

One of the toughest jobs in education is being a principal.
Every day, principals are balancing mandates, district expectations, meetings, parent concerns, student needs, staffing issues, budgets, discipline, testing pressures, and a thousand other responsibilities most people never see.
And somehow in the middle of all that, the best principals still find ways to encourage their teachers.
They show up in classrooms. They check on people. They celebrate small wins. They protect staff when they can. They try to keep morale up even when they’re exhausted themselves.
Great principals live in the tension between leading systems and leading people.
And the ones who never lose sight of their staff in the middle of all the pressure deserve more appreciation than they often receive.
To the principals who continue fighting for kids while also trying to support, encourage, value, and appreciate their teachers:
Thank you.
Your staff may not always see everything you do behind the scenes, but your presence, support, and leadership matter more than you know.
Education is still a people business. And great principals never forget that. @NAESP @NASSP

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Hard truth:

Schools cannot fully overcome poor parenting.

Teachers are burning out trying to do the jobs of educator, counselor, disciplinarian, and parent all at once.

At some point, accountability has to return to the home.

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

Not teaching students math facts because they can use calculators, spelling rules because they have spell check, historical dates because they can google it, or writing skills because they have Al is a travesty. Depriving students of these things enslaves them to technology rather than freeing them to flourish as human beings.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I’m surprised he had the balls to say any of this, but I’m glad he did!

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

Teacher morale is more important than curriculum, technology, and programs.

[Petra, Ed.D. @verstand54]

@DrBradJohnson Relational leaders are few and far.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

When you take time to build relationships with your staff you dont need a survey to know how they feel

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

It’s true.

[Petra, Ed.D. @verstand54]

Parents/guardians are a child's first teacher--discipline, respect, ethics/morals, and manners should be taught by them.

[Elizabeth❣️ @WorkElizab]

What do you think?

[@Sharon_Educator @Sharon_Educator]

Love their students, but things have changed.

[Petra, Ed.D. @verstand54]

#autism 💙 Amazing

[̶P̶A̶R̶L̶A̶ 🇹🇷 @aIiaIaeII]

12 yaşında ki otizmli bir çocuk 56.000 Lego parçasıyla dev bir Titanic maketi yapmış.
11 ay uğraşmış.
Otizm farkındalığı için bu twiti beğenip yoruma mavi bir 💙 bırakır mısınız...

[Monika Wiesak @MonikaWiesak]

The United States is neither omnipotent not omniscient. We are only 6% of the world’s population & we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind. We cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity. There cannot be an American solution to every world problem. - JFK

[Dana Palubiak @DanaPalubiak]

Teachers don't quit because they don't care. They quit because they're asked to do the work of five professionals for the pay of less than one.

And then they're told they didn't do enough.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Schools are now structured so that the overwhelming number of student misbehaviors essentially have ZERO consequences.

This is horrible for teachers…but it’s even worse for the students who want to learn!