Kaitlyn

I tell, share, love stories. Director of Communications & Partnerships at Education Resource Strategies | reformer, nerd, theatre director | she/her

[Kaitlyn @WhyKaitlyn]

desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...” Kerouac

[Kaitlyn @WhyKaitlyn]

“But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,

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Watching the #ArtemisLaunch because 1) it’s time to repair the trauma from Challenger and 2) the world is a dumpster fire but we can still dream about the stars. ✨

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I used to be an archaeologist, but I quit because my career was in ruins.

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Listening to @EricaLG go toe to toe with @SecCardona at #EWA24 and she is not lobbing softballs. Incredible work, Erica!

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“…we make of our memories the gods which judge our current lives.” Shaken to the core by this line from @BrandSanderson’s Tress of the Emerald Sea. 💚

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@matt_barnum Matt, this is amazing. So well deserved! Can't wait to see what you do at WSJ!

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So proud of our latest publication. The team worked really hard on this and it has a lot of great insights on the relationship between principal & teacher turnover, especially in schools that serve high poverty neighborhoods. Our principals need better support to serve kids!

[Education Resource Strategies @ERStrategies]

If we want to retain teachers, we need to retain principals. Our new research dug into the factors that impact teacher turnover and found a striking pattern: when principals leave their schools, teachers follow. Check out our new resource to learn more: https://t.co/IjlsAZr7vl

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Greatness

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

When I tell you that @Justinjpearson is preaching today! He is forcefully and eloquently articulating his case in the tradition of freedom fighters like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Angela Davis.

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@monman5863 @quiddie @sleepnomorenyc Original Sleep No More (in Boston) I was pulled into a tiny closet with Malcolm and there was a long 1:1 involving eggs that was INTENSE. They still do a version of it in the NY one. Shit is crazy! LOVE

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Backed this Gwelf sequel SO FAST. Can't wait for another original painting from @larrymacdougall, an absolute genius of an illustrator and worldbuilder! Played a Gwelf birthday adventure last year... so excited to play another next year w/ Hinterlands! https://t.co/eglq1lVV0Z

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“Build into your system the appetite to dismantle bureaucracies that keep a great idea from flourishing… the courage to look at bureaucracies we must blow up.” -@DrCavazosSuper talking about the role of the Superintendent at #SXSWEDU

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“Transformational change is more taxing on the mind, soul, and body… And so what does it mean to sustain the work when you’re going against the grain?” -Marco Ibarra from @LosAngelesCOE in a challenging and inspiring principals’ panel at #SXSWEDU

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“We say we want student voice and agency, we can’t be afraid to give it to them.” -Michael Low @LuckLegends in a great #SXSWEDU session on TTRPGs in the K12 classroom. Would love to see @BrennanLM @quiddie and others get into this space!

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“We really need to overhaul the teaching profession in a way that centers students and teachers.” -@RodRobinsonRVA in an incredible #SXSWEDU session. So real and so inspiring!

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“I think a lot of possibilities for growth are edited out because [people think] it has to be done a certain way.” -Frank Gehry on design-based learning at #SXSWEDU

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@carolynmichelle And I’m guessing not as many of those boyfriends will point out Ashley Johnson next week…

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“During the pandemic, it felt like we gave teachers the keys to a car they were not prepared to drive.” -@DAndreWeaver from @DigitalPromise speaking on the potential for virtual instruction to transform teaching and learning at #SXSWEDU

[Kaitlyn @WhyKaitlyn]

“It wasn’t the students who were failing. It was the system they were initially put in.” - Luma Mufleh, @fugeesfamily

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“Real innovation takes imagination.”