One of my professors stopped putting pdfs of articles in the class Canvas. She explained that “because we’re reading scholarship of marginalized thinkers, it helps them to have their work searched and downloaded.” 🤯
@jaiagreen
I should probably explain that this is a PhD program, where it’s imperative that we as graduate students also develop the ability to do our own searches, and not depend on the professor. Quality scholarship depends on the ability to locate things without having your hand held.
@katie_kaukinen
@DrSLDesmarais
And this is so important for grad students to understand. I wouldn’t have thought of this and now if I ever make it to that level, I’ll do the same.
I can’t think of another profession that infantilizes and patronizes its most important workers. Lemme spell it out: in capitalism, it turns out that money is helpful. Don’t exploit teachers’ love of their work. Compensation is the BOTTOM rung of the ladder to respect.
So-called
#christians
giving millions to build a wall to keep out poor and suffering people the week before
#Christmas
? Y’all really didn’t read the Bible, did you?
It is unconscionable that student teachers not only are unpaid and exploited, not only actively discouraged from MAKING A LITERAL LIVING, but also are PAYING TO WORK. Has your state passed legislation to pay preservice teachers?
So, just to be clear: we need to be ready for in person in 14 days. No word on how we’re getting vaccinated. Vaccine comes in two stages. 2 wks for it to take effect. Someone isn’t proficient in math.
#notmeeting
@TooDopeTeachers
@SwipaCam
This framing that we can only hold one kind of antiracist struggle in our hearts and minds is disturbing. We can condemn anti-Blackness AND anti-Semitism simultaneously. We don’t have to choose.
@livmoods
“The Wolves are tougher” is such a weird comment. Of course they are, they’re the 3 and it’s the semifinals?? Kinda the point of the playoffs?
Not having school has probably been detrimental for students. However, are we asking what students and their families feel they have lost, or are we colonizing them with our savior-driven ideas?
@WillieETCarver
Also get it in writing. Insist that they document the reasons and specifically that they are directing you to take it down. Print the email. Scan it and post it everywhere.
Literally children are talking about starting a foundation to make up for the sad school funding picture in Denver. I love the initiative but also WHY SHOULD CHILDREN HAVE TO COME UP WITH MONEY FOR A LITERAL PUBLIC EDUCATION
@EllenGreeneArt
Thats fair! Also, I want students to be agents in leveling the playing field. A playing field that I hope to disrupt and change. I think both our ideas can cooperate!
I didn’t get a chance to learn about the
#LGBTQ
folx in my
#chicano
community until I read the Rain God in college. Understanding the humanity of the our LGBTQ neighbors, friends, colleagues and students is essential to build a better world for everyone.
Having to cover a class is always frustrating and stressful. But I’m never upset that the teacher is absent. Teachers are hurting. Subs are paid peanuts. Students are hurting. The workplace is often oppressive and harmful. Leaders are unresponsive. That’s what upsets me.
I saw the Broncos win the Super Bowl for the first time.
This is better. My pops came here from Mexico with nothing and took me to a game. I fell in love with the
@nuggets
and THEN I fell in love with the game. This aging dude is so happy rn.
School districts: WE NEED TEACHERS WHO REFLECT THE IDENTITIES, VALUES, AND CULTURES OF OUR STUDENTS.
Teachers who reflect the identities, cultures, and values of our students: (exist)
School Districts: NOT LIKE THAT
Colorado teachers, are you aware that our congresspeople are still meeting constituents virtually? Just now moving to limited in person activities? And yet some of us have been in person for over a year? They’ll put us at risk but not themselves?
Say hi to Sebastián Jamal Purry Muñoz
He has life figured out.
-play hard
-don’t back down from bigger cats
-eat enthusiastically
-cuddle as much as possible
-rest often
I’m still trying not to engage.
But if teachers are soooooo important that one day of our absence causes a cosmic sinkhole…why so much hate and disrespect?
These ideas feel contradictory 😑
Two shootings near schools within a 10 minute radius in my city yesterday. We are UNSERIOUS about protecting children and having a real heart to heart about guns and violence.
Sometimes it ain’t even matter if you’re a teacher of the year. Our congresspeople still don’t appreciate or respect us. Stay tuned. I got some things to say.
@flyingmonkey13
Principals should recognize that one of the hardest things about being a teacher is the micromanagement and the infantilization of the workday. The scolding when one is a few minutes late, the clock watching, the constant suspicion. Your teachers are professional adults.
It’s amazing the number of leadership spaces that hold, propagate, and reinforce deficit views of teachers as a whole. Disappointing but not surprising.
I don’t think bro understands what the word “exploit” means. I didn’t hear him once name what folx experiencing homelessness are allegedly taking advantage of. STOP.
NEW: Denver mayoral candidate
@KwameSpearman
describes unhoused people "exploiting the system." I asked Spearman what people sleeping outside on this 4° night are exploiting the system to receive.
#copolitics
@Adam_Mares
and
@DNVR_Sports
team, I’m about 8 minutes into this documentary and the writing is MASTERFUL. Y’all gotta watch this. A Hundred Invisible Threads | DNVR documentary on Serbian basketball his... via
@YouTube
Twitter confession: gratitude is hard for me. If you know, you know. But today I’m grateful for the beautiful humans I’ve met here; you all remind me that the struggle is beautiful when you have people to fight alongside of.
@KyleClark
Would it be Fascist Piglets? Or would it be
@KyleClark
and the Fascist Piglets? I like the second. It’s great for your brand 😂
(Also enjoy your work. Imagine thinking that inclusiveness is fascism)
Brough shouldn’t have used Hickenlooper’s name in her campaign. After the way he treated me as Colorado Teacher of the Year, I can’t with anyone who attaches their name to his.
This Presidents’ Day y’all should know that the Haudennosaunee (Iroquois) people referred to George Washington as “Conotocarius” or “Town Destroyer” after he burned the towns of confederacy who declared neutrality in the so called Revolutionary War.
Professors be like “you should be reading dissertations in your free time” like we don’t have to make an income/maintain presence in our families/sleep
The G0P refuses to pass common sense gun reform, arguing that gun violence is a mental health issue.
The G0P also is attacking SEL in schools.
All you need to know.
An actual educator who worked at all levels of education as education commissioner? What a radical idea…Susana Cordova will be Colorado's next education commissioner
Lol listening to a group of entirely yt folx complaining about a claim of racism made by a person of color. Highly enjoyable. This is why we need honest education.
Went to an event where first responders and the military were acknowledged and applauded. Teachers are never mentioned, even tho teachers are SOCIETY’S first responders.
Just before noon today, the DPS Dept. of Climate and Safety, DPD, and 4 of our campuses Northfield, East, South, and DC-21) received the exact same message with threats of violence. Law enforcement is investigating but believe that these are false reports.
Not to be this guy but it’s American Education week AND our teachers who are hanging on are doing so by the thinnest of threads.
Something has to change. Will it? Can it?
Steve Drazkowski on genocide curriculum in Minnesota schools: "I'm not a historian of Minnesota, but I do understand that the genocides between the white people and the Indians going back included several genocides each way."
#mnleg
The emerging scientific consensus is in direct contraction to every excuse for reopening schools. Will we swallow our pride, admit we had faulty data, and revisit this?
I keep hearing about principals and building level leaders censoring equity-focused, student-voice focused teachers despite there being no district policy supporting this censorship. I’m looking for principals who stand for honest education and support teachers who do it. @ them
It’s okay to support people who have made poor decisions or hold views that you disagree with. But do NOT make excuses for them, do NOT explain or defend them. They are grown a$$ people who have a choice in their opinions.
🌎 is 🗑️ rn but you know what isn’t? Getting a call from a colleague who is a principal who wants to hire a former student who has decided to go into education. Y’all ain’t know.
Me in SoCal over the weekend: (wears
@BeMore27
jersey)
Random guy: GO
@nuggets
!
Me: YEAH!!!
Guy: IF LEBRON WASNT TRYING TO BE SO WOKE HE MIGHT WIN A GAME
Me: YE- um what?
One of my professors stopped putting pdfs of articles in the class Canvas. She explained that “because we’re reading scholarship of marginalized thinkers, it helps them to have their work searched and downloaded.” 🤯
You might think you’re a master procrastinator but at this tweeting I have trimmed my eyebrows, ear hair and nose hair *and* nearly finished the laundry instead of starting my paper.
A little respect, please 👊🏽