#TEACHER

True Story: I was two years behind Josh Hawley in that fancy post-college teaching fellowship at an elite 500-year-old London high school.The first thing one teacher asked me when I
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THREADHilda Tweedy (born Monaghan 1911) grew up in Athlone. She spent some of her early years in Egypt, where her father was working. In 1936, following her marriage, she returned
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Back when I was an undergrad, I remember my heart sinking when I saw the cost of supposedly prestigious summer composition programs, but it's only as a teacher thinking about
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Students may "fall behind" just as all of society has "fallen behind" because plagues have impacts ffs. You know what really sets students back? A severe and debilitating illness. You
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I have had some time to cool off and think about the whole thing with Deadzilla. This isn't the first time that someone I knew turned out to be a
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I like that Norma says we've been assessing 6th Year lots since the beginning of the year.There was zero guidance to do this Her own wellbeing document asked schools specifically
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National Education Association is the largest labor union interest group in the United States with 3,000,000 members.NEA endorsed Joe Biden & in 2020 donated over 94.8% of its political contributions
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VERY IMPORTANT THREAD:I confess that I was ready to defend Dog Shampoo Guy @jonkay.It was clear to me that though he obviously DID haplessly use dog shampoo and get upset
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If you’re gonna let a little name-calling keep you from standing up for what you believe according to the Word of God is gospel truth, you ain’t ready. White supremacy
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Something really bothering me around the OUR/QAnon CSA discourse is how it diverts attention away from the most common forms of abuse. Your pre-teen isn't gonna be kidnapped by a
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We say #NeverForget but are you teaching your kids about the Holocaust? Are you reminding them that the concentration camps were the end result of years of dehumanization? Are you
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When we do read Western canon, we are told we didn't truly understand it. We're told that we did not read it early enough. We're told our teachers didn't parse
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In the past 15+ yrs I've worked as a GP in some of the poorest parts of Sheffield with all the social ills of poverty: debts, joblessness/job insecurity, crime, abuse,
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The creation waits in eager expectation fro the sons of God to be revealed. Romans 8:19. At a critical time when Christians are supposed to be revealed to the world,
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Ok I’m going to go over what tutoring books I ordered for sat and act prep and why... thanks to everyone who donated for books- not done ordering! (Link/Venmo in
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Tell me an ordinary thing you've done that Donald Trump has NEVER done.I'll start: I just did some minor maintenance on my furnace. Thanks for all the responses! Here's one
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