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Thread 1/3: My take on the nation heading into August: 1. White House again reverts to discredited conspiracy theories: "Hydoxy", Chinese Communist Party, WHO2. Executive Branch has checked out 3.
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Here’s a quick thread illustrating how the national political outrage machine works these days:Step 1: We report a simple local story about a union leader telling teachers it’s not safe
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‘Why FORCING people to do what your religion commands you to do is the OPPOSITE of the purpose of religions, and makes it useless’.A thread. Let us use schools as
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Teachers fighting for in person time with their students - I get it. The time I spend in person with my students is precious AND that's why I don't believe
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Almost 7 years ago, scattered @bctf members started calling out govt and media pundits' lies about teachers and .#bced on Twitter. It wasn't *exactly* a full-time job. It was 18
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You can turn failure into extreme success. Some favorite stories of mine This writer was told "We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias". His
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While almost 1 million people in IL lost their job in 2020 due to #ChinaVirusHere is yet another example of #BolshevikBureaucrats gone wild. We all have scratched our heads and
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Schools Are SafeSchools Are Essentialof Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD and professor of medicine at Stanford University providing evidence from around the world on the safety and importance of schools. #SchoolsAreEssential
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As a teacher, I disagree with a lot in this post. Teachers & schools are products of the government agencies which decide Ed. standards. We care and are struggling as
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The more I think about it, removing the strange stigma that exists in many schools around 'textbook lessons - a hangover from the grotesque 'top tips to pimp your lesson
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This tier 4 and 3/4 no-lockdown is unlikely to last just 4 weeks.Why? It's not a lockdown. Therefore,A. it will take longer to drive down new infections.B. infections still driven
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Just stop.Schools are not widget factories. Students are not widgets.Emergency remote learning has reminded us how relational teaching is. Schools are communities that need to be nurtured and resourced.Competition improving
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There has been a lot of discussion this past week about our schools in South Carolina, from where our federal funds are going, to how we safely envision a reopening
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Yesterday, the CDC released new guidelines for schools. Clear, science-based guidance was long overdue, so everyone was agog all week. Did they get what they wanted? This is a long
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One of the hardest things about emergency remote teaching was trying to reassure my students when I was falling apart. Sudden bouts of crying, fears that my husband was going
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Some teachers spent the summer reading all the recommended antiracism books and participating in webinars to shift their teaching. Now they’re back to work, all jazzed about what they learned.
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