Kristine Napper 🍎✏️♿🗽❄️

I seem to use a lot of cooking metaphors and sports metaphors, for a person who neither cooks nor does sports.

@heymrsbond You win!! My record was the year I did them during spring break. I do gamify by timing how fast I can get them all done. I can’t keep stats between years because they keep adding modules, so it’s apples-to-oranges. But I’m lightning fast!

@FaatiTheStreet I HATE the way our ableist society has people thinking a wheelchair is “giving up.” When it’s what your body needs, a wheelchair is freedom. A wheelchair is strength. A wheelchair is independence. A wheelchair is making space for joy!

I’m gonna be vulnerable right now and talk about what’s happening with me. A year ago I realized I needed a wheelchair. When I reached out to a friend to talk about it they immediately rejected the idea and said I’d get better if I tried. So for a year I tried.

@spoonfulofhan She's unintentionally right. 😆 Another one of the hardest parts of disability IS the quality of caregiving... A few caregivers are joys, but the lows are truly low.

Non-disabled people, especially caregivers, love to enter conversations about disabled struggles and center themselves. It’s not about you. Let us speak about our issues in peace.

@MattRKay My middle school kids know my rule for when they finish work early—“Just don’t do anything illegal or disruptive!”

I mean, c'mon!

@AlanFarnes These claims that middle school kids have always been like this. 🙄 I started teaching in 2007 (in a blue state), and saw a gradual decline in homophobic comments until about 2015. When Trump changed the climate, I started making corrections again that I’d hardly done for years.

@4WheelWorkOut Is it possible to feel devastated and numb at the same time? Because I think I feel that.

@OBrienSci They either put the space before the punctuation, or they don’t put a space at all.A lot of them think the period or comma serves as a space,I guess.

@MKatwood I feel that way about tv in general! I miss the filler episodes that weren’t important, but were just a fun hang with your beloved characters.

Yall remember when cartoons had high enough episode counts that they could just have an episode where the plot is like "ugh it's hot outside." I MISS THAT

@teachbk This modality or that might come more easily to different learners, but the magic is in the combos.

@teachbk Yeah, I think it’s more useful to focus on including multiple modalities of learning, than framing it is learning styles. I always tell kids that if you see it AND hear it AND talk about it AND <fill in the blank>, you’re going to remember it better.

learning styles theory has been debunked but our curriculums still overly focus on a narrow few. we still build in visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc. modes to help students access to the material, no?

@MarcusLuther6 It’s the best! 💜 And a nice signal to the new students that you’re a teacher former students love. 😊

@EDUwithEmily The school won’t work with you? 👎 That’s the kind of thing where my school usually has no problem letting us cut a corner, as long as we get someone to cover whatever we’re stepping out of early.

When we take a “half day” it can either be from 8-11:30 or 11:30-3:00. The only time I could get an appointment is 11:15-11:30. So I have to take a full day IN SEPTEMBER for a 15 minute appointment 🤦🏼‍♀️

@heymrsbond I feel this deep in my soul. I’m so sorry. 💔💜🙏

@MattRKay The kid who wrote a slur directed at me on a table last year, came in the middle of class to say a friendly hello & promised to chat more soon. The kid other teachers complained about last year, brought me a souvenir from Thailand. There’s no love like former student love! 🥰

I love when students that you spent the WHOLE last year fussing at take time to stop by on day 1 and say what’s up

@missmulrooney Speaking of, have we met any children-of-millennials named Cerulean yet?

Anyone who is about to comment "actually millennials don't name their babies after pop culture moments" please first go review the cerulean monologue from Devil Wears Prada

A lot of baby naming trends can be tracked back to pop culture moments from when that generation of parents were kids/teenagers, so that being said, isn't it strange that millennials never started naming their babies Topanga?

@MNTOY2006 …I love how it gets them thinking about responsibility between systems and individuals! And between people giving orders and people following orders. The lack of clear answers drives the kids crazy, but they have the best discussions!

@MNTOY2006 One of my favorite 6th grade units is the Zinn Project’s “People vs Columbus, et al.” The kids hold a trial and decide how to divide the guilt for crimes done against the Taíno people. The defendants are 1) Columbus, 2) his men, 3) King & Queen of Spain, 4) The System Empire…+

@heymrsbond I’m thinking about the families that decide to take their vacations during the first week of school, so their kids don’t show up until week 2 or 3. They know how much time gets wasted with ice breakers at the beginning of the year! 😂

@baddestmamajama Better yet, kids (and teachers) shouldn’t be allowed back in school until August is over. 😆

August should automatically be over when kids go back to school. What are we DOING still having August when people are in geometry class? It’s tacky.