@jenteach13 Not to mention tutorials to prepare for retest or summer school to practice for retaking state test.
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TXMomof2USmedics
@Momof2medics
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@FixingEducation Sounds like what districts do for graduation rates...birds of a feather I guess.
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When a state addresses its teacher shortage by lowering the standards to become a teacher, instead of making teaching a more sustainable and respected career, it signals a HUGE problem.
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@jarredgeller Its easy spending other people's money. Anything I buy, I know where it is at all times and there are high expectations for said items. Things purchased by district other teachers feel entitled to "borrowing " then it's lost or destroyed and Im apathetic cause I didn't pay for it
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Simple improvement to the public education system:
Give teachers a healthy classroom budget. Put a few thousand dollars back into each classroom every year. Spent at teacher’s discretion.
Within 3 years these classrooms will be decked out. They will never lack for materials or curricula.
Teachers put a lot of their own money into the classroom. Removing that burden while building the classroom of their dreams will cut turnover in half.
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@LearnLead_ Neither will purchasing consultants to come in to word vomit what teachers should do during PD.
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@realJennaEllis Normalizing that graduating 8th grade is a monumental accomplishment in itself instead of whats expected for the eventual accomplishment is sad.
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Just saw a minivan congratulating an 8th grader for graduating with the wording across the back “You F***ing Did It!”
Normalizing such profanity in our culture—especially for children—is disgusting.
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@MrDanielBuck But, but, but...they are building relationships and making connections *sarcasm *
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Five policies for school board to improve discipline
Step #1: Don't let administrators send misbehaving kids back to the classroom with a bag of chips and a pep talk
Step #2: See step 1
fordhaminstitute.org/national/comme…
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@teachthemx3 Simple, follow the money. Districts get charged for false alarm pulls. Just a thought.
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The students pulled the fire alarm 3 times yesterday, so now the district has brought in extra administrators because we have to “protect the learning environment.”
That's wonderful. Except where was the concern for the learning environment when the students flip desks and cuss out their teachers?
Instead of consequences, those students are escorted to the cool down room and given a snack.
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@educator4ever36 Makes me wonder if this is a result of "inclusion" classrooms. On our district prek campus, the kids who are not potty trained before they move to kinder are a majority of our sped kids.
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Parents - this is why from Day One in public schools, your child is already going to learn less. Blame your fellow parents for this one, NOT the schools. I cannot imagine how disgusting this would be for class to be interrupted because a five year old isn’t toilet trained.
Hannah Ward 👩🏻🏫 Mom (x3) | Learning Designer@HannahWardEdu
This school board just unanimously voted that toilet training other people's children is now a staff responsibility at their public schools. Not kids who need special accommodations. ALL the kids. What is a parent's job now exactly? What can parents reliably be expected to do?
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Instead of closing schools due to shrinking numbers, turn those schools into alternative schools. And you can even have multiple campuses that serve different needs. With the goal being to mainstream back into gen ed with the skills and ability to be successful. Wishful thinking, I know.
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@SaraGonzalesTX We need more of this! Thank you for what you are doing, God bless you! 🇺🇸❤️🤍💙
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Something didn’t sit right with me about the answers I received from the Muslim-only waterpark event organizer, so we did some digging into her LLC.
Immediately after our interview, she nuked website.
Unfortunately for her, we already took screenshots.
All very curious. 🤔
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@DillonMartinez If you make it look easy, people think it's easy.
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Teaching and coaching is one of the hardest jobs to do well, and one of the easiest jobs to do poorly.
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@3dancingfeet Problem with that is teachers don't have autonomy in the classroom like they did maybe 5 or 10 years ago. Curriculum has become a script you follow.
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Hormones in year 9 were often problematic in my sec school teaching at first, but I reconstructed the PE curriculum based on their preferences & gave them lots of choice. The behaviour issues pretty much disappeared. Be a flexible teacher & curriculum designer. Listen to kids 🙏
Mr P MBE@ICT_MrP
Here are the secondary answers to “which year group is the most challenging to teach” question I asked a while ago. As I’ve never taught in secondary, I don’t know what the reasons are, but would be interested to hear your thoughts.
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100% agree. Consequences are not trauma.
Orietta Rose 🇺🇲@0riettaRose
Elementary school teacher has a list of things she says parents are NOT ready to hear.
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@2CupsRight @neetu_arnold @MrDanielBuck That's the problem. It should be reversed, if we are really thinking of what's best for kids.
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@Momof2medics @neetu_arnold @MrDanielBuck In most schools it’s the opposite. The best teachers with the best classroom management and most experience teach the advanced classes with the best students, while the new teachers get the most lower level classes with the hardest students
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Turns out grouping kids by ability isn’t “symbolic violence”:
“Teaching pupils in classes grouped by ability improves the results of high-flyers but does not affect the progress of less able children”
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@2CupsRight @neetu_arnold @MrDanielBuck Instead of saying, let's puts great teachers (pay them more for their expertise) in the IEP and 504 classes to target needs. Instead, it's, "it's not fair" for the same teacher to get the "hard" classes, we need to spread them out. Inclusion! Its about adults, not kids.
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@neetu_arnold @MrDanielBuck Issues with grouping include:
1. The best students from the best homes get access to the best teachers and curriculum
2. The same 30 kids track together all day from upper elementary school to graduation
3. Non-advanced classes disproportionately filled with IEPs/504s
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@BarbaraBleiman @neetu_arnold Agree, this is what mixed ability grouping should look like. But not anymore. You have kids who are none verbal, can't read or write and won't sit still in that same class, all in the name of inclusion. To be in mixed grouping one must have the basic ability to participate, imo.
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@neetu_arnold In English, in my experience, it's different. Multiple, complex abilities & experience are involved across many aspects - literature, drama, poetry, media, writing essays, stories & poetry, speaking, performing, reading & writing. Students bring different things into play. 1/
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@IncognitoMeems At least they have their own classroom. This is "inclusion" classrooms as well, sounds no different.
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@Aku_700 I'm willing to bet he was surprised that there wasn't any PBIS or Restorative Practices in that courtroom...oh wait that's just for our public schools.
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Thug Teen Collapses in Tears After Judge Slams No Bond for Cold-Blooded Murder
This black 16-year-old killer screamed and fell apart like a weak coward in court when the judge denied bond and charged him as an adult. Sean Simpson, a gangster, gunned down innocent 16-year-old teen Zaquavious Dawkins in a drive-by while the boy ran a simple errand for his disabled mom. No more soft treatment for street thugs—real justice is here, and this black murderer is finally feeling the pain he caused. Lock him up for life.
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@commonfolk365 @educator4ever36 Not to mention the "Dear Colleague Letters" that threaten funding...look at our discipline nightmare we have now thanks to Obamas 2014 letter. Like PBIS, Restorative Justice etc...very lucrative for consultants I might add.
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@educator4ever36 Blame the parents who first lobbied for their special education kids to be included. Then go to the "researchers" who promoted this, which forced superintendents to comply. Then blame the parents who have reg ed children but want them to be labeled, and on and on. FOLLOW THE $$$$
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This teacher says what schools won’t tell you. Unless your child is in advanced content or lucky enough not to be in an inclusion class, the rigor of general education has disappeared in favor of the special education students. I do not blame the teachers for this. I do not blame the special education students for this. No one benefits. How long will we keep this charade going?
Orietta Rose 🇺🇲@0riettaRose
Teacher says there's no longer a difference between special education & general education. He says every teacher is special ed now, what with all the IEPs and 504s. My 2¢: the overly inclusive model is unfair to everyone involved!
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@maze_sarayn @educator4ever36 @thTexasTeacher Infuriating thing in some districts, all sped funds go into "general fund" then school board decides what sped budget is, which is never enough. Every dollar should go to that student. Period.
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That chart says to me it is profitable for schools. I worked at 2 schools that gleefully put students under special ed. Did absolutely nothing for them but they sure as hell collected those paychecks just like the free and reduce lunch stuff.
They'll put immigrant kids who spoke not a lick of english under the label and slap em into general classes.
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