Berlee (she/her) 🇨🇦

Since COVID, I’ve seen a sharp rise in students struggling with foundational school skills: -Legible handwriting -Bringing basic supplies -Following verbal directions -Spelling & punctuation -Reading & writing stamina Before we push for “rigor,” we need to rebuild the basics of learning.

Rachel Maddow on the truth of the Mueller Report: “They found definite absolutely conclusive evidence that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump become president. The Trump campaign was aware of it and expected to benefit from it and they took steps to obstruct the investigation into it”

Researchers have found that students who shared a classroom with pupils who have emotional and behavioral disabilities had more absences, lower math and reading scores, and were more likely to act out in the classroom or struggle with social skills. 🤨🤨🤨

🚨WAKE UP AMERICA ⏰⏳ 🚨MTG NUKED ALL WARMONGERS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 🚨He Buried His Wife in Syria. Then They Came for Him. 🚨Joe Kent served eleven combat tours over twenty years. He worked for the CIA hunting terrorists. His wife Shannon was killed in a terrorist attack in Syria in 2019. He was the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center — the man responsible for advising the president on every terror threat facing America. This week he resigned because he could not support the Iran war. His exact words: "Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation." Within hours, news broke that the FBI had been investigating him for months for allegedly leaking classified information — a probe that started before he even resigned. The White House called him a "crazed egomaniac." The president said he was "weak on security." Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson faces alleged CIA surveillance and a potential FARA referral. Thomas Massie is being primaried. And I was forced out of Congress. Four people. Four anti-war voices. Four under attack. That is not coincidence. That is a pattern. And while they go after the truth-tellers, the Senate is preparing a $100 billion war supplemental — while they cannot even fund Homeland Security. Joe Kent did what everyone inside that building should have done. He told the truth.

Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. While we remember the group of anti-apartheid activists that marched in 1960 to their local police station to protest against the country's “pass law” in Sharpeville, South Africa, we renew our commitment to teach and build a world that ends all forms of racism. #IDERD #cdnpoli

I expect every Republican who was outraged at people for celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death to immediately condemn Trump for saying “I’m glad he’s dead” about Robert Mueller. This is disgusting.

Schools can’t continue to operate on the customer service model unless we realize that much of the behavior teachers see in the classroom day to day would get someone kicked out of any respectable establishment. Everywhere you go, there are rules. Lack of enforcement in any space leads to chaos.

Sixteen years ago, one man stood alone on a grassy hill at a music festival in Washington State, USA, and started dancing by himself. People glanced over and looked away. Some laughed. His roommate leaned in and warned him people were filming him. He did not stop. Then one stranger got up and joined him. Then another. Then the hillside tipped. Within minutes, hundreds of people were sprinting from across the field to be part of something that, thirty seconds earlier, had been one man being laughed at in a field. Someone filming from higher up the hill said quietly: "See what one man can do. One man can change the world." The clip spread across the internet in 2009. Entrepreneur Derek Sivers played it at a TED conference to explain how movements actually begin. Not with the first person brave enough to start, he argued, but with the first person willing to join them. Collin Wynter, the man dancing alone, later said he had no idea he had done anything special. He was just tired of watching everyone sit still.

Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.

New Survey: 50% of kindergarten teachers report their students are having more difficulty using bathroom on their own? Look, schools cannot function if parents don't do even the basic minimum in teaching their own children to toilet independently What a disheartening survey

Students are a reflection of the environment from which they come. Schools need to work to fix themselves, but families and societies need to work to fix themselves too. #abed #onted #edchat

There is a reason that student teachers are choosing not to enter the profession after their placements in schools. This is not limited to only one province. The crisis is widespread in publicly funded education in provinces that are focused on austerity budgets. #FundOurSchools

“It’d be unheard of, of any other profession, that your patrons are able to verbally assault you and physically assault you, and expect to have the services back." #abed #onted #edchat share.google/5oFXYXKBA42Vnd…

60% of teachers in new Ed Week survey say student behavior has worsened over the past two years: “We’ve seen a large increase in the inability for students to cope when things don’t go their way. We see a lot of crying, yelling, shutting down, gross overreactions”

Wow! After Donald Trump mocked Gavin Newsom and other people with dyslexia and learning disabilities, Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, just completely torched him. The end is the best part.

Utah reviewed 2 MILLION voter registrations. Found 1 non-citizen registered. Zero non-citizen votes cast. The "problem" the SAVE Act is solving doesn't exist. The voters it would block absolutely do. #SAVEActIsPayToVote

To every kid with a learning disability: don’t let anyone — not even the President of the United States — bully you. Dyslexia isn’t a weakness. It’s your strength.

Teachers have simultaneously: A) been stripped of the ability to do anything about poorly behaved students B) been pressured to pass students no matter what C) been tasks with taking on more and more responsibilities that used to belong to parents D) been vilified and blamed for every problem in society. So…why the job dissatisfaction? It’s a mystery!