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Believe in what others can accomplish, believe in yourself, and believe in possibilities. Teacher Education Network #TENph #breakstereotypes

American public schools’ overreliance on YouTube for educational content runs counter to what is clear in several scientific studies: Learning analog is better than digital. on.wsj.com/3Rmrrat 🧵

The problem with #Meralco monopoly. Thank you @ChelDiokno

Sa panahon ngayon na marami tayong kinakaharap na problema, marami pa rin ang nagtatanong kung ang impeachment ay aksaya lang ng oras. Kaya sa hearing ngayong araw ng Committee on Justice, mariin nating ipinaliwanag: Hindi hiwalay ang impeachment sa usapin ng gutom, mababang sahod, at mahal na bilihin. Kapag may korapsyon, taumbayan ang nagbabayad. Sa pag-usad ng impeachment case, huwag nating kakalimutan: Para ito sa mga pamilyang nagtitiis sa taas ng presyo ng bilihin habang nilulustay ang pera ng bayan. Para ito sa kabataan nating nangangarap ng magandang kinabukasan. At para ito sa pananagutan—sa ating Saligang Batas, at sa tiwala ng sambayanan.

The location referred to by the Chinese Embassy is Pagasa Island and the Pagasa Cays, which form an integral part of the Kalayaan Island Group of the Philippines. These features have never been part of China. The recent activity in this area was undertaken by Philippine civil society and was not the result of any deployment or operation ordered by the Philippine government. This area lies several hundred nautical miles from the Chinese mainland. It therefore cannot infringe upon any legitimate Chinese territorial sovereignty, as none exists here under international law. China cannot substantiate its objection by referencing nearby Zamora Reef, which it has unlawfully reclaimed and occupied. The 2016 Arbitral Award, which is final, binding, and based on UNCLOS, has clearly established that such features fall outside China’s lawful claims. Any linkage between the two disregards the rules of international law that China claims to respect. China’s reference to the 2002 Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) is inconsistent with its conduct. It was China that violated the spirit and letter of the DOC by undertaking massive illegal reclamation, militarizing artificial islands, and employing persistent threats and the use of force against Philippine vessels and fishermen. The Philippines has consistently upheld the DOC. Lastly, China’s assertion that it is enforcing maritime law is without foundation. Its very presence in the area — constructed through unlawful reclamation, artificial island building, and militarization in direct violation of UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Award — constitutes the most egregious breach of the relevant international legal framework.

May the fourth be with you

And you know why? Because they heeded our call in 2022 and then again in 2025 and are now ready to respond to the call for genuine service and public accountability come 2028. The people arent looking for a savior. They are all the more committed to what we challenged them to do: fight not for a savior but for ubluc accountability and good governance.

Haring Ibon. #eagle

A turning point

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views. He died 5 months after recording it. It was his final gift to the world. Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years. The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom. And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered. How to speak. 15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever: Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end. Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious. The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else. Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough. Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS. Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one. Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing. Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously. Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity. Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by. End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said. Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands. Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order. The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves. Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill. Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing. Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind. You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible. Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs. He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this. Watch it tonight. Bookmark this first. Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

New Teachers: "I'm thinking of letting students create their own classroom rules. It will be collaborative and empowering." Veteran Teachers:

Today we remember Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his death. The first Jesuit pope, he passed away on April 21, 2025, at age 88. In memory of him, @jesuitsglobal has launched a living memorial with reflections from Fr. General Sosa and others. 🔗 jesuits.global/pope-francis

Community is medicine. Research consistently shows that strong social connections are one of the most powerful predictors of health, resilience, and longevity. Not the size of your network, but the depth of your relationships. A few people who make you feel safe, seen, and supported can profoundly shape your biology. Loneliness activates the same stress pathways as chronic disease. It drives inflammation, dysregulates hormones, weakens immune function, and accelerates aging. Connection does the opposite. It calms the nervous system, lowers cortisol, improves metabolic health, and even influences gene expression linked to longevity. This is why community is a core pillar of functional medicine. Food, movement, sleep, and supplements matter, but without meaningful human connection, healing is incomplete. Invest in your people. Nurture a small, trusted circle. Shared meals, honest conversations, laughter, and belonging are not soft interventions, they are some of the most powerful tools we have to extend healthspan and quality of life. Love this post by @risingwoman

"Are you happy you're a shooting star?" youtube.com/watch?v=QHu4Ay… #Teeth #shootingstar

Happy Easter!

Men in women's bathrooms explained perfectly!

The Vatican has announced the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be beatified in St. Louis Sept. 24, the feast of Our Lady of Mercy. The papal representative to preside over the ceremony will be Cardinal Luis Tagle, pro-prefect for the Dicastery for Evangelization. (CNS file📸)

🚨BREAKING: 8 weeks of gratitude practice physically rebuilds the neural pathways between your memory and reward centers. Your brain physically rewires itself every time you feel grateful. Eight weeks of intentional gratitude practice creates measurable structural changes in the neural pathways connecting your hippocampus to your ventral tegmental area. The memory center starts talking to the reward center in a fundamentally different way. New synaptic connections form. Existing ones strengthen. The physical architecture of how you process positive experiences rebuilds itself. Most people approach gratitude like a mood they can choose to feel. A psychological vitamin they remember to take when life gets difficult. The neuroscience reveals something far more profound. Gratitude is a biological intervention that sculpts brain tissue. Researchers tracked participants practicing gratitude exercises for two months using brain scans. They watched new neural highways construct themselves in real time. The anterior cingulate cortex developed stronger connections to the medial prefrontal cortex. The brain learned to route positive emotional experiences through higher order thinking centers instead of storing them as fleeting feelings. Every positive experience you’ve ever had exists as a neural trace in your memory network. Most sit dormant, accessible only when something external triggers the specific sensory combination that originally encoded them. You smell coffee, suddenly remember a conversation from years ago. Random. Unreliable. Outside your control. Gratitude practice systematically rewires that retrieval system. After two months, participants could voluntarily access positive memories with increasing ease. Their brains had built stronger pathways between memory storage areas and emotional processing centers. They experienced deeper emotional resonance during memory retrieval. The quality of remembering itself had improved. The participants also started noticing positive details in their present environment they had previously filtered out. Their attention systems recalibrated. The same neural pathways pulling positive memories forward were scanning current experiences more thoroughly for elements worth encoding as positive memories. Their brains became biased toward collecting evidence that life contains meaningful moments. Most cognitive interventions try to change how you interpret negative experiences. Gratitude practice changes how thoroughly you notice positive ones. It teaches your visual and emotional processing systems to detect opportunities and pleasures that were always present but neurologically invisible. The timeline reveals something crucial about neural plasticity. Weeks one through three showed minimal structural changes. Participants felt slightly more positive, but brain scans looked identical to baseline. Weeks four through six showed the first measurable increases in gray matter density. Weeks seven and eight revealed entirely new neural network formation. Two months. Your nervous system can physically restructure itself with consistent practice. The method was almost embarrassingly simple. Participants wrote down three specific things they felt grateful for every evening, explaining why each mattered. No meditation apps. No guided visualizations. Just pen, paper, and the requirement to identify gratitude targets with enough detail that their brains had to actively search for positive elements. Specificity drives the neural development. General statements like “I’m grateful for my family” generate different brain activity than precise observations like “I’m grateful my daughter laughed at my terrible joke during dinner because it showed me she still finds me funny despite growing more independent.” The brain needs detailed targets to practice connecting memory specifics to emotional rewards. After eight weeks, participants developed a fundamentally different relationship with their attention and memory systems. Someone whose brain automatically scans for and emotionally amplifies aspects of experience that make existence feel worthwhile. The neural pathways remain permanent after practice ends. Gratitude carves lasting roads through consciousness.

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