Jodi Dempsey

@heymrsbond Marketing….

@jdtdobson That’s about how long I’m finding their attention span to be… and for some kids it’s even less. Otherwise I find I’m just talking to myself…

Where does the idea that explicit instruction should only take a maximum of 10 mins in a lesson come from?

@riahthelee I absolutely loved my daughter’s K and 3rd grade teachers but they both did a dress up/activity calendar for the whole month of December and it nearly did me in. Being a teacher myself I’m barely holding it all together this time of year… she’s now in 5th and it’s much less…

I have 2 kids and 9 different dress up days next week. This is ridiculous. 1. It expects families to be able to go out at the drop of a hat and get multiple Christmas character shirts and ugly sweaters at the most expensive time of year… 1/3

@sewistwrites Lots. My parents love language has always been gifts, even when they didn’t have a lot of money. Same with my grandparents. My grandma was famous for wrapping things like candy and nuts just so there were more packages to open. I would love if they did only 3 or 4 gifts.

@MrSchwenn And they need to stop making books kids would read otherwise (I survived, Who is/Who was) into graphic novels! Let them read books with more words than pictures!!!

Older elementary students need to be reading more than Dog Man like books each and every day. We’ll have a generation of kids stuck reading at a 2nd grade level.

@MrSchwenn Yes! I say this all the time and get flack because supposedly “any reading is good reading”… they are not growing in their reading or comprehension skills by reading these books over and over! I’m ok if they want to get hooked into reading with these but they need to expand!

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@JayWamsted It’s a full moon.

Multiple colleagues are absent

@MsEsco_in_6th Just one? 😂

Teacher fact: No matter how many times you repeat the directions, there’s always going to be one student who says, “What are we suppose to do?” 🙃

@JayWamsted If we’re playing this game, why not take it all the way back down to elementary? The rigor and workload turns them off from a very early age. There is no time for play or just to have fun,(by which they used to learn social skills). Now we “teach” them packaged SEL lessons and 🤞🏻

Since we’re talking about the dangers of stuffing college level work on high school students? I’m here to say that we’ve now jammed too much high school work down into the middle school Most of them aren’t ready. All it does is turn them off from school at a sensitive time

@Nieb77 @heymrsbond Same. We negotiated it about 8 or 9 years ago and it’s in our contract.

@heymrsbond Here teachers can submit for extra pay to cover during planning.

@heymrsbond We get paid an hour at our hourly rate of pay for covering during a prep. This was negotiated a number of years ago and is in our contract. Considering 2 hours at my pay rate is more than the daily rate for subs, it’s not very cost effective for the district. We need more subs!

@BEAOne91 @VistaViewElem supports our BEA negotiators!

Reminder for all Burnsville Education Assn Members - please wear a BEA T-shirt on Wednesday, 9/20, to show support for our hard-working BEA negotiations team. #negotiationskickoff #bettertogether

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@Mathowitz The phenomenon is called “after school restraint collapse”… I’d be willing to bet that the ADHD intensifies it. todaysparent.com/kids/school-ag…

@GiftedTawk This year? Leaving at the end of the day!

Teachers: What’s something you look forward to at school?

@MrsGreen191 Covid. Duh. 😉 Feel better soon!

Omg 3 years. What even is going on in my brain today.

WELP. Took almost two years, but COVID finally got me. Thank goodness for my snuggle buddy (while masked, don’t worry), RuPaul’s Drag Race on Hulu, and the fact that I knew what my symptoms meant immediately because of my vaccine reactions. LISTEN TO YOUR BODY.

@RenaKARE11 Cut where I grew up (WI) but here it’s typically budge… especially in a 4th grade classroom 😏

Do you “budge” or “cut” in line? I grew up saying “cut in line” but started hearing “budge” recently.

@MrTomRad Buffalo chicken dip!

@kindermeg The amount of coughing in my class yesterday was crazy! Then I got called at noon by my daughter’s school nurse (different school) to pick her up. She likely has strep. This winter is going to be so bad in terms of illnesses!