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One of my favorite parts about teaching is sharing and discussing books with kids! The excitement is real when starting new groups! #readingteacher #6thgrade @BuchananPirates @bransonschools ❤️📚🍎

💰 It was another great day in our thinking math classroom! Would you rather have $1 million or a penny today then doubled every day for a month? Ss learned the power of exponents! 💰@BuchananPirates @bransonschools

@happiestteacher @sage_stage 99% of the time, the students with this attitude are not going to be able to come up with meaningful alternatives bc their whole goal is to get out of work.

@sage_stage What are they learning and why is the assignment the best way to demonstrate that growth in these learners? Why not co-create a list of other ways that they can show they know the learning?

For the first time this year I'm starting to have students say flat out "I'm just not going to do this assignment" And I kinda want to be like, that's cool, I get paid either way. I've never given up this quickly or easily, but when they say they won't do it, I believe them.

@KYColonelTurner @Mathowitz I don’t think he’s talking about a teaching job.

@Mathowitz I mean you no disrespect but $100,00 or more for K-12 teaching is more than a reasonable salary. Where I live, the mean K-12 teaching salary is $52,000.

We had a great time collaborating and thinking as we kicked off Topic 2 today - Integers and Rational Numbers! #numberlines #buildingthinkingclassrooms @bransonschools @BuchananPirates

❤️🖤 Math was all about squares today while we learned how to work in groups and at vertical non-permanent surfaces! These kids were thinking hard! 🖤❤️ @bransonschools @BuchananPirates #buildingthinkingclassrooms

@bogieman1445 @clmsntgrteacher @CopblockApp @JayWamsted So many things wrong w this statement! A classroom is not a factory w students as products. If a teacher is given curriculum (not all are), it’s a guide that must be adjusted to fit the students in the room. Please go spend some time subbing and come back to this conversation.

A veteran teacher new to our building asked me, "So will they give us paper or do I just need to go buy my own?" & can you imagine any other profession where this question even makes sense? But every teacher past Year 2 knows exactly what it's like.

@bogieman1445 @clmsntgrteacher @CopblockApp @JayWamsted And summer break is more like a forced layoff. It’s not a paid vacation.

@SandyGramley @Beetqueen2 @JayWamsted Sounds to me like someone who sees schools as factories, made up of machines instead of flesh and blood human teachers, students, and admin. How do you define a “true professional”?

Me: Posts a tweet about raising teacher pay Them: I don't teach for the money, I teach because my students need me Me: Oh this is how they keep our pay so low

@oscarmom355 @sullivka @davidhogg111 In some parts of the country, yes, but not all.

@sullivka @davidhogg111 It's summer. What good is a strike?

If you’re a teacher like my mom, stay tuned in the next couple of days I’ll have a really great way for you to take action it’s just gonna take a minute to get this stuff together.

@jaimestrange @RomanAcleaf @KindaScottish My 5th graders read it almost every year. It’s not the dog. 💔

@up2bKrzy @uth3nt1k @VitosMom1 @p_sarah_slp @chieftalkbull @WillieETCarver A huge part of being a teacher is building relationships with students. This is Teacher 101. When you have a teaching degree, feel free to give advice about how it should be done. 🍎

@uth3nt1k @VitosMom1 @p_sarah_slp @chieftalkbull @WillieETCarver okay but there is many that don't and personally that is how it should be in my opinion. But i'm not gonna sit here and knock ppl down if that isn't how they feel. I just think school should be about teaching is all i'm saying

@murphysmurfy21 @alixandra27 Also, the schools system should not be tied to the adult workforce. We need better systems that don’t assume schools will serve as childcare all the time.

@alixandra27 (1) Employers would never allow employees one week off every 6 weeks because schools are shut down. (2) Teachers have a winter break, spring break and fall break in addition to the entire summer off. Why do you need more breaks?

But what if we had a weeklong break like every 6 weeks???????????????????

@murphysmurfy21 @alixandra27 I don’t think she is saying students and teachers should have more time off. Rather, instead of a long break in the summer, spread it out more evenly. It would be the same amount of time in the classroom, just with more opportunities for mental breaks.

@njtootsie @EnglishTeach07 Many of the states where these bills are being written are ones where teachers can’t unionize. 😢

Lawmakers are plagiarizing language to write bills to tell teachers to do better🤦🏼‍♀️

@vb4mb Yes!! I pull out my memories of 4 years teaching 1st and 2nd every time I play! 💚

Interesting….reminds me of our conversation in class the other night #cohort2BEV #wordlecraze

🎉📚 Our class has published authors! Thank you @studentreasures for another successful year of publishing my students’ work! They were so excited to get their books! 📚🎉 @bransonschools @BuchananPirates #studentwriters

165 Covid+ patients (26 admitted asymptomatic) 41.32% 7 day rolling symptomatic positivity rate, 47.08% yesterday. 702 positive test results yesterday, compared to delta single day high 183. 873 deaths, 46 in January, 2.5/per day. Unvaccinated patients are dying.