Teacher Wilt

Wrapping up #pctela25 with a powerful and important keynote from Dr. Stephanie Jones! #literacy #educators #conference

Kicking off day 2 of #pctela25 with esteemed educator and former @ncte President, Alfredo Lujan! We are SO thankful for his keynote this morning!

One of our favorite parts of our conference is our Future is Now roundtables. Pre-service teachers present and discuss various topics, facilitated by board members. We love being able to support upcoming educators! #pctela25

There’s still time to join us this weekend at #pctela25 in Harrisburg! Our three amazing keynotes are speakers that you won’t want to miss! Come network, learn, and grow as an educator. bit.ly/PCTELA25Reg @ncte @WPCTEtweets @PADeptofEd @PAEduChat1 @PSEA @writingproject

#pctela25 is underway! Hannah and Sarah, our 2025 Conference Co-chairs, are welcoming our attendees and vendors! ❤️ 📚

Our Friday keynote, Caiden Feldmiller, sharing his emotional story with our attendees this morning. Thank you, Caiden, for your vulnerability and powerful story. #pctela25

And so it begins! Day #1 of #PCTELA25 Here is a hand raised in #solidarity that #literacy is, in itself, a form of #liberation. ✊️📚🤔🫂

🌴🌺 Embracing #Hawaiian term "Kahu," sacred guardian or caretaker 👩‍🍼💚🔥 Like the Kahu of old, #Teachers #Guide and protect our students' #Growth and well-being 👩‍🏫📚💪 #ThoughtfulThursday #TeacherLife #CulturalConnections

✨️ Reminder: behind-the-scenes, we ALL have moments where we're not so #Glamorous! 🤪📸 Trying to film here but the camera was on picture 🎬🤦‍♀️ The more ya know! 🤣🤣 #LifelongLearner #TeacherLife #WittyWednesday #LightheartedLaughs

Just reflecting on the organized labor's #History in the USA 🇺🇲 🏭 🤔💭 Unions & federations have battled for #WorkersRights & #PoliticalExpression, shaping our nation 🛠🏆👷‍♀️ Today, let's #Honor their #Legacy & keep striving for #Progress 💪🌟🚀 #UnionStrong #LaborDay2025

#MondayMornings - Woke up in a panic, thinking the alarm was a dream 😱🚨 But alas, reality calls and it's time to kick it into #TeacherMode 🏫👩‍🏫 How long does it take you to settle back into your routine again? #TeacherLife #BackToSchool #JustDreaming #MondayMood

Celebrating #TheLittleThings - Partner gifted me this #Nessie shaped ladle from OtotoDesigns 🥣🦕 A little silly but it makes me smile 😊💚 Here's to lots of winter soups! #SillySunday #LochNessMonster #TeacherLife #SoupSeason

🎒👩‍🏫 #BackToSchool means Saturdays are my new favorite day: indulging in some much-needed #SelfCare, sleeping in, and not setting an alarm! 😴💤 #SleepySaturday #TeacherHumor #WeekendRecovery

💡🤯 #FunFact: The school bus system is the largest mass transit system in the US, yet school buses account for < 1% of traffic fatalities each year 🏫🚌 So this #Weekend 'hit the brakes' on school spirit & 'idle' safely to #Relaxation 💆‍♀️✨️ #BackToSchool #FunFactFriday

👩‍🏫 🍎 Joining the #TeacherTrend on this #ThrowbackThursday! 🎒✨ A pic of me in 9th/10th grade. 📚🔙🕰 Now teaching those grade levels! 😅 Funny how life comes full circle! 💫 #HighSchool #TeacherLife #LifelongLearner

Looking back on my years as a teacher, one theme stands out: American schools try to take on too much. They’re asked to be the solution for nearly every social problem. But when you try to be everything, failure is inevitable.

👩‍🏫📚 Tell me you're a teacher without telling me - My breakfast 😅☕️🍎 #AnAppleADay #BackToSchool #TeacherLife #TeacherHumor

🎉 So it begins again! 🎉 ✨️ Here's to another fantastic year of learning, growth, and memories ✨️ Welcome, 2025-26 school year! 🎓📚✏️ #BackToSchool #FirstDayOfSchool

A reminder that ‘knowing’ is not binary, it's not an on/off thing. We move through stages; hearing, recognising, recalling, mastering, before knowledge becomes truly usable. This example of of children's different phrases of 'knowing' words from Beck, McKeown, and Kucan is so useful as an illustration.

Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in history—when core democratic principles seem to be continuously under attack, when too many people around the world have become cynical and disengaged—now is precisely the time to ask ourselves tough questions about how we can build our democracies and make them work in meaningful and practical ways for ordinary people.