“Shout out to the classics, but a book doesn’t need to be timeless in order to be effective for the generations that are reading it.“
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“Shout out to the classics, but a book doesn’t need to be timeless in order to be effective for the generations that are reading it.“
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And have to share two @edutopia.org posts in a row because this one from @mrrablin.bsky.social is SO cool! I have never seen this seating-arrangement strategy before.
www.edutopia.org/article/clas...
anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back
What’s most annoying about this is it assumes economic insecurity is a product of individual “skills gaps” as opposed to a structural condition of our political/economic systems.
So now Ss are trapped in a system obsessed with job prep at a time when every company is gutting their future jobs.
When we were talking about Iran in class, someone brought up the name - Epic fury - and two students nodded approvingly, saying, "oooh that's tough"
**THEY WERE 16 YEAR OLD BOYS**
That is who this whole campaign is designed to appeal to. This guy is narrating a video game but with human lives.
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Zaretta Hammond talks about talks about “strategy stripping” and I kind of think that’s what’s happening with the warm demander discourse — I see people cherrypicking aspects of it and trying to reduce it to a set of strategies when I think it’s a whole shift in our classroom disposition. (6/6)
You cannot succeed as a warm demander unless students view your demands and care as legitimate; that occurs within complex sociocultural interactions that I struggle to reduce to strategies. (5/6)
Why do those two things matter?
At the risk of getting too deep it’s almost impossible to separate the way someone inhabits power from the way they were raised / relationship to authority. Having a framework to interrogate one’s own upbringing is vital to holding a warm demander space. (4/6)
Second, I’m struggling with the idea of this being operationalized as a “pedagogy” as opposed to a “disposition” — I could give you all kinds of strategies for how to be a “warm demander”, but actually embodying that is way more about one’s own attitudes/beliefs/perceptions of the world (3/6)
First, I really think it’s valuable to consider Diane Baumrind’s parenting styles research in conjunction with (or even instead of?) the idea of being a warm demander. Situating oneself within whatever style they’re naturally drawn to / comfortable with is an extremely useful exercise. (2/6)
I’ve seen a growing number of articles / conversations about being a warm demander lately and I really feel that this conversation was actually emblematic of two rather significant things that are often left out of the discourse. (🧵1/6)
In the ed program I TA’d for, a prof came in and told students, “Every action you take has a theory. If you tie your shoelaces into a bow, you’re acting on a theory about shoe tying. However you choose to teach, it’s based on a theory. Our job is to help you articulate it.”
I think that’s valuable.
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"—the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away" —Omar El Akkad
Never more true than the past few years, right?
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
Why do I feel like those very rational points will not stop that nonsense from spreading like wildfire…
Sing this from the top of every hill.
It makes me curious about how the hell they were raised… but I guess that’s in the book 🤷🏾♂️
My family is from DC and it wasn’t until I went to college in DC that I realized who the airport we always flew into growing up was named after and I was horrified.
How in the world are these our heroes?!?!? And how in the world do we just casually honor them in daily life?
I know nothing about Alaskan politics, but this sadly echoes what’s been going on in California, across the nation and even across professions …
“You cannot have a world-class system when your leaders treat people like a disposable commodity or are actively working to destroy it.”
Great summary of a strong teacher organizing strategy happening — we have GOT to get to the point of addressing state level policy/funding because districts are legit struggling to function…
I think people often assume that a promotion into a leadership role changes people, but I think it’s much more accurate — if cliche — to say that leadership reveals values.
The people willing to play the game get identified and supported way more quickly and the commitment to self shows. (2/2)
A possibly related hot take that has been on my mind all week:
People often talk about how great teachers don’t necessarily make great leaders, but the bigger issue is that the districts I’ve experienced have incentive structures that reward technocratic careerists over organic leaders. (1/2)
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
Let's spread the bookstore love!📚 These are some California-based Black-owned bookstores to support all year long
February is #BlackHistoryMonth, and these stores can be supported by following them on social, shopping online, or visiting in person!🩵
Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races.
This is a great way to do that:
People say all the time that budgets reflect values.
When the public institutions responsible in large part for the welfare of our society’s children are facing a fiscal scenario this bleak, what does that say about our society’s values?
Love this!
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about a lot lately is “emotional capacity” as an alternative to words like “self-regulation” and “resilience” — end goals that can *feel* static — and this adds concrete routines to help build emotional capacity in the classroom.