Christine (she/ella)

Group of 50+ Baltimore County educators standing in the middle of an Annapolis street with the State House in the background

Lobbied Baltimore County legislators in Annapolis yesterday with @tabco.org

We need
1. The right to strike for public sector workers
2. Our education support professionals (ESPs) like paraeducators, clerical staff, bus drivers, and cafeteria staff to have base pay of $25/hr

View of the Miami FC and DC United game at M&T bank stadium from section 553 row 30. The bottom ring of the stadium is full and the nosebleeds are about halfway full. The white goals on either end of the field are visible, but the players are just specs of pink or black.

Saw Lionel Messi score in real life and had Chiaparellis after

The world is scary but good things can happen too

First time Baltimore County has had a competitive Democratic primary for States Attorney in years 💃🏻👏🏻

Graded the assignment my students submitted at the end of class on Thursday in preparation for class tomorrow.

They averaged a 4.76/10. Median was 4/10. Mode was 4/10.

New plan for tomorrow - reteach

Having an emotionally draining week (mostly being mad at adults that are unprepared and/or unable to communicate) makes it very difficult to enjoy a day where my students seemed to learn what I set out to teach them

And people wonder why I dont want to be an administrator

My father started experiencing ALS symptoms in January of 2020. He was diagnosed in April. He died in November.

Hard not to draw parallels with Eric Dane

Eric Dane, 'Grey's Anatomy' star and ALS awareness advocate, dies at 53 Eric Dane, the actor known for “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria,” has died at 53 due to ALS. His representatives say he died on Thursday afternoon.

Eric Dane has passed away at 53 after a short battle with ALS

He will be remembered by many as McSteamy on Grey’s Anatomy, but he should also be remembered for his disability advocacy

He worked tirelessly to raise awareness for ALS, including how hard it is to get a diagnosis.

You should definitely go on this tour! Its a great way to spend a few hours supporting a local business and celebrating Black History Month

I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The littlest things can trigger a wave of grief...

I saw an article that said it's the 25th anniversary of Dale Earnhardt's death at the Daytona 500. I was four. My dad was obsessed with him so was too. We watched him die live. It's the first time i remember seeing my dad cry

I watched All the President's Men (1976) for the first time last night

Very good, but sad to think about how far the Post has fallen

What they won't tell you is that it takes an incredible amount of faith to teach children, especially in conditions that say otherwise.

You have to believe in something you're not going to see immediately. That's faith.

Yeah i gave them a strip of paper with sentence on it, they got to practice, and then each of them read theirs out loud in order

Cover of the book "Mi pelo chino" /"Ixi xiniyu chinu" written by Jumko Ogata Aguilar, illustrated by Reyna Pelcastre Reyes and translated into Mixtec by Nadia López García. The book is yellow with a Black girl in the center who is hugging her curly hair thats shaped like a heart.

Now that I've done it with all 5 sections, I'd say pretty well. It engaged kids that arent normally paying attention. Heres the awesome book I used: "Mi pelo chino" by Jumko Ogata Aguilar

I taught my kids about the schwa sound (linguistics term for the unaccented "uh" we use instead of pronuncing vowels in Engkish... eg animal, gallon)

Then each kid read 10-12 words of a childrens book in spanish... like our own read aloud

Tomorrow, I'm going to try something completely new with my Spanish 3s in front of a grad student who wants to be a teacher and is also old enough to be my dad

An adventure!

Why There Are So Many Outages in Puerto Rico YouTube video by Bianca Graulau

And here's the same independent Puerto Rican journalist, Bianca Graulau's, coverage of LUMA (the shitty multinational corporations now in charge of the electrical grid)

youtu.be/YHYGSEjErlg?...

Bad Bunny - El Apagón - Aquí Vive Gente (Video Oficial) | Un Verano Sin Ti YouTube video by Bad Bunny

If you l were intrigued by the half time show, heres a mini documentary about the gentrification in Puerto Rico that Bad Bunny released as the music video for "El Apagón" (the song he was singing on the electrical pole)

youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4?...

There are English subtitles

ChocQuibTown - Cuando Te Veo (Official Video) YouTube video by ChocQuibTownVEVO

I shared "Cuando Te Veo" with my students today, so I thought that I would share it with y'all

youtu.be/NemwE1YoTRM?...

ChocQuibTown is a Colombian hip hop group from Chocó, a department with a large Afro-Colombian population.

Photo of cardboard sign on chair. The sign says "I like Bmore neat - no ICE"

I repurposed an anti Avelo sign for tomorrow's protest... See you there Baltimore

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · No Kings On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in ...

The No Kings folks are doing a national training Feb 5 from 8-9pm

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Given recent escalations, please learn about and share info about standby guardianship in Maryland

www.courts.state.md.us/legalhelp/fa...

You just need 2 witnesses for this to be legally binding for 180 days.

Vertical photo of the snow directed up a hill with woods on either side. The sky is verh blue and has big fluffy clouds

Vertical photo of snow covered trail in the woods

My first hike in the snow ❄️

I saw Hairspray (2007) in a theater for the first time tonight at The Senator

Its deeply nostalgic for me. I was 11 when it came out and its the first time I remember seeing a fat girl as the lead in a movie. She even gets the boy at the end

A rewatch i definitely needed

Raphael Saadiq, Miles Caton & Ludwig Göransson – I Lied to You from the Sinners Soundtrack YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

Please go watch this

Miles Caton is 20 YEARS OLD

youtu.be/wGjcEwAWZtw?...

White woman with brown hair wearing a white mask and a red Teacher's Association fo Baltimore County (TABCO) shirt directs a group of educators with mic and script in hand

White woman with brown hair wearing a white mask and a red Teacher's Association fo Baltimore County (TABCO) shirt gestures while talking to a table of elected officials and educators

White woman with brown hair wearing a white mask and a red Teacher's Association fo Baltimore County (TABCO) shirt stands at a podium in front of a blue curtain while addressing the crowd

Directed some organized chaos at the @tabco.org / ESPBC legislative breakfast yesterday

We did a jigsaw activity with 150 educators and elected officials 😅

Used my elementary colleagues' toolkit including
1. "Clap 1 if you can hear me
2. "You should be in your seat in 5 4 3 2 1"

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to Shutter After Workers Held Longest Strike in the History of U.S. Newspapers Block Communications just closed its Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper, but its workers hope to keep local journalism alive, with their strike paper in hand and support from residents and officials

My first for @dropsitenews.com: after a grueling three-year strike, workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in victory. This week, the 240-year-old paper’s wealthy owners decided to shut it down. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh's largest and oldest newspaper, is being shut down by its owners.

This announcement comes shortly after the journalists at the paper won a historic 3-year strike.

"Writers create national literature with their language, but world literature is written by translators." - José Saramago, 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature