Today I facilitated professional development for 7th grade English teachers and I started with a round of applause because people who teach middle school deserve all the good things 😅🤣
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A quick shout out to @heymrsbond.com for the technique I'm nearly certain I'm borrowing from her: the 8th graders shall write their own progress reports to their home adults! Started this week with strong framing, samples, and sentence starters. I am looking forward to watching this develop!
Last year, I asked my sister to sub for a few weeks while I found teacher.😅 She stayed, graduated her first kids, and now she’s starting her first full year! I couldn’t be more honored and more proud of Ms. Wells. Please help our kids and share her list if you can! www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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There’s not enough poetry involved in being an assistant principal 😅
Tell me about a BIPOC children's educator who is doing amazing advocacy work that we can lift up in addition to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social! (Which she would unquestionably tell us to do!) My first one is without a doubt @heymrsbond.com! Who is yours? And let's give these folks a follow!
Zohran Mamdani is just out here doing exactly what he said he was gonna do 😭
My frustration around dress codes for their racism and sexism is strong. Dress codes infuriate me.
I’m already exhausted by the respectability politics of this back to school season, specifically as it relates to dress code. Bonnets don’t stop kids from learning, and Black girls don’t need more policing in schools. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I’m already exhausted by the respectability politics of this back to school season, specifically as it relates to dress code. Bonnets don’t stop kids from learning, and Black girls don’t need more policing in schools. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Sometimes I come across passages written by she who shall not be named, and I’m shocked by the chasm between her words and her actions. HP was a lighthouse; I wonder if Joanne actually read it. "We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, is worth saving."
Okay—I deleted the post asking for advice! I collected some REALLY GOOD feedback & I’ll be adjusting. Ya girl definitely bit off more than she could chew asking for advice 😅 I have to trust myself, my expertise, my experience as a teacher, my instincts, and my heart for the rest.
Anyone finished Ride or Die?! 2 scenes that are the most perfect representations of girlhood & womanhood in modern television history: 1. At a hostel, a group of young women play into stereotypes in order to solve a problem. It was fun & beautiful.
Today I •built out the framework of my first event as an assistant principal •Worked on a draft my first article for publication •yelled “yeah?! Well you’re not my best friend either!!!” across the house at a three year old Balance
Today I finished The Five Star Weekend and started Ride or Die and it’s so clear that we need more media centered around outrageously attractive and extremely charismatic middle-aged women.
Guess I don’t have to pretend I’m gonna meal prep salads this school year 😅😭🤣 #EduSky
We need amazing teachers in the classroom—but we also need amazing teachers in admin roles supporting amazing teachers in the classroom. The latter is what makes/sustains the former. It matters a great deal!
I’ve accepted a role outside of the classroom and I’m nervous about losing myself. Many administrators have “change agent” and “systems manager” and “organizational leader” in their bios and yes! I love those things and strive to be those things.
I’ve accepted a role outside of the classroom and I’m nervous about losing myself. Many administrators have “change agent” and “systems manager” and “organizational leader” in their bios and yes! I love those things and strive to be those things.
Just FYI, in education •culturally relevant •culturally responsive and •culturally sustaining are not the same thing.
Hey #EduSky I’ve revamped my “Before the first days!” checklist and it’s no longer ugly 😂😅 If you’re a new teacher: make a copy and even if you don’t fill it out, this document is full of questions you may not even know you have! Mentors: pass it along! 💛 Chanea canva.link/wpylcsy7837y...
Marginalized folks do not owe anyone civility, including and especially bigots.
I don’t like Hugh Jackman and this movie’s premise is weird AF, but The Sheep Detectives movie has me crying a little. What’s happening here? 😭😭
Available for preorder now from Amazon, Bookshop, and likely some of your favorite independent bookstores. @bookpeople.com in Austin is one of my faves! bookpeople.com/book/9781978...
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepares English majors to know themselves and their worth so that they can feed their bodies and souls in rapidly changing 21st century economies. Written for prospective and current English majors as well as recent grads, the book shows that skills associated with the major--innovative thinking, excellent written communication, and the ability to read people, rooms, and data---can sustain lifelong successful careers. It also provides real talk about internships, networking, and graduate school. In keeping with a major that focuses on storytelling and analysis, each chapter concludes with a lively discussion of a relevant literary or media text. English Majors at Work is an essential guide for literature students as well as the professors, career services professionals, and parents who advise them.
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Patiently waiting to preorder “English Majors At Work” by Dr. @helenemeyers.bsky.social www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
Traditional liberal arts majors struggle to find their first job. Once they do, they adapt very well to our rapidly changing job market and have rewarding careers.
“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Printing this to hand to prospective students and their parents in particular who ask why they should major in Sociology.
“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
What a shocker from those of us who have been saying this for a decade lol
“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Let's gooooo humanities
“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
Patiently waiting to preorder “English Majors At Work” by Dr. @helenemeyers.bsky.social www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...
English Majors at Work
English Majors at Work: Career and Life Pathways details the professional superpowers—the many marketable skills—gained from studying literature, creative writing, film, and popular culture. It prepar...
rutgersuniversitypress.org
“The intriguing findings: Grads who majored in the social sciences and humanities are proving to be resilient in today’s job market because they gained skills that can be used across multiple industries.” English majors! We’re up! 🙌🏾 www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...