Vr2lTch
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No toxic positivity. No blame-the-teacher bullshit. Just systems, strategies, and support designed for real classrooms. Behavior is information. Structure matters. Clarity changes outcomes.
Predictability has almost nothing to do with control. And everything to do with reducing uncertainty. More thoughts in tomorrow’s newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/calmisbu... #EduSky #CalmIsBuilt
Calm Is Built | Tracy Mercier | Substack
Honest conversations about behavior, structure and the environments people are expected to navigate. Click to read Calm Is Built, by Tracy Mercier, a Substack publication.
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Students don't walk into classrooms knowing the systems. They spend the first weeks trying to decode them. Structured classrooms make that decoding unnecessary. #EduSky #teachers #CalmIsBuilt
We’re announcing a $400 million settlement in principle with Sandoz for allegedly rigging the generic drug market, forcing customers to pay more and then fraudulently shielding its assets to evade accountability.
Chaos isn't always loud. Sometimes it looks like twenty people quietly trying to figure out what they're supposed to be doing. Uncertainty consumes attention before learning ever begins. #EduSky #CalmIsBuilt #education
Rest isn't the opposite of growth. It's part of the process. #CalmIsBuilt #EduSky
Marc Rosenblum, head for statistics at DHS, resigns, saying he is delighted to no longer be involved in supporting the agency's war against facts and the truth. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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Young female conservative influencers are now realizing that they are convenient smoke screens for a Republican agenda that no longer bothers to hide its anti-woman agenda.
The conservative movement’s sporadic anointment of Gen-Z spokeswomen
From Phyllis Schlafly to Emma Waters, a familiar agenda cycle continues.
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lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
Calm isn't built through pressure. It's built through predictability, support, accessibility, and flexibility. #CalmIsBuilt #EduSky
Latest thoughts on what survical mode firs to us open.substack.com/pub/calmisbu...
You Can't Build Calm on Survival Mode
Creating conditions that make environments safe.
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As an educator and library media specialist, I understand the point. Simultaneously, I see the effects of school reading policies in real time. There’s something to be said about needing autonomy and feeling like a thing was done to you and not for or alongside you.
Sara Century@saracentury.bsky.social · 3w agoI understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.
Crony capitalism is destroying this country right in front of us and folks are talking about the danger DSA presents to the Democratic Party. 🤯Speaks volumes.
A gentle reminder: libraries are still here, still free, still open to everyone. No appointment required. No subscription fee. Just walk in.
🚨BREAKING: A federal court dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit demanding access to Connecticut's unredacted voter registration list. The department has now lost its sweeping legal hunt for access to states' private voter data in 16 states.
When education assigns & requires schoolwork in the middle of the summer break, there’re not teaching responsibility. They’re teaching that there is no such thing as a vacation, work-life balance does not exist, and to work on their vacations in future employment.
When stress increases, correction often increases, too. That’s not an indicator of how much people care. It’s an indication that they're carrying more. #Education #EduSky
Whether or not you have patience depends on the stress what you’re carrying and how the environments you’re in absorb it or exacerbate it. #CalmIsBuilt #EduSky
If you haven’t had a chance to listen to this episode of The Best People, pop in some pods… it will give you hope — immediately. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Kara Swisher on Death and Doritos
Podcast Episode · The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · April 13 · 55m
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Many systems respond to overload by asking people to become more efficient. The better question: Why does the system require so much effort to function in the first place? substack.com/@vr2ltch/not... #SystemsThinking #CalmIsBuilt #EduSky
Burnout Isn't Solved With Better Color Coding
You can't out-organize an exhausted nervous system.
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Exhausted people don’t have more to give. Not another checklist. Not another color-coded system. Not another meeting. Shift the focus away from expecting more and towards designing a supportive environment. #CalmIsBuilt #EducationLeadership substack.com/@vr2ltch/not...
Burnout Isn't Solved With Better Color Coding
You can't out-organize an exhausted nervous system.
substack.com
