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Lilia Cortina

7 months

The Ann Arbor Public Schools is facing a $25M shortfall. No single factor created this crisis, but pandemic policies played an outsized role. I explain further in the Detroit Free Press:

Ann Arbor Public Schools is short $25 million. How did we get here? | Opinion

Ann Arbor Public Schools is one of Michigan's richest districts. Its $25 million budget deficit blindsided parents.

www.freep.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Whenever I see posts about long COVID in kids, I wonder why we aren’t talking about long depression. Long anxiety. Long addiction. Many mental illnesses pose a greater threat to youth than COVID, and follow them throughout their lives.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

The science is clear that children are low risk when it comes to COVID. Very liberal folks (like myself) are usually very science-minded, and yet in this case many see COVID as a great threat to their kids (ignoring the science). How did this happen?

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When parents were asked about the threat to their children, the pattern was similar. The self-ID'd very liberal are much more worried than the merely liberal.

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@LiliaCortina

2 years

"Test results confirm what most parents have felt for the past two years: Never again should we lock children out of the classroom."

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@LiliaCortina

2 years

Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD: “School closure was highly regressive policy and likely the worst public health decision we will see in our lifetimes”

KanekoaTheGreat

@KanekoaTheGreat

2 years

UCSF epidemiologist Dr. Tracy Høeg ( @TracyBethHoeg ), who published extensively on COVID-19 transmission in schools, testified before Congress that the CDC's school closures caused significant harm to American children, contradicting European nations and the scientific evidence:

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Same reason I tweet so much about this — for social justice. Closing schools is anti-progressive, anti-science, anti-child. Poor kids of color are among the hardest hit. Ditto for kids with disabilities.

Alexander Nazaryan

@alexnazaryan

3 years

Why do I tweet so much about school closures? Because I taught in Brooklyn (and not just for a year or two), know well what schools can and must do. This is a social justice issue as much as it is anything. Poor kids of color will suffer most. Have already suffered most.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Day 3 of @a2schools on zoom: there will be no math in my son's pre-calculus class, only show-and-tell. He's bringing the dog His AP Chem class will take an exam, remotely. Cheating will be rampant Many kids will log in, mute mics + cameras, and go outside This is not school.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

“…the things we have put on hold--dinners, parties, lectures, meetings, museums, restaurants, travel, weddings, and so on--can't be put on hold forever. And avoiding all these activities in pursuit of health means giving up living in order to stay alive”

Opinion | Accept It: COVID Will Be an Endemic Virus

Everyone will meet with the virus eventually, but doing so safely (while vaccinated) is key

www.medpagetoday.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

@A2SchoolsSuper @A2schools @AASAHQ @luvelleb @64msherman Cool. Did you tell them how disastrous zoom-school has been for Black kids, poor kids, and immigrants? Or how the all-virtual year is blowing up the achievement gap in Ann Arbor?

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

This is terrible policy @UMich @UMichPrezOno

Marty Makary MD, MPH

@MartyMakary

2 years

@VPrasadMDMPH Mandating a healthy college student (who had Covid) to get the bivalent booster is bad medicine—will result in avoidable harm in the form of myocarditis.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@tarahaelle What precisely about their methods do you find flawed? What evidence do you bring to reach different conclusions, and what methods did you follow to get there? As a scientist I’d be asking those questions before putting any stock in your opinions. So would the lay public.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

It's an honor and a privilege to receive the University of Michigan President’s Award for Public Impact, recognizing my work on sexual harassment, incivility, and inclusion in organizations. Thank you @SantaJOno

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

This op-ed does a nice job explaining how school closure does not help with COVID. Instead it harms children + exacerbates strain on our healthcare systems. We have 2 years of data speaking to the harms of remote school.

Perspective | Closing schools again won’t stop omicron. It’ll just hurt kids.

Schools aren't the reason for the virus's rapid spread.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Nice piece by @VPrasadMDMPH , on the need for more responsible media coverage of the science around schooling in the pandemic.

Opinion | School Zone: Approach COVID Outbreak Narrative With Caution

Media coverage of school outbreaks must include scientific evidence and proper context

www.medpagetoday.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

No more school closures, esp upper grades: “Teenagers arguably bore the social and emotional brunt of school disruptions…the high school-age group has reported some of the most alarming mental health declines, evidenced by depression and suicide attempts”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

That sound you hear? That's the stampede of parents high-tailing it out of A2 Public Schools (and signing BOE recall petitions on their way out the door). Enrollments will plummet, funding will plummet. There will be fewer jobs for teachers come fall. Sad day for @A2schools

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@ajlamesa Not this educator. Some of my colleagues clamoring for virtual instruction simply don’t want to leave their cushy home offices. Or their cabins up north. Or the beaches down south. It’s more convenient. Also more selfish.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

(1/4) This argument is flawed. State = crude proxy for “going remote" (even worse: “The South”). Better analysis: scientists at @HarvardCEPR assessed number weeks each school district was remote in 2020-21. The more weeks spent remote, the larger the drop in test scores. For ex:

Stephanie Tait ♿️

@StephTaitWrites

2 years

Well, I decided to look up the officially published state educational testing results for the 2 states that stayed remote the longest & compare them to TX and FL to see if the results line up with this claim that remote schooling was the key factor in declining test scores. And…

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

Pleasure to do this interview. Pandemic education in blue towns like mine has not been great. I talk a lot about my own district here ( @a2schools ), but conclusions apply to any schools trying to zoom their way through the COVID crisis

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

@VPrasadMDMPH

2 years

Check out this interview with @LiliaCortina on my substack. A stellar summary of schools, kids and covid 👇👇 Interview with Lilia Cortina, Ph.D., by @VPrasadMDMPH

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

“for families without in-person schooling, the Great Resignation was actually the Great Push: Mothers were pushed out of jobs because they had no other care options for children”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Such a great interview @VPrasadMDMPH & @ajlamesa ! The political analysis is spot on. As is the call for a holistic approach to public health - including educational and emotional health - rather than a narrow focus on COVID cases. @wcpublichealth @A2RecDirect @A2SchoolsSuper

Vinay Prasad MD MPH

@VPrasadMDMPH

3 years

A long, written interview with @ajlamesa What were the biggest pandemic errors on the right & left? Masking School closures A tour de force

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

At a forum on COVID in schools, Detroit Superintendent @Dr_Vitti was the rockstar in the room. Got Detroit schools open for 2 months w/ only 1 outbreak. Worked w/ the teachers’ union. Gave families + teachers choices. @A2schools could learn a lot from our neighbor to the east

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

Such an honor to receive the @Umich President's Award for Public Impact. I'm grateful for the recognition + support. Also grateful to spend time with these amazing colleagues -- incl @BetseyStevenson , recipient of the President's Award for National and State Leadership. Go blue!

University of Michigan

@UMich

2 years

Congratulations to faculty members @BetseyStevenson and @LiliaCortina , who were honored with 2022 U-M President’s Awards for Public Engagement yesterday in recognition of their commitment to public service and contributions to impact society. #UMichImpact

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

Racial equity in education demands that we get the schools open. Not just the white schools and the privates, ALL the schools.

Ann Arbor Reasonable Return

@A2Return

4 years

In Michigan, kids in predominantly white public schools are much more likely to get a choice of in-person learning. Kids in public schools that are more than 20% black usually don't get the same choice, @EPICedpolicy reports. #OpenSchools Full report at

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

The data are undeniable: school closure policies have had a racist impact. Across the US, children of color (compared to white kids) had less access to in-person school. Less in-person school = less learning and more mental health harm. Details here:

Disparities in Learning Mode Access Among K–12 Students ...

Although access to in-person, hybrid, and virtual learning modes varied throughout the school year, during January–April 2021, access to full-time, in-person learning increased 37% ...

www.cdc.gov

Ann Arbor Reasonable Return

@A2Return

3 years

🧵New report out from the @CDCgov finds national evidence of a trend @EPICedpolicy had documented well in Michigan. Minority students had less access to in-person learning than non-Hispanic White students. 1/4

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

The Ann Arbor School Board needs change. We’ve had 2 years of closed schools, cancelled childcare, suspended bus routes, and more emphasis on tech than teachers. #A2SchoolBoard is too mired in dysfunction to see that this is not okay. It’s time for change.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Great interview between @VPrasadMDMPH and @MonicaGandhi9 — on COVID vaccines, variants, mutations, precautions, etc. Takes a holistic perspective on health. Highly recommend

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

Published!

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Friends in I/O, OHP, and OB: please help spread the word that we are hiring! It's a tenure track assistant professorship in psychology and organizational studies. Area of research is open. Details here:

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

So this happened today. Kinda cool.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

“International organizations are speaking up more forcefully…to say that given all the major long-term drawbacks, school closures for COVID outbreaks should be avoided whenever possible, even during outbreaks like the current one.”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Wonderful ⁦⁦ @ICOSUofM ⁩ talk today by Brian Uzzi from Northwestern. He’s studying the replicability crisis in psychology. Cool finding: organizational and personality psychology have the fewest replication problems in the field

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Delighted to be one of the top 2% of scientists in the world. It means my research is being cited far and wide. Ditto for the research of my lab. Doing our part to make "work" a dignified experience for all:

U-M Psychology

@um_psychology

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Stanford University has recently released an update of the list that represents the top 2 per cent of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

@a2schools could have opened months ago, preventing many harms to students and families. Instead, AAPS leaders ignored the science, kowtowed to the union, & kept kids out of classrooms until very recently. Even now, students are in school only 2 (half) days per week. Very sad.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Happy to have this article published this month in the Journal of Management. This piece was fun to write, partly because I had two brilliant coauthors, @SandyHershcovis and @KateClancy . Grateful for their collaboration and their friendship💙

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

#A2SchoolBoard needs change. Let me be blunt: it's important that Susan Baskett *not* be re-elected to the Ann Arbor Board of Education. 5 reasons why:

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@alexanderrusso @daniela127 @JenniferSey Reminiscent of Rebecca Lazarus, #a2schoolboard President, who wanted to report me to my employer for raising concerns about equity, pedagogy, and student mental health. The redacted name below is mine. Her attempt to get me in trouble went nowhere, but it's appalling nonetheless

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

Kudos to @SandyHershcovis for being elected SIOP Fellow! Per her endorsers, she is “one of THE names you must know in the area of employee mistreatment” & “one of the outstanding scholars of her generation in our field.” Thrilled to see this rockstar recognized by @SIOPtweets

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

@MSmelkinsonPhD My university (University of Michigan) is now mandating the bivalent booster for all students living in housing — regardless of gender, age, infection history, etc. Right up the road, Michigan State University just dropped all COVID vax + booster mandates

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@alexanderrusso @daniela127 @JenniferSey There's also a local twitter account dedicated to the harassment of Ann Arbor Public Schools parents, mostly moms. It's anonymous, but has dropped some details known only to school officials or school board members

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Surprised at the AAPS parents who believe schools will reopen Jan 10. There’s no way @A2SchoolsSuper burned the last 2 snow days to prep for only 3 days of virtual. Once again, she’s hiding things from the public + her principals and other staff. Would love to be proven wrong.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

Wrote a fantastic piece for PNAS with my fantastic friends, @KateClancy and @AnnaRKirkland :

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Important to recognize costs of covid policies: “Masks inhibit communication, especially for young children and the hard of hearing…Remote school has been a failure. Remote office work hampers collaboration. Social isolation causes mental-health problems”

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@LiliaCortina

2 years

COVID, RSV, and flu in Ann Arbor: falling since mid-Dec 😃 So why mandate masks in schools? @A2SchoolsSuper says “it’s really about the circulation of viruses.” Viruses that have been declining for 2-3 weeks? 🤔 Unclear what’s driving the mandate. Panics? Politics? Not data 👇

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Which is worse: 1st grader hugging a screen when her mom “visits” virtually, or @A2schools failing to realize that this is not normal. Enough with the policies barring parents from public schools. Let us in to read, volunteer, help the staff, support our kids. @A2SchoolsSuper

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Why I’m so critical of @a2schools Board of Education: too much contempt + condescension toward the community they’re elected to represent. Case in point: here’s the Board Pres denigrating parents as “uneducated” and “self-serving” people engaging in “constant nauseating meddling”

Ann Arbor Reasonable Return

@A2Return

3 years

In the months ahead, we plan to offer our observations of each BOE trustee, focusing on where they have stood on in-person school, transparency, & community engagement. Today we offer the first installment. Meet the BOE's new president: Rebecca Lazarus.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

🧵Last year’s experiments in remote education failed many children, undermining their learning. Parents + policymakers should be alarmed at the evidence emerging. MSU’s @EPICedpolicy group analyzed 2020-21 achievement data for 590,819 Michigan school-kids. A few findings 1/

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Excellent article on the decision to discontinue childcare at @a2schools . As @curiousliz explains: “This decision was made without input from parents, without input from the health department, their reasons keep changing, and none of them hold any water.”

AAPS decision to not offer childcare in upcoming school year causes backlash

Dr. Jeanice Swift, superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools (AAPS), announced on May 13 that the School Age Child Care program (SACC) will not be offered during the 2021-2022 school year. According...

www.michigandaily.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Online attacks on women continue from #a2schoolboard member (or cronies). They try to hide behind an anon account, but divulge details known only to @a2schools trustees. Today: coming after a woman for being unmasked in large airy ballroom, just as these folks were in fall 2021:

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Can't help but notice: many Ann Arborites currently enraged about AAPS childcare closures were good last year with the entire school system (including childcare) being closed. I'm glad folks are rallying to the childcare cause, but part of me wants to say: where ya been?

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Yet another study showing schools can be open without raising COVID risk, so long as proper mitigation measures are in place. Many scientists have reached similar conclusions.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

It’s been a minute since I taught in this supersized lecture hall. But I’m excited to be back this Thursday teaching my favorite class: Psychology of Women and Gender.⁩ ⁦⁦ @um_psychology ⁦ @umichLSA ⁩

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

COVID cases are plummeting in Washtenaw County, which has very high vax rate. @a2schools has done superb job keeping COVID out of its open buildings (plus, teachers are vaxd). Crossing all fingers and toes this means my kids can meet their amazing teachers on May 3🙂 @A2Return

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Tonight’s #a2schoolboard meeting was quite something. 20 parents pleaded for school-based childcare. Talked about being desperate, needing childcare to work, being single parents with no other options, raising special needs kids, local cc centers being full with waitlists.1/2

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

Props to AAPS parent @tabbPlomaritas for sharing her story with NPR. I share the concern that "we're witnessing the death of public education up close and personal." If a wealthy district like @a2schools can't figure this out, who can?

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

🧵Many great points in this article. Where to begin? “Extended school closures appear to have done much more harm than good, and many school administrators probably could have recognized as much by the fall of 2020” 1/5

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

My husband Kai, along with our good friend Lena Kauffman, are running for #A2SchoolBoard . They share a commitment to in-person education and evidence-based pandemic learning recovery. This is the change we need in Ann Arbor Public Schools Learn more here:

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

“Remote schooling, in other words, may be more akin to dropping out than it is to attending in-person school.” Data are clear on this, and on the safety of F2F school. So why is ⁦⁦ @A2schools ⁩ diverting resources to expand remote options this fall?

When School Is Voluntary (Published 2021)

Many parents want to continue remote learning. It may not be so good for their children.

www.nytimes.com

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@LiliaCortina

1 year

Yet another article on the social justice disaster that was pandemic school policy. Note that Ann Arbor Public Schools had similar closures as Richmond, with many kids not seeing the inside of a classroom for 18 months

Can America’s Students Recover What They Lost During the Pandemic?

Disastrous test scores increasingly show how steep a toll the COVID-19 era exacted on students, particularly minorities. Schools are grappling with how to catch up, and the experience of one city...

www.propublica.org

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

To be clear, AAPS has been planning this closure for 2 weeks, sending chromebooks home w/ little kids before break. But @A2SchoolsSuper didn’t announce it until 4:59 Friday. How many kids will be home alone, unsafe, b/c families did not have enough notice to arrange childcare?

Shannon Hughes Hautamaki

@SMHred

3 years

Highest child vaccination rate in the state and @A2SchoolsSuper still closing schools against @SecCardona and @GovWhitmer ’s advice. An embarrassment.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

“Covid risks for most vaccinated people are of the same order of magnitude as risks that people unthinkingly accept every day, like riding in a vehicle.”

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

School closure should be off the table as a COVID mitigation strategy: “The harms to kids from being out of school … are severe. They are accumulating. And they could last for decades”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

#a2schoolboard has elected Rebecca Lazarus as president. Lest we forget, she's the one who denigrated local parents as “uneducated self-serving” people who engage in “constant nauseating meddling.” Their sin? Calling for legislation to ensure kids have access to in-person school.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

@mch_tweets And that's my name redacted in this email. As a psychology professor & diversity scholar, I had the audacity to raise concerns about student mental health, equity, & pedagogy (re the AAPS half-day hybrid model). @A2SchoolsSuper fret not: UM most certainly supports me and my work.

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

@A2SchoolsSuper @BLJMBA more district-wide closures + zoom school? Even if you don’t care about single parents or disabled students, at least think about our healthcare system: how many nurses, techs, and other HCWs can’t work next week because you closed their kids’ school?

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In response, Board President @bryanhussein cut people off, refused to extend time, said this was “not the appropriate venue.” Tried to change the subject (“anyways”). When that didn’t work, he literally got up and walked out of the room. Zero empathy. Wow, just wow. 2/2

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Wow — these emails show an officer of the Ann Arbor Board of Education angrily blasting a parent (a law professor + former school teacher) as “uneducated“ and “self-serving“. His sin? Wanting full-time school for his children. Nothing more. How low can you go #a2schoolboard ?

Nicholas Bagley

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3 years

1/ A FOIA request to the Ann Arbor School Board has unearthed some colorful comments from a trustee about an open letter that I organized—calling it “uneducated” and “self-serving.” The response explains a lot about why I've lost faith in the board.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

Today in teaching: sexual harassment in the academy. Actually this was a brown bag presentation. Talked about my work with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Highlighted little-known findings from the research record. A few examples:

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

This is what kids are wearing at @A2schools today, and one of many reasons why the new mask mandate will not protect anyone’s health or safety👇🏼

Anthony LaMesa

@ajlamesa

2 years

Two leading public health experts — Leana Wen and Michael Osterholm — described cloth and surgical masks as “decorations” when confronted with Omicron. School districts imposing temporary post-holiday mask mandates are allowing cloth masks. Their mandates are useless.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Re: the relationship that got Schlissel fired, it may be a transgression of heteronormative ideals. Reflection of poor judgment. Violation of UM disclosure policy. But based on the evidence, it’s not sexual harassment. Welcomed relationship between consenting adults ≠ harassment

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@LiliaCortina

3 years

This reminds me of Rebecca Lazarus, President of #a2schoolboard , who wanted to report me to my employer for raising concerns about equity, pedagogy, and student mental health. Mine is the redacted name below.

The Detroit News

@detroitnews

3 years

Rochester schools monitor parents' social media posts, twice contacted critics' employers

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Ann Arborites: please take a moment to share via email, Twitter, FB, Nextdoor, etc: an independent effort by community members is underway to bring affordable before and after-school childcare to AAPS families. Many thanks to @curiousliz , @lsong & others for their work on this.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Ann Arbor Public Schools kids are not immune to these losses in early literacy. They were kept out of school for over a year, then allowed in only 2 mornings/week. What exactly is @A2schools doing to assess and address these losses? What are parents being told?

Ann Arbor Reasonable Return

@A2Return

3 years

“Children spent months out of the classroom, where they were supposed to learn the basics of reading — the ABCs, what sound a “b” or “ch” makes. Many first and second graders returned to classrooms needing to review parts of the kindergarten curriculum.”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

All #a2schoolboard members take an oath to “respectfully listen to those who communicate with the board, seeking to understand their views, while recognizing my responsibility to represent the interests of the entire community.” Board Sectary Susan Baskett, however,

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

Our paper on sexual harassment and silence is out! We review how social networks + belief systems instill silence around sexual harassment. We also identify novel ways of disrupting these dysfunctional dynamics. @SandyHershcovis @IvanaVranjes2 @JBerdahl

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: Theorizing network silence around sexual harassment.

#MeToo has inspired the voices of millions of people (mostly women) to speak up about sexual harassment at work. The high-profile cases that reignited this movement have revealed that sexual harass...

psycnet.apa.org

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Totally agree. If Dems want to be known as something other than "the party that closed the schools," they need to get more vocal and active in pushing for all public schools to be open 5 days/week

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

And then there were 130: a rising number of Ann Arbor physicians are signing a public letter urging school districts to return kids to classrooms: “the cost of a full year of missed school far outweighs the relatively small risk of intra-school spread”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@genevavalerie Sexual harassment myths are pervasive, denying and justifying men’s misdeeds. A big one is the myth of false allegations: that women frequently fabricate or exaggerate reports of bad behavior. In reality, reports of any kind a rare. False reports even rarer.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

@karenvaites Agree 💯. Here in Ann Arbor, many schools opened in Fall 2020, just not public ones. We had a 2-tiered educational system: private schools in person, publics on zoom. And the former were not dropping like flies from COVID. The “closing schools saved lives” narrative is nonsense

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

AAPS students are still reeling from the lockdown year. Learning inequalities: still off the charts. Mental health stuggles: still loom large (one child recently overdosed at school). But fret not: this upheaval in children's lives is akin to a flat tire on the way to the zoo.

Lena Kauffman

@LenaKauffman

2 years

For those who follow schools, this is how the superintendent of Michigan's 6th largest school district describes learning loss as not being a thing and that Covid's impact on kids was like a flat tire on the way to an outing at the zoo. #a2schoolboard

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

@Dr_Vitti : “Schools opened for two months, and we had only one outbreak. It proved we could open up schools safely.”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

“Following the recommendations of health professionals,” @A2schools has “confirmed all safety protocols” and will allow gifted highschoolers back inside, for contact sports. Will @A2SchoolsSuper & @bryanhussein have the integrity to let all kids back in, for non-contact learning?

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Dr. Leana Wen advises that most Americans continue to enjoy their newfound normalcy, even if BA.2 cases rise. Some 80% have immunity, from either vax or prior omicron infection. Absent strain on hospitals, we should not reimpose restrictions.

Opinion | A new covid wave may be coming. Most Americans shouldn’t worry.

The BA.2 subvariant may be more transmissible, but that doesn't mean we should reimpose covid restrictions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

So happy to see this paper published in the Journal of Management: “The Embodiment of Insult: A Theory of Biobehavioral Response to Workplace Incivility”. This piece was great fun to write with @SandyHershcovis & @KateClancy .

The Embodiment of Insult: A Theory of Biobehavioral Response to Workplace Incivility - Lilia M....

This article builds a broad theory to explain how people respond, both biologically and behaviorally, when targeted with incivility in organizations. Central to...

journals.sagepub.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

those with disabilities. But, says Baskett, “you don’t argue with drunks”

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@lnmargolis @JSpencerSegal @lnmargolis I wish that were a real question. If you took the time to talk to the community instead of sending snarky tweets, you would have dozens of creative solutions for keeping schools open despite staff absences

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

6 months

Happy to see my invited piece in the Detroit Free Press made it to the Sunday edition "above the fold" (with a different headline than the online edition: )

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 months

Susan Baskett & Susan Ward Schmidt were completely silent as PM concluded that trustees did not do their due diligence about the (bad) budget presented by Swift in June 2023. Here's why: the Susans were the sole trustees on the Finance Commitee at the time. #a2schoolboard

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

AAPS has now burned through its 6 "Act of God" days, and winter is not over. Did we really need full-day shutdowns for things like morning frost (Feb 17)? Many students are still behind from being locked out for over a year. Without course correction, some will never catch up.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Per @A2SchoolsSuper , “our posture is that our schools are fully open.” Oh? That’s a relief. Let’s all drop our kids at their fully open schools Monday morning.

Meredith Bruckner

@MeredithBruckTV

3 years

Superintendent Swift spoke to A4 about the district’s staffing shortage.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Just to be clear: AAPS promised a wonderful program for kids struggling with virtual learning. Thousands of families enrolled...and then heard nothing more. The program was a massive failure—a fact that district leadership worked hard to hide from the public.

Ann Arbor Reasonable Return

@A2Return

3 years

🧵Last fall, families of ~4,000 students opted for Connections+, a program described as small-group support for kids having the hardest time with virtual school. Watch the July 2020 marketing video presenting the program. Learn what happened next here 1/3

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Fantastic first day of class. 1 down, 25 to go! #PsychOfWomen ⁦ @um_psychology ⁩ ⁦ @umichLSA ⁩

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Great to see this note in ⁦ @AAObserver ⁩, apologizing for a falsehood promoted by #a2schoolboard leadership. (Good leaders issue their own apologies, but I’m not holding my breath with the AAPS BOE)

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

@SMHred @crewjam @A2Return @A2schools @A2SchoolsSuper , how does school closure interrupt the surge? This week, young kids will be scattered around town at daycares, neighbors, grandma’s, & Wide World of Sports. Teens will be at the mall or the movies. None will be in well-controlled, well-ventilated school settings.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Certainly happening in AAPS. Recent #a2schoolboard meetings have had no focus on learning loss or catching students up. Instead, trustees carry on at length about new ways to cancel school. Worst offenders at the last meeting: Baskett, Querijero, Lazarus. #VoteThemOut

Matt Grossmann

@MattGrossmann

3 years

Despite significant learning loss over the prior 2 school years & substantial federal $ to schools for recovery, there is almost no talk of extending the school year or day to catch students up. Instead, schools are taking additional days off & asking for reduced day requirements

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

3 years

Leslie Gonzales speaking at #UMADVANCE20 event: organizations are ideal sites to study and understand inequality. Organizations must be understood in context (structures matter). Organizational actors bring organizations to life and engage in inequality-generating mechanisms

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

In sum, Baskett’s behavior on school board has ranged from cold to hostile to unethical. These are just the most egregious examples. There are more. November 8 election cannot come soon enough. Vote for someone, anyone, but Susan Baskett.

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

2 years

Powerful piece by @anya1anya . Those denying the existence of learning loss "are coming pretty close to arguing that public schools accomplish nothing. If being at home for a year & a half didn’t have any negative impact on children, why do we need school?"

Opinion | School Is for Everyone (Published 2022)

Our democracy sprouts in the nursery of public schools — where students grapple, together, with our messy history and learn to negotiate differences.

www.nytimes.com

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Lilia Cortina

@LiliaCortina

4 years

@A2SchoolsSuper @a2HuronHigh Dr. Swift please have the decency to stop tweeting about athletes competing in contact sports indoors, at a time when you’ve prohibited other athletes from even practicing non-contact sports outdoors (due to “safety“ concerns)

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