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6 months

I can't believe this!! I've been awarded a grant to create a spooky art installation to tell the story of Black people, Detroiters specifically, and our experiences with the paranormal. A new kind of Black history. Read more here:

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4 years

Why the hell am I teaching in person?

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4 years

BREAKING: Senate cancels work until Oct. 19 as lawmakers contract virus

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8 months

Let’s fix this now.

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4 months

TSA let my full size Cécred go through on my carry on because she’s a Beyonce Stan. “I know this cost a lot! Beyonce don’t play” 🤣🤣🤣

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8 months

My granny hung in there for one more big birthday! Margaret Brown, a mathematician, vicious solitary player, rice pudding baker, and comedian in her own right took her last breath today. I will be forever grateful for 104 years of life. Rest peacefully. <3

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8 months

We back again. Please wish my great grandmother a happy 104th birthday!!!

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1 month

For context… this is energy of the RNC Convention 2024 Roll Call 😂😂

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3 years

The duo I didn’t know I needed.

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8 years

Every Black kid should know durag fundamentals. #BlackHistoryMonth #100thDayOfSchool

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1 year

I don't think people understand that Kindergarten used to be a half-day program.

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6 years

Alright Award Shows. Don't fuck up. We want Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson, Ledisi, Patti, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, India Arie, and maybe Tori Kelly for ALL tributes. Thats it.

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4 years

When teachers walk away from the profession, we’re not walking away because of kids. We’re walking away because of adults who uphold a system that hurts children. And that hurts us at the same time.

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1 year

Our section was almost muted until somebody messed us up. This is a serious thing 😭 #RENAISANCEWorldTour

Watch #AskJenn

@JENNontheRocks_

1 year

Detroit girls too loud and don’t listen to nobody I knew we wasn’t muting 🤣

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1 year

We cannot celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Cheetah Girls without celebrating the Black woman author of the original books. Deborah Gregory, a Brooklyn native, released the Cheetah Girls book in 1999. There are 22 books in the Cheetah Girls series. #CheetahGirls @Disney

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8 years

What happened? The guy underneath moved up a reading level. #love #blackboymagic

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1 month

My favorite roll call memory is Larry Sanders, Bernie Sanders’s brother, who casted his vote for his brother during the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

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6 months

It may be time to admit that Vacation Bible School was a literacy camp.

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4 years

“Online learning doesn’t work for families!” We also didn’t do it right. We didn’t give it a fair chance. We did emergency learning not online learning.

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2 months

I’ve been waiting to use this.

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2 months

Trump says he had a bigger crowd on Jan. 6 than Dr. Martin Luther King did for his famous "I Have a Dream” speech: “Nobody has spoken to crowds bigger than me”

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4 years

a friendly reminder... Teachers are 10 month employees. We spread our paychecks throughout the entire year so we are paid throughout the summer. The paycheck we receive in the summer is money we've already earned. So no, Ts aren't entitled to work over the summer.

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2 years

Being a teacher takes so much brain power. My god. The amount of thinking we do in a single day.

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6 months

The recession is here. That's why all the musical artists going on tour at the same time.

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1 year

Why is it that all of the D9 sororities recognized Pride Month but none of the fraternities did?

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4 months

You ever been so overwhelmed you just sit and do nothing?

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2 years

I don’t believe In forcing a close relationship with any student. Sometimes you’re just their teacher and that’s okay.

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3 years

Giving kids grace is not the same as lowering expectations.

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4 years

Yesterday, to my dads surprise, I introduced him to my boyfriend at a family BBQ. My dad and I haven’t talked about sexuality since I came out 8 years ago. The way he dapped him up, engaged him in conversation and affirmed our relationship made me sob. “I just want him happy”.

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8 months

We back again. Please wish my great grandmother a happy 104th birthday!!!

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2 years

Happy 103rd birthday to my great grandma!! 😍😍

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2 years

Baby put them instructional coaches in classroom. It’s a teacher shortage. ❤️

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4 years

I survived teaching in 2020.

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2 years

I just find it funny that K-12 teachers are vilified for not engaging students or preparing them for college. But, college professors get away with lecturing for an entire semester. I need Profs to step up their pedagogy. It's more to teaching than your voice + slides, love. <3

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3 years

Grad school is so interesting. Nobody actually teaches you anything. lol It's really like you're paying to teach yourself.

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2 years

Two weeks ago, I found out five minutes before my 6th grade English class, my best friend lost a his fight with cancer. I cant explain the feeling having to go through threads to find info and inspiration to co-write his obituary with his mom. Teaching while grieving is ughh..

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3 years

Teacher tired is a slow burn. You struggle to get out of bed. You get behind on grading and Lesson planning is a struggle. You have less patience with adults or kids. Pessimism drops on top of you. Sometimes you start drinking too much. All the way until you can't take it.

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4 years

It’s later.

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4 months

@blakademic Something told me to trust the Queen

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4 years

I love teaching. But I’m tired of being broke.

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4 months

We made it and are unpacked. 😘😘 (clearly I’ve been using them)

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4 years

Do not conduct the Blue Eyed / Brown Eyed experiment in your classroom. Thanks.

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4 years

The second gentleman will begin teaching at Georgetown Law. Which means the First Lady & the Second Gentleman are both teachers. How exciting.

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3 years

Hi Everyone. I'm sitting on a roundtable today with some important folks at the Department of Education. I plan to discuss the eradication of standardized testing. I'm nervous..... please send your virtual hugs and support.

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6 months

@ThereGoesTonio I love when we come together for good

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4 years

Students call teachers by their first name at my new school and I have never been more excited.

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2 years

If we want teachers to STAY in the classroom, we're going to have to let them teach their passions to their students. I mean... we're gonna have to put a pause on the boxed curriculums your districts are paying millions for and let teachers just share their passions with kids.

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1 month

It is very clear that yall have poor reading AND listening comprehension. It’s so sad.

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1 month

The storytelling is cute and all but *taps mic* I WANNA HEAR THE POLICIES

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8 months

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8 months

@PresidentPat UPDATE: it’s been fixed!

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5 years

Them: Follow *insert curriculum here* it’ll bring results. Me doing what I want, getting results:

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4 years

Expectations are so low for Black kids in the hood that institutions think they have to spend 2-3 weeks going over "expectations". you can cover expectations through meaningful content and still keep that rigor high from day 1.

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4 years

The only reason schools are rushing to give a standardized test is to prove that students suffered a learning loss because of the pandemic. They plan to use that data to reprimand teachers and educators while paying billions (collectively) to testing companies.

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3 years

There’s too much emphasis on what protestors will do and not what police officers will do.

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4 years

I am a Black teacher that perpetrated anti- Blackness in my classroom through “tough love”. I believed that’s what my students needed. It showed up through failing students, being unnecessarily aggressive and harsh. It’s all I had in my toolbox. Grateful to be in a better space

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4 years

It only took one date. No talking phase or anything like that. Cause When you know you just know. What a year it’s been. So glad to be in love with my best friend. Happy 1 year Anniversary to my baby and me. 🥰🥰

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4 months

Atlanta Public Schools gave their teachers a big raise!!

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5 years

One year ago, I was fired by my new principal because of an opinion I had on my podcast. I’m sharing this again because it’s necessary.

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5 years

My students said, we don’t have science and that’s not okay. I said TRUE. I did my research, called up my friends, bought a science lab coat and wrote a science unit for the kids starting tomorrow. 😂👨🏽‍🔬

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2 months

Still On vacation in the middle of nowhere. 🌴🌲

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6 years

When I stopped taking student misbehaviors personally, my days got a lot easier.

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2 years

Teaching is such a perfectionist profession. It's one of the only jobs in the world that expects people to show up perfectly every day. Despite how wild the world is and how terrorizing our industry can be, for the babies, we are expected to show up as our best all day

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1 year

I don’t think people understand how much of a mental marathon teaching is.

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5 years

What if....hear me out...what if...students come back in the fall and they don't have the gaps we assumed they would? What if they remained constant? What if they improve?

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3 months

New haircut >>

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3 years

Anti racism work has to exist outside of the English classroom.

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4 years

I teach "Intro into Queer Studies and Literature" to 6th, 7th and 8th graders at my school. It's been quite the experience so far. I thought I would create a thread of our takeaways, experiences, videos, texts, etc.

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3 years

I really don't think you all know what teachers go through on a day to day. I think y'all think you know. But, I'm not sure you really know.

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2 years

The “no phone” conversation is so interesting because it only applies to students and never to adults. If phones are bans for students, shouldn’t that also apply to adults?

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1 year

Black people crediting Trump with the stimulus check is hilarious.

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16 days

Outrageous.

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2 years

There’s nothing you can tell me that will justify a school district paying millions and millions of dollars for curriculum.

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3 years

If you know me, then you know I am the Nomad Teacher. 6 schools in 6 years. But after today, I’m so confident in saying it wasn’t all in vain. Not only do I feel like myself but I am So glad to have finally found a school for me. #LastdayOfSchool

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4 years

The awful truth is School Districts don't have enough money to reimagine education.

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4 years

Personally, I'm tired of thank yous. I'm tired of donuts and mugs. We need radical change in our profession and our system and we need it yesterday. The American Education System is a national crisis and should be treated as such.

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3 months

Hi everyone. This is what media training means:

CUNTboy Carter🤠

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3 months

I’m sorry but this video being 4 minutes of her saying the SAME THING OVER AND OVER is killing me 😭😭😭

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2 years

Leaving the classroom doesnt help you make a “bigger” impact, it just helps you make a different impact. Please stop diminishing our profession… please and thank you. ❤️

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1 year

Older millennials realizing they’re not as progressive as they think they are.

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2 years

Every schoolboard should have a student and teacher representative.

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6 years

Let's be clear. George Zimmerman hunted and killed Trayvon. Hunted and killed. #TrayvonMartinStory

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4 years

If I could afford to take a year off of teaching, I certainly would.

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4 years

My baby sister got a 3.25 GPA and made up two classes this past semester. Her highest GPA to date. She attributes learning online to her new found productivity. My mom says, she plans to keep her home this fall. She said bullying and drama kept my sister from learning.

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4 years

So here's the truth. Is this a safe space? I'm an English teacher that's mega insecure about his own reading and writing. I loathe how long it takes me to get through novels that I actually want to read. Don't judge me, I just finished my first lesiure book of the year.

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1 year

Remember back in the day in school when teachers used to give quizzes on just a blank sheet of lined paper? Talking about "Number your paper from 1 to 10 and skip a line inbetween." :/

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3 years

I don't think people know how long it takes to give quality feedback on kids' writing.

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3 years

I should not have to pay for a Covid test.

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2 years

Thank God 9/11 is on a Sunday. Less pressure for teachers to have to talk about it in school.

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1 year

Am I the only teacher that feel like I need to clean my house before school start? lol

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4 years

5 (hidden) places where you can find your school's values. 1. Budget 2. Onboarding 3. Staff Transitions 4. External Partnerships 5. Mission, Vision & Philosophy Statements What did I miss?

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4 years

@krispykuf Parents be torturing good kids lmaooooo

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1 year

@SirMichaelKing We were all her

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3 years

I’m not looking forward to seeing all the republicans use Dr. King’s name in a tweet on Monday after they’ve passed laws that ban educators from talking about racism.

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1 month

Back in the gym. Vacation is over.

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2 years

Shout out to every classroom teacher. We made it through Blood Moon week. 🩸Was it abnormal where y’all were?

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7 years

My biggest issue with this Teachers Pay Teachers era is that it makes us focus on the product and not the process. The learning happens when we think. I don't want the worksheets; I want to know the mistakes you made, the questions you had...this will make us better for our kids.

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2 years

It's not just about banning books. It's banning people's actual lived experiences. Their humanity. It's more than just pages.

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5 years

A teacher at a local High School was just found positive for COVID-19. Why is this significant? Well, because they were passing out homework packets to students and parents. Packets aint worth it y'all. #GetKidsConnected

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5 years

“Wait, so how did Christopher Columbus discover America if people were already here?” —sixth grader

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6 years

The beginning of this documentary, really reminds me as an educator that every second and every decision counts for children. It could truly make all the difference. What if they didn't suspend him for those two weeks? #TrayvonMartinStory

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3 years

You knew your elementary teacher was about to fuck it up when she walked in with this on.

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3 years

I wonder why a lot of teacher authors aren’t more forward with the fact that they teach in independent schools. The amount of autonomy we get in these schools impacts the ideas written in books. And we have to know that many teachers aren’t afforded that same privilege.

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4 years

Us: This policy is racist and you’re contributing to systematic oppression. Systems: We see you. We hear you. We thank you.

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8 months

@purethiquekj It should still be fixed.

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1 year

@Anaytat5 That part killed me lmaoooo. she sat down after that

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4 years

One of my students was cooking on our Google Hangout so of course I gave him the choice to create his own cooking show and write the recipe instead of the ELA assignment posted.

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yall. I'm not okay. at all. I'm leaving social media for a while. I'm not sure if this means I'll continue to podcasts either for a minute. Every time I stand up, I keep falling or being pushed to back to rock bottom. And I'm more tired than I've ever been. prayers are needed.

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