Tag: Teacher Tuesdays
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When lockdowns happen at schools
Yesterday, we had an actual lockdown. Not a drill—lockdown. What does this mean? It means that my entire class of students sat on the floor waiting for someone to give the all clear. It means that because I ran out of my house a different way, I forgot my keys and my door was perpetually […]
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Restoration Threads — What NOT to do for opening activities (a lesson in equity/inclusion)
As teachers start the school year, I want to just share this reminder that popped up in my feed. Restoration Threads (a now closed nonprofit—visit their still open instagram) serviced foster kids. This post was very much an excellent eye opening moment for teachers to remember that not all kids are in a happy place, […]
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Kindness, Clarity, & Encouragement #41
Don’t allow the enemy to scramble your words or the words of others today. Most times? We are saying the same thing a different way, but have been trained to speak defensively instead of listening actively. Listen First, think second, speak last—if at all. You’d be amazed as the level of understanding you come to.
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Parents: Let kids be kids
Word of truth: the world is plenty adept at taking the childhood of young black and brown children away, making them grow up before their time. Don’t add to that. Let kids be kids. Remind them to do kid stuff. Force them to enjoy being children. Keep your adult problems to yourself. Half the issues […]
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Skill versus Will: How Lack of Discipline Mimics Disobedience
Being undisciplined is often interpreted as disobedience. One is a lack of action; the other is a lack of submission of your will. Bishop Dale C. Bronner My friend Eboney used to always ask me a riddle when I was in my bag about something. She’s say, “Who is more right? Or who is wrong? […]
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Unmet Need as the Soil for Sin
Tuesdays are the day that I teach you something… MY way. You’ll always learn something if you want to.
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Every Teacher You Know Has Thought About It (or, what a WAY to end the school year)
Every one of us. The thought is just about as American as apple pie, as the slavery and murderous tendencies that make up the blood and bone of this nation’s historical skeleton. Is this the day my school gets shot up? At this point, we simply expect it, another unfair, unkind weight dropped on our […]
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Math is a Mindset
Everybody hated math until their paycheck looks funny 😶 now y’all know calculus 🫢. 🤔🤔🤔 Rachel Austin, Facebook Maybe you heard your parents say, “I’m not good at math! Nobody in my family is good at math!” Or you may have even heard a teacher say, “Oh I was never any good at math.” And […]
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3 Things You Should Never Say to a Grown Person
This is meant to be funny with a truth embedded inside it. So hold ya drawers along with your offense. 😘
Kisha Creates 