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Why don't we start off by introducing yourself and telling us how excited you are about the #Dodgers winning tonight and getting closer to returning to the World Series
Padres fan in Rockies country. The Dodgers are an abomination only eclipsed by the Giants. I don’t follow baseball much, but I know how I feel. Oh, I’m Paul, I teach 5th. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd I’m Veronica! I teach 4th grade and I haven’t watched a baseball game in a while (don’t tell me mom) but I have been teaching! Year 2... still exhausted...
Hi! I'm Shelby (or Sherby according to my brother's obit) and uhh...baseball! America's pastime! Rah rah! ...Yeah no sorry, football it is. #GeauxSaints#WeirdEd
Good! #WeirdEd I hope to be reaffirmed. I've been feeling stuck and confined lately.... Too bad I can't stay for my friends' presentation, didn't take the whole day off from work.
#WeirdEd I’m Veronica! I teach 4th grade and I haven’t watched a baseball game in a while (don’t tell me mom) but I have been teaching! Year 2... still exhausted...
#WeirdEd A1 I feel like a new teacher literally everyday, probably because I am still pretty darn new, but also because my class this year is throwing new things at me every day! Good and tough things. I find myself wondering if I’ll ever get used to it.
Anytime I get pushback that I wasn't expecting. I start panicking and questioning whether I'm doing the right thing, or if I'm damaging my students for life, and should I just scrap everything I know and start over. #WeirdEd
Hi everybody! I'm Noa, working for the Innovative Tech Unit in the Israeli Ministry of Education. It's where the magic happens! :-) Not so big on football here. #122edchat#weirded
A1 I dont feel new but definitley constantly in a state of evolution. I've done mods of the same lesson but not same in years. In other respects I feel more confident each year - like I have been through situations before and have a road map.
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That, or, like, "Here's a strategy called 'Carousel.' Basically kids walk around the room and scribe answers on large pieces of paper hung around on the walls. We invented this. Be grateful." #weirded
#WeirdEd A1 Today, I felt like a new, well, ok, I thought I had the experience needed to lead a group of students for work today, w/ minute to win it activities. But no, it was disastrous. I set expectations, none were followed, started out calm, but had to raise voice a lot
Q1: new corp, new grade level this year. Went from a 3 person team to a 9 person time (holy opinions batman!). 15th year, feelin those first day jitters 9 weeks in adjusting to how ppl view me as the new (but old😉) kid #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd A1 Today, I felt like a new, well, ok, I thought I had the experience needed to lead a group of students for work today, w/ minute to win it activities. But no, it was disastrous. I set expectations, none were followed, started out calm, but had to raise voice a lot
Every single day. Only reason is I am always trying to find a better way to do things, always rewriting past lessons, making new projects, creating new visuals. Never satisfied, always room to get better. #weirded
#WeirdEd True story- I misspelled SIX student names today. It was like a bad dream where each name I got more and more nervous about doing it and it never got better
Had a meeting a few weeks ago where afterwards I immediately emailed the Geometry and Alg2 teachers to ask them if my students were arriving unprepared because of me. I was pretty rattled. #WeirdEd
A1: I am new in my district but I have been teaching for a few years now... Today I felt like a newbie (a salty one) when one of the elementary teachers asked if I actually grade students.... #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Ah, yes. PD always win win. It just makes it that much better when you get awesome PD. Had people seriously tune out & act rude when Dave Burgess was about to present. Dave Freaking Burgess!
I’m Christie, I’m a librarian in MN. I have two elective tech classes which were rather a surprise and I started school in late Sept. Husband has some kind of prop bet on the Dodgers, so that’s the extent of my interest in the endless ballgames of October. #WeirdEd
I'm always amused at what 25-year-old "management" or "curriculum" consultants think they've invented. I guess it doesn't make me feel like a new teacher as much as it makes me feel _treated_ like a new teacher. #WeirdEd
A1: This year, I'm feeling brand new, I'm not a T anymore. Still my job at the Ministry of Education is very new. It's also a new role, nobody has done it before. Exciting and scary! #weirded
#WeirdEd It's a lesson in tolerance and forgiveness for my kids. I have so many kids on my soccer team whose names I still can't spell. The Lovely Missus has so many "almost" identical names.
A1: when I think about having a sub in my room I always try to act/think like a new teacher so I can simplify my lessons and hopefully encourage successes in my absence. #WeirdEd
A1: Laurie Jones from the dusty Central Valley. I feel new when I’m diving in to technology based assessment. Proctoring the PSAT and CAASPP practice...sigh #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Q2 When is it good to feel like a new teacher, and when not so much?
OR, for those who actually are new, when does it feel ok and safe being new and when not so much?
#WeirdEd I get around it by not claiming to have discovered or invented anything, but passing on a thing some may already know and then open the floor to modifications
Bear thing to do, honestly. I come to meetings PREPARED with STACKS of research into why I make certain choices, or how classroom activities align to the standards, etc etc. I panic before and after, but during I go into Boss Bitch Mode. #WeirdEd
a2: bit of a detour, but: I LOVE the energy and goodwill of (99%) of new teachers. I love the experimentation and enthusiasm all of our new folks bring. Keep that, treasure, never let it die and you won't become An Old Teacher. #WeirdEd
I am a new teacher and sometimes I get frustrated with being treated like a new teacher. It’s almost like being talked to in a baby voice... like ugh... I do know SOME things thankyouverymuch
A2: We should always feel like a new Ts when the year starts. If you walk in door calm, cool, collected with all 180 days planned, you’re doing it wrong #WeirdEd
Ooh ooh I'll break Twitter curfew for this.
It's good to feel like a new teacher when you don't know that you're not supposed to do that awesome thing you're about to do. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Q2 When is it good to feel like a new teacher, and when not so much?
OR, for those who actually are new, when does it feel ok and safe being new and when not so much?
A2: I’m in year 16, but every so often I get that little tingle-that “I’m a teacher” tingle - I felt this often when I heard my first kid call me “Mrs. Jones.” I’m proud to be a teacher and have always liked saying it out loud. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd A2 As a new Teacher of Color, as well as other, certain cultural growing up-ness, being a new teacher carries a certain danger of being scapegoated, easy target to let go, when starting to raise a stink against "it's what we've always done"
A2: It's good to feel like a new T when you're in a position of learning new things. Helps you keep am open mind. When you have to impress a supervisor or principal it's not the best time to feel new. #weirded
A2: I do like getting to know the new personalities in my room at the start of the year, but I often forget that these kids haven't undergone months of training to meet my expectations like the Ss that just left. #weirded
A2 When I feel like the students and I have had a conversation about why we are tryimg something and its something new. A passion for the innovation helps convince Ss to support the change.
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A2 It may seem backwards, but when you go to teach college, you don't need a degree in Education. And my one professor told me off because I felt we needed more guidance. #weirded
#WeirdEd A2 Altho, as a new teacher, there's a certain safety net w, as @edutinker mentioned, "When you don't know you're not supposed to do that awesome thing you're about to do."
A2: I have an awesome principal and support at my school who allow and support me trying new and interesting things. The hard part is in PLCs or meetings where my data doesn’t look as good as my teammates and the “it’s ok, he’s new” goes unsaid, but I feel it. #WeirdEd
I want to be open to new fresh ideas and approaches. I always feel rejuvenated after a conference in my content area. I also feel like a new teacher now because I am flipping some of my instruction via webcam ala @MiniMatisse and my drawing kids are soaking it up #WeirdEd
A2 I think I feel okay about being new when being observed. I feel like I get a lot of encouragement BECAUSE I am still learning. I don’t mind being observed and love feedback, and I feel like I have more room to mess up. #WeirdEd
A2 On the other hand, I don’t feel great bringing in new suggestions or ideas at any level yet. Sometimes I feel like my voice is slightly undervalued because, what could I know? I’m new to this... So that’s a bummer sometimes #WeirdEd
A2:
Good—when you feel the passion and enthusiasm for teaching that you started teaching with.
Bad—when you feel like you literally have no clue how to teach what your students need to learn. #WeirdEd
A1 #weirded I can honestly say never feel like a new teacher anymore and that’s a great thing because new teacher me was lost in a sea of trial by fire. I have much more perspective about the long game and the sky turned blue when I stopped taking misbehavior personally.
A2 On the other hand, I don’t feel great bringing in new suggestions or ideas at any level yet. Sometimes I feel like my voice is slightly undervalued because, what could I know? I’m new to this... So that’s a bummer sometimes #WeirdEd
A2 I’m new in my bldg/district, not a new teacher. My new principal is challenging me toward growth in ways that others haven’t for a long time , since I was brand new to the field. So that’s pretty good, to be expected to learn stuff and be accountable for it. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd A2 It's not comfortable when people assume that just because you don't have years of classroom teaching experience like they do that it means you have no experience. I know my stuff. I've had experiences and struggles other Ts may not have had. I deserve my spot.
This backfires so hard, tho. I didn't even realize how much harder it is to teach when you look young enough to be almost-a-peer until I got old enough to be clearly-not-a-peer. #WeirdEd
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@Sneffleupagus, @veronica3of5, @TheWeirdTeacher
A2:
Good—when you feel the passion and enthusiasm for teaching that you started teaching with.
Bad—when you feel like you literally have no clue how to teach what your students need to learn. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd A1/2 (I'm the mod, I'm allowed)
I mostly feel new when I get to a meeting with a whole buncha acronyms and programs I don't know (but get the impression I ought to). That's no fun.
#WeirdEd Yeah. That's tough. I always try to "bring it" with confidence but also prove I'm willing to listen to people who have other experiences. No one should be discounted.
You would have found it amusing that I tried to teach Moby Dick in Freshman Comp. (College Freshman, to be clear) Most people around me did a face palm. Ah well. C'est la vie. #weirded
I felt like a new teacher for the longest time, since it was a second career. And because my school was shrinking and I seemed to have the least seniority ... #WeirdEd
Being a new veteran teacher is hard bc ppl assume you know the lay of the land and leave you alone. I brought my trusty teacher toolbox but I've never been to THIS land. Help me explore it!
A2 I think I feel okay about being new when being observed. I feel like I get a lot of encouragement BECAUSE I am still learning. I don’t mind being observed and love feedback, and I feel like I have more room to mess up. #WeirdEd
A2: Feels good to feel like a new T when you’re trying out something new and different in the classroom. Doesn’t feel good to be treated like a new T by admin when being explained things. #WeirdEd
That feeling went away when I was a sub at a small school and I walked into a staff meeting and there were maybe 2 people over 30. I'd been teaching 12 years by that point. #WeirdEd
A2: It’s good to keep the enthusiasm and optimism. To believe you can change the world one kid at a time. It’s not good to feel like you’re drowning but have to prove to everyone how well you can swim. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd I think NOT feeling like a new teacher sneaks up on you. Like one day you look around and suddenly you're in the middle of the age/experience range at the school and the new teacher was born after you graduated high school
A2 As a new (young) teacher I remember trying to be cool. I was not cool. When I got over that a lot of my management issues went away. Havent figured out that correlation yet...
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I had the opposite experience at my former school. There were 3 of us under 35 - me, the band director, and the principal. It did not go well when I was made co-department chair. #WeirdEd
A2 Sux feeling new when others know the scoop about new initiative/change/whatever and I'm out of the loop.
Ok feeling new when someone finds a new trick/app/thing and I never heard of it. always learning #weirded
#WeirdEd I'm Asian, I grew up having to stifle that, at a young age. LOL
Now, seeing it every day, though? Yeah, it tends to pile up that even self control slips.
I still enjoy freaking out that group of teachers with my graduation year and hip 90s and 00s pop culture references. They don’t see it coming because I’m bald...but I know some young punk is going to do the same to me in 10 years. #WeirdEd
I worked with two teachers who were former teacher and student -- but not at the current high school, so it just seemed weirder than they ran into each other again. #WeirdEd
I wonder if there's just a crossover point when, say, 25% of the adults in the building were hired after you. Turnover in my school is so real, I'm in year 5 but feel solidly veteran #WeirdEd
In my first job, I worked with my (former) first-grade and sixth-grade teachers, PLUS I taught several kids who were siblings to my own former classmates. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd It's crazy that being a minority in education should be anything but a total asset. At many of the schools I've worked with, being white means you're a minority in the building.
But then you don’t get a chance to learn—or at least I haven’t, yet—and then all of a sudden you’re in a meeting and being asked to perform all of these administrative tasks that I don’t know how to do yet. 2/2 #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Ha! Though I talk about it, my impact towards the systems are minimal. It's more towards student interactions. I've had to hold it in 'cause I'm afraid.
I hqve strongly steered into dad joke territory (helps that so am now a dad). I get a lot more of the eyerolls into smile moves and a lot more waves good night in the parking lot. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd That's an interesting situation, actually. XD
I'm usually one of the few non-white adults here in Minnesota. Depends on part of the state, usually. Twin Cities urban/metro (Minneapolis/St. Paul) there's more racial diversity within staff.
#WeirdEd Q3 I'm not sure if this is advice for New Teachers or for Everyone, but I wanted to put this paragraph from the post on focus and just see what responses you all have
Today at PD, talking about "power" and "ownership" and "agency", I said with all this talk of Power, it's taking restraint not to climb on the desk and invoke Castle Grayskull.
A millennial teacher asked what Castle Grayskull was #WeirdEd
I’ve worked as an EA and teacher in the district I grew up in, so I’ve been at PDs with many former teachers, coworkers with my third grade teacher, and my sixth grade math teacher @jdixhawk, was my principal for a couple years. Trippy for sure. #WeirdEd
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@mrburkemath, @janamaiuri, @TheWeirdTeacher, @jdixhawk
I tell my students all the time that I became a teacher because I have Grade A Teacher Jokes and they are forced into being my captive audience. #WeirdEd
Is there anything better when a young, ballsy new teacher comes out of teaching school and just HAS IT? He/she is masterful from the jump? I just sit back and think, “Wow.” I love that! #WeirdEd
A3: This is so good. Pair it with the important idea for new teachers that "YOU WILL NOT SCREW THEM UP IN ONE YEAR." I know it's frustrating, but all these experiences are learning experiences for both kids & you. Embrace it and get through it and get better and forgive. #WeirdEd
A3: ... even though I am not a totally new teacher being new to my district and therefore to the kids makes calling home a scary scary thing for me 1/ #WeirdEd
Flipside-- during a gallery walk, someone added a Post-It to our group's chart paper asking "What's an H.O.T. question?" next to our reference.
A reminder that the newbies don't know all the terminology and buzzwords #WeirdEd
A3:This hit me the hardest. Teenagers are hard for parents and I know they can be pills, but for many worry their teens are broken, but teens are just pills sometimes #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd I think it takes a lot of pressure off. The Lovely Missus always wants to "save" every kid, and a lot of her kids don't have a lot going on for them (parents who refuse to take them to school for example). But we can't parent the parents.
A3: i want to see students succeed and I often frame my phone calls home around “how can I help ___ understand this question/what strategies do you have for this behavior” cause I am not trying to “fix” their kid. I’m trying to have a positive experience with them 2/ #WeirdEd
A3 It is sometimes true that a person is broken. I am, sometimes. But if I have a broken kid in front of me, my job is to help that kid reassemble *themselves* and they need time & space & compassion & stretchy goals to get there. #WeirdEd
A3: my husband and I debate this. I feel like I need to give my marginalized population more and he feels we need to treat them equally for true equality... #WeirdEd
A3: assume the positive. Get to know the student. Do these two things and you’ll learn to appreciate the authentic truth of the child, not the assumption that feel good movies, tv shows, or the news try to convince you is their truth. #WeirdEd
A3: One of the first things I learned as a para in a Title I school was that all you can do is be there for them from bell to bell and beyond that, for better or worse, is out of your control. Sometimes what you do will make THE difference, but that’s not guaranteed #WeirdEd
A3 Kid O is 22 years old. She is severely disabled and cannot speak. She can get very primal. I have been under the microscope since April 1996. #weirded
#WeirdEd Logically, I feel that. In my heart, it tells me that a lot of Ss may never get another ToC until college, I have to make it count. Goes double for SoC to see that positive, male of color role model.
A3: but at my old school teachers were to blame and I was yelled at and called out and frightened of reaching out for help from families... that’s a real thing too. That feeling of unease and imposter syndrome. 3/. #WeirdEd
A3 Good advice! I find myself tossing & turning over students sometimes but there is a point where I just have to let it go which is hard for me because I like to fix all of the things. There’s nothing really to fix, but I always want to help & sometimes you just can’t. #WeirdEd
I totally fell into this trap. I went to Catholic School k-12 and had never stepped foot into a public school until I started doing observations in college. It took a long time to shake that "savior" mentality. #WeirdEd
A3 i found my self nodding along when i read the post. The hero thing never felt right.& the "kid needs you bc..." thing pulls at me... but when I'm wirh 23 kids it only rings true for a handful. I know their parents. Yep.. they're loved plenty #weirded
That was the movie that came to my mind too. Actually anynteacher based movie... I wonder if lawyers, doctors, and cops watch movies and just yell at the screen... #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd We hold them back if we try to do too much. We take away their biggest asset: their struggle. We can give them love and support, but we have to let them fail/succeed on their own otherwise we prevent them from authentically succeeding.
What do you mean by more? I struggle with framing initiatives at my district in a way that's not "pobrecito"ing the population. Too often savior complex kicks in and I want to change that to actually involve families in decisions/programs #WeirdEd
A3 I tell the girls I know (I’m a GS leader as well as a teacher) to be careful abt trying to “fix” or change ppl (boys) around them, too. Those guys need to find their own center and the girls need to not take that on. They all have to accept themselves and each other. #WeirdEd
I see where you're coming from. What do you mean by "making it count?" Because surely being an engaged professional learner who's honest with kids is great modeling, even if every lesson doesn't land. <3 <3 #WeirdEd
A3 And seriously, one time when I was putting Kid O back in her car seat after an appointment, this man had his wife call the cops on me. He assumed that she had a spinal injury instead of CP. #weirded
That’s not to say you can’t go above and beyond for a kid that could use/needs it, but that needs to be your choice and not out of some obligation to be the savior for all those who are in need in your class. #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd Oh indeed, but when plagued by my own self-doubt, everything ends up looking like a failure. "How can I be sure I'm being an engaged professional learner?" Sometimes it's difficult to look beyond the present. ESPECIALLY when the lesson doesn't land. XD
#WeirdEd I was also a para in a Title I school. Worked in BD, Mild & Moderate and even Severe and Profound. Not a lot of resources but a ton of support. Ss knew I'd keep showing up with a smile. Gave them at least one reason to show up themselves.
A3 The cops pulled up next to me and the one on the passenger side got out of the car. He insisted on seeing into the van. After a moment he decided both girls were OK and let me go. #weirded
Q3: We confuse saving with stability and structure. They dont need saving. They need stability and structure. So many times I've heard ppl say "I don't understand who could go home to that." The key word is: HOME. We can't create their normal. Who's normal anyway? #WeirdEd
preach. I'm trying to find ways to remind myself of the good / wins I have and not focus on my errors. Years ago I started a #winning folder, maybe I should revisit it. #weirded
Q3: We confuse saving with stability and structure. They dont need saving. They need stability and structure. So many times I've heard ppl say "I don't understand who could go home to that." The key word is: HOME. We can't create their normal. Who's normal anyway? #WeirdEd
A3 It has occurred to me over the years that had I not been white, this could have had a different outcome. White privilege probably saved my sorry ass. #weirded
#WeirdEd Q4 Does everyone have That One Kid from their first year? And not in a judgemental way, but in a "this one kid taught me more about teaching than four years of college" kid?
#WeirdEd Yes, indeed. I also have to constantly struggle against my own upbringing w/ authoritarian schooling, failure is emphasized, bc we always need to "Do better," and not in the growth mind set way.
Also recognize that the “teacher savior” story is also meant to keep teachers in their place, feeling guilty for asking for decent pay because we should view this job as a “Calling”. If we really cared about these kids we’d teach for free. #WeirdEd
Also recognize that the “teacher savior” story is also meant to keep teachers in their place, feeling guilty for asking for decent pay because we should view this job as a “Calling”. If we really cared about these kids we’d teach for free. #WeirdEd
A3 A week or two later when I was putting girls in the car for another one of Kid O's appointments, Kid O was being primal right in front of the house. Kid Q asked me if she was going to jail. #weirded
A3: Aside from the disservice this mentality does to your relationship with your student and their families, it also sets the new (or old) teacher up for burn out. You cannot take them all home, not even in your mind/heart. #WeirdEd
Esp as a first-year, I have to remind myself of this, too. I don’t have as much experience as my colleagues, so then are my students suffering from my inexperience and will therefore be behind for the rest of their lives?
Probably not. #WeirdEd 1/2
A4- Yep, the way I handled his outbursts/need for attention makes me shiver. Wish I had a restart but I did give him a sincere apology and still think about him a lot. #WeirdEd
A4 I think I have that kid this year. I learned some super important lessons last year, but HOLY CRAP this class is so different and I have had a couple of experiences with some kid’s this year that I KNOW will be tattooed on my brain forever. Woof. #WeirdEd
A4: Not one kid, but those first year classes taught me more in a week about teaching than all of Ed school. (Which is partly the problem of Ed school…) I remember those first year classes vividly while other groups blend together. #weirded
A3 Let that sink in. This little girl who was 4,5 years old was asking me if she would end up in jail because her older sister was having a temper tantrum. #weirded
A4: Yup. 10th grader. Evan. He asked me if I’d ever had to check in my bag when I walked into a Walgreens. When I said no he told me he had nothing to say to me then... #WeirdEd
But (hopefully) I can give my kids meaningful learning experiences, and just do the best I can do every day...and know I still have 30+ years to get good at this thing. 2/2 #WeirdEd
A4: That One Kid...taught him at a private school. Later taught him in juvenile detention. Made me wonder what my role was in where he ended up. Made me wonder if I make any difference at all. #WeirdEd
A4- Yep, the way I handled his outbursts/need for attention makes me shiver. Wish I had a restart but I did give him a sincere apology and still think about him a lot. #WeirdEd
A3 When Kid O was a preteen, this school nurse called DCFS twice. One time i was accused of sexual abuse. You mean to tell me they cannot tell the difference between a crease and a scratch along labia? #weirded
#WeirdEd A4 I have so many. Working in different special ed programs and inclusive classrooms, I had four one-on-ones as a para plus my other classroom duties. So many of them stuck with me always. P much "I can't convince you to show up; I can just do awesome stuff regardless"
Q4: I have a handful of students from year one of full time teaching. I also have “that kid” from subbing jobs and managing a camp... Oh. Yeah. But if you’re not willing to learn from “that one kid” and forgive/grow/move on you’re in the wrong field. #WeirdEd
#weirded A4- yes. More like... 2 from 1st year, 2 from my 2nd yr, 3 from my 3rd yr, and 8 from my 4th & 5th yr (I taught/looped with EBD). Always learning...each year with new kids.
a4: Yeah. But I didn't learn the real lesson 'til later, when that kid came back and didn't remember being a little punk AT ALL. I realized that most middle school nonsense isn't personal or even particularly purposeful- it melts away for them; let it melt away for you. #WeirdEd
I have one kiddo that pushes me to that point EVERY TIME WE TALK. It’s been a challenge but I heard someone in a training say, “be okay with having the second to last word.” Because that power struggle just isn’t productive. Walk away. It has helped so much! #WeirdEd
In reply to
@shadow_uzumaki, @janamaiuri, @oolalume
A4: I was lucky to get a head start last semester filling in halfway through the year with a group that taught me lessons I hadn’t realized I had learned until this year and wasnt even remotely prepared for in college especially the 1, online, classroom management class #WeirdEd
A4. Kinda. I totally did not expect some behaviors, but really didn't know what to expect. I didn't have an edu degree; was just thrown into it. Plus being in specials rotation didn't give me time to develop relationships with everyone that first year. took several #weirded
#WeirdEd Have I mentioned that I want to hang out with you? Because I do. I bet we would start talking and then suddenly it would be like 2am and we'd be at Dennys and confused where the time went.
Come to Portland
#WeirdEd Had to do a LOT of that yesterday... Did not end the day so nicely. Still, did prevent it from a heated shouting match 'cause I did have 2nd to last word and walked away.
During the toughest times @yenneam would tell me that my kids next year (now) should write them thank you notes for making me a better teacher. She was more right that I realized at the time. #WeirdEd
A4 on another note, I have some “craycray bananay” parents this year... they are also making a huge impact on how I am handling kids at school vs. kid with parents. It’s different and I AM JUST LEARNING SO MUCH #WeirdEd
Kid O was being primal, and this man lived near where I was parked. I had asked him to help me get her into the seat. Instead, he judged me. Thought I was abusing a girl with spinal injury instead of CP. #weirded
LOL. Jinx. I just Googled and got- Dunsmuir, or Redding. Nope nope nope. Ashland, maybe?
I did live in Eugene for five years- we missed each other then.
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A4: I swear that kid has had 14 younger brothers and sisters, each year to keep me on my toes! 😂 But you know, they're always my best memories. They have helped make me a point person for other Ts with similar behaviors. Forever a new teacher when it comes to behaviors! #weirded
A lot of times folks think that because they went to school, and now they have kids that go to school, they know all about teaching and how to do our jobs. And, well... No. #WeirdEd
He simply didn't understand that she has CP. I wasn't forcing a kid with a spinal injury to bend. But that is what he perceived. He thought he was doing the right thing. #weirded
A4: Yes! And he spotted me out at a restaurant years later.
That same voice.
Screaming across the establishment.
I turned...and twitched.
And he told me I was the best teacher he ever had.
I forgave.
#WeirdEd#MyFirstGreyHair
A6: Spotify has been super on top of things this month with the recommendations. I’m getting into Church of the Cosmic Skull, and this song in particular is my favorite of the year by a long shot:
https://t.co/oYDSM1eZhc#WeirdEd
A4 yep. She pulled me aside and told me I sucked as a teacher but I was a nice person so she decided to help me out. I was smart enough to listen #WeirdEd
A6 New to you: check out @charlieromo_, a young man who'll be the next Frank Sinatra, from Staten Island. (not new to me because I taught him financial algebra) #WeirdEd
#WeirdEd I'm watching AND moderating the debut of a new tabletop rpg live stream show AND chatting with some of my favorite fellow educators, I ain't slackin' LOL 😎
