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Agnes

@AggieLaird

Mom/Educator/Activist/she/her/hers/Views are my own

Joined June 2019
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Check out my classroom on @DonorsChoose! I'd love your help to bring my project to life: donorschoo.se/e/GMhwG5Nomvb

STEM in Second Grade!, a project from Ms. Laird

Help me give my students games and manipulatives to learn and be engaged with STEM! STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. We are launching a STEM program in our second g...

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CEJNYC@CEJNYC19 Sep 2022
Our response to the @chalkbeat article on how @DOEChancellor is abandoning culturally responsive mosaic curriculum #SaveMosaic
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I love this teacher's idea for helping students: donorschoo.se/e/HGqpG1cddtb via @donorschoose

Let’s get set in 1st grade!, a project from Ms. G and Ms. Lopez

Help me give my students new and exciting materials to enhance their everyday learning :) Our students are amazing some of the most inquisitive people, who are so eager to learn! First grade is an ...

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I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW! . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW!

Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW!

The NY State legislature passed a critical bill, A10498/S09460, requiring NYC schools to reduce class size to lower levels, phased in over five years. But this bill cannot be enacted and enforced...

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We’re just gonna keep saying it.Cop Mayor is copping &Charter Chancellor is helping.What will our so called Allies do about it?Defunding practices that interrupt the school to prison pipeline is big Republican energy & Black, Latino, LGBT, disabled & Muslim students will suffer
Alex Zimmerman (@AGZimmerman) profile pictureAlex Zimmerman@AGZimmerman15 Aug 2022
NYC's restorative justice programs are on the chopping block, according to a constellation of advocates and an education department source ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/8/15/2…
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Advocates with CM ⁦@Kristin4Harlem⁩ before stated meetings. Thank you Council Member for being an education leader, for voting no originally, and for continuing the fight to #RestoreTheCuts. Community and education groups will remember who stood with us, and who did not.
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⁦@NYCMayor⁩ calling people protesting over $1B in @NYCSchools⁩ budget cuts “clowns”. Really? Thanks ⁦@MATTtheG⁩ and all those who showed up to demand that our schools are fully funded!
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I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW! . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW!

Gov. Hochul: Please sign the class size bill NOW!

The NY State legislature passed a critical bill, A10498/S09460, requiring NYC schools to reduce class size to lower levels, phased in over five years. But this bill cannot be enacted and enforced...

actionnetwork.org
I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: CRSE & the Universal Mosaic Curriculum; Demand the City fund the Universal Mosaic Curriculum. Support Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education by writing and sending a letter of your own here: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…

Tell the Mayor, Chancellor and Chair of the City Council Education Committee to Fund the Mosaic...

All students deserve a Culturally Responsive Education. Nearly a year ago, the Department of Education (DOE) made an historic announcement stating they have listened to parents, families, students...

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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Keep Our Schools Open and our Kids SAFE. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/ke…

Keep Our Schools Open and our Kids SAFE

In an extraordinary display of a lack of transparency and anti-democratic values, Mayor Adams and the NYC City Council have agreed to a budget deal that will slash the budgets of nearly every school...

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I just wrote a @AQE_NY letter: Tell Mayor Adams and DOE Chancellor Banks: Don’t Cut Funding to Schools. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Tell Mayor Adams and DOE Chancellor Banks: Don’t Cut Funding to Schools

Tell Mayor Adams and DOE Chancellor Banks: Don’t Cut Funding to Schools

As New York City’s budget is in the final hours of being finalized, Mayor Adams is pushing for needless cuts to the city’s public schools — all while the city’s students and schools still struggle to...

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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Say No to 3-Yr Extension. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/sa…
Say No to 3-Yr Extension

Say No to 3-Yr Extension

The state legislature is poised to approve a 3-year extension of Mayoral control. It seems this extension is being considered without significant amendments to create checks and balances to the...

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@DOEChancellor had a grand total of ONE meeting with student organizers who he can’t tokenize this year and no one has heard from his since. You can’t possibly think this is what WE want. Where is the #StudentVoice? Where is the equity in more chances to fight for scraps?
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We signed this letter as students because we have no idea what @NYCMayor is thinking. More testing? To get a handful more Black, Latino & disabled kids into schools that remind them every day they don’t belong? Nah. Fund schools in the BX. In Brownsville. In Jamaica.This is ridic
New York Appleseed (@AppleseedNy) profile pictureNew York Appleseed@AppleseedNy14 Apr 2022
It is egregious that @DOEChancellor & @NYCMayor believe the announced G&T changes will bring an end to an era of scarcity when in truth all this does is exacerbate scarcity& sustain the appalling practice of separating&segregating our youngest students…read our full statement:
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I just wrote a @AQE_NY letter: Tell State Legislators: Child care is education and must be universal. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Tell State Legislators: Child care is education and must be universal

Tell State Legislators: Child care is education and must be universal

New York’s leaders must prioritize making child care more accessible for families. Early care and education is a right, not a privilege. It is an essential part of our early education system,  to...

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.@GillibrandNY,@SenSchumer,@NydiaVelazquez Why are prison telecom companies charging up to $16 for a 15-minute phone call? That is unconscionable. We must pass the Martha Wright-Reed Act to keep families connected.
I love this teacher's idea for helping students: donorschoose.org/project/fir… via @donorschoose

First Grade Play, a project from Ms. Lopez

Help me give my students the opportunity to engage in dramatic play, have more tools for open choice time, and tools to support their regulation during learning time. My students are powerful. My c...

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Support the Fight for Education Justice

This #GivingTuesday, join me in supporting AQE's work to ensure a high-quality public school education to all students regardless of ZIP code.

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