Memorable not necessarily likeable Math Teacher | Curriculum Director & Math Specialist @WAEthnicStudies
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I'm so blessed to have my name, Shraddha. It is a beautiful Sanskirt name meaning Devotion, given to me by my mother who knew me before I even knew myself. I wish to honor her memory and myself by requiring those who speak of me, to say my name correctly. youtu.be/y3gpZLKh0jI
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White friends, especially white women who did not have an undergraduate sorority experience:
In the coming months you’ll likely see a great deal of content about VP Harris’ sorority affiliation and the support from its members. We 🩷 it. Some info & tips for us: 🧵
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Kamala Harris incarceration record as District Attorney
Domestic abusers, child molesters, rapists, and murderers - 1200+
Mothers of truant children - 0
Black men for simple marijuana possession - 0
Why is my feed filled with all these random right wing tweets and people I don’t follow? Is this 🐦 now? I might go back to not being here.
I just wrote a @NPEaction letter: Tell Congress. Cut the Charter School Programs. Stop the Waste and Fraud. Fully fund public schools!
Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/te…
Writing a lesson about understanding the impact/effectiveness of school closures. My district is looking to potentially close 20 schools in a couple years. Trying to have students move past outrage and into understanding/positive action. Any resources from folx? TIA!
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“Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union plan to turn up the heat on state lawmakers Wednesday, with more than 600 staff being given the day away from classrooms to go to Springfield to rally for more revenue.”
wbez.org/stories/chicago-tea…
Wow it’s been a really long time since I’ve been on this app. Not since the bird went away. What’d I miss?
I’ve decided to start working on taking more higher level math classes. I have a complex relationship with college math (namely post calculus) and want to serve my curiosity that was stifled by the system as a disabled child. Wish me luck!
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Imagine you go to the Dr. for a routine check up. A week later, you get a phone call from the doctors office. “Dr. Smith said he’d like to see you in the next day or two to discuss your physical exam.”
That “punched in the gut” feeling is immediate, and your thoughts are bouncing back & forth like a high speed tennis match.
The next day, you’re waiting on the doctor in his office. He comes in behind you, closes the door…and walks around behind his desk, pulling out his creaky chair. He gets right to the point. “You have a tumor. It’s cancerous.”
You feared hearing those words, but, didn’t really think you would. “I mean, this can’t be happening to me, right?!” you say to yourself.
As you sit there, in silence, with your hands starting to tremble and your lower eyelids beginning to reach their threshold on how many tears they can hold back before the dam breaks, your doctor pierces the quiet. “It is operable. If we could get it out, now, you might be fine. No guarantee…but…maybe.”
The tears come pouring, and you begin to sob. These are happy tears….tears of relief. For a moment you thought you were looking at a death sentence.
The doctor speaks again “But, I am so sorry to tell you…we won’t be able to operate. The tumor will have to stay”
“What?!” you say with the sharp punch of a Marine Corp drill instructor. “What the hell do you mean ‘it will have to stay?’”
“It’s against the law. If I did this operation, I’d likely go to prison. Even if it was successful, and we saved you from metastasis, you’d likely go to prison as well. I can’t do it. No other doctor will do it. I’m sorry.”
You collapse to the floor. Angry. Horrified. Confused. Stunned…….hopeless.
This unthinkable scenario is one that is now happening every day…somewhere.
This is what women across the country are now facing when it comes to having an abortion that would save their life. Situations like this are not rare. They are not.
What women are confronted with, now…is barbaric. This is supposed to be 2023. Why aren’t we acting like it’s 2023 in this critical area of need for women from coast to coast? Why? We know why. The answer is fucking unacceptable.
#Abortion
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After six years, it's easy to take for granted the fact that I know my authentic self, that I don't have to spend my life in hiding, mired in fear and self-hatred, forced to perform the gender identity that society assigned to me. But it is, in fact, a miracle. 1/
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Today, the #SupremeCourt hyper-partisan majority ruled to strike down #AffirmativeAction policies at Harvard and UNC, flouting nearly 50 years of legal precedent and our country’s long history and current reality of racial inequity. But our fight isn’t over.
Serving families is an honor. I regularly thank my students and families for the honor of being their teacher. And I mean it deeply.
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My heart goes out to #TamirRice’s family, especially to his mother, Samaria Rice, on today, Tamir’s birthday.
He should be celebrating 21 years.
It is a grave injustice that he’s not.
And I just can’t imagine how devastating that is for Ms. Rice…I’m sorry.
Help out my amazing partner to provide sketchbooks for his ethnic studies art classes! donorschoose.org/project/ske…
#TeachersOfTwitter #teacherwishlist #clearthelist
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Aadhaar mismatch | A missing letter means no work for MGNREGS workers.
Kashipur Block, which has a huge Adivasi population, has reported one of the highest MGNREGA deletion rates in the country. And 61 lakh workers have been deleted in 2023 alone.
This Govt is so anti-poor.
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When we assume that clinical struggles are caused by a lack of studying, effort, or discipline…
… we are forgetting that the physicians we teach are humans.
With real lives. Real concerns. And real problems.
This is where the Doctrine of Charity proves helpful.
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We have NEA members at headquarters today preparing to run for public office and learning more about how best to leverage their passion and experience to improve public education on a larger scale.
Together, we will protect the freedom to learn and teach truth. #FreedomToLearn
Peer reviewed articles to support phone policies in class?
PRA that highlight students are grade motivated?
PRA highlighting how WoC have to do more to justify our work than our male/white counterparts?
Feel free to guess what’s going on in my life.
Thank you in advance!