English teacher and student newspaper adviser.
Skokie, IL
Joined March 2011
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A heartfelt thank you to our members who make our union #IFTstrong!
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📱🧠 Concerned about social media's impact on students' mental health? With new report, @AFTunion and allied organizations urge tech companies to act now and address the problems associated with their apps in classrooms. nbcnews.com/tech/social-medi…
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According to the results of an @AFTunion poll, Americans would prefer to invest in our public schools rather than defund them. kmaland.com/news/poll-voters…
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BREAKING! We won! Strike suspended! Feel free to notify your students that classes will resume tomorrow (Monday). Much, much more information is forthcoming, as well as a membership meeting where you all will vote on whether or not to ratify this contract.
More info in email!
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Nominate an @AFTunion #teacher for #PAEMST - the highest honors bestowed by US government for K-12 #STEM teachers!!
🥇 To NOMINATE someone: paemst.org/home/view
🥇 For more info about the award: paemst.org/home/view
#parent @NSF
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Chappelle gave us a compelling frame to explore a deeply uncomfortable question. slate.trib.al/PGj6ADo
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Here we go! IFT convention kicks off with engaging exhibits and local students from Belleville to sing the national anthem. #IFTstrong
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Use these #Juneteenth resources to teach the #history and celebration of June 19, 1865, the day that marked the emancipation of all enslaved people in the United States sharemylesson.com/collection… @sharemylesson @aftunion
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The best part of teaching is the time with kids.
The worst part of teaching is all of the things that don't involve being with kids.
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It is hard to be horrified by the explicit confirmation from the FBI that this was indeed a sham investigation. slate.trib.al/UtARzpk
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When the students did not respond
I checked for the ninth time
if I was muted.
I wasn’t.
mcsweeneys.net/articles/thir…
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.@MsMagazine just published a piece about how student journalists are fighting back against censorship by working to pass New Voices bills in their states.
bit.ly/3xgBIXs
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We must ensure police are not the only resort for addressing harm.
We must remove police from low-level enforcement of offenses that shouldn’t be criminalized.
We must divert funding from policing and towards community-based services.
We deserve to be truly safe.
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The evidence of our eyes met at last by accountability in the eyes of justice.
#DerekChauvinTrial
chng.it/vqzH8WfVWx Let’s get rid of this racist mascot in Skokie.
I was interviewed on @evelynalauer ‘s podcast this week!
This week on BTB #podcast, I chat with four educators who are also mothers of young children and ask the age-old question: How do you do it all?
buzzsprout.com/1426339/80924… #education @JessicaPritzker @racgro
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This is important.
Parler’s suspension from Apple’s App Store, Google’s Play Store, and Amazon Web Services should worry us all. slate.trib.al/545zJqC
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My latest essay at Medium...
timjwise.medium.com/yes-this…
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If the 2020 election taught us anything, we learned that party preference, polling data and even a pandemic all pale in comparison to the most important influence in American politics:
Whiteness: bit.ly/35XJCrG
