ZingerLearns @ZingerLearns@social.cleverlibre.org

👋🏻 High school teacher who grew up housing- and food-insecure here. @brycecovert is SPOT-on. Universal free breakfast and lunch was a game-changer for my students, and its removal has meant a LOT more of my most vulnerable young folks are going hungry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/opinion/congress-child-tax-credit-universal-school-meals.html
#childhood #ChildhoodPoverty #School #SchoolLunch #EduTooter #edchat #ITeachScience #FreeLunch #poverty #PovertyLine #pandemic

FOR THE LAST FERSTINKIN' TIME! SAYING THAT YOU HAVE PRIVILEGE DOES NOT MEAN YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY, IT MEANS YOU SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOCIETY IS UNJUST IN WAYS THAT FAVOR YOU AND THAT YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO FIGHT FOR IT TO BE JUST FOR EVERYBODY

GROW UP AND GET TO WORK

@edutooter @mguhlin @edutooters @ZingerLearns but it’s so much easier to view teaching as a mechanical process that can be adjusted for efficiencies and impact based on “objective data”. This also allows me to subscribe to a view of teaching that continues the seemingly-inexorable deprofessionalization that has dominated US educational contexts for the past 40 years.

@mattT @ZingerLearns @mguhlin @edutooters @edutooter you just need to implement the programs that are failing with more “fidelity”. 🙄. Whatever you do, do not trust your expertise in evaluating the needs of your local community (and never, EVER, partner with them in the process).

Short rant.

Southwest Air has cancelled ~70% of its flights in an epic meltdown this holiday season.

Remember, Southwest took $3.7B in federal aid from 2020-21.

It’s CEO got a pay raise to a $9.1M package in 2022.

Yet Southwest employees are working 16 hour shifts & threatened w/termination if they refuse overtime or call in sick.

Socialism for the wealthy. Capitalism for workers.

Stop trusting billionaires. Start holding them accountable. And start protecting workers.

End Rant.

Many of us teach in wasteland left by the Educationalists Industrial Complex Machine - a machine that looks to undermine their clients and change the objectives of education constantly so to never to fail presenting a “new approach,” or sell new products to districts with gullible administrators eager to consume the fool’s gold.

@ZingerLearns @mguhlin @edutooter @edutooters

Part-time faculty deserve more in Maine and around the country https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/12/26/opinion/opinion-contributor/part-time-faculty-deserve-more-in-maine-and-around-the-country/

For folks newly interested in #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice but not formally trained on it, an easy way to self-educate is to watch #YouTube videos by scholars who work the field as well as reading their publications (both academic & for general public). You can find most of our info on our websites, with links to YouTube videos of talks, lectures, etc.

Pennsylvania releases anti-racist guidelines as part of teacher-prep overhaul #EdPolicy https://www.wesa.fm/education/2022-11-17/pa-releases-anti-racist-guidelines-as-part-of-teacher-prep-overhaul

@cara__jackson I assume Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and other red states will soon be pushing their own PRO-racist training for educators?

Agreed. I love how Mike Bell approaches this, pulling together a variety of research sources and aligning them to zero in on evidence-based instructional strategies. https://blog.tcea.org/three-simple-steps-to-innovative-learning/ @ZingerLearns @edutooter @edutooters #edutooter #MikeBell #JohnHattie #Education

A study from 2009 found that after 20 minutes walking, children learned better (than if they spent those 20 minutes resting). If we can't incorporate exercise time in schools, can we help them by walking or cycling to school? #Health #Learning #Education
🔗 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19356688/

Biden promised to reform the police. Why has so little progress been made?

https://flip.it/lBxYMS #police #reform

#FactOfTheDay: In 2020, California public school student students were expelled from school at a rate of 0.5 per 1,000, a drop of two-thirds compared with 2012.
Learn more: kidsdata.org/topic/494/expulsions/trend#fmt=2394&loc=2&tf=67,110
#Education #ExclusionaryDiscipline @edutooters
#Education #Farmworkers #MigrantWorkers @edutooters

And don't tell me you're sorry 'cause you're not

When I know you're only sorry you got caught

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-said-shes-truly-sorry-for-defrauding-ftx-customers-2022-12

Things Rep-elect George Santos admits to lying about during his campaign:

Graduating from college

Working for Goldman

Working for Citibank

His mother's religion

Many Qs remain unanswered, including an unexplained massive increase in his wealth

https://nypost.com/2022/12/26/rep-elect-george-santos-admits-fabricating-key-details-of-his-bio/

Thought I’d start a thread here on a question posed elsewhere: how do you find/recruit great people to your lab?

#STEM #NewPI #hiring @academicchatter

I appreciate that @washingtonpost has a story on the digital front page about the real-world effect of anti-#LGBTQ laws, demonizing rhetoric and increasing violence.

I have gifted the article for all to read. https://wapo.st/3WoQckh

#LGBTQ #equality #law #fedilaw

Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy
HTTPS://cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/teaching-dh-on-a-shoestring-minimalist-digital-humanities-pedagogy/section/c9b61bdc-77a6-4283-9a01-5aab70730508