Andrea @teachbk
public school educator + holder of opinions. fan of art, coffee & liberation. muslim. she/her #pedagogy #curriculum #PBL #linguistics #literacy فلسطين حرة amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls… new york city Joined July 2018-
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They don’t want to raise leaders of tomorrow, inspire them to be change-makers & innovators, no. They don’t want compassionate, collaborative, life-long learners & critical thinkers reaching their potential, prepared to meet the challenges of the future… They really don’t.
They don’t want to raise leaders of tomorrow, inspire them to be change-makers & innovators, no. They don’t want compassionate, collaborative, life-long learners & critical thinkers reaching their potential, prepared to meet the challenges of the future… They really don’t.
All of this
I triple-booked myself tonight. Annoying that I can’t teleport at will
inspirational quotes academic content student work rules what you put on classroom walls is definitely a reflection of your ethos (or your principal’s)
this would save everybody so much time
this would save everybody so much time
@teachbk I write about #education as a person with a #disability
It’s not just one or two outliers there’s a LOT of ableism within our schools & until we reckon with it we are going to keep failing kids over and over and not understand why
Watching with a hopeful heart the 🇵🇸🕊️movement maintaining its momentum. May we all be endowed with the moral clarity, selflessness, courage, and steadfastness of a college student at a protest ❤️💪
Many, many teachers are neurodivergent. That’s actually a good thing.
Good god this is an awful take for a teacher to have
There is definitely a “don’t talk about opting-out” vibe in some districts 👀
Random question I've been mulling over....do any schools provide accommodations or support for neurodivergent TEACHERS? I'm curious if you think this is needed, and if so, what it would it look like for a school to be neurodivergent-friendly for staff.
new yorkers don’t care about any of that. make the fare free
State test refusals in NYC doubled in the wake of the pandemic chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/0…
This is what happens on mine. 😂
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I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering. I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen 1/
I live by Columbia. Tonight I went for a walk & saw 10+ blocks rapidly barricaded, dozens of police vehicles flying by, large groups of NYPD in riot gear gathering. I study protest in E Europe. What I saw tonight was some of the most wildly disproportionate policing I've seen 1/
The whole neighbourhood shut down, barricades & checkpoints everywhere, people blocked from going home. Hundreds of NYPD officers. Paramedics in flak jackets, firefighters in riot gear. A wave of riot police coming at peaceful bystanders, ordering dispersal or risk of arrest 2/
There was minimal protest action tonight other than the student occupation of Hamilton hall. CU asked NYPD to help 'take back' the campus. Armed riot police eventually entered via a second floor window on whatever this giant vehicle is. Others apparently moved in via the doors 3/
Meanwhile students locked down in dorms, others blocked from going home. CU Administration gave 0 info other than an order to stay in place or risk punishment. All for our own 'safety' - ironic given we were blocked from homes by armed police (had to show my lease to get in) 4/
A huge well done to the amazing student journalists @WKCRFM radio for keeping the community informed amidst the chaos, and sharing info about the protests when there was a clear effort to keep people away from what was happening. 7/
100s of police deployed to arrest 50+ occupying students. Once again CU Administration escalated the situation & put many in danger. Thankfully it seems there were no injuries - I feared the worst. I don't know where CU goes from here but fear it's a long road to rebuild trust 6/
The main danger to our community tonight was the huge armed police presence requested on campus by admin - not protesters. A wholly disproportionate response that provoked disruption, fear & frustration across the whole wider community, not just Columbia. 5/
Tonight in the United States of America, we are witnessing a militarized police force, funded by NYC taxpayers, arresting American students in the name of a foreign country that’s carrying out a genocide.
I remind my fellow New Yorkers that Eric Adams only won the Democratic primary in 2021 by 7,197 votes. Our city has an abysmal voter turnout rate (21% of registered voters participated in the last Mayoral election). The next Mayoral election is in 2025. We must vote him out.
i really can't stress how useful it would be for people in political media to occasionally, from time to time, read a book
“Peaceful non violence” was the predicate of the Civil Rights Movement. Taking over a building and destroying property feels January 6th ish to me. 🤷🏽♂️
He's not on social media any more (but doing well last we chatted) but I wrote a book with the most inquiry-minded teacher that has likely ever existed and even he wouldn't do the things critics are claiming is "inquiry teaching." What they're doing isn't even a good parody.
NYPD raided CCNY and Columbia somewhat simultaneously, then after Columbia shifted most of those cops to CCNY. Conservative estimate of NYPD just at Columbia: 500. I spoke with some students before and after the raid about their thoughts on safety:
Israeli forces have killed at least 33 Palestinians and wounded 57 more over the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
@vivafalastin @chaedria They are also calling out cops who have refused to turn on their body cams. No lie, there's a high correlation between cops that have complaints against them and turned off bodycams.
ccny campus magazine livestream is genuinely incredible, they’re reading out police badge numbers + names and getting people in the chat to search complaints filed against them, then reading the complaints back out loud to the cops 😭
They are mass arresting @CUNY students in the middle of the night, while everyone is transfixed with the horrors at Columbia.
Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @CUNY students are largely working class students of color.
As a born-and-raised New Yorker, I longer want to hear how New York can elect a guy like Eric Adams. Looking at the events over the last few weeks, I think you’ve found the answers that so many of us already knew. Our taxes pay for this horror domestically and internationally.
What do you think will happen if you keep casually conflating American student protestors with Hamas and terrorist groups? Or in the case of some politicians, explicitly calling them Hamas and terrorists? You're putting a target on American kids. Dangerous, reckless, and wrong.