Literally ever person in the United States needs to watch this. PLEASE RETWEET

I have no idea what school will look like in the Fall, but whether it’s in-person or online, it will NEED to include tons of SEL and healing-informed work to deal with staff, student, and family trauma. Compassion before curriculum.

An excellent thread for white educators.

Ready for a thread of 100 Must-Read Children’s Books by African-American creators? Buy these books, read them, have them in your home and classroom and school and city libraries. Follow & support these creators. We can only learn and do better if we do the work. #blacklivesmatter

For my new folks, who keep asking me “which books do I read?” 1️⃣ ask a white person 2️⃣ read & talk w/ them 3️⃣ check our this list 4️⃣ talk w/ more whites folks 5️⃣ start doing something 6️⃣ talk about it w/ white folks culturallyresponsiveleadership.com/antiracistbook…

Go read this thread..

Invest the time in this thread...

This is what we created the reimagining reentry and remote webinar series. SELlaunchpad.com/rrssevent The Next Pandemic: Mental Health | EdSurge News edsurge.com/news/2020-05-3…

Real change requires protest to highlight a problem, and politics to implement practical solutions and laws. As I mentioned yesterday in our My Brother's Keeper Alliance town hall, there are several steps our mayors and elected officials can take right now:

July 3 on @disneyplus, #Hamilfilm. May you always be satisfied...

My biggest takeaway from this pandemic is that teachers/schools are expected to fix ALL of societies needs from childcare, to food, to counseling, to intellect on defunded budgets, disrespect from lawmakers, & with no regard to the health or well-being of school employees. #MOLeg

You know those action movies where a bunch of advisors tell the President we need to take catastrophic action now, and the President says - I refuse to harm my people. Then some super hero comes and they join forces and kick ass? How do we get one of those?

I need K-12 admin & higher ed to STOP telling us to make time for self-care at the same time as they’re expecting superhuman levels of work and expecting us to expect it of students. - an anonymous teacher

It’s gonna take awhile to get all our votes counted. I’m willing to wait...

Every #Republican officeholder needs to stand up and condemn the President’s rhetoric and words that are undermining our #democracy. The fabric of our #Republic is being unraveled from the inside if we let this stand. #Election2020

Somewhere in Washington.....

Based on my social media feeds and in person conversations this week, maybe we dial back our obsession with reading/math scores a bit and push a little more civics, government, and history knowledge into schools.

Today is a good day. It’s easier to be a parent this morning. Character MATTERS. Being a good person MATTERS. This is a big deal. It’s easy to do it the cheap way and get away with stuff — but it comes back around. Today is a good day. #PresidentBiden #VotersDecided

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