Melissa Girmscheid

"Have You No Decency?": Republican Calls Sarah McBride "Mister," Dems Erupt And End Hearing During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the "gentleman from Delaware." Dems pushed back.

1. Finally some fight.

"Have you no decency!?" asked Rep. Keating after a Republican rep called Sarah McBride "Mr. McBride" repeatedly.

McBride shot back, calling the chairman "Madam Chairman."

Fireworks erupted, Dems protested, and the hearing was cancelled.

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But school shootings het “thoughts and prayers?” Ah yes, corporations and billionaires first.

What fresh hell awaits me from the U.S. Dept of Education today?

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Si la migra te detiene, ¡recuerda esta canción! No tienes que firmar ni decir nada. Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio, y tienes derecho a un abogado. ¡Mantén la calma y recuerda tus derechos!

#conozcasusderechos #knowyourrights #immigration

I’ve tied approximately 1,572,264 knots in the last two days. My fellow physics teachers understand my pain.

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Join Jess Dykes and me this January for a course on integrating physics Modeling and computational thinking. #modphys #iteachphysics #cmpfb

Each state diagram is a snapshot of the system at a clock reading. Here is a whiteboard my students drew that uses a series of state diagrams to depict the motion of two cyclists with different initial positions and constant velocities. Think macroscopic particle diagram.

🎆 It’s Score Report Day! 🎆Congratulations to all the NBCT Candidates who are able to check their scores today and either add NBCT to their names or make a plan for this cycle.

I’d add state diagrams, but not sure where. We use these to determine what is changing in the system, and they make a great bridge to chemical physics, I mean chemistry.

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This week I learned…

Do not teach the Class of 2028 letters from the Greek alphabet. The reaction about Σ is not an experience I’d wish to repeat.

Monday - Anything but your content (so many PE teachers that day)
Tuesday - Anything but 2024 (hence the 80s hair)
Wednesday - Anything sports (jerseys, etc)
Thursday - Anything monochromatic
Friday - Anything but a cup (I drank coffee from the coffee pot and water from a teakettle)

Here's a link to a sample letter if you'd like to contact your Representative in regards to the policy Mike Johnson put in place stating that transgender women are not permitted to use bathrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I am perpetually annoyed with English teachers who allow students to use AI to “help” with writing. How about asking the teacher for help? What about practicing, getting feedback, and learning to improve? I swear teachers can be our own downfall sometimes.

It’s only appropriate that a Vought be part of this administration

Of course not, that would be completely out of character for the person whose name is banned from my classroom

Finally I've found an article that says the things I couldn't articulate about why I am so resistant to AI in my classroom

It’s not just you. I also can’t help but think that the design would prove deadly to other vehicles should a cyber truck be involved in a crash. It’s almost as if the CEO didn’t care about that.

My handwriting is atrocious when writing with a pencil but amazing when writing with a dry erase marker

Today’s underground spirit day was “Anything sports” so of course I had to wear this vintage awesomeness.

Okay #iteachphysics and #modphys crowd, give me your ideas. I was awarded a grant to start an annual Physics Olympics class competition and need activities that can easily be done within 45 minutes. What say you?

It’s underground spirit week at school and today’s theme is “Anything but 2024.” Good news, I can still rock the mall hair.

No purple? Personally, I’d draw fields in purple but the remainder of you colors are the correct choice.

If you’re not investing in teacher development, what are you even doing?

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We’ve made this part of the Computational Modeling in Physics First with Bootstrap resources. Remove the # on line 11 and click run. You’ll see the video run with tracking dots, and data collected. code.pyret.org/editor#share...

Amazing what “Have you checked your grade?” followed by “Is it in your backpack?” can produce. This is the result from just one class.

I’d love to be added. Thanks!