Jose Vilson, PhD

Thank you!

Putting the final touches on this teaching math book and I have questions:

What topic in math made you mad?

Or, if you found it easy, who made it easy and what did they do?

Thank you. Yeah, the validation thing is real, and that can be a good hook into everything we’re trying to accomplish with schooling. 🙏🏾

Thank you 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Teaching at the higher ed level, I'm so grateful to have taught middle schoolers for 15 years. At every level, our students deserve a level of empathy and grace that the world isn't offering.

I can feel some of my students needing to be seen. That alone motivates the hidden curriculum in my work.

To the latter point, she said and did the right things, including making the right groups happy and attended the right spaces. I'll give her credit there. But to your point, the four Adams years were chaotic across the board and unfortunately, we're still dealing with remnants.

The people who shame Black voters for not voting are the same people who shame Black voters when systems suppress their votes.

People then expect the same people who've been excluded from full democracy to show up for democracy time and again.

America has to do better.

Put the hat in the ring now before some milquetoast candidate comes in talking about faux-unity or whatever.

Basura. They know better.

And people who should know better started to believe it as well. I can't.

I see what you did there.

These are the people judging whether teachers are professionals.

This is an important point.

Whenever we demand more funding for education, the #1 rebuttal is "How are you going to pay for it?"

If we had the same bottomless budget for our schools that our war machine does, we'd never ask these questions.

This man doesn't miss.

You're good. Thank you. We all need some rebel music in our vocabulary, too.

Whereas "Epic Fury" sounds like it comes from the founders of Beyblades. SMH.

This post just stressed me out. But in the "you made points, but I can and can't believe we're still here."

Yep. Agreed.

Wooo.

Also, facts.

Same. People need to stop playing.

When I was a teenager, I was rapping 2Pac's line "There's war in the streets and there's war in the Middle East"

Y'all. 30 years later and we're still doing this.

I, for one, am ready for a new bar for the world to rap.

It was a good platform but as you imagine, u suspect that’s the reason why they bought it up.

I feel like I’m not doing “content creation” as much as I’m providing a review of the education I’ve received and liberating the knowledge for everyone else.

That’s why I’m doing more of it in so many different ways.

On the one end, this is atrocious. On the other, it’s symbolic of the type of education America has been getting over the last decade or so.

Maybe it’s not the type of learning children deserve, but certainly the type America has offered too often.

They tell us that only they understand why our money went to bombing another school of people.

They tell us they’re defending our freedoms and way of life as they simultaneously strip freedoms and dissolve our way of life.

For people who’ve never known peace, we know what this is not that.

Yep. One of my favorite recent songs from him: Samurai. I got catching up to do but he’s good at his craft.

That’s why I got excited!

That’s not my ministry. 😅

So … I got to ask @mayor.nyc.gov Zohran Mamdani about his top five favorite rappers!

But also, today’s the deadline for 3K/PreK. Spread the word!