@drmaciekerbs
📖Mom on a mission, bookworm by nature, and writer by passion 🔥Teacher educator, advocate, and consultant who believes every classroom deserves a champion 🫶🏼Unapologetically authentic, striving to leave a trail of kindness, joy, and inclusivity
It makes me wonder how often we prioritize control and rules instead of teaching appropriate use, especially with tech. And who is it really serving? My ND son won’t let this go and he has a point…
My son wanted to collaborate with a peer on his writing—giving and getting digital feedback to improve his work. A blanket rule prevented it, due to past misuse by others. He couldn’t understand why a rule he didn’t break stopped him from learning in a way that made sense to him.
We need to keep talking about how weird it is for people to think they should have a say in reading choices for anyone's kids but their own. You're not in charge of what other people's children eat or wear or when they go to bed. Why on earth would you get to choose what they read?
Book cover RACE TO THE TRUTH: COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG STORY shows a Wampanoag woman with long braids paddling a canoe
Book cover HISTORY SMASHERS THE MAYFLOWER shows a pile of Pilgrims dressed in black and white crowded on a ship with a speech bubble that says "It totally didn't happen this way."
Please don't tell kids that old "First Thanksgiving" myth and pass it off as actual history. Share books like these this week instead.
1. Go to your local library and fill out request forms.
2. Show up at your local school board meetings. Sign up to speak. Remind them that access to books that are relevant and relatable INCREASES LITERACY, which is literally the job of schools
3. Show up at library board meetings. Same thing.
I’m curious to see what evolves from the branching off of NCTE. I think if the cost were affordable and timing more appropriate in the semester, so many more teachers would be open outside of the NCTE realm, as well.
A young girl running outside on a bridge in the woods
Nature
the ultimate classroom.
Anchoring restless hearts to earth’s quiet rhythm.
It cradles us in steady roots,
a haven of hope.
It’s gentle power
nurtures wonder and refuge.
A sanctuary where souls
find room to dream.
Like a balm for the weary mind,
it whispers what truly makes us whole.
Book cover THE TROUBLE WITH HEROES has a blue-sky and green mountains background with a middle school boy with an orange backpack looking into the distance. A drooly Bernese mountain dog is looking up at him adoringly. Text reads: Special offer for educaqtors~ Preorder through The Bookstore Plus and get Kate Messner's Virtual Author-in-Residence program for National Poetry Month, including: -an early excerpt -teaching & discussion guide -four virtual poetry workshops -an invitation to a live Zoom Q&A session with Kate bit.ly/troublewithheroes People who pre-order through The Bookstore Plus will automatically receive the virtual kit via email in early March.
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I think that’s the hardest part. As a Christian, I want my kids to have these same lessons, but just not from their public school teachers. So many of our friends of different faiths feel so isolated now, too. Not to mention what this adds on Teachers! It’s just not good for anyone.
I chose to skip this year and glad I did. I’m wondering what space exists for this huge group of people searching for a new place that is safe & inclusive. Do we just need to start up our own conference like Nerd Camp?
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).
From what I’ve heard, the rural & smaller districts will be the ones most affected. Larger districts can afford to purchase or modify resources. As a parent, I don’t think I will keep my kids In our district if they go this way. It feels so dystopian 😞
It’s a scary time to be a Texas educator and parent. I can’t begin to imagine what content will be replaced, the funding loss for those not using it, & the families left out of the conversation. What can we do? How can we make change? What does advocacy look like now?
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