When you go for a walk to clear your head and a bird has straight up diarrhea on you. Don’t tell me it’s good luck. Just. Don’t.🤦🏻‍♀️

Maybe we can get Zoom to add some of those “make you look good” filters we see on Snapchat and Instagram?#askingforafriend

Congratulations to Senior Captain Jake Salisbury for being named to the ESCHL All Defensive Team!

More congratulations to Seniors Jake Salisbury and Chad Stone for being named on the ESCHL All Academic Team!!

This is everything to me after a full week of sitting at my computer (like many of my colleagues) all day long. Less is more during these stressful times. My heart breaks for my students- and my colleagues who have little ones at home that they are also trying to manage.

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The 2019-2020 Team Awards have been announced. These awards go back to 1990. Congratulations to the winners. More details about each award as well as previous winners are located on our web page. urihockey.pointstreaksites.com/view/urihockey…

Since we have gone to “pod in place” for 2 weeks, I spend A days with a group of girls- they wear holiday headbands, bring silly toys, laugh and chatter all day, and it is everything!!!!🥰🥰🥰

Please don’t claim to care about the mental health of students then mandate standardized tests in the middle of a pandemic.

I understand that cutbacks are sometimes needed when numbers drop, but eliminating the Dean of Students at every middle school- a position that works directly with kids in need- makes no sense. Yesterday was a bad day for the PPSD.

Imagine taking the best baseball, football, soccer, basketball, hockey and lacrosse players, and then assessing them all on whether they can hit a 90mph fastball? That is the sports equivalent of using standardized tests to assess students.

In all my 28 years as a PPSD teacher, I’ve never gone more than 1 year w/out having to worry about the contract. We are usually in yr 2 of the unresolved contract by the time we get an agreement. In year 3, it starts again- along with the awful negativity. It’s demoralizing.

Unpopular opinion but I’ll share it anyway: principals have been amazing this schoolyear. Thankless job. Angry parents. Constantly changing directives from politicians. Staff feeling beat down. Kids in crisis. And they showed up amid the chaos and did their best.

Ted Nesi Boston Globe Rhode Island Jorge Elorza Just out of curiosity why is it that in all of Rhode Island only the Providence teachers contract( the least teacher friendly btw)is problematic? Could it be because the system and not the contract is the problem?

Customers across RI: hey, when are you guys opening back up? Bank of America: new phone, who dis?

“Teaching isn’t a long term plan”!?!? Get out here with that trash! Jorge Elorza you know what actually isn’t a long term career? Politicians. We’re voters and we see you and the absolute contempt you have for educators & students. Tom Iannitti Linda Borg @AshCullinane

Teachers, RT this if it is impossible for you get your grading, planning, parent/guardian outreach and all other additional requirements (on top teaching) completed during your contractual hours. Just curious.

Replace one word of a film title with “biscuits”

Tomorrow I start year 31 in the classroom, here’s a list of the lessons I’ve learned over my 3 decades working with teens… 1. Don’t fart in class 2. If you ever fall, they will act like you are old and broke a hip. 3. If you feed them then you have to always feed them.

We make over four million students take the PSAT every year. They compete for one of just 2500 scholarships. Their odds are roughly comparable to a random teenage football player making it to the NFL. Just think about that waste of school time, energy, and mental health.