Are you an Illinois teacher ready to teach Asian American history this year? Join one of our TEAACH PD's! We have two coming up next week on 9/26 and 9/27. Register at advancingjustice-chicago.org/teaach

Thank you to @senatordurbin & @senduckworth for their strong support of Head Start & early childhood care & edu. @weareedloc met w staff members to share more about our work & about the Improving the Quality of Early Care and Edu Act. Proud to have these champions as my senators!

Grateful to carry on the tradition started by the late Senator Paul Simon. It was great to see so many faces at today’s Illinois Constituent Coffee with Tammy Duckworth!

Apples, meet oranges. The science of how we learn to read is strong, but very different from the (social) science of how we should support and fund schools. Pitting them as somehow in competition with each other is unhelpful, to say the least.

Larry Snelling Confirmed by Chicago City Council as New Top Cop | Chicago News | WTTW news.wttw.com/2023/09/27/lar…

BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a trailblazer in U.S. politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90. nbcnews.app.link/EuRR4KCmuDb

🚨 URGENT: Republicans in the State Legislature have scheduled THREE different committee hearings on anti-LGBTQ+ bills for this Wednesday, October 4th. Republicans are moving fast on these bills because they don’t want us to get organized, show up, and fight back. 👇🧵

TLA welcomes Sandra Licón to the organization's board of directors. "I look forward to supporting TLA’s mission to partner alongside schools, networks, and system leaders to catalyze learning and breakthroughs that transform #K12 education.” Learn more: ow.ly/Sr0e50PS3Ke

Thread: You may have seen viral posts that Olena Zelenska, President Zelensky's wife, spent $1.1m on Cartier jewellery during the couple's recent visit to the US. Let's find out why those posts are false, and examine how pro-Kremlin disinformation of this kind travels online.

Happening tomorrow! Check out this webinar about high-quality virtual and hybrid learning with colleagues from The Learning Accelerator ! #edchat #edtech

Really excited that The Learning Accelerator is supporting the Google GSV Education Innovation Fellowship! They are working on some meaty topics with their transformational opportunities. Looking forward to digging in with these superintendents and school system leaders.

The idea that the person who is furthest behind needs to do the most tasks in order to catch up versus leap frogging is one we have to challenge - Babak Mostaghimi shares with Google GSV Innovation Fellows

That’s a wrap on Google GSV Education Innovation Fellowship convening 2 in Chicago! Excited to circle up with my The Learning Accelerator colleagues who were with the fellows in NYC and so California. Lots of great convos about transformation opportunities the fellows are leading!

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Love this assignment. Clear directions, time for students to reflect, and strengthening of ties with home adults. Know folks think kids know how to write emails because they’re digital natives, but it’s a skill that has to be taught and learned!

🌈 As we wrap up LGBTQ+ History Month, let's remember: LGBTQ+ history is American history.

On a call about developing guidance around AI. During a panel w an American and European edtech leaders, the American talked about how superintendents in Maine recently used generative AI to help refine their communication about the recent shooting. Uniquely American

A good call out from Keith Krueger of CoSN to make sure that school systems review their procurement policies and ask #edtech vendors how they have embedded AI in their tools and how they student data private. Check out the #TeachAI toolkit for resources teachai.org/toolkit

Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced an amendment to lower Secretary Pete Buttigieg's salary to $1 because she doesn't like that he's gay. It's homophobia and a waste of Congress's time. We should be addressing issues Americans care about, not trying to score political points.

We're excited to share the news - ParentSquare has acquired Remind! Together, we can advance both companies’ mission of increasing student success through improved communications and engagement. Learn more below! 💚💙🎉 #edtech #schoolpr #k12 links.psqr.io/47ykqqA