When you burn people out, you push them out. Stars are the first to leave—they have the most opportunities. The solution is not to pile on the perks. It’s to pinpoint the root causes of overload and design more manageable jobs. If you want to keep people, stop exhausting them.

As a PhD student, all I focused on was getting a PhD. As a PhD supervisor, I focus on training students on the long-term process that leads to getting a PhD. Here's some examples🧵

If your WiFi or internet connection is slow over the next few weeks, just know it’s because every educator in America is taking a bloodborne pathogen test online, and we still don’t know why we have to take it EVERY YEAR, but we will get through it as quick as we can.

Hey fellow math teachers! Here is my collection of Algebra 1 @desmosclassroom activities for the school year. Everything is sorted by unit. Feel free to use whatever you want! Have a great year! @AlgebraDesmos #mtbos teacher.desmos.com/collection/63e…

I could not love this video more!

Educators! I’m giving out 3 class sets of my MG debut, Nic Blake and the Remarkables: the Manifestor Prophecy. US and Canada only. To enter, follow me, reply to this, and RT by 8/19.

Everybody. I’m kid #2 🤣🤣

Anyone see this great resource by Greater Good on back to school practices? drive.google.com/file/d/1LtsDJj…

Listening to Jeff Duncan-Andrade If you have an Equity Department, you don’t have equity. It’s not one persons or one departments job. It should be everyone’s.

“Self-esteem and self-love IS academic rigor” - Jeff Duncan-Andrade

trusting the process.

In a room full of educators who are the leaders of HOPE squad at their school sites learning about Suicide Prevention 101 on what not to say and what to say when a child comes up to them saying they are wanting to kill themselves.

Parenthood has caused my perspective on homework to shift DRAMATICALLY lol Like, y’all had 8 hours w my kid. Y’all couldn’t fit all the work in there?? I only got 3ish hours between home and bedtime. That’s OUR time. You’ll see them tomorrow 😆

remember

Just want everyone to know that my little kiddo saw this at the zoo and confidently shouted, “It’s a zebra!”

The coolest symposium welcome gift ever received. #SEL2024SDCOE

Thank you to Denise Soler Cox with Project Eñye with Denise Soler Cox for speaking truth to something I've struggled with my whole life! 💛 Denise was an awesome keynote at today's SEL Conference and I'm happy to say I'm a proud eñye!!!🇩🇴🇯🇲🇺🇸 #SEL2024SDCOE

My community is awesome. <3