"Mathematics, mathematical knowledge and mathematical creativity can come in a lot of forms." On #WeLeadEd, TT Advisor @DingleTeach offers tips for culturally responsive math instruction. t-t.site/2KSW2Yc

As you look toward a new year and new lessons ahead, we hope you'll consider how your work aligns with our Social Justice Standards—a framework for incorporating understandings of identity, diversity, justice and action into your curriculum. tolerance.org/frameworks/soc…

Today would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 90th birthday. As many educators turn to lessons about his life this week and beyond, we hope they will upend feel-good narratives and uplift his radical fight for justice. tolerance.org/magazine/teach…

Sometimes students are uncooperative. Sometimes our colleagues are aggravating. Sometimes the parents don’t support us. Sometimes the “tests” discourage us. Sometimes the “policies” undermine us. We can’t control it. So we push on. We focus on making a difference for KIDS!

Are we really waiting for a return to normal or are we ready to build something different? theinclusionsolution.me/buzz-covid-19-… via The Winters Group

“Abolitionist teaching ona wide scale requires the willingness of teachers and school administrators to address systemic racism and its effect on dark children while loving Blackness enough to see its assets so that dark children matter” Bettina Love

They’d rather arrest hundreds of American citizens then 3 of their own. Very telling.

Some of these reactions to the protests are making real clear which of us teachers focus on punishing students for lashing out, and which of us focus on indentifying the root of the issue and addressing THAT.

And White educators, don't think this is about having people of color leading. White supremacy will not buckle until White people -progressives included- stop upholding it, ie., Amy Cooper. While listening, get to work in private building your skill, reducing your fragility

Ask yourself, why is arresting people for petty theft & vandalism a greater law enforcement priority than firing & arresting police officers who we know committed murder? That tells you what the priorities of the system are, that it’s not about justice or about fighting crime.

You don’t have to be an administrator, grade level chair, or department head to be a leader in you school. Your title doesn’t matter. You just need to care about making it better. Passion and commitment can transform any culture.

When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. Sketchnote via Kristin Wiens

Look at the coronavirus protocols for pro athletes (tests every other day, temperature checks twice a day, group quarantining). Then look at the protocols for schools (handwashing, stay home if you’re sick). Imagine if we valued the lives of teachers the same as MLB shortstops.

We were talking about heading back to school and my youngest son asked “ what do I do when a teacher or principal is being racist?” He was more worried about that than Covid.

Educators don’t need pity. We need partners. 📍Read to your kids 📍Put down your phone 📍Show affection 📍Be a role model 📍Set high expectations 📍Teach social skills 📍Acknowledge effort Schools weren’t designed to work in isolation. #BoldSchool #edchat #mondaythoughts

He was the worst President in history. And when he got voted out, he tried to stage a coup. Then he stole national secrets and sold the ones he didn't store in the bathroom. He was convicted of fraud, found liable of sexual assault and convicted of 34 felonies. He is half a