Innovative principals sharing best practices! Round 2: D13 Middle School Restorative Practices Meeting. Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos @ExecSuptKWatts District3Supt @EmilyPrincipal

“We still think there’s something wrong with the kids rather than recognizing their something wrong with the tests," ⁦Dr İbrahim Fatih DOĞAN⁩ nea.org/advocating-for…

florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe

More sad news for Jefferson County, the only school district in Florida to be privatized. Only 19% of its third graders passed the state's reading test this year — by far the worst in the state. Last year it was 28%, also the worst.

As promised: The history of our racist gun laws and a history of the Second Amendment, beginning with our first gun laws and Slave Patrols and ending with white-power militias. I expanded, added sources, and edited my thread from a few days ago. terikanefield.com/the-guns-that-…

THE NYPD HAS A BUDGET OF $11 BILLION.

Happy that National 🍩 Day falls in the month of 🏳️‍🌈! ❤️ #NationalDonutDay #pride

"We need more research about Transgender children" is the claim (by those who argue against Trans healthcare). Well, here's just some of the research that's been carried out in the last 5 years supporting the finding that Trans healthcare is healthcare THREAD: 1/

Huge congrats to my talented colleagues The New York Historical, who have created a 50-page middle-and-high-school curriculum all about #SenecaVillage and its history. Teachers, you're on break! Don't think about lesson plans! ...but maybe bookmark it for later? nyhistory.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=…

This is actually a very serious problem in tech ngl

I’m a political anthropologist who studies jails and a psychoanalyst and physician who treats their long-term consequences for individuals and communities. Over the last decade, I’ve learned a few things about what incarceration does to public health and community safety. 1/

To understand why so many white folks deny the centrality of racism in US history, consider what most of us were taught (or weren’t) about the entirely racist motivations for killing Lincoln. Booth wasn’t a madman. He was a white supremacist terrorist. timjwise.medium.com/abraham-lincol…

Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America. -Langston Hughes

For those keeping score at home... Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature: - child molestation - domestic violence - federal investigation - peeing on your colleague's chair Things that will: - fighting to protect kids from gun violence

Lighthouse Collaborative welcomed some very special guests to our Citywide visit at Crotona International High School! NYC Councilmember Oswald Feliz and @IntisNetwork’s founder Claire NYC! Thank you to everyone that joined us! #lighthousecollaborative