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A dear friend models a Saturday Night Live 'CONEHEAD' costume I made for her classroom Halloween party, forty nine years ago. The papier mache head got a bit taller than the TV versions. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #schoolteacher #schoolteachers #bulletin #bulletinboard #bulletinboards #classroombulletinboard #classroombulletinboards #costumes #costumes #saturdaynightlive #conehead #coneheads #comedy #sketchcomedy #comedyprofessionals #teacher

[Pinoy Criminology] Prevent violence before it enters the classroom: A free assessment tool

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/pinoy-criminology-free-assessment-tool-school-violence-prevention-raymund-narag/

To be a good Elementary School Teacher, one must understand how much children love and are motivated by holidays. Halloween, 1977. #publicschool #publicschools #elementary #elementaryschool #elementaryschools #elementaryschoolteacher #elementaryschoolteachers #halloween #allhallowseve #fall #autumnm #fallequinox #equinox #teaching #holidays #motivate #motivaters #motivater #1970s #twentiethcentury #juniatacounty #schoolroom #oldfashioned #olddays #goodolddays #teaching #teachingschool

I've always enjoyed photographing people, particularly children. Former students in 1977. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #school #schools #teacher #teachers #education #publiceducation #educator #educators #photo #photography #portrait #portraits #portraitphotography #portraitphotographer #portraitphotographers #sweetgirls #formerstudents #formerstudent #tuscaroravalley #tuscaroravalleyelementary #tuscaroravalleyelementaryschool

All of these students were sweet girls, but the one at right, Sonja, stayed in contact with me as she grew up, and we have remained lifelong friends. How special! 1977. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #publicschoolstudent #publicschoolstudents #supportpublicschools #supportpublicschoolsforastrongamerica #strongschoolsstrongamerica #civilizatiion #civiliationbuilding #reading #math #art #artwork #halloween #halloweentime #pumpkin #pumpkins

#OTD in 2003, @wikipedia reminds us that #pedophile , pretend cowboy 🤠, and #UnitedStates Military Academy graduate, #RoyMoore was removed as Chief #Justice of the #Alabama #SupremeCourt for violating the #Constitution and requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool classrooms. He renamed Chief Justice in 2017 when #Trump normalized #pedophilia and violating the Constitution. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore

#Resist #fascism in #USpol hilariously and with #ElbowsUp.

@dyckron

Shut them down.

In the mid 1980s, I almost passed out crossing a street after selling plasma. I knew how to care for myself, and I obviously survived. Plus, it was my fault, because I was nursing my second child. My no-good ex was scared of needles.

I don't know about #Canada, but here in the #US, people sell #plasma to survive.

Outlawing payment for plasma would be devastating for #publicSchool #teachers in #Texas, because my fellow #Texans elected nincompoops to #state #Government.

Chalmer, Bobby, and Charles. Three students from the beginning of my career who will always be in my heart. 1977. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteaching #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #school #schooling #student #students #elementaryschool #elementaryschools #elementaryeducation #strongpubliceducationstrongcountry #strongcountry #educationimportance #importanceofeducation #strongpublicschools #eduucationalegalitarianism #egalitarianism #equality

I was a public school teacher for thirty years, and although I loved the children dearly, I would never enter such a homophobic profession the second time. Bigotry is the root of all evil. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #bigots #bigotry #bigot #bigotryisthrootofallevil #bigotryisevil #endbigotry #eschewbigotry #gay #gayrights #homosexual #homophobia #racism #sexism #xenophobia #christianvalues #christianbigotry #fundamentalists #fundamentalism

Wearing a Crown of Thorns, and flanked by two male torsos, Jayne Mansfield observes as I inflate a giant Valentine heart to decorate my Remedial Reading classroom. 1995. #valentine #valentinesday #class #classroom #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #publicschoolemployee #publicschool employees #holiday #holidays #teaching #teacher #teachers #education #publiceducation #protectpubliceducation #endcharterschools #charterschoolsareantiamerican #civics

Judeo-Christian :fozzie_wocka_wocka:

"Among the many #faiths practiced by millions of #Texas #students, a new statewide required #reading list that includes #biblical passages draws from just two traditions: #Protestant #Christianity and #Judaism.

Yet Texas #rabbis say #Jews had no role in shaping how #Judaism appears in the #curriculum, and they disagree with how the lone #Jewish text is presented. Rather than teaching about Judaism on its own terms, they argue, the lessons filter Jewish texts through a #Christian perspective.

The #readinglist, which is expected to go into effect in 2030, will have #publicschool students across the state reading passages from the #NewTestament and mostly Christian #translations of the #Hebrew Bible alongside #literary classics. Of the curriculum’s six #HebrewBible readings, just one uses a Jewish #translation."

https://forward.com/news/834539/texas-bible-curriculum/

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📝📊 The #SAT was first administered to 8,000 students in June 1926, born from #WorldWarI #military I.Q. tests designed by #Princeton psychologist and eugenicist Carl Brigham.

Now taken by two million #students annually, fewer than 10% of U.S. #colleges require it for fall 2026 admissions, a shift accelerated by the #Covid #pandemic and long standing debates about what the test actually measures. The article traces the test’s #evolution from a tool that helped break into the old boys’ network of elite colleges to an #exam whose scores strongly correlate with family #income.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/100-years-ago-students-across-the-us-took-the-first-sat-today-relatively-few-colleges-require-the-test-where-is-it-headed-180988997/

#history #education #equity #meritocracy #publicschool #highschool #academics #policy #learning #criticalthinking #teaching

I used the 22-minute After School Special "THE HALLOWEEN THAT ALMOST WASN'T" starring Judd Hirsch and Mariette Hartley as a classroom Halloween treat every year during my career, following its release in 1979. Kids loved it. #halloween #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #teacher #teachers #schoolteaching #halloweenparty #halloweentreat #juddhirsch #mariettehartley #television #classictelevision #tv #classictv #vintagetv #vintagetelevision #1970s #prestigetelevision #teaching

Helping PACES Vancouver with Victoria & area postering, door to door community awareness & got some college/university students to assist in getting posters up & more door to door community awareness building volunteer work ✊️

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@aicaution

Please boost for more awareness on the anti unethical AI fight in BC.

#StopAIInSchools #PauseSchoolAI #BCPoli #CDNpoli #AI #Ethics #PublicSchool #BCEducation #HumanizeLearning #PACESVancouver #nonprofit #BCSchools #Volunteer #Petition

#Texas can require the #TenCommandments to be displayed in #PublicSchool #classrooms, a #US appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for #conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more #religion into schools.
It sets up a potential clash at #SCOTUS over the issue in the future.
The ultra conservative #5thCircuit Court of Appeals claimed in the decision that the #law did not violate either the #EstablishmentClause or the #FreeExerciseClause of the #FirstAmendment.

https://apnews.com/article/texas-ten-commandments-law-public-schools-scotus-43e679cf473e6b98b091d575578824eb

While #Utah requires that #PublicSchool students have 2 doses of the measles, mumps & rubella #vaccine [#MMR], parents can opt out of those requirements for personal, religious or medical reasons. In the 2024-25 school year, about 11% of kindergartners had exemptions or were missing documentation to show they were vaccinated against #measles, up from about 7% before the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccination rates need to be above about 95% to stem the spread of the #virus.

#PublicHealth #disease

A student at his Little League game. 1977. I hope for a future in which gay people are accepted as teachers, and homophobes are not. #education #publiceducation #homophobia #bigotry #bigotryiswrong #endbigotry #student #students #littleleague #school #publicschool #publicschools #sports #exercise #goodhealth #1970s #twentiethcentury #civilrights

One of my public school students in 1977 at his Little League game. I hope some day gay people are more accepted as teachers. Sadly, it has not improved during my lifetime. #civilrights #equalrights #gayrights #endbigotry #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #1970s #littleleague #littleleagues #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #softball #softballplayer #softballplayers #tribe #tribes #monkeytribe #monkeytribes #monkeytribalism #tribalism

Art by my late mother-in-law, Jo Ann Smith, shown at New York's Pleasant Valley Library in February. #art #artist #arting #makingart #creating #creativity #motherinlaw #mother #mothers #class #classroom #school #publicschool #publicschools #teacher #teaching #taught #color #colorful #pleasantvalley #newyork #newyorkstate #poughkeepsie #hometown #husband #desk #desks #schooldesk #schooldesks

I enjoyed creating bulletin boards, art projects, and posters when I was a public school teacher. 1990s. #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #teacher #teachers #1990s #bulletinboard #bulletinboards #decor #decorations #tips #art #artwork #arting #littlelulu #tubby #marge #comicbook #comicbooks #schoolhallway #lacktuscarora #lacktuscaroraelementaryschool #elementary #elementaryschool #ltes #education #educators

It turns out that #AI is mimicking the output of #Oxbridge / #PublicSchool alumni: plausible bullshit, assserted with eloquent confidence

h/t @Natasha_Jay

My Halloween treat for many years was showing the kids Judd Hirsh's "The Halloween that Almost Wasn't," during our classroom party. This 1979 TV special (now 'Riffed'!) is still a favorite. #halloween #publicschool #publicschools #student #students #elementary #elementaryteacher #elementarystudents #education #publiceducation #halloweencelebration #tradition #traditions #costume #Costumes #autumn #fall #halloweenparade #rifftrax

As a public school teacher, Halloween was my favorite day of the year. #publicschools #publicschool #publicschoolteacher #publicschoolteachers #teacher #teachers #halloween #school #schools #children #child #kid #kids #costume #costumes #celebration #holiday #fun #creativity

Three favorite students in 1982. Billie (center) went on to have a son who became one of the handful of "Grand Students" I taught, at the end of my career. #student #students #publicschool #publicschools #publicschoolstudents #publicschoolteacher #1980s #twentiethcentury #pa

In my 30 years as a public school teacher, I always enjoyed the children. My co-workers' unrelenting homophobia? Not so much. 1995. #homophobia #gayrights #gay #equalrights #civilrights #bigotry #bigotryiswrong #endbigotry #bigotsareliars #publiceducation #publicschool