Conversation with @AnnaIvey "if it is safe to test, test. If not, don't lose sleep over it." 100% agree. Most of my students are playing sports and going to in-person events so I tell them you if you are already taking risks then if you feel like you want to test do 1 or 2
But if you don't want to add another risk or aren't taking risks, don't test. Testing does not really add that much value. Ask the colleges on your list "will I lose out on aid and scholarship opportunities if I don't submit a score"
Ask if any Presidential or big scholarship winners won without scores
if they have a number of applicants who were accepted without scores last semester
if you are not comfortable with testing but your college is limiting opportunities, ask them to reconsider their policies
Not on the agenda tonight... hasn’t talked to other board members but Lateef has always thought he runs this board and doesn’t need any input from those WE ELECTED. insidenova.com/headlines/prin…
After yet another incident with a rising education celeb, this time Emily Paschall, I realized it would be a mistake to just address this at a micro level...
The problematic educeleb that silences or ignores dissent is a macro issue
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Which is why, I have decided to pull ALL the receipts and write a piece which has the current working title
Educelebrity and the culture of silence: why white educators and their institutions ignore and/or silence educators of color and their allies 2/
And when I mean I am pulling receipts I mean we are going full Bye Sisters/No More Lies/Breaking My Silence that will send your faves into a Shane Dawson spiral.
Shout out to my educators who know all that mess dram
I’m going to focus the early part of the week on affirming Black Educators but I AM COMING BACK TO @educationweek
more of Julie- this is the diversity @educationweek values. She has targeted this Black educator for MONTHS, told her followers to harass him and @educationweek gave her not one, not two, BUT THREE blogs
Black Lives Matter but Black educators can be HARASSED VIA EDUCATION WEEK
Hey @ADL can you explain to @educationweek why it’s inappropriate to spread and actually harmful to spread, publish, and promote conspiracy theory that Black Lives Matter promotes anti-semitism. Stop publishing lies that are designed to divide us
Everyone gets to decide how to heal from their trauma. a counter voice was presented in @educationweek-no shade on that
@educationweek has not removed the article of Julie. Julie showed who she was- she moved on to defending TJ’s admission policy that excluded Black applicants
That’s right... Julie went from mocking a Black educator, being amplified by @educationweek on saying leave your life mattering at home, to siding with those defending a TJHS applicant process that produced no Black applicants this year
Meanwhile, as a direct result of my inability stay silent, I am now being targeted by the anti-w*ke (have to star it to prevent more) army whose views would be embraced by guess who (can’t say it because I’ll be targeted)