Last week, we lost @EdinburghAFT member Rosa Pacheco to Covid after 35 years on the job. Today, we visited her students @SanCarlosElms to honor her, and all the lives lost during the pandemic.
With the help of @FirstBook we donated 250 books, backpacks, and masks to her school.
As part of #Back2School, we visited @PSJA_LBJ_MS where we donated another 250 books. Students are so excited to be in the classroom and it shows! Thank you to @drjlarredondo and all of the @PSJAISD community for welcoming us with open arms.
.@AFTEVPDeJesus: We know a lot more about how children learn to read. What hasn't changed is supporting our teachers and resourcing our schools so students have what they need to learn. #TEACH21
HAPPENING NOW: @rweingarten joins @CNN to talk about the CDC's latest guidance for schools and the attacks against educators for teaching civics, history, and anti-racism. Follow along in the thread below. 🧵
.@rweingarten: I'm a history teacher. In the teaching of American history, you talk about race. You talk about the Civil War. You talk about Jim Crow. You talk about the Civil Rights movement. The issues around race & discrimination are issues of American history.
.@rweingarten: CRT is a term most people wouldn't have heard 6 months ago. It's an analysis in theory that's taught in law school. What we teach in K-12 schools is history.
.@DenaSimmons is joining @AFTEVPDeJesus now for this afternoon's roundtable: Self-Care, Healing, and Equity-Responsive Practices. You can watch live👇👇👇
.@AFTEVPDeJesus, as the officer overseeing the AAPI taskforce, starts off by encouraging folks to revisit this week's recording of the AAPI history workshop! #TEACH21
. @AFTEVPDeJesus: I am proud of my union for brining us teachers like @DenaSimmons for us to learn from and I am honored to be able to introduce her today.
I'm a high school social studies teacher. It's hard to fight against something that's not actually true. - @rweingarten
@rweingarten We teach history in a way where you take salient pieces of American history, you look at them, and you examine them so your students can understand them and think critically about them. - @rweingarten