Good morning from Detroit, MI! We're kicking off our day with @aftmichigan and @DFT231 at Charles L. Spain Elementary-Middle School, visiting students and their educators.
In this art class, students are learning about abstract, realism and symmetry.
.@rweingarten is helping students figure out math problems.
These 7th grade students worked on a Living Museum for their social studies class where they got to research people and present their findings in first person.
We're continuing our day in Detroit with a visit to Coleman A. Young Elementary School. @aftmichigan@DFT231
The school has set up a vaccine clinic inside a classroom to help ensure all students are able to get vaccinated.
.@rweingarten asking these students why they love 2nd grade.
Some of the answers we heard:
"I love learning!"
"I can read."
"I learn something new."
Thanks to all the educators, students and staff for welcoming us into your classrooms today.
We're closing out our day in Detroit at a meeting with @aftmichigan leaders to discuss the issues our members are facing across the state. @rweingarten#IamAFT
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Welcome to the opening general session for this year’s @PSRP_AFT Conference!
After our welcome from AFT PSRP Director @LaLaSamet, we’ll hear from AFT PSRP PPC Chair Shelvy Y. Abrams and keynote speaker AFT President @rweingarten. Follow along! 🧵
You all are what makes our schools and colleges run. Thank you, thank you… This conference is about celebrating all of you.
Shelvy Y. Abrams
We need to keep organizing and community building; we need to keep running campaigns to advance or lives.
.@rweingarten to @uicgeo: The bottom line is this, and you’ve all said it already: Together we can accomplish what we cannot alone. Now if you’re Bezos or Musk or DeVos, you can probably do a lot alone. But for us, we need to join together to have power. #GEOonStrike
.@rweingarten: Power is not just a given. You have to take it. You have to build it. This is a time-honored tradition - joining together, waking together, arriving together. That’s how we build a better life for ourselves and our communities. #GEOonStrike
.@rweingarten: What you’re doing in this quad is what the Amazon workers in Staten Island and Starbucks workers across the country are doing. #GEOonStrike
.@rweingarten: I wish say this is going to be our last town hall about preventing gun violence. But with the filibuster rules in the Senate, with the NRA, with the vigilantism growing in our country, we'd argue that gun violence is getting worse, not better. #EndGunViolenceNow
“With us, you have a familia.” @AFTEVPDeJesus talks to the newest local officers from Lake County Federation of Teachers as they are sworn in. #IAmAFT@iftaft
AFT’s Jessica Smith explains our partnership with Cornell University on our collective bargaining training to help our newest officers in Lake County prepare. #IAmAFT@IFTAFT
.@rweingarten: It’s wonderful to see you all in person, and it’s great that this year people have come together to turn the page & organize. #IamAFT@IFTAFT