My classes just completed the reading and analysis of Chapter 5. For those who need a refresher, or insight, this is the turning point where all the animals on Animal Farm are barely starting to realize their is no longer equality. 1/
Commandment 7: All animals are equal.
Except, at this point of the novel, they are not.
Napoleon has taken the reign of the farm and has stipulated that all decisions will be made by a special committee of pigs (bc they are smarter) with him presiding over this committee. 2/
At this point, all the animals just witnessed Snowball being chased off the farm forever by a pack of angry dogs trained by Napoleon. He is their master.
A traumatic experience flashes before all the animals. The animals are now thinking… 3/
“Do we speak up and be chased by angry dogs, or do we just go along with this new plan?”
My students find out starting tomorrow what happens next.
However, I felt like I experienced deja vú at the CCSD Board of Trustees work session this afternoon. 4/
President Garcia Morales TOLD the board that she will be bringing in A.J. Crabill in to help reshape Supt. Jara’s evaluation to include student outcomes…AND to help revise Focus 2024 AND provide additional trainings to the board collectively… 5/
All this is contingent on what HER goals are for the board.
FACT CHECK: This was a discussion but a decision was already made by President EGM. There was no debate. There was no vote.
Mother said so. Mother knows best.
It was an autocratic stifled conversation. 6/
Each member was allowed to share their insight. If questions were asked, snide comments akin to “You can look it up online” and “You can ask him when he interviews you” were given by Mother. When one member asked where were the ref docs… 7/
Mother stated that they would be posted online after the mtg.
Napoleon just took the reign of Animal Farm.
Named after the one and only Napoleon Bonaparte, the French Revolution military leader.
Look him up, then watch today’s (5/3) work session. It should be up soon. 8/
If you can find the video before me, please post in comments.
I would describe the feeling and type of electricity in the air would be similar to the #Disney#Tangled’s character #MotherGothel speaking to Rapunzel.
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I have had to cover other classes, of my colleagues have had to have 2-4 classes combined to cover other classes, and this is all due to staff shortages. This pause is going to do NOTHING when we still work W and TH to start it on Friday. 1/
@GovSisolak People who do not take this pandemic seriously now have a 4-day weekend and think it’s time to live it up a little. 2/
@GovSisolak I’m home with COVID, second time having it. I am vaxxed + boosted. 4 of 5 of my kids are also positive. Many of my students are out bc they are positive of their household is positive. Many students in CCSD have been sent to school sick bc their parents don’t have sick leave. 3/
We had a lockdown yesterday. Four fights popped off at once literally right at the end of first lunch. We have three lunches. We had to halt launches to clear out every area and snag all those who were involved. 1/?
My students and a few (student) visitors I took in that were stragglers in the hallways when I did a sweep and locked out my hallway’s double doors, were just in disbelief after the adrenaline wore off. 2/?
They were worried about what was going on because it was literally four fights at once. They just knew they were safe but without information, so they still felt unsafe. 3/?
.@SteveSisolak, you state you support schools reopening.
Well, educators do also. We support schools reopening SAFELY!
Here is how you, our Governor, can support us in CCSD. 1/9
1️⃣ Ensure that there are enough vaccines for teaches to receive two doses in the preferred timeframe.
2️⃣ Encourage Superintendent Jara to make this a priority, as well as send out a statement to district employees of his plan to ensure we will not open schools until all 2/9
teachers have been given the opportunity to choose to take the vaccine.
3️⃣ Encourage Superintendent Jara to release information showing how many cleaning supply items each school possesses. This is to ensure we can turn to the community and ask for help in order provide 3/9
I think ALL parents feel this way to some degree. We teachers wish we could do exactly this and sprinkle in more social emotional connections. I’m here to tell you, we aren’t the problem. Teachers want to slow down. However, in NV, schools are rated by various elements. 1/9
One element is student achievement through high-stakes testing. The more in target students are, the better the rating. Guess what teachers are still attempting to do? You guessed it. In some form, we are still teaching to meet those standards as much as we can. 2/9
Also, most teachers have not been encouraged to really slow down and meet needs for the here and now. Instead, we are being encouraged to do what we can for students while still sticking with pacing of standards. 3/9