Changing the world is hard

Thoughts to help me keep my shit together.

[mrsmusicteacher]

No one knows how they'll react

I do though. "You never know how you're going to react in the event if an active shooter". I do though. I was new at a school a few years ago. I'd been teaching a few years and moved districts. I didn't know the codes for different drills (we weren't trained and I wasn't provided with a booklet). The principal came over the intercom and said "code black". I didn't know what that meant, so I got all of the kindergarteners in my class (and their assistant) under my tables and moved my piano in front of them. Then I went and got the PE teacher and her class of kindergarteners and their assistant (the gym was attached to my room and didn't have an intercom). I got everyone in their hiding spot and then the door to the outside started to rattle and then it opened. I stood there, ready to face whatever was on the other side of the door. I was scared, but I knew if the gunman saw me alone, he might think it was my planning period. He'd shoot me and move along and the other adults in the room could usher the kids to safety. I was ready. It ended up being my principal. Code black meant evacuate.

I told my husband after the most recent shooting that I'll try to hide myself with my kids, but there is no question in my mind where I'll be if someone walks in looking to harm my kids. I tell every student on their first day in my music classroom, "I promise I will always protect you" and I mean it.

I didn't join the military or the police force. I didn't think that when I started teaching I'd have to make the same commitment that they make. I didn't know I'd be putting my life on the line, but I do and I will.

[seeingteacupsindragons]

You know what we need more of? Beginner’s classes for adults.

It’s supposed to be really, really good for you to keep learning new things as you age. It helps stave off strokes and dementia and Alzheimer’s and improves memory. And hey, learning stuff is fun.

But I really don’t want to be infantilized when I try to learn something. And I definitely don’t learn the way a child does. And honestly, what adult wants to be in the same class as children? Very few.

This occurred to me recently because I’d like to learn how to actually ice skate properly. My parents never signed me up for classes, because it wasn’t a thing they ever cared about or thought about. Now I’m in my twenties and want to learn, and also don’t want to be surrounded by a bunch of eight-year-olds who probably honestly skate better than I do. Because that’s embarrassing, and embarrassment is not how you learn.

Would it be good to lose the social stigma of being worse at something than a child? Yes. Hell yes. But we’ve got to start somewhere, and like I said: adults don’t really learn the way kids do, and a lot of people use these kinds of activities to make friends, and I don’t want to make friends with an eight-year-old, either.

So.

Beginner’s classes for adults. Let adults suck at stuff and learn how to get better and learn new things and broaden their horizons, while still being treated as adults. Classes for writing, for pottery, for chess, for art, for instruments, for singing, for sports, for chemistry. For everything, dammit.

[kiriamaya]

I think I’ve reblogged this before but I don’t care

[ithelpstodream]

[jehovahhthickness]

You can’t be serious… that shit is soooooo unsafe for the patient and taxing on nurse 😩

[diaryofaprettycurse-deactivated]

As a nursing major this hurts me. It’s already hard enough taking care of someone who cannot take care of themselves but NOW we don’t have the materials needed to administer care. This pisses me off 😒

[jadorexjaii]

Man what the fuck

[tanaje]

He’s telling the truth, I currently work at a hospital and there is a nationwide shortage of IV fluid bags. So bad that they’re referring to alternative methods like medications that can be administered orally or like the post above. Smh

[sauvamente]

Not to mention the shortage of antibiotics

[thememacat]

WTF??

[beachgirlnikita]

Some 40% of drugs and supplies used in the US were manufactured in PR. Drug shortages were predicted after the hurricane and now they are starting to happen.  Since PR doesn’t seem to be considered to be part of the US by this administration, help to fix it has been short and late in coming, which means that drug shortages will only get worse.

Are we great yet?

[disasterlarper]

in the children’s hospital i was rotating at we weren’t changing central line tubing (lines that go.. directly to your heart, as in, not something you want infected) for six days instead of 3 due to shortages

[the-real-seebs]

what the fuck

this is sort of horrifying

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

More than half of my clients have had to have their entire medication regimens reworked. Medication regimens that they had been stable and supported on for months or years. Medication regimens that had helped them steadily improve and progress in their lives had to be thrown out the window and completely started over by trial and error again because their medications are no longer available.

People are dying in Puerto Rico and people are going to die on the continental US as well.

[lacommunarde]

Merck’s main manufacturing facility is in PR, if you want a name.

[bobcatmoran]

The FDA actually put out a press release on this today. Apparently it’s not just the IV bags, but the fluids as well that are in short supply. There’s a (worryingly long) list of drugs and related paraphenelia experiencing shortages [here].

[knittinggothgirl-deactivated201]

Press release was 1/5/2018

[sharing-of-words]

Reblogging for the FDA link. This is legit folks

[teachermisery]

Still trying to figure out what else I can do with nothing!

[mrsmusicteacher]

Yes!! Teaching to a T

[mrsmusicteacher]

2017

What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before?

Openly wept because of politics

[spooky-boii]

MARK YOUR FUCKING CALENDARS

JAUNARY 31ST IS ABOUT TO BE THE COOLEST FUCKING LUNAR EVENT OF 2018

NOT ONLY IS IT A SUPERMOON, BUT IT’S ALSO THE SECOND FULL MOON IN JANUARY, MAKING IT A BLUE MOON

A N D

THERE’S A TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE!!!!!

[stormbornwitch]

So it’s going to be a MASSIVE Blood Red Blue Moon in the sky…. 😍

[orriculum]

Hoo boy

[mrskaaay]

…it’s a weekday

[daemonmatthias]

A WEEKDAY?????

(Pretty sure the kids have a three day weekend so they are NOT going to calm down afterwards either.)

[mrsmusicteacher]

Welp, I think I'll go ahead and put in for a sub and take a personal day.

[sicklesium-moved-deactivated201]

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

[damncommunists-deactivated20180]

my white friends that have reblogged this give me life

[zelda-tempest]

4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP

[lallamariamhabibi]

If ur white and like this post I fux with u

[birdpapi-deactivated20171121]

^absolutely

[verdant-witch]

5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.

[blackpoeticinjustice]

i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this

[sm0k3-ring-deactivated20160109]

6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death

[satyrical-prince]

Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌

[anar-tea]

yesyesyesyes

[yawayli-deactivated20140417]

Your Arab aren't you? Have you ever dated a terrorist

nah I’m not into white guys sry

[wa-llahi-deactivated20141113]

[liferuining-soulsnatcher]

Gotta reblog every time I see it

[thr0atmistress-deactivated20191]

[koubuchi-deactivated20160616]

[ilhaanyasiin-blog]

[jo-heart]

😂😂😂

[thatdevilbitch]

[hypnotic-flow]

winner!!!!!!👍🏾🔥

[wordsofapleaser]

Lmaoooo

[furbytheminx]

I love it when this post comes around 😍😍

[thathighguy]

[mrsmusicteacher]

[sothisisablog]

[mrsmusicteacher]

When you over hear a kid say "you don't fuck with *mrsmusicteacher"

[mrsmusicteacher]

Today my students learned:

1. the KKK are crazy, mean, idiots

2. Jesus was probably brown

3. Gay isn't an insult

I think it was a pretty good day

[mrsmusicteacher]

Just a thought

I just had a thought. Do you think teachers would be as underpaid, over worked, and second guessed as much as we are if it was a male dominated field?

[bobin08]

EDD: Who out there is teaching in a Title I school?

🙋‍♀️

[adventuresinteachingx]

🙋

[mrskaaay]

👩🏽‍🏫

[shrimpfajitasalacarte]

Meeeeee

[mrsmusicteacher]

Me

[thehalfwaypost]

Betsy DeVos Okays Charter Schools Fining “Smelly Poor Kids” For Being Smelly And Poor

State and municipal governments across the nation are contemplating how to pick up the federal government’s slack in promoting educational equality.

[lindsaaayyy]

Satire

[mrsmusicteacher]

We're living in a world where I wasn't sure that this was satire.

[theyellowraincoat]

EDD: What sort of template/layout do you use for pl*nning?

[me-inmywords]

I use a google spreadsheet, if I’m pl*nning ahead or getting more detailed. It has the year’s calendar, any important info about what’s happening that day (pep rally, standardized test dates, 3 week and 6 week mark, etc.), what unit we’re in, the objective for the day, the actual pl*n, any homework/assessments, and any modifications for SPED, 504, or ELL students. Usually, only the lesson description gets filled in. If I’m figuring out details or getting just the broad ideas, those phrases get scribbled on post it notes or hastily typed into whatever google doc I have open. 

[mrskaaay]

I use google slides, 1 slideshow per week. Every day gets a slide with the date, learning target, and warm up. Then I use however many slides it takes to go through the class activities. Sometimes it’s 1 slide (“take your test then do IXL”) others its several slides with many steps. I use the slides as display for students. If there’s an exit slip, it goes on it’s own slide.

Some teachers at my school do their slide shows monthly, but I use too many slides for that format. I keep folders in my google drive to organize them by month.

[general-anxiety]

Usually, I just shove a lesson title onto my website calendar, as this is the only requirement at my school.

However, I’m beginning to set up for next year and I’m using a combination of Sheets and Docs. Sheets is great to help organize my crazy schedule for Seminar, and then I go to Docs for more detailed procedures.

That’s all I’m doing though…

[bobin08]

I am obsessed with my Erin Condren planner! It’s my planbook and my gradebook. Obsessed.

[hrroyalgeekness]

@mrskaaay I️ use Google Slides, too! I️ have our objective, homework, and bellwork up when students first walk into the room. After bellwork, we do announcements and that slide has the agenda and any announcements on it (otherwise I️ will forget to remind students of upcoming due dates, team information, etc.)

For long term like planning thematic units and what bigger things go where and what not, I️ use tables/calendars on a Google Docs.

[mrsmusicteacher]

I use planbook.com

[bipolaroid]

dinners ready

[lakidaa]

( ._.)./ an explanation: 

The dog has an issue where his esophagus doesn’t work right; it doesn’t get food in there right because it’s all stretched out and stuff. So what dog owners (and cat owners and I guarantee you the cat ones look goofier) do is make a highchair and feed them upright so gravity can be a hero. It’s also really cute. 

The disorder is called Megaesophagus. 

Here is a cat with the same disorder in his eatin’ sock. 

[robotjiji-deactivated20190529]

EATIN’ SOCK

[pluckychicken]

ALWAYS REBLOG THE EATIN’ SOCK

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

EATIN’ SOCK IM CRYING

[maevegreen]

Two words I did not every think that I would see together, nor think that I would love together…eating sock.

[maaarine]

How a half-educated tech elite delivered us into chaos (The Guardian, Nov 19 2017)

John Naughton:

“So what else could explain the astonishing naivety of the tech crowd? My hunch is it has something to do with their educational backgrounds.

Take the Google co-founders. Sergey Brin studied mathematics and computer science. His partner, Larry Page, studied engineering and computer science.

Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard, where he was studying psychology and computer science, but seems to have been more interested in the latter.

Now mathematics, engineering and computer science are wonderful disciplines – intellectually demanding and fulfilling. And they are economically vital for any advanced society.

But mastering them teaches students very little about society or history – or indeed about human nature.

As a consequence, the new masters of our universe are people who are essentially only half-educated. 

They have had no exposure to the humanities or the social sciences, the academic disciplines that aim to provide some understanding of how society works, of history and of the roles that beliefs, philosophies, laws, norms, religion and customs play in the evolution of human culture.

We are now beginning to see the consequences of the dominance of this half-educated elite.”

[teachiness]

And schools and parents continue to discount the humanities because that’s not where the money is…and if the connection to students’ planned future careers in STEM fields or in business isn’t absolutely blatant and obvious, then they fail to see the point. Meanwhile, society falls apart.

[teacherofthethoughtfullest]

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