@amcclainteach

Teacher, Early Childhood Educator, Reading Specialist, Wife, Mom and Occasional Artist she/her

 Richmond, VA
Joined June 2019
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Elementary students matched with the same teacher two years in a row show improvement in test scores, according to a 2018 study. #FromTheArchives edweek.org/teaching-learning…

'Looping' With Students Boosts Learning, Especially for Kids of Color, Study Says

Elementary students with the same teacher for two years show improvement in test scores, with the most benefits for students of color.

edweek.org
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Tells you absolutely everything you need to know about this group. Maybe they should change the name to Moms For Hitler!
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@oneunderscore__22 Jun 2023
This Hitler quote from Moms for Liberty was on the top of the front page. Good lord.
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“Our children and the country deserve robust and substantive education reform, not false stories of failure and misguided blame and punishment.” @plthomasEdD BLOG: readingrecovery.org/open-let…
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It used to be that 22% of college students majored in education. CURRENT numbers are < 4%! 😮 Instead of figuring out why, states and districts are lowering the requirements for becoming a teacher. Then some experts will ‘wonder’ why test scores have been declining. 🙄😕😡
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One parent could get my poetry banned from classrooms. And yet one country can't ban assault rifles from massacring them.
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@TheAmandaGorman23 May 2023
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There’s something people are missing about what happened in Tennessee. This was personal. Rep. Justin Jones didn’t only protest for stronger gun safety. He was the activist who played a role in the bust of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest being taken down from the Tennessee Capitol. In February 2019, Rep. Jones, then an unelected activist, staged a protest at the Tennessee state Capitol where he demanded the removal of a the former Ku Klux Klan leader before being arrested. The statue was finally removed in 2021. However, it seems some relics of the past remain.
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“We don’t have to see it as a choice between play or academics, play should be academics for preschoolers.” A beautiful, important look at the critical role of play in feeding young children's brains—and spirits. hechingerreport.org/the-comp…

The complex world of pre-K play

Young kids benefit from play. But what should it look like?

hechingerreport.org
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And I would add that they should care if Kindergartners are being allowed to play, so that they can learn to get along and solve problems! It infuriates me that they are expected to be reading, test taking robots as littles that have only been on this earth for 5 years!
𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧
@DrBradJohnson16 Nov 2022
No one should care how a kindergartener compares on a standardized test with kindergarteners around the country. They should care if the kindergartener feels cared for, valued, and actually enjoys coming to school to learn. Its Kindergarten!
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One of the most significant things we could do to change education for the better would be to really acknowledge difference. We could simply accept that not all five year olds are ready to read, and not all 16 year olds are ready to do high stakes exams. 1/
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Imagine… I feel this as a mom who has seen this in my own children and as a teacher who has watched for 30 years as education has completely changed into a money making test machine that doesn’t care about the well being of teachers or students.
Naomi Fisher
@naomicfisher18 Oct 2022
Imagine a world where we said, what’s going on with the children? So many of them are angry and distressed after school. So many of them are shut in their bedrooms. So many of them are anxious and unhappy. So many of them disillusioned at 15. 1;
If someone’s Child died, they don’t need your advice.
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There will never be a good excuse as to why nothing can be done to help w/ raising the National Funding for #ChildhoodCancer These Children go thru the unimaginable suffering & STILL our Government believes that they’re ONLY worth 4%.
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This is a beautiful way to walk through life, but it is especially important if you are an educator
Tiny Buddha
@tinybuddha10 Oct 2022
"When you go into the woods & look at the trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent & some of them are straight & some of them are evergreens & some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree & you allow it. You see why it is the way it is.” Ram Dass
Virginia consistently ranks among the best education states in the U.S. It’s also always among the top reasons that we are ranked as a best state for business. When a politician tries to trash our schools it says more about them than it does our schools.google.com/amp/s/wset.com/am…
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This! 🙌
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Our Children get less than 4% of federal funding, which hurts the chances of them from getting better treatments. Many of the treatments that are meant to save our Kid’s, ends up killing them. We need MORE funding & we need BETTER treatments. 🎗#ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth
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Culturally responsive teaching & antiracism AINT this y’all. Nope. I promise there’s more. Our BIPOC & white children deserve much more than this. This ain’t it. Damn. And so many use this as a model.
Ron Clark@mrronclark_3 Sep 2022
RCA’s students have started the year on FIRE, and Ms. Myra decided to go AWWF! I love this so much! ❤️❤️❤️ #ronclarkacademy
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This is what public schools were intended to be in the 🇺🇸, before politicians and profiteers began to privatize, dismantle and defund them.
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So true! 🙌 📷 The Age of Enlightenment
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