HS Math Teacher // VB Coach // TFA DC Alum // Love kids, love math. // Curator of @MsMacsMath
Los Angeles, CA
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Congratulations to our new president @JoeBiden and our new VP @KamalaHarris !!!!
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On the importance of releasing tax reports:
"It'd be really good to know who the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, owes money to."
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Planning on using desmos in distance learning? Here's an activity perfect for your first synchronous session with your students. Get to know them & teach them how to use desmos activities.
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#mtbos #iteachmath
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Education has huge effects on students and their lives, but eliminating poverty ... isn't one of them. cnbc.com/2019/05/29/study-to… h/t @DangerBrooks
ALT Specifically, the study found that a kindergarten student from the bottom 25% of socioeconomic status with test scores from the top 25% of students has a 31% chance of earning a college education and working a job that pays at least $35,000 by the time they are 25, and at least $45,000 by the time they are 35. A kindergarten student from the top 25% of socioeconomic status with test scores from the bottom 25% of students had a 71% chance of achieving the same milestones.
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✅ Food security is math ed reform.
✅ Medicare-for-All is math ed reform.
✅ Social housing is math ed reform.
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Families tend to run out of food stamps before the end of the month, and as a result, the math test scores of children on food stamps tend to be higher when their family has just received benefits, and tend to drop when they're late in the benefit cycle papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Happy to support some baller educators and give #girls in DC more choices about where they go to school! @KVCalso @Mssas_2000 @MizFrenchy Let's Go @GirlsGlobalDC !! #
DC Public Charter School Board: Support the opening of a GIRLS ONLY Public Charter High School in Washington, DC! - Sign the Petition to support some AMAZING educators! chng.it/492VXdT5 via @Change
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Shoutout to @SenatorHeitkamp.
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GO VOTE. If you won't speak up because you can't be bothered, then God, Jed, I don't even want to know you.
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Kicking off our Cohort Spotlight, meet Shayne Swift and Karen Venable-Croft! They co-founded @GirlsGlobalDC - a high school focused on global citizenship for women of color. Learn more about Shayne, Karen, and the #CityBridgeCohort2019 below!
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56% of the women who are running for governorships have previous experience as elected officials, compared with just 37% of men.
80% of women running for Senate have previously held elected office, compared with just 22% of men abcn.ws/2Bsig1c via @FiveThirtyEight
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If I give 10 apples to one person and no apples to nine people, the average person has one apple.
Why are nine people mad at me? xitter.cf/presssec/status/922245…
heyyo #MTBos, whatcha got on resources for kids about multiple intelligences/learning styles? #iteachmath & we're starting w/ growth mindset
Think Trump's next step is to convince us he built the wall, just can't see it because the transparency is SO good?
