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Dan Dawer

5 months

Excited to share this piece from @sarahlouwou and I (and my first-ever academic publication): “From Oyster Reefs to Turnaround Schools: An Educational Restoration Model for the COVID-19 Era.” 1/5

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 month

I’m a Jewish student at a university where students today held a peaceful protest. What was most reminiscent of Nazi Germany was watching a force of state troopers in riot gear take over our campus.

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

@netanyahu

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Anti-Semitism on campuses in the United States is reminiscent of what happened in German universities in the 1930s. The world cannot stand idly by.

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@Dan_Dawer

2 years

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@CarolynNickelo The problems in schools feel systemic, and dare I say, intentional. Leaders are sabotaging teachers’ working conditions—forcing us to take on more dangerous and taxing labor, without providing extra resources or compensation. It’s like they want us to break.

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@Dan_Dawer

2 years

The constant refrain that students need to be present for in-person school, no matter the consequences, is pretty effective preparation for when their future employers demand the same thing of them as workers

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

5 years

@SparkNotes Reasons to date Ariadne: a Thread

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

Alternate headline: nation’s teachers miraculously prevent catastrophic decline in student learning despite global pandemic killing millions; scores drop by only a few points even as US child poverty rates grow to 17%

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@latkesaurus You got them so mad they’re losing the plot

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@whstancil Leaders forced school reopening in Texas and it went . . . badly. Documented outbreaks in team sports. Multiple teachers on my campus got sick and were hospitalized for weeks. A coach in our district died. Many students lost family members. How is any of that normal?

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@toofout @bokehbenen @The_Law_Boy @lhfang And then when people protested the pattern of molestation, teachers responded by molesting the protestors, too

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

10 months

According to HISD Superintendent Mike Miles—and by extension, the Texas state leaders who appointed him—this is what it looks like to “prioritize resources” in a school serving low-income Black and Latinx children.

Houston Fed of Tchrs

@HFT2415

10 months

“This used to be a library” - Marshall Elementary School, Houston Independent School District (Aug 2023)

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

8 months

HISD teachers are now being removed from classrooms for advocating for higher-quality learning materials for their students.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

What we’re seeing in teaching right now is more than just burnout– it’s mass demoralization brought on by the next phase of a plan to deprofessionalize K-12 education. 1/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@GregAbbott_TX When do we get the freedom to choose public schools that are fully funded by the state? I want an educational path that includes teachers being paid a salary that dignifies the critical work they do in shaping Texas’s future.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@edyong209 The fact that “the tools” exist—not whether they are made available—is enough to satisfy leaders. As a teacher, I was told repeatedly that schools “have the tools” to reopen safely. We were provided 0 high-quality masks, no surveillance testing, and no upgrades to ventilation.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@rmc031 And this paper only predicts cases and deaths within the first 8 weeks after school reopenings in TX. We have to assume the results were even more devastating for November - January, when schools stayed open and TX cases/deaths skyrocketed.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@SecCardona @POTUS Which resources, exactly? Educators are being asked to do so much more with even less this year. Staff shortages are making it near impossible to operate some schools at all, let alone meet the challenge of supporting students as they continue to navigate a global pandemic.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 month

Grateful for all the @UTAustin faculty members standing up to defend students' first amendment rights. It's so affirming to see so many names I recognize (and deeply respect!) signing this open letter.

Open Letter: UT Faculty Have No Confidence in President Hartzell

NOTE: This letter was sent to President Hartzell at 8:30 AM on the morning of April 29, with 539 signatures. We continued to accept signatures until 8:30 AM on May 2, 2024. It now has the signatures...

docs.google.com

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

With TEA officially announcing Mike Miles as HISD superintendent, I strongly encourage folks to read up on his "disruptive" tenure as superintendent in Dallas ISD:

Houston Landing

@Hou_Landing

1 year

🚨 BREAKING: Mike Miles is Houston ISD's new superintendent. Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath made the news official today after removing the current district leader and HISD's elected school board from power. Here's what we know so far:

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@alfiekohn Computerized, module-based instructional has made this trend worse. Students are learning to see education as a series of pre-determined tasks to be completed as quickly and efficiently as possible, with little relevance to their experiences or interests.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@MagisterBracey The majority of Americans believe more should have been done to protect us from COVID. Leaders and pundits (driven by corporate interests) have distorted public opinion to make us believe that other people never cared about COVID, but this it’s a fiction.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

11 months

@ehanford I’m concerned teachers are being driven out of the profession by policies that narrow reading instruction to what’s easily tested. I’m concerned students are learning to dislike reading because they’re being taught as if it’s a formulaic exercise in choosing the right answer.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

10 months

Buried in the 213-page agenda for HISD’s August 10 board meeting is a sneaky provision that raises the threshold for Board approval of district purchases from $100k to $2M. It would give the Superintendent sole authority to make massive purchases without public oversight. 1/

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

Teachers have long been tasked with repairing the harms inflicted on the most vulnerable in our society. This process takes time, resources, and a great deal of caring labor. Schools are nowhere near ready to “turn the page” or “return to normal.”

‘I Still Just Worry’: 3 Teachers on Covid’s Long Shadow Over American Schools (Published 2022)

Teachers are still grappling daily with issues that the pandemic has left in its wake, most of which defy easy solutions.

www.nytimes.com

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 month

To the state of Texas, students at its flagship public university who engage in peaceful protest are now considered threats that merit a militarized police response.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

8 months

Schools also need to be places where children have opportunities to be curious, learn independently, and play. Yet our laser-focus on improving achievement outcomes means many students get the opposite: scripted curriculum, predetermined learning modules, and overtesting.

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🚨🚨"Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults." 🚨🚨(1/2)

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 month

Tuition and fees represent more than double the amount UT receives from the state general fund. This is not “compliance,” it’s a signal that conservative lawmakers (and, more importantly, their funders) matter more than UT students.

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. @JCHartzell : “It’s not just are we compliant with SB 17 in the short run, but also what are the choices we make and how do we demonstrate to our state and others that we are good stewards of the resources for which we’ve been entrusted.”

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

I’m convinced that the only way this pattern ends is with a continued march to full-on privatization, or with labor actions that bring the system to a halt and actually win systemic changes for justice, equity, and democracy. 14/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@SelenaCarrion When do we get to “choose” fully-funded, equitable, desegregated public schools?

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

School staffing shortages and instability are not natural disasters—they are produced labor conditions that the ruling class could, if they so desired, ameliorate. 2/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

When I taught 9th grade English, some of the titles on this cart were the most popular reads of the year. These books were selected for removal specifically because kids connect with them.

Florida Freedom to Read Project

@FLFreedomRead

1 year

Yesterday we logged almost 200 challenges- about 150 of those resulted in immediate removals. This is a picture of all the books removed from one HS library, in one day, in one District, due to the objections of one man. This is not freedom. #FreeTheBooks

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@Toth_4_Texas @pastors4txkids The law states that it is “the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.” What’s “lawless” is undermining public education with vouchers and teacher censorship.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

7 months

Super excited to share I’ll be presenting at #AERA24 ! So grateful for my collaborators, @sarahlouwou and Trae Madrigal. See you in Philly!

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

In the last 2 days, the TX Senate passed bills banning DEI offices and tenure at public universities, and the TX House passed a bill banning books from school libraries. It is increasingly clear that our state government is set on destroying public education as we know it.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

6 years

A7: An additional privilege that needs to be disrupted in schools is the primacy of the English language. By valuing English over other languages in curriculum and school communciations, we devalue students and families #EduColor

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

5 months

Rare Texas star mushroom sighting at Inks Lake State Park!

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@ThinkerMichelle Michelle, many teachers have pride flags in their classrooms. It doesn’t signal anything inappropriate — it’s a way of showing students that you believe they all matter, the same way a college pennant shows students you believe they can go to college.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

The truth is the ruling class is invested in continued teacher churn. The new markets it creates for privatizers are just an added benefit to the prime directive of suppressing working class power. 3/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

People who were 9 years old in 2004 scored roughly the same in Math and Reading as 9-year-olds living who are living through a pandemic, I’d say our schools are doing a hell of a job

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@TheJLV The idea that a silent, motionless classroom is a desirable classroom outcome of “classroom management.” Sorry, that’s not what learning or creativity looks like, that’s prison

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@mattyglesias @DanaGoldstein @ProfEmilyOster My dead and hospitalized colleagues might take issue with being reduced to mere “costs.” Be clear here: for whom was the C-B math of reopening schools “helpful,” and for whom was it harmful?

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@magsrdoherty Disrespect for teachers is part of a broader political strategy that explains poverty as a result of “failing” public schools. If “bad teachers” are to blame for inequality, it lets leaders off the hook from having to redistribute resources.

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@Dan_Dawer

1 month

HISD is pushing out experienced, justice-oriented educators who have remained committed to their communities for decades, even as the district hires a ballooning number of uncertified individuals to fill teaching positions. How is this good for children?

Daniel Santos

@mr_dsantos

1 month

I am leaving the Houston Independent School District. And this is why - Know When to Leave

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@JasonReynolds83 They are objecting to the whole idea that racism *exists* and needs to be taught about. Performative fear over CRT in the curriculum is a cover for for rejecting any education about racism.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

Keeping schools, restaurants, bars, and other nonessential business open is a policy choice that absolutely will “change the trajectory” of the pandemic. So is closing them.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

26 days

Every harmful action taken by Houston ISD’s superintendent has the blessing of the Texas Education Agency, who appointed him. The state does not believe students deserve these essential services.

Houston ISD to cut more than 100 staff who serve students experiencing homelessness, hunger

An HISD administrator delivered the news to roughly 170 district staff, saying their roles will be cut at the end of June due to budget constraints.

houstonlanding.org

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@SelenaCarrion A decade ago, charters were hailed as the solution to educational inequality. Now, it feels like they’re being framed as escape routes for families who want to avoid CRT and other equity-based approaches. The common thread is undermining trust in public education.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@evan7257 They’re coupons for the wealthy who are already paying private school tuition.

Most applying for Arizona vouchers already go to private schools

Nearly 6,500 Arizona children have applied for the new universal vouchers to attend private and parochial schools at taxpayer expense. And it appears the vast majority are students whose parents

tucson.com

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

After 12 years of teaching MS and HS, I’ve finally reached my last last day in the classroom. Next fall, I’ll be at @utexascoe starting a PhD in Ed Policy. Shout out to all the students and staff who have crossed paths with me on this journey. I wouldn’t be here without you!

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@CTULocal1 The exact same thing happened with the wipes given to teachers in my former district. FOIA requests revealed that district staff were just pouring diluted mop soap into buckets of dry wipes, which then developed mildew within weeks.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

The TX House Public Education Committee met today to discuss K-12 partnerships, curriculum, and parent empowerment. Of the 40+ panelists who provided invited testimony, exactly zero are classroom teachers. It’s no wonder why the state is facing a historic teacher shortage.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

This role conflict is breeding teacher demoralization. Listen: if you know any teachers right now, check on us because we are not OK! This school year and the last one have been extremely challenging for the profession. 13/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@anya1anya In Texas, we reopened for in-person learning in September, and it has not been a panacea. Teachers are overstretched teaching virtual and in-person simultaneously, and numerous students and staff have contracted COVID-19 and brought it home to their families. Some have died.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

The next stage in the attack on public education in TX will be broader attempts to purge critical educators, LGBTQ+ educators, and educators of color from the public school system, accelerating the staffing shortage and increasing the appeal of vouchers.

Southlake Together

@Southlake4All

2 years

If Southlake Carroll and other school districts are going to fire “Marxist” teachers and force the rest to teach “patriotic values,” we should define what that actually means. It’s only fair for teachers to know which of their personal and religious beliefs will get them fired.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@heymrsbond Schools aren’t making things easier for students, either

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

SB 18 is going to do irreparable harm to Texas universities, and students and the state economy will suffer as a result. It makes me embarrassed to say I’m a UT alum and current PhD student.

Megan Menchaca

@meganmmenchaca

1 year

Breaking: In a 85-59 vote, the Texas House gives initial approval to Senate Bill 18, which would make adjustments to tenure policies for Texas public colleges and universities. #txlege

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

4 years

@caitteach Blaisdell, B. (2016) Schools as racial spaces: understanding and resisting structural racism, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 29(2) 248-272

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@TeachMrReed My former district resumed in-person in September. We’ve had over 400 confirmed cases among students and staff, with multiple schools forced back (temporarily) to remote learning due to campus outbreaks. A coach died of COVID-19, as did family members of teachers. Don’t go in.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

Growing up, I found refuge in libraries. Even if books in their collections contained controversial or offensive material, knowing I had the freedom to borrow and read any title I wanted helped me develop a love of reading and a curiosity for learning. 1/

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@MsPhanLearns Especially when those acronyms mask deficit perspectives toward students. Constantly referring to emergent bilingual students as "ELLs" or "LEPs," for example, reduces their complex identities to a pathologizing classification that only sees their lack of English proficiency.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

“We do not “give” agency to students. Similarly, we do not “empower” students to have choice as power is not ours to give. Instead, we create conditions under which “agency” can flourish, under which our students can create their own power.”

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@SelenaCarrion Just wait until next year, when there aren’t enough teachers left to “accelerate” anything

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 months

The elimination of librarian positions in Houston ISD's NES and NES-A schools has dramatically reduced student access to books. At non-NES campuses, the book checkout rate is 10 books per student; at NES and NES-A campuses, it's only 2 books per student.

Copy of HISD Library Statistics

ALLSTATS23-24 Campus #,School Name,Staffing Level,Total Checkouts to Date,Enrollment 10/30/23,Checkouts per Student,Print - August 2023,eBook Views - August 2023,ComicsPlus - August 2023,Print -...

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

14 days

Important to keep in mind that Texas incentivizes charter turnaround partners like Third Future campuses with millions in additional per-pupil funds each year.

HOUmanitarian ™

@HOUmanitarian

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While Texas schools struggle with a huge budget deficits, @SpectrumNews1TX has discovered that millions of Texas education tax dollars are being diverted out of state to the series of charter schools founded by #HISD ’s state appointed Supt. Mike Miles.

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Dan Dawer

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1 year

Today I provided testimony on behalf of @EdsInSolidarity against HB 1507. This bill would ban Pride celebrations, make schools more hostile environments for LGBTQ+ students, and drive more teachers out of the profession.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

10 months

Considering Superintendent Mike Miles’ history in Dallas—where he was investigated for manipulating the district’s contract bidding process—this is very concerning. 2/

Documents raise new questions about Dallas ISD chief

Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Mike Miles has been accused of manipulating the district's bidding process and then trying to stop the resulting investigation.

www.wfaa.com

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

Teachers and healthcare workers were “heroes” in the spring. Now both groups are crying out for help, and they are being told to stop complaining and do their jobs.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

@L_D_Washington 8 yrs of MS + 2 yrs of HS, and a difference that surprised me was a mindset shift in the way many students seemed to assess the value of different learning experiences: from boring vs. interesting (MS) to useless vs. useful (HS)

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

If you wanted to deprofessionalize teaching, you first would need education technology that is inferior to human instruction in all the most important ways . . .4/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

EVERYONE LIKES TO BLAME RECAPTURE, BUT TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE ACTUALLY UNDERFUNDED BECAUSE THE STATE LEGISLATURE SET THE BASIC STUDENT ALLOTMENT AT AN ARBITRARY LEVEL IN 1984 AND HASN’T MEANINGFULLY INCREASED IT SINCE

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

7 months

Agreed! State and district leaders need to shift their attitudes to prioritize teachers’ health and well-being, their mindsets to improve the social contexts and working conditions that contribute to absences, and their culture so they value teachers as humans, not human capital.

Dale Chu

@Dale_Chu

7 months

Nearly ten percent of @HoustonISD ’s teachers were chronically absent last year. Turning this around will require a fundamental (and uncomfortable) shift in attitude, mindset, and culture. #txed

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

@houstonisdwatch Mike Miles is the CEO of Third Future Schools, a charter network that recently took over an underperforming middle school in Austin ISD, as well as campuses in other districts. Watch out for attempts to hand over Houston ISD schools to Third Future in the near future.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

Unless you’re scheming to privatize public education or deprofessionalize teaching, here’s some unsettling news: teacher job satisfaction in the US plummeted to an all-time low in 2022. 1/25

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

4 years

@AkieaG @caitteach Giving students assignments that ask them to take racist perspectives “for the sake of argument.” Assigning texts that reinforce harmful stereotypes and hold up White people as saviors. Never once asking students for their feedback/input on how/what they want to learn.

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@Dan_Dawer

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She is a Teacher of the Year with 20+ years of experience in a high-need subject area. How is this decision good for kids?

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@Dan_Dawer

3 years

You would also cut time and resources to do the parts of the job that are hardest to replicate with technology—building relationships, community, and belonging. Supporting young people in their growth, healing, and curiosity. Even creating joy! 6/14

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@Dan_Dawer

2 months

Nice view for the bike ride home from campus today!

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@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@SiegelForTexas They’re about to balance the budget deficit in Austin ISD by taking away a planning period and adding seventh class to our teaching load. It’s like they want us to leave.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

6 years

A4: Disrupting white privilege in schools means white educators need to identify, critique, and learn about the ways privilege manifests itself in their schools — and then need to share their learning with their colleagues #EduColor

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

The indoor-only nugget escaped for a neighborhood excursion this morning. Relieved to report my son is back where he belongs, asleep on the couch with a full belly.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@teachbk “Thank you for your help implementing policy designed by people who are rarely in school buildings. We value your input!”

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

“Being sick is not an excuse for inconveniencing capital”

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

9 months

Is this what happens when you ban university DEI offices?

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

6 months

First @UCEA is in the books! Grateful for the opportunity to present, my @utexascoe community, and all the folks I interacted with who expanded my thinking.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

6 months

This is just plain evil. She was a year from retirement! And the Chief HR Officer’s response is essentially, “We can fire at-will employees whenever we want. Deal with it.” It’s anti-worker and inhumane.

FOX26Houston

@FOX26Houston

6 months

Houston ISD custodian whose husband died from cancer says she was fired for taking too much time off

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6 years

A1 I recently read White Fragility (DiAngelo) and So you want to talk about race (by @IjeomaOluo ). Both shifted my thinking and gave me tools to support ongoing equity work in my life and at school #ProjectLITchat

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Dan Dawer

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4 months

This is what a restoration-based approach to school turnaround looks like: increasing student voice, a focus from leadership on school culture and climate, and material efforts to retain and support teachers.

How do you turn around a failing school? Manor Middle does it with higher pay and student leadership

Manor Middle School was facing the possibility of a charter school partnership after getting “F” grades for several years in a row from the Texas Education Agency. Then, district and campus staff...

www.texasstandard.org

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

Then, a pandemic. One that was uniquely demoralizing not just because of its toll on human life, the trauma inflicted on survivors, or the fact that it revealed how many powerful people simply do not care about mass death if it reduces their profits . . .9/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

SB 8 isn’t just a voucher bill. It also bans K-12 instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity that is not “developmentally appropriate,” and requires every school district to create a parent portal to which teachers must upload copies of all instructional materials.

Texas Tribune

@TexasTribune

1 year

A public education bill that would allow families to use taxpayer money to send their children to private schools and restrict classroom lessons on sexual orientation received initial approval Tuesday and will now go before the Senate for a full vote.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

3 years

You would increase class sizes, set tight controls on curriculum, and maintain a pattern of chronic disinvestment. Gradually, you would reduce the power of the teacher labor force, and increase the authority of managers. 7/14

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

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@ThinkerMichelle I would hope, at a minimum, displaying a pride flag in a classroom would inspire students to remember to treat one another with respect, and not to bully or harass other people because of their identities.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

10 months

Texas’s push to increase the number of F-rated schools and sow doubt in public schools is the state’s accountability system working as designed. 1/

The State Wants to Give More Schools F Ratings – To What End?

When TEA takes over

www.austinchronicle.com

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@MaggieEThornton It’s not a coincidence that anxieties over “learning loss” emerged at the same time as efforts to eliminate teaching about racial and gender equality and SEL. They want to double down on education as technical skill instruction at the expense of more critical forms of pedagogy.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

4 months

Student voices matter in school turnaround. Leaders ignore them at their own peril.

Houston Education Association-TSTA/NEA

@houston_tsta

4 months

The @MadisonHS_ students in #HISD have created a list of demands. The district needs to listen.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

5 years

One of my resolutions for 2018 was to perform an equity audit on my reading, to ensure that I was consuming books and engaging with ideas and perspectives that differed from my own.

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

@maya_chavez_ @TheAtlantic “Here’s a neat hack: only wear your seatbelt when you pull out of and into your driveway.”

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 years

For those of us who were 9 before 2004 and scored even lower, oof, we probably lack the Math and reading skills to even interpret this data

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

1 year

The most jarring moment of the meeting was when the unelected Board president told participants to stop interrupting because “the community” listening in on Zoom could not hear the proceedings—as if the community were not right there in front of her.

Hannah Dellinger

@hdellingermedia

1 year

Appointed HISD board of managers just now appears to struggle to maintain order as they vote to make Mike Miles acting superintendent of the district after the state takeover last week

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Dan Dawer

@Dan_Dawer

2 months

@sarahlouwou @AERA_EdResearch @utexascoe Mega thanks to my coauthor, collaborator, and mentor!

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