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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

9 years

Now it's real. On the shelves in seven days. http://t.co/c46DjPsFd0 #school20

Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need

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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

4 years

If you are in school administration right now, you have one main job — make it easier for teachers to do their jobs well. I mean... that’s pretty much our jobs all the time, but it’s never been more important or harder to figure out how to do well. Clear a path. That’s all.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

Dear teacher who is thinking about starting that TikTok account where you make fun of stuff kids do and say in your classroom. Take a minute to imagine a kid finding your account. Imagine them thinking of it before raising their hand. Realize you could be doing real harm.

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Chris Lehmann

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8 months

How many educators came home and passed out on the couch this week? Just me?

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

So... this coming school year, the USDA threshold for a family of four for free / reduced price lunch is $47,638. In many districts, the teacher salary scale starts under that line. That has to impact our ability to recruit a diverse, dynamic teaching faculty nationwide. #NPC19

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

Dear educators, You showed up today. You gave what you had to give. Unless you work with me directly, there’s not much I can do to make this year less hard. But I can say, “Thank you.” Because showing up is half the battle, and it’s way too hard right now.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

We either start to rethink how we value teachers or we won’t have any. We need to rethink compensation, working conditions, curricular control… it all needs to be on the table.

Jimbo Lamb

@misterlamb

2 years

This speaks volumes. Link to data:

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Chris Lehmann

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1 year

This… this might be the most honest and hopeful moment about the teaching life that has ever been on TV. WOW.

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1 year

"People have thrown dirt on my name and others have given flowers. But it’s all a garden to me." THE WRITING ON THIS SHOW! 😭 #AbbottElementary

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

@ItsRoohaHaghar I’m a principal in Philadelphia. I’m proud of you. Congratulations and good luck in all you do next!

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Chris Lehmann

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6 years

As a high school principal, I pledge to have a voter registration drive as soon as the students return. Will you join me? RT if you will help your students register to vote this fall. #WhenWeAllVote #edchat

When We All Vote

@WhenWeAllVote

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Your vote is your voice. #WhenWeAllVote , we all do better. Register and volunteer at .

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

It's possible to be really worried about in-person teaching in a pandemic, frustrated by any number of issues facing educators, and absolutely thrilled to be back with the kids all at the same time... *and* The cognitive dissonance that can cause is real. Be safe, everyone.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

I wonder if we'd see such a need for educators to focus on self-care right now if more schools administrators understood the difference between 'care about' and 'care for.' If teachers are to take care of kids, we have to take care of teachers - especially in times of crisis.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Dear educators trying to enforce restrictive dress codes during a pandemic - kids can take their shoes off during in-person school too. The world won’t end if kids walk around in their socks. I promise.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

I'm teaching a Philosophy elective this year. Trying to learn the rhythms of an online class is *hard*. I strongly recommend every principal guest teach during this time so you can have a real understanding of the challenges teachers and students are dealing with right now.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

My thoughts are with all my fellow principals who are getting emails from parents about how this week is going to work that they don’t quite know how to answer.

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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

3 years

In other news, water is wet.

Ann Doss Helms

@anndosshelms

3 years

The @washingtonpost reports that teaching virtual and in-person at the same time puts huge strain on teachers.

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Chris Lehmann

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1 year

@eduleadership Justin - you swung and missed on this one. I’ve told teachers who I’ve seen on the verge of burnout to take a day to reset themselves. It’s a kindness we can extend, and it can extend the careers of our teachers.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

This should be a blog topic, but I have never understood the edu-leaders who hop from job to job every two or three years. This work is about roots and branches. It's about your relationship to a school community. And that takes time. Anything else feels like fools gold to me.

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Chris Lehmann

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6 years

Here's the next thing - Don't wait until 2020 to get revved up again. 2019 will see school board elections, city councils, mayors, judges, state races... those races have been won by who shows up, and we need to show up and build a grass roots coalition for change at every level.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

This college scandal is doing a lot of damage. I listened to a lot of kids today who were really shook by the degrees to which wealthy white parents are cheating the system. It undermines their faith in the educational system in a way that is deeply harmful to our society.

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Chris Lehmann

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1 year

Any educator who is saying “ChatGPT won’t affect MY classroom” better get humble really quickly. As a friend said, “This is like when my AP called me into his office & asked ‘Have you seen this thing called Google?’” It’s going to change the way we think about writing forever.

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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

2 years

What if we just paid teachers enough money instead?

Dave Jamieson

@jamieson

2 years

👀 Teachers union NEA is partnering with Airbnb. ‘The partnership is designed to empower our nation's educators to supplement their income as Airbnb hosts’

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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

7 years

That is simply untrue, sir. We actually collect one of the lowest percentages of taxes as % of GDP in the OECD:

Donald J. Trump

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7 years

Will be going to North Dakota today to discuss tax reform and tax cuts. We are the highest taxed nation in the world - that will change.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Dear every Ed-tech distance learning platform that is using the Coronavirus to send out opportunistic emails about how *your* product will help kids when schools are closed... Stop it. It just comes off as really gross.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Seriously, if you are an edu-vendor right now and you are trying to capitalize on this moment by saying NOW is the time to buy your stuff, I am going to put you on a “Never Purchase” list. We don’t need email clutter right now. We need to be responsive to our communities.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

I just taught a thoroughly mediocre class. Like... as I was teaching it, I was thinking, “I’d be bored as a student right now.” I didn’t love it as I was planning it, and Zoom class makes it so much harder to rescue a mediocre plan with improvisation. Bleh.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

As many schools and districts are realizing that this moment of online school is not conducive to the traditional structure of classes, grading, and - essentially - the compulsory nature of school, it could be a moment where we ask ourselves some powerful questions... 1/4

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

The very hard thing about schools is this... if we aren't willing to put in the hard work to proactively create the schools we need, we will *always* have to spend the time on the reactive problems that arise, and over time, those will erode all our best ideas and efforts.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

My god. I didn’t realize how much I missed this. Just listening to @JoeBiden place himself in the arc of history. To hear him speak with humility and hope and promise and resolve. I have hope. Thank you, Mr. President-Elect.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

@thehill This is actually incredibly irresponsible of @thehill to post this without demanding proof. The press has to stop letting @realDonaldTrump lie unchallenged.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

The thing about leadership is this. You have to earn people’s trust every day. You do that by being honest, transparent and collaborative. You do that by deeply understanding what it means to serve. And you never lie. Because when you lose trust, you might not get it back.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

I don’t have much deep reflection for #2020 . I kept putting one foot in front of the other. I did my best to take care of my community. I tried to meet the world with kindness. I got to spend a lot of time with my family. I did the best I could. I hope that was enough.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

69 shots fired tonight at high school football players in Philadelphia as they left a scrimmage. Five kids were wounded. One young man was killed. No one is left unscathed from the gun violence in our city. And kids should not have to grow up like this. Gun control now.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

This is not a fully-formed thought, but... As educators, we struggle with so much we see in the world. Yet, I think one of the worst things we can do is give in to cynicism. Anger, rage, frustration, sure... but I think we owe it to our students to teach from love and hope.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

So... my thoughts on learning during this time. Read as much as you can. We’ll all figure out the rest when we get back. We need to make sure kids have access to books they want to read.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

Teachers - POTUS’s tweets just reinforced what I wrote this morning. So many of our students feel under siege in America right now. We have a moral obligation to rebuke his hatred and be explicitly and unapologetically anti-white supremacist in our schools.

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Chris Lehmann

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6 years

Are you kind? Do you teach people to think critically? Do you advocate for justice and care? Do you conduct your life such that world is a little bit better off because you happened to live in it for a while? Then you are my sister/brother, and I have nothing but love for you.

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Chris Lehmann

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1 year

@RadioFreeTom He walked them into supporting Social Security and Medicare. I think we just watched a master class.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

I cannot describe how joyful this energy is. The contrast between all of us dancing and a small group of people screaming hateful stuff into a bullhorn... barely audible over the sounds of our joyful noise. I love my city. #CountEveryVote

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Chris Lehmann

@chrislehmann

4 years

Public educators recognize the @GOP play with the Postal Service. First you underfund a public service, then you undermine trust in it by pointing out the flaws your budget cuts caused. Just ask us... don’t fall for this cynical move.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

First rule of being in a leadership position: Surround yourself with really smart people who take the time to make everyone’s ideas way better than they originally were. (And who tell you to abandon the bad ideas, too.)

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Chris Lehmann

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8 months

@Jason @brooke @thebenbergman @lindayaX @yoyoel @JBoorstin Do you think CEOs are exempt from hard questions?

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

We shouldn’t have to say this, but we do. Schools must #TeachTruth and any attempt to legislate lying to children is unjust and against the best ideals of what we should want this country to be. We do our kids and our nation a disservice to deny the complexity of our history.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Taking care of your students, trying to figure out what decent COVID teaching looks like, and taking care of yourself. That's a LOT on your plate. If you were able to take a decent shot at those three things today, you did great. And tomorrow is another day. Grace.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

WE JUST TOOK THE LEAD IN PENNSYLVANIA!!!!!!!! IT WAS THE PHILLY VOTES THAT CAME IN!!!! OUR CITY!!!! #CountEveryVote

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

My thoughts on the Pledge of Allegiance: No child should ever have to swear a loyalty oath to a nation (and a God) as a condition of eligibility for a free and public education.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

In this moment, lots of us (admin & teachers) are second-guessing ourselves, because we feel so unsure. That's adds to stress and cognitive load. There's a difference between intentionality and reflection vs. anxiety. Give yourself permission to be imperfect.

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Chris Lehmann

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6 years

A pure joy of the teaching life is when you see the incredible people your students become and you get to think to yourself, "I helped a little." Best feeling in the world.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

My #MuellerReport hot take: No one is coming to save us. Register to vote. Pay attention to the primaries. Support the candidate you believe in. Do not shred other candidates in the process. Be ready to vote for whomever comes out of the Democratic primary. Get out the vote.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

Thought experiment: What are three questions you would build a school around? Here are three kicking around in my brain this afternoon: * How do we create a more just world? * How do we create a more sustainable society? * How do we as people balance individuality and community?

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

All kidding aside... the idea that it could be our city... flawed, beautiful, passionate, bowed but never beaten, in your face in the most loving way we know how - our Philadelphia - that could be the place where the election officially turns... I'm in tears. My beautiful city.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

In every organization that I am a part of that requires some level of good faith (schools, non-profits, youth sports, etc…) there is a level of burn out that I have not seen in nearly 30 years in this work. So much feels rushed, frantic, off-kilter. And no one can do more.

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Chris Lehmann

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1 year

@SportsRadioWIP We never root for Dallas.

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Chris Lehmann

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6 years

@marcorubio Sir, I'm a high school principal. Those kids spoke their truth. They asked hard questions. And they didn't simply kowtow to your position. They spoke truth to power. Those are the citizens this country needs.

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Chris Lehmann

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9 years

What if schools took 15 minutes in every faculty meeting to give teachers time to send positive emails to parents about their kids? #empathy

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Is 6:15 pm too early to go to sleep on a Friday night? Asking for a friend.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

Thought about compliance tasks: If folks can't see a real "why" behind a task, you are draining morale fast. There are unfun tasks in every job, but it's the unnecessary tasks that get you. And in education, they'll clobber you. And that's true for kids, teachers and admins.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

Educators - when you have to deliver bad news to a parent, please always remember that the parent is quite possibly breaking a bit as you tell them and take seriously the pain of what you are telling them.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

We face a real crisis in our schools. With climate change denial, the anti-vaccination movement, denial of racial injustice, we have a large segment of the country that has politicized teaching the truth. Our obligation to teach kids to critically think has never been greater.

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Chris Lehmann

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7 years

@theartguy @ambiej @jeneps that was the year with the 3D commercial?

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

I would love to see kids and math teachers engage in inquiry around all the data we are seeing with this virus. When kids look at these charts and graphs, how do we help them ask powerful questions of the data? That kind of numeracy and mathematical thinking is so important.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

The Biden/Harris administration will not be perfect. They will struggle. They will make decisions we don’t like. But the POTUS and VPOTUS will once again be honorable people with vast stores of empathy who want to do the right thing for all Americans. We can build from there.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

We have to reframe the narrative around vaccines away from “personal choice.” Public health isn’t personal choice. It’s everyone’s responsibility. This is why I am in complete agreement with vaccine and mask mandates.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

I snuggled my 14 y.o. boy when I put him to bed tonight. Theo has challenges that make us worry about how the world will treat him. But fear a police officer will kill him is not one of those challenges. My heart is with every parent of color who has to carry that weight.

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Chris Lehmann

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5 years

I love him. Dear @realDonaldTrump - you just got owned.

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. @justintrudeau drops umbrella (& the mic): “As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet, and our hair gets wet...it’s all the more fitting that we remember on that day in Dieppe the rain wasn’t rain, it was bullets.”

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

It is a special kind of something when the President of the United States puts the lives of the Vice President and all of the Members of Congress in serious jeopardy... and the members of his party still won’t take steps to remove him from power. Wow.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

I've been thinking a lot about how to be as intentional as possible as everyone tries to stand-up online school programs on the fly. So I did some writing. "Doing School" In The Time of Coronavirus

“Doing School” In The Time of Coronavirus

A lot of folks have reached out asking me to write about what learned about moving online when you can’t be in your building because of what happened to SLA in the fall. I can tell you that i…

practicaltheory.org

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

Now is not the time for despair. Now is the time to strategize and fight. There hasn't been an appointment to SCOTUS this late in a Presidential term in over 125 years -- and not since Inauguration Day moved from March to January. Honoring RBG means continuing that tradition.

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Chris Lehmann

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3 years

Dear Progressive Texas Teachers: Philadelphia is hiring. And some of the most dedicated, anti-racist, caring educators I have ever known work here across many, many of our schools.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

One of the things I find really frustrating is that it feels like everything takes a little longer right now. Just trying to put together notes from a meeting feels like it just takes more time. Anyone else feeling that?

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

I can not recommend Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by @Ready4rigor enough. It is a fantastic book.

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4 years

My goodness, Jon Meachem makes the point that it is @repjohnlewis 's district that could move GA to @JoeBiden . My goodness.

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4 years

Shut it down. Trump isn’t interested in a debate. He just wants to subvert, lie and deflect. This isn’t a debate.

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Chris Lehmann

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4 years

@jaketapper

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6 years

@PressSec You are actively lying. How do you sleep?

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7 years

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." -- George Orwell, 1984

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5 years

I am incredibly wary of folks who push “disruption” as a model in education... Disruption in education disrupts kids, and that can get very dangerous. We have a moral obligation to be WAY more critical about change and innovation than start-ups in business do. #npc19

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Chris Lehmann

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7 years

School leaders - we MUST be thinking about how 45's words and actions are creating unsafe environments for our most vulnerable students.

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3 years

Is anyone else feeling a little all over the place emotionally today... almost like an emotional vertigo, post-45?

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2 years

Take two minutes. Watch this. Then take two more minutes and just sit with it.

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4 years

So... if you are an education pundit or policy wonk or commentator, maybe right now isn’t the time to tell us all the ways we aren’t (FILL IN THE BLANK) enough. We’re struggling as best as we can to do right by as many kids as possible. Don’t just criticize; offer solutions.

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10 years

Seriously, if you are an educator, and you don't create the space and time to laugh and have fun with your students, why are you doing this?

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3 years

I am so angry about that joint statement by the governors. I do not know a single educator who is ok right now. Principals are on calls trading ideas on how to keep teachers from breaking. Teachers are doing all they can. That statement was a slap in our collective faces.

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@ShanaVWhite @AbbottElemABC Personally, I love that Jeanne Allen has gotten so much smoke from lying about all this that she's had to protect her tweets. She's been grifting for years, and now she's gotten called out for it. (Don't mess with Philly. Philly messes back.)

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5 years

So honored to be named @NASSP Digital Principal of the Year along with @BethHouf and Allison Persad.

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4 years

So... 1 out of every 2,532 Americans has died of Coronavirus in a four month span. That's with no school happening, no sports, no travel, etc... and we got bored. And July 1 saw the most new cases in a day yet at over 50,000. Stay home. Be safe. Wear a mask if you must go out.

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@JacobAWohl You would not last one day as a teacher. Not one day. Sit down.

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4 years

Thing I try to remember these days: This year is a horrendous year for teachers, but with luck, it will be one of many years in a long career. For our high schoolers, this is a significant portion of their high school experience. And that gives me some perspective and drive.

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We lost a giant yesterday. @SirKenRobinson passed away after a battle with cancer. Sir Ken inspired so many educators to imagine a better education for the kids they serve. Rest in peace, sir. We're all better for having known you.

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@thehill

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Dear America - watch what the Stoneman Douglas community just did. They took their anger and turned it to positive, political action. They weren't perfect. They didn't have to be. They took action and demanded action. There's our path. #StudentsStandUp

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Most of us probably rely on the compulsory nature of school to get kids to do work to varying degrees. This moment in time requires that we question that and find other ways to define ourselves as "teachers." We might learn some things that could our practice long-term. 4/4

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8 years

Trump. Just. Bragged. About. Paying. No. Taxes. #Debates

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4 years

This is not a fully-baked thought yet... but this pandemic has framed pretty powerfully for me why "care for students" is so much more important than "care about students," and how that has to be a deliberate, intentional action on the part of school communities.

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6 years

@GOPChairwoman Have you no shame?

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@BrianKarem @realDonaldTrump We thank you for your service.

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6 years

As an educator, I find the right-wing attempt to smear and discredit the students who have found their voice in the face of unspeakable tragedy to be just simply disgusting and offensive.

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Chris Lehmann

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2 years

There is a cumulative exhaustive effect of the "drip-drip-drip" way of not knowing what modality your school / class will be tomorrow that isn't good for anyone. Thoughtful intentionality is at the heart of good teaching, and right now, that feels really difficult to achieve.

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2 years

If you are feeling overwhelmed by the world and fighting the urge to retreat from the world, you aren't alone. It's a lot right now. And it's been a lot for a long time. I don't have solutions or answers. But I see you.

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