Magister Revkin
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High school Latin teacher; curious person; disciple of tech, books, language, society, nature, food. interdum Latine loqui tempto. He/him. Is/eum.
Insulae Rhodensis (02818)
Joined April 2012
What a night! EG AcaDeca won the state competition for the second year in a row, and I was honored to receive the Capotosto award. Off to TX for the Nationals... #eghsavengers @EGHSAvengers #acadeca
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Maximas gratias to @MrsAgresti and her graphic design students for these colorful and impactful posters in my classroom. #AvengersUnite
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If you live or work in EG and have thoughts/desires regarding non-automotive ways to get around town, this group is for you! https://t.co/b3YyF75AhA
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Above: From left, Ben Revkin, Lillian Picchione, and Rita Kerr-Vanderslice use at a large map of the town to identify those areas most in need of changes to make them safer for walking and cycling,...
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Registration is open for the 2022 CANE Summer Institute! July 11-16 at Brown University & online via CANE Zoom. Join us for a week of mini-courses, workshops, reading groups, and free public lectures. This year's theme: Maiores a(n)d https://t.co/OvoNgWHaG8
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For now, I wear the mask more as a show of solidarity than for personal health reasons (though I don't scoff at the very real death toll still playing out across the country). I hope everyone is able to stay a little humble from this experience.
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For some people, that intrinsic feeling of otherness is a constant part of life. I can take off my mask, but they can't change those aspects of themselves.
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But I think it is also humbling, as a cis white person, to undergo the feelings of a minority that I choose to be in, whereas in other aspects of identity or existence, like race, religion, gender, disabilities and neurodivergence, there is no option.
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This is not to lay blame on anyone or ask people to do any differently. I was impressed at the general civility and I think most people were trying very hard to act like a mask or no mask was completely normal, as if this had always been the way of the world.
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That's a little like what it felt like today with a mask, with about 10% of the population (by my estimation) choosing to continue to wear one. There was never overt coercion to not wear one, but there were intrinsic feelings of otherness in the act of doing so.
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Remember those videos about peer pressure and drinking they used to show in middle school? It was always framed as a willful refusal against overt coercion; "just say no." They never went into the intrinsic feelings of shame, guilt, nonconformity, confusion of being different.
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Congrats to our 1st place Rhode Island state champions Academic Decathlon team!! #AvengersUnite
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I know everyone is desperate for normalcy, but can we stop pretending there is some Platonic ideal of normality? It diminishes and makes light of the immense amount of change and trauma that society has and continues to undergo.
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I can't tell if this reporter is being sarcastic or not, but I think this study would come as no surprise to teachers. The current evaluation system is a dog and pony show. I've only been teaching as long as these reforms have existed, so I can't speak for earlier practices.
Wow! This study shows that K-12 teacher evaluation reforms led to no improvements in student outcomes. This is wild because as the thread states, these reforms cost at least $15 billion and were arguably the main fault line in K-12 politics for a decade. My mind is blown.
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Love this thread and identify with it. I think my culinary experimentalism and embrace of multiculturalism comes from this dynamic. I often think of my Jewish experience as being a "cultural chameleon."
Many people look upon the story of Hanukkah and find ways to relate to it. I do too. But my favorite part of the Maccabee tale is the contradictions that followed the revolt. Subsequent generations of leaders took on Greek names, spoke Greek, and appealed for Roman help in Greek.
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On the 400th anniversary of what is called the ‘First Thanksgiving,’ I want to highlight a project that has changed my and many other Wampanoag people’s lives Here’s a 🧵 on how a Wampanoag woman, jessie little doe baird, brought our language back from near extinction (1/25):
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