Janine Mac
@jay9mac
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Middle school literacy teacher/mentor. MEd in gifted education. Settler. Blessed with two amazing children and an awesome husband. Always thankful. She/Her.
Nova Scotia, Canada
Joined February 2011
I asked a group of former cohort members what we, as a university, could have done better to prepare students for the being a teacher. One student's answer stuck with me. "I wasn't ready for the loneliness. As a cohort, we were a community. You played a small role but it was
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Snazzy! ✂️ 📐
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The Gullah Geechee song “Kumbaya” is a plea to God for help. You may know it as “Kum Ba Yah,” “Come By Yuh,” or “Come By Here.” Once one of the most popular songs in the folk revival of the 20th century, it has more recently become the subject of misplaced scorn.
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We’ve had kids fake reading for decades and now they’re fake writing too. Smaller classes let educators know their students’ true abilities. Maybe it’s time to stop the diploma-factory model of education.
We aren’t prepared for the impact A.I. writing tools will soon have on education. I gave our platform this ludicrous prompt—check out its output. What will this mean for K-12? 🧵 on generative artificial intelligence…
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"The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend time thinking. One way to force yourself to slow down and think is to write. Good writing requires clear thinking. Writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide." — @ShaneAParrish
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When a teacher posts about the unrelenting exhaustion we are experiencing it doesn’t mean they don’t like teaching, don’t like their students, or that they have terrible admin. It could just mean that the weight of everything over the last few years is exhausting without healing.
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Today I sat down with a student who hasn’t done anything in class so far (7 days in). All I told him was that I will give him feedback and another shot on it no matter what. Guess who turned in something today. It highlighted something important for me. 1/
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Silent Write Around in response to 9/11. Each student had a different color pen, read & responded to each poem or article at each table. Powerful writing
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You don’t want to be a teacher at a school that is closing permanently. Boxing all the books. Culling all the resources. Donating valuables to other schools, only to have it all thrown in a basement. Plus teaching to the very last day. No, you don’t ever want to have to do that.
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The first time I was ever asked by someone if I wanted them to make copies for me was in my 19th year of teaching. She was a substitute secretary and couldn’t do all of the secretary’s usual tasks. My eyes welled up when she asked me, but I didn’t have anything at the moment.
@teachbk @IcaRewitz This is why I show up at 5:30 and pray the copy machines work. If they don’t, my plan b is for students to answer questions from the board or slides. Why worst situation is making copies. We used to have a copy clerk but we haven’t had one since Covid
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Great inquiry question too!
As you begin a new school year, you might ask your students this question I learned from @ernestmorrell: "What does it mean to get better at reading?" Maybe chart their responses.
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As you begin a new school year, you might ask your students this question I learned from @ernestmorrell: "What does it mean to get better at reading?" Maybe chart their responses.
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True instructional leaders don’t do this; you’ll find them in the comments. There is so much wrong with demanding documentation without genuine interest in how the teaching is happening. You’re replacing professionalism with accountability and your students will suffer for it.
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Things happen, but this… I’ve cleaned out so many classrooms (and once, a school) that I just don’t have the stomach for it anymore. Please leave your classroom usable for the next teacher. Throw out the garbage, tidy the books, and please don’t steal all the good resources.
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Loving this resource! So many ways to incorporate into inquiry-driven learning.
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