Starting part 1 of 4 important discussions around dyslexia on zoom with my friend ⁦@jerijopowers_⁩ ⁦@ksdehq⁩ 400+ people on this call! It’s not too late to sign up!

I am proud of the OpEd letter this team has written. The work that is happening in public schools is amazing.

Wichita teacher -- Parents have access to students' curriculum in every school district

Wichita teacher talks about partnerships with businesses, families that has opened up tremendous opportunities for students. Through these partnerships "our children can and do succeed."

DeSoto teacher talks about 25 elementary school teachers who spent evenings, weekends, summers to learn evidence-based literary instruction, so that could share that training with other teachers

4 more days! On Saturday, we will be at the Kansas State Union! Parking will be available in the parking garage. Check-in is at the Little Theatre beginning at 7:45 am with the first speaker at 8:00 am. You might want to wear your cool #KansasLEADS t-shirt you will get Friday!

It’s going to be AWESOME!!

Michelle Tapko, left, a sixth-grade teacher at Roesland Elementary, Shawnee Mission USD 512, & Taylor Bussinger, a social studies teacher at Prairie Trail Middle School, Olathe USD 233, were named Region 3 finalists for the 2024 Kansas Teacher of the Year award in Overland Park.

It's bad enough these voucher bills would hurt Kansas students, but the tax unfairness of them is appalling. Forcing low - and middle-income taxpayers pay the freight for wealthy families to send their kids to exclusive private schools is peak `let them eat cake.' #ksleg #ksed

The #voucher crowd won’t point out that 65 counties have NO private options. #Ksleg-islators from those areas who support these bills are voting to send their taxpayer $ to wealthy folks in JoCo & the E. side of KS. Oh, & there are only 12 private HS in the ENTIRE STATE! #ksed

Kansas ‘school choice’ plan is a money transfer from rural taxpayers to urban families | Opinion https://t.co/IN6esnNOxZ #ksleg #ksed

Illiteracy is damning. Ed Cook learned to read in his 90’s. No one should have to live like he did. #nevertoolate

Division vote on SB 83 vouchers, 61-59. The bill will need 63 votes on final action to be approved. Thank you to legislators who voted "No." This is bad for students & taxpayers & is un-Kansas in holding special ed funding hostage #ksleg #ksed

Please, need more of this: Local school board members and legislators building relationships, talking about the real issues in Kansas classrooms #ksleg #ksed

This is amazing. This is the who’s who of Kansas teachers and they’re the ones to watch and listen to. They #SayNoToVouchers and you should too. #ksed #ksleg

Willing to bet Idaho Republican legislators are probably as if not more conservative than Republican legislators in Kansas, and the Idaho GOP said no to vouchers. Once you get past the nice sounding "school choice" you see this is bad for Kansas students & taxpayers #ksleg #ksed

Congrats to Dave Powers, our building Kansas Teacher of the Year and Emporia State Master Teacher of the Year nominee.

More than 100 award-winning KS educators who combined probably have more than 1,000 years of classroom experience and have taught generations of students oppose the voucher/ESA bill. Trust our KS teachers https://t.co/v97Y5zAauS #ksleg #ksed

More than 100 of Kansas' most distinguished teachers/educators have signed onto a letter urging the Kansas legislature to support public schools and reject a handful of school choice/"voucher" bills #ksed #ksleg

All moral/ethical concerns aside...what I can't understand is how we've had to fight to adequately fund public ed. for so long, but now that ESAs/"scholarships"/vouchers are popular idea, those supporting them aren't concerned with the added costs of such programs. #ksed #ksleg