Sharif El-Mekki
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Proud BPP Cub. Activist. Educator. Student: #NidhamuSasa , Overbrook HS & Qom, Iran. 1/4 of @8BlackHands1 Founded: @fellowshipbmec @CenterBlackEd @Phillys7thWard
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I’ve met tons of teachers over the years who are woke AF and can’t teach a lick. Please don’t use revolutionary rhetoric to mask your lack of pedagogical skills, uninformed practices, and lazy instruction.
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Was out so grabbed a coffee. As I’m driving home, wife calls me and asks where am I and if I got her something. Bewildered, I make a u-turn. She says, “the receipt that came to my email doesn’t look like you got enough for everyone in the house.” 😂 I’m back at the coffee shop
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My younger daughter just asked me, with all earnest and seriousness, if I used feathers and ink to write when I was younger. She wrong for that there
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Did your teacher prep program teach you about dope Black educators? When all you learn are theories of Horace/Skinner, etc but erase folks who were the best at teaching Black kids you’re at the deficit levels, not the kids.
@CenterBlackEd
#SchoolToActivismPipeline
#FreedomSchools
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The most revolutionary thing to be is a great teacher and Educator. And, trust me I love great rhetoric. I love literate and numerate Black & Brown children even more.
#DontHideBehindRhetoric
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Ya Allah. I pray she always looks at me like that. How humbling, inspirational, and joyful to think about it and work towards it.
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Ok…lookin’ to see whose childhood was really lit.
Who is this?
Who read and/or had all these jawns read to them at school and/or home.
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Here we go! We got our lil assistants now
#BlackBeekeepers
#BlackFarmers
#BlackTwitter
@black_beekeeper
@hood_naturalist
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Out of all the places to write in her diary, why here? Seriously! Why?! 😂
Can’t even reflect in peace. 😆
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Only two percent of teachers are black men, yet research confirms they matter
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We need a whole lot of things, & we must continue to fight for them, but please fight for great teacher prep & great instruction as well. Tell me what you gonna do. Naw, show me what yaw are gonna do.
#LiberatingEducation
#EDJustice
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If your rhetoric doesn’t improve achievement - the students and yours, you’re just yappin’ which is easy
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Philly’s so tiny. Ms Abbott was my son’s favorite teacher too. I loved her high expectations and warm demander style. Class culture was awesome.
Meet the Philly teacher who’s namesake for Quinta Brunson’s ‘Abbott Elementary’ via
@phillyinquirer
@newskag
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I rarely the so-called “woke boat” preach rhetoric about deep content knowledge, instructional coaching, reflection, revising, feedback loops, effective questioning, data analysis, literacy research, student outcomes, etc. Organize ‘round that too, yaw.
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Small confession 😜
I broke down during a full staff meeting today. Had to take a few seconds to gain my composure. Definitely not my style lol AND it provided some healing for some of my hurt, but the fact that the space was safe was e’rythang.
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America, let's stop saying "George Floyd died" or "the death of George Floyd." Instead call it accurately...language is important:
"the murder of George..." or "George Floyd was murdered/lynched..."
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Always an honor to be described by my former students as their “forever” teacher and principal. Nothing quite like being an educator.
#BlackEducators
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Checking those hives. Giving them more room to lessen the chance of a swarm.
#BlackBeeKeepers
in these here streets
@hood_naturalist
#honeybees
#Beehives
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One of the 1st actors I recall portraying a dope
#BlackTeacher
was Debbie Allen. My kids, one day, will recall Dr
@thesherylralph
as someone who didn’t just represent teachers, but represented w’ passion, style, humor & expertise of
#BlackTeacherTraditions
.
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
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Teachers, are your lesson plans political documents? Are your lessons political acts? If you think not, know that they still are but not addressing historic oppression that schools are seeped in. Silence about educational inequity/injustice are also political statements and acts
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6 yrs ago, a student drew this in her art class. I ❤️ it so much, I offered to buy it & promised to hire her upon graduation if she was interested. She is now teaching art
@MCShoemaker
in the very class she painted this in.
@AfricanaCarr
@CenterBlackEd
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On a once-in-a-while lazy Sun morning, this is what the girls subject me to. 🤦🏾♂️ I reminded ‘em that while I don’t have any mtngs, we have
@8BlackHands1
tonite. They were unrelenting and said I can’t wash it off if I loved them.
I’ll need to teach them more about meaning of love
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Gave daughters bakhlava for dessert. Told ‘em it was one of my fav sweets as a kid. One says, “This looks nothing like the sweets of today.” The other says, “It looks like it has vegetables in the middle of it.”
My kids are just disrespectful to the art & beauty of bakhlava 😢
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My 6 yr old: Did the protestors write letters like I do when I am upset?
Me: Yes, honey. Black folks have written tens of thousands of letters.
6 yr old: Oh, they should be really angry since no one is listening to them
Me: Yeah, you’re 6 & getting it. Others are willfully deaf
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My wife
@FatimaDElMekki
and I always want our children to recognize our Babas and theirs.
@AfricanaCarr
#BMEC2022
@CenterBlackEd
@Knarrative1
@inclasswithcarr
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“Many of our middle and high school students simply stop reading. And our schools are a big reason why.” Nashville teacher and
@ProjectLitComm
founder
@JarredAmato
has some real solutions.
#Voices4Ed
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How exactly do educators with deep seeded racial biases hold anti-racist conversations with Black students?
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My daughter knows that in my youth, I was shot & left for dead. Sometimes she’s there when I talk about it publicly. She’s a sensitive soul and it impacts her.
It’s a reminder to me that what we may have endured impacts the next generation and may require attention & community
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And stop teaching Black kids if you don’t love them. We can tell who views their destinies as intricately and permanently interlinked with their Black students as it informs the educators’ mindset and actions
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Tell the youngins, here’s the King of Rock, there is none higher, sucka MCs should call him sire…
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Sixty years ago, four college students sat at a lunch counter — and made history
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Don't Teach Black History Without Joy
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When they announced a swag surf, I was excited because I thought we were going to throw swag into the crowd. Oh, we haven’t done that before at a BMEC, I thought. 🤦🏾♂️ 😆 So, swag surf is a dance. Got it.
Before we jumped into the final panel conversation of the day, the crowd launched into a full
#BMEC2023
swag surf.
#BlackMenInEd
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We met through my sister who was a classmate of my wife’s at a university in Iran. Years later, during her visit to the States to see my Mama, aunt, and sister, I was smitten and proposed.
The comments on this are great 🙂
If y'all wouldn't mind dropping a comment/quote tweet of where you met your spouse & a pic - people seem interested 🤷🏻♂️
We met on hinge 🙏
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We around. Respectfully, humbly, boldly building upon paths that the dopest Black educators, paved, promised & illuminated.
@CenterBlackEd
@AfricanaCarr
@karenhunter
@fellowshipbmec
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
#BlackTeacherPipeline
#FreedomSchools
is loading.
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@AnonymousEduca4
@MatRyanELATeach
A Penn student/teacher told me yrs ago that a professor asked his college class should teachers teach their students how to protest or how to read. Just about all ‘em said protesting was more important. No idea teaching Black kids how to read was resistance, an act of protest
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Good morning from the babies. “Chin up. Fight on.”
@AfricanaCarr
@Robert_Simmons3
@8BlackHands1
@CenterBlackEd
@ShaynaTerrell1
@masonmessages
@shaylaebrown
@happiamenra
@dia_ljones
@RodRobinsonRVA
@Teacherishx
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Some of the praying mantis egg sacks we found have hatched. Daughter is releasing them. 😍
@hood_naturalist
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We understand that a Capitol cop succumbed to his injuries sustained from the rabid racists who besieged and attacked the Capitol. We’re looking for the
#BlueLivesMatters
folks to issue statements but all’s quiet on that front for some reason.
#DCRIOTS
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Who’s got next? Perhaps our 5 yr old does.
#BlackBeekeepers
#ShesGotNext
@hood_naturalist
@BlackBeekeeping
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I’m Fighting For the Liberation of the 7th Ward Where ‘Education is the Problem of Problems’ – Philly's 7th Ward
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Nice! My wife’s newest book is on deck! Can’t wait to read it! ❤️✊🏾
@BlackBeekeeping
@hood_naturalist
@AKASMOM
@OumFatima114
@PhillyBeeGuild
@NotesFromHeL
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Nikole Hannah-Jones retells 'The 1619 Project' amid race education pushback
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We spend so much time talmbout cultural competence and fluency in education, but we should really be talking about the pervasive incompetence and inarticulacy that pervades education & the damage that does to our children. Name it: Incompetence.
Mornin’.
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Folks see Blk kids walking w trophies & automatically congratulate 'em for winning basketball game. They said,"THX! This is for chess." 😎
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Why white teachers must talk about race
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I had to visit the school today. A teacher asked my 8-yr old if she had a problem. When she said “no” he said, “then take your eyes off of me.”
She forgot to say, yes, I have a problem. He’s actually on his way up here.
Educators don’t use intimidation as a tool
@8BlackHands1
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Teaching is a skill. We earn the right to call ourselves teachers when we’re driving towards student outcomes. It’s easy to mistake engagement for learning. Here’s how I learned the difference. via
@Chalkbeat
@CenterBlackEd
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I like to use Birthdays to pray for and honor our parents. ❤️
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Just your friendly reminder that Muslims aren’t a monolith. I’m Muslim. Oz is Muslim. I wouldn’t vote for Oz to be a homecoming king, let alone a daggone senator.
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Thanks
@NewsHour
@pbsnewshour
for sharing our apprentices’ stories and their “why” for joining the
#BlackTeacherPipeline
! As many of them told us:
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
so we will become what we need!
@CenterBlackEd
@GTLCenter
@watlington_sr
@PADeptofEd
@SLABeeberHSA
@PHLschools
As part of our ongoing series on higher education, we focus on why developing and recruiting more Black teachers is especially important for Black students to ensure they continue and finish their education.
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For Juneteenth, consider doing one or more of the following: Open a school. Lead a class. Write a book. Get on a school board. Develop, coach, mentor Black educators, fuel the
#SchoolToActivismPipeline
, launch a chapter of the
#BlackCommuniversity
.
#JUNETEENTH2020
#JuneteenthDay
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We are close to 400 signatures. Have you signed and shared? Tell the Biden Administration To Prioritize Teacher Diversity Now - Voice to Action
#SignandShare
#TeacherDiversityMatters
#BlackTeacherPipeline
@CenterBlackEd
@fellowshipbmec
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More Black men are needed in the classroom, diversity advocates say |
@CNN
@NTerryEllis
@CenterBlackEd
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
#BlackTeacherPipeline
#BlackMenTeaching
@fellowshipbmec
@Phillys7thWard
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To Him we belong and to Him we shall all return. We buried our Baba on Friday w’ deep sorrow & immense gratitude for tremendous blessing of having had this revolutionary in our lives for so long. Grateful to his circle of friends who reminded us,“Yaw still have lots of uncles!”
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When the chess team used to travel through airports around the country with the dope well-won hardware, folks would come up to them to congratulate them for winning a basketball tourney. The scholars would let ‘em know. We play chess
#ChessIsLife
@MCShoemaker
#PaulRobeson
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Today
@CenterBlackEd
humbly, courageously launched the 5th year of our paid teacher apprenticeship program for Black youth - Freedom Schools Literacy Academy. 350 first-third graders will participate, led by 140+ teacher apprentices. Got a really dope team.
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
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“We [the Black Panther Party] always believed that the next generation was going to do it…we still believe that. They have the intellect, creativity, and technology and the problems we faced still existed.” -Baba Sekou
@naabpp
@CenterBlackEd
#BMEC2022
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Having a 6-week maternity leave is one of the grossest, most bewildering things about the American workplace.
What’re some of the best maternity leave policies out there?
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Me and the homie these days. مصر جمل شتر
Catch up with yaw in a few weeks.
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Science superhero: Philly woman with a Ph.D. dives the oceans to research coral reefs and fight climate change via
@phillyinquirer
@hood_naturalist
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@terrinwatson
Vast majority of teachers won’t put their children in the schools they teach other people’s children in either. That goes for Sups, board members, etc. They’ll navigate the system and place their kid in the suburbs, private or magnet.
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Grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts w’
@TEDTalks
! The
#BlackTeachingTradition
can not only fuel a
#BlackTeacherPipeline
, but it can save America.
#WeNeedBlackTeachers
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So, a worker
@HiltonHotels
told me I could take a mtng/make salat in this empty room as needed during my stay. Just now, a worker threatened to sic cops on me b/c I was there to pray again. The customer service, the threats & attitude were terrible.
#DoBetterHilton
@8BlackHands1
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Good morning. A huge part of the so-called achievement gap isn’t the gap between Black and white children’s test scores, but the gap between adults' mindsets and the abilities and potential of Black children.
@CenterBlackEd
Those who know, know.
#MindsetsMatterMost
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When
@DianeRavitch
showed you who she was, how she despised Black self-determination, how she disparages the audacious idea of Black children having teachers who believed in standards & high expectations for themselves, you should've believed her...the 1st time
#IStandWithSonja
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‘Abbott Elementary’ Star Tyler James Williams Says Lack of Black Teachers Inspired Him to Play One on TV | News |
@BET
@CenterBlackEd
@fellowshipbmec
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It’s the same with principals, teachers, and all educators. The idea that some educators reject feedback because theyre “professionals, should be trusted and don’t need it” is absurd. It’s oft not about distrust, it’s about continuous improvement to ensure student achievement.
Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want to be told the truth - Doc Rivers
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A Black principal who resigned after parents accused him of teaching critical race theory says 'we're dealing with people that are delusional'
@CenterBlackEd
@8BlackHands1
@CitizenEdu
#CRT
#TeachTruth
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Just a couple of the legends who have informed my work as an educator. Grateful for them.
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Hiring teachers of color should be a TOP priority, as students recover from disrupted learning opps., due to the pandemic.
@CenterBlackEd
is joining
@NCTQ
on 11/10 at 12pm ET for a Twitter chat about breaking down barriers to diversifying the teacher workforce.
#teacherdiversity
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So excited to launch our virtual Freedom Schools Literacy Academy! To have over 60 Black high school & college students who we’ve hired as teacher apprentices ready to serve Black and Brown 1st-3rd grade students…
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Amid uproar over what schools teach about race, Philadelphia is bolstering Black history lessons
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