If she has my book out on the train with pen in hand, she's getting equipped to do good work. Trust me #HipHopEd
Christopher Emdin
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Christopher Emdin
@chrisemdin
NYT bestselling Author of Ratchetdemic & STEM STEAM Make Dream. Teacher. Truth teller - Behind the magic that is #HipHopEd & #ScienceGenius - #SpacesHost
- The most poignant diagnosis of the disease #KanyeWest is currently displaying symptoms of was offered by #JamesBaldwin in 1971
00:00 - It is unethical to expect teachers to return to in-person classrooms in the fall when their level of exposure to the virus will be exponentially increased. You only gamble with the lives of people you have no value for
- We teach students before curriculum. We reach souls before standards. We teach character before content. In that order or its not really teaching at all #HipHopEd #GoodTroubleEdu
- So a dude without an earned doctorate is asking a person who earned one in EDUCATION to not use their earned title. This person does not mention that the word doctorate comes from the word dottore which means TEACHER #CarryOn #WallStreetJournal #DrJillBilden
- The best project an educator can work on this summer is themselves. Imagine the teacher you aspire to be & read/study/mediate/practice/work in pursuit of that vision #HipHopEd
- The kind of teacher you will become is directly related to the kind of teachers you associate with. Avoid people who are unhappy and disgruntled about the possibilities for transforming education. They are the enemy of the spirit of the teacher #HipHopEd
- Even though remote learning is difficult for many, some youth are having the best learning experiences of their lives right now. Some are thriving while away from schools that invoke trauma. We must work to understand these multiple truths if we are to truly teach #sunchat
- An educator who feels unsafe, uncared for & devalued cannot give their full selves to their work. Basic human needs extend to those who teach as much as they do to those who are to be taught
- Heres the thing. The behavior we are seeing exhibited by these two White men in suits & ties on a national stage would result in suspensions that leads to entanglement with the criminal justice system for Black children #HipHopEd #Debates2020
- Create a classroom that is a microcosm of the world you want to live in not a replication of the world we currently have #HipHopEd
- Happy World Teachers Day to all who have chosen the most noble of professions. May your words inspire, the worth of your work be upheld, and the fruits of your labor be multiplied upon you and those whose lives you touch #InternationalTeachersDay #WorldTeachersDay #Salute
- For the record, “this is not who we are” is code for this is not the version of ourselves we wanted revealed. The shock & outrage we are seeing is so much more performative than reflective that it will not be instructive. That is the piece of this debacle that angers me most
- Those who teach must find something they love outside of their work in order to do their work. Teaching is not supposed to consume you it is supposed to enhance a you that’s already there. #LCActivate #LincolnCenterEducation