Nancy Flanagan 🎼
Lifelong public school educator and advocate. Michigan Teacher of the Year, 1993. National Board Certified Teacher. Musician. Prodigious reader. Gardener. Ardently Blue. teacherinastrangeland.blog
- "Roberts Court’s conservative supermajority have done many reprehensible things for which they deserve our eternal contempt. To be fair, however—not all of their transgressions will be relevant when the 6 Republican jurists are prosecuted in the Nuremberg-style trials I am envisioning." (Borowitz)
- Adolescents benefit frm structured adversity--algebra or chores. They build self-esteem & work ethic. It’s why the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argued for importance of children learning to do hard things, something that technology is making infinitely easier to avoid nymag.com/intelligence...
- One of the largest providers of education tech paid off hackers so that they wouldn’t publish tens of millions of children’s personal information. But school districts are facing extortion attempts anyway. www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
- Reposted by Nancy Flanagan 🎼“Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30”.
- Reposted by Nancy Flanagan 🎼Reporter: I was watching your face during the meeting.. what was going through your mind when the President talked about erasing the border.. Carney: I’m glad that you couldn’t tell what was going through my mind Reporter: Oh I could
- May is here. A person needs to go outdoors & take a deep breath, walk away from news, which rubs our faces in angry arrogant pointless presidency of a bonehead. Walk in the park. Observe delight of kindergarteners leashed together like sled dogs. garrisonkeillor.substack.com/p/stating-th...
- Teacher Appreciation Week smacks of a pat on the head for being willing to go the distance without adequate compensation or support. We’re supposed to persist and excel ‘for the kids’–a phrase that teachers rightfully perceive as specious and manipulative. teacherinastrangeland.blog/2024/05/09/t...
- Districts across the country are trying to purchase devices early, before President Donald Trump’s tariff plans cause steep price increases. www.edweek.org/technology/s...
