Curriculum & Professional Development Specialist, International Schools Services 🌍 Animal Shelter Volunteer🐾 📖Still Learning (she/her)
Castlewood, CO
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Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Dolores Huerta was a hero of mine.
When she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, people thought Dolores was crazy. “How are you going to organize farm workers,” she remembered being asked. "They are poor, powerless immigrants.” But that’s exactly what she did, helping thousands of migrant laborers working in brutal conditions make their voices heard, and demand something better.
Dolores spent the rest of her life fighting for marginalized communities, even as she herself faced sexism and abuse — including, as she revealed earlier this year, from Cesar Chavez and others within her own movement. She also came up with a pretty good slogan, “Si, se puede” — Yes, we can — that I too often get credit for. But as usual, Dolores got there first.
Michelle and I are thinking of Dolores’s family, the people whose lives she changed, and everyone who drew inspiration from her example.
Photo credit: National Archives, Obama Presidential Library
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Good night lovely people and lovely dogs.
The team hopes that you've had a lovely day.
Sleep well and sweet dreams.
I hope that you have a splendid day tomorrow.
#hoorayfordogs #springer #westie #beagle #labrador #redsquirrel
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
🔄 Instead of asking special education #teachers to support assignments and #homework, let's give them the latitude to support SKILLS and deep understanding. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #UDL
ALT Bold poster on a dark blue textured background reads Let’s allow SPECIAL EDUCATION teachers to support SKILLS AND deep understanding. At right is a lightbulb with a heart over stacked colorful books, stars, and the logo text Lee Ann Jung leadinclusion.org.
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
He may no longer be the president but he is still the baby whisperer! No better spot to meet the next generation than the Obama Presidential Center.
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
📝 "Summative" doesn't imply a single, high-stakes test. Summative is a point in time at which we consider ALL evidence, formal and informal. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #SBLchat #TG2Chat #TeacherTwitter
ALT Graphic on a dark blue textured background with large text reading “SUMMATIVE is a point in time at which we consider ALL EVIDENCE.” At right are colorful clipboard and report icons with checklists, a bar chart, a star, and a pie chart; bottom left reads “Lee Ann Jung” and “leadinclusion.org.”
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Rolf report 21 Oct: Meeting up with more students and staff in the Faculty of Arts Building (they don’t call it FAB for nothing). Nice to meet you! … Note the ‘claw of safety’ embedded in my human’s upper arm. Just in case. Rolf x
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
🥳 The moment you’ve ALL been waiting for! 🤩 Izzie and Raj are teaming up, but whose side are YOU on? 👀
Team Izzie or Team Raj?
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Good night lovely people and lovely dogs. The team have been watching bake off...
Sleep well and sweet dreams.
I hope that you have a splendid day tomorrow.
#hoorayfordogs #westie #beagle #springer #labrador #redsquirrel
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Tim and Tahmina are ready to hit the road and cruise across the UK in search of antiques! 🔎
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
We’re on today in 10 minutes so please watch and hope you enjoy it.
Let’s go @BBCBargainHunt ing 😎🫵😍
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Good evening lovely people and lovely dogs. I hope that you've had some fab walks today. Ours were lovely. I'm just adding the boops to tonight's good night picture. The westie has a weather update...
#hoorayfordogs #boops
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
📚 #Students need to be given a variety of ways to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding, and skills. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Such a great perspective! Thank you @EmilyAPaschall
I love this.
I have sat in so many initial eligibility and IEP meetings with parents who are hearing for the first time that their child may have a developmental delay or disability. I’ve watched them try to process what that might mean for their child and for the future they pictured for them.
And I always want parents to remember this:
An IEP is not an ending. It’s a starting point.
It’s a plan designed to give a child what they need to learn, grow, and make progress. Their journey may look different. They may need a different path, a different pace, or different supports along the way.
But different does not mean less.
An eligibility determination or an IEP does not put a period at the end of a child’s story. It simply helps us figure out what they need for the next part.
“Developmental delays are commas, not periods.”
There is still so much story left to write. ❤️
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Let's play two truths and a lie with David & Tash! 💫
Did you get it right?
Laura Smith Benson 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇳🇱🇬🇷🇮🇪🇺🇸🇴🇲 retweeted
Good evening lovely people and lovely dogs. I hope that you've had some fab walks today. Ours were mild and splendid. I'm just adding the boops to tonight's good night picture. The team have balloons...
#hoorayfordogs #boops
