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Do. Reflect. Do Better. HS ELA Teacher. Author, "better: A Teacher's Journey." Tweets are my own. https://nitter.cf/t.co/MvU9ya1huc https://nitter.cf/t.co/Vs7TBYMHX7
Washington State
Joined December 2015
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Monte Syrie retweeted
Not often I have a bad day with kids, but when I do, it almost always ends with, “I’m sorry.”
Oh, teaching.
Monte Syrie retweeted
“Sy, you mad at me?”
“No. I wasn’t happy with your choice. I might get mad. But I don’t stay mad. We’re good.”
From a kid who I was sure didn’t give a hoot about my feelings towards him.
We never really know.
Tales from teaching.
Monte Syrie retweeted
“Would you give the same deal to everyone else?”
“Of course. If that’s what they needed. You’re not getting special treatment. You’re getting what you need.”
Kiddo concerned I was giving him too much grace.
Nope.
Too much to everyone.
Can’t shake my bad habit.
#pushover
Monte Syrie retweeted
“Do you feel like you belong?”
If I could only ask one question by which to judge my impact as a teacher.
Connections matter most.
Monte Syrie retweeted
Today, try a different “flex.”
Empathy.
Compassion.
Grace.
A better way to actually “own” the other side.
Wannabe (an) influencer?
Make a difference, not a divide.
Character.
Still counts.
If you want real followers, lead.
Let that click.
Too much to do at school.
Too much to do at home.
Too much to do forever.
For which I will not live.
So, for the here and now, I will listen to my spirit and ride my bike.
Life is too short for too much.
A kiddo I don’t know was in my classroom w/some friends, marveling at my Narnia poster, saying how much she loved the movie. I asked if she’d read the book.
She hadn’t and didn’t know there was one.
Told her if she promised to read it, I would buy it.
My end of the deal. 🙂
Today, try a different “flex.”
Empathy.
Compassion.
Grace.
A better way to actually “own” the other side.
Wannabe (an) influencer?
Make a difference, not a divide.
Character.
Still counts.
If you want real followers, lead.
Let that click.
Not often I have a bad day with kids, but when I do, it almost always ends with, “I’m sorry.”
Oh, teaching.
“Sy, you mad at me?”
“No. I wasn’t happy with your choice. I might get mad. But I don’t stay mad. We’re good.”
From a kid who I was sure didn’t give a hoot about my feelings towards him.
We never really know.
Tales from teaching.
“Do you feel like you belong?”
If I could only ask one question by which to judge my impact as a teacher.
Connections matter most.
“Would you give the same deal to everyone else?”
“Of course. If that’s what they needed. You’re not getting special treatment. You’re getting what you need.”
Kiddo concerned I was giving him too much grace.
Nope.
Too much to everyone.
Can’t shake my bad habit.
#pushover
Monte Syrie retweeted
Something satisfying about kids’ cracking open dictionaries in my classroom again as we make our way back to doing things in “analog.”
Monte Syrie retweeted
“You are the guards at your gate.”
Telling my kids that they alone hold the keys to their (authentic) learning.
I can only do so much. I can only know so much.
So, I have to trust so much.
Have to.
Teaching isn’t controlling kids.
It’s empowering kids.
By letting go.
Monte Syrie retweeted
The problem with being learner-centered in your approach is that you’re never not.
So many learners learning differently.
Exhilarating.
Exhausting.
Existential.
Teaching.
Monte Syrie retweeted
“Ya pissed at me?”
I asked him as I collected his folder.
He cracked an unexpected smile from my unexpected question.
“It’s okay if you are. Just try not to let it last too long—for both of us.”
We’d had a moment the day before.
I’d like to think we’d just had another one.