Heidi Echternacht
@hechternacht.bsky.social
Educator, Author, Creator
Kinderchat.org
Elementary and Early Childhood
Community, culture & conversation
Kinderchat.org
Elementary and Early Childhood
Community, culture & conversation
Reposted by Heidi Echternacht
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: "Part of what makes it so easy for democracy to slip away" is that "there are a lot of features of daily life that continue to exist long after a country has stopped being a democracy": smotus.substack.com/p/liberty-ca...
Liberty can actually die pretty quietly
On life under authoritarianism
smotus.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I've been thinking about this a lot lately: "Part of what makes it so easy for democracy to slip away" is that "there are a lot of features of daily life that continue to exist long after a country has stopped being a democracy": smotus.substack.com/p/liberty-ca...
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"Skillful dialogue doesn't magically occur. Too many teachers stop centering dialogue because protocols & activities don't go smoothly [at first]. Effective dialogue takes iteration, reflection & patience. But, when it is built, a culture of dialogue leads the way to transformational learning." 🔥
I'm struck that our answer to precarity in the teaching profession in the wealthiest nation on earth is to double down on deprofessionalization. Why not train more educators like Ryan who create meaningful transformational experiences for their students that don't show up on The Test?
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 AM
"Skillful dialogue doesn't magically occur. Too many teachers stop centering dialogue because protocols & activities don't go smoothly [at first]. Effective dialogue takes iteration, reflection & patience. But, when it is built, a culture of dialogue leads the way to transformational learning." 🔥
Welcome Spring!
Time to find some gold!
open.substack.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Sharing this survey again! If you are a teacher of children aged 4-14, it takes about 10 minutes! I would really appreciate your help if you can spare the time, I’d be so grateful! THANK YOU SO MUCH! pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #edusky #Kinderchat
Play in Schools
This is a educational survey for a Penn State Master's project conducted by Heidi Echternacht. This survey is designed for school teachers of children ages 2-14 years old.
This survey is anonymous, ...
pennstate.qualtrics.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Sharing this survey again! If you are a teacher of children aged 4-14, it takes about 10 minutes! I would really appreciate your help if you can spare the time, I’d be so grateful! THANK YOU SO MUCH! pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #edusky #Kinderchat
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Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Play in Schools
This is a educational survey for a Penn State Master's project conducted by Heidi Echternacht. This survey is designed for school teachers of children ages 2-14 years old.
This survey is anonymous, ...
pennstate.qualtrics.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Play in Schools
This is a educational survey for a Penn State Master's project conducted by Heidi Echternacht. This survey is designed for school teachers of children ages 2-14 years old.
This survey is anonymous, ...
pennstate.qualtrics.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
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Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Arlington Cemetery website scrubs links about Black and female veterans
Pentagon leaders have ordered that their websites and social media pages remove articles and images that “promote” DEI.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.
Big news at the Heidi House- waiting in the arrival of my first ever own DOG. He’s supposed to arrive- at midnight 🙃
March 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Big news at the Heidi House- waiting in the arrival of my first ever own DOG. He’s supposed to arrive- at midnight 🙃
I’m on Spring Break and not sure it ever felt better to unplug! Hope everyone is doing well out there! I’ll plug back in end of March! XOXO
March 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m on Spring Break and not sure it ever felt better to unplug! Hope everyone is doing well out there! I’ll plug back in end of March! XOXO
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"They want to see educational expenditures reduced dramatically [through automation]...But we must bear in mind that while the product of industry is an automobile, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, the product of education is a human being." - Daniel Tanner, 1964
March 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"They want to see educational expenditures reduced dramatically [through automation]...But we must bear in mind that while the product of industry is an automobile, a refrigerator, or a washing machine, the product of education is a human being." - Daniel Tanner, 1964
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Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Play in Schools
This is a educational survey for a Penn State Master's project conducted by Heidi Echternacht. This survey is designed for school teachers of children ages 2-14 years old.
This survey is anonymous, ...
pennstate.qualtrics.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
New reflection and writing prompt for #Kinderchat this month is up! Take a look! open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...
Professional Life
Hello! Kinderchat discusses "professional life" this month!
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
New reflection and writing prompt for #Kinderchat this month is up! Take a look! open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Play in Schools
This is a educational survey for a Penn State Master's project conducted by Heidi Echternacht. This survey is designed for school teachers of children ages 2-14 years old.
This survey is anonymous, ...
pennstate.qualtrics.com
March 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Hello! Looking for teachers of ages 4-14 to fill out an educational research survey! #edusky pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Would love your help and participation! Thank you so much!
Hello #EduSky #Kinderchat Looking for educators of 4-14 year olds to take part in a research project! Click here if you would consider filling out a survey regarding children’s play in school. THANK YOU SO MUCH open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...
Survey Says....
Two posts in two days? What's going on?!
open.substack.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Hello #EduSky #Kinderchat Looking for educators of 4-14 year olds to take part in a research project! Click here if you would consider filling out a survey regarding children’s play in school. THANK YOU SO MUCH open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...
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I have known @hechternacht.bsky.social for over a decade and she lives and embodies best practices about teaching and learning every day! Please check out this podcast! #Kinderchat #PYPchat
Longtime early childhood educator, @hechternacht.bsky.social, joined us to talk about the importance of play, the role of inquiry, & the models that support it!
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
February 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I have known @hechternacht.bsky.social for over a decade and she lives and embodies best practices about teaching and learning every day! Please check out this podcast! #Kinderchat #PYPchat
Reposted by Heidi Echternacht
Longtime early childhood educator, @hechternacht.bsky.social, joined us to talk about the importance of play, the role of inquiry, & the models that support it!
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
February 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Longtime early childhood educator, @hechternacht.bsky.social, joined us to talk about the importance of play, the role of inquiry, & the models that support it!
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
Search & subscribe on any podcast app or listen directly on our website:
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/inq... #EduSky #ECE
Reposted by Heidi Echternacht
‘The cruelty is the point’——-Refugee aid groups struggling amid halt in federal payments under Trump www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
February 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
‘The cruelty is the point’——-Refugee aid groups struggling amid halt in federal payments under Trump www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Obviously we have to keep earning a living, caring for our kids, getting dinner ready. But as it sinks in that this is really happening, I find myself wondering how we can possibly talk and think about anything else. I mean, does just going about our normal lives now constitute a kind of denial?
![[From Carole Cadwalladr, at https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-gains-speed]
So I'm repeating it, because the illegal seizure of power isn't just another story to be swept away in the deluge of other stories. It's the foundational framing to understanding everything. I'm not moving on. Think of this as the “I went to market” children’s game. Last week I went to market and bought a coup. This week, I went to market and bought a coup and a realignment of the world order.
You might argue it’s pretty punchy for an about-to-be-terminated UK journalist to be trying to land blows on the New York Times. And you'd be right. Its why I will pull on a different source of expertise this week. We are trapped in what epidemiologist Adam Kucharski correctly identifies as “status quo or normalcy bias”. There is an inability to process, accept and confront the dangerous new reality we are in and to focus on the big picture and the pivot of history that’s occurred in the last two weeks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ghdeeujbx7xg7jvvljnempzo/bafkreibsxgkoenrgfcljpdzb3x4o2qcz7kmw6zrnb46w4btu6u5q7xbgaq@jpeg)
![[From Stathis Kalyvas, whose website is https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/stathis-kalyvas]
There is now total clarity, no matter how unimaginable things might seem. And they amount to this: The U.S. government has been taken over by a clique of extremists who have embarked on a process of regime change in the world's oldest demaocracy.
Trump's statement, "He who saves his country does not violate any Law" is no empty ranting. It is totally consistent with his actions of systematically dismantling the country's institutions, implemented with the assistance of the most powerful technology.
Vance's speech in Munich, a city of symbolic significance is there was ever one, is a direct attack on Europe, on freedom, and on democracy. All of which amount to an extraordinary disruption of the international system.
I'struggle to find a historical parallel and I can think of no less than the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, even Munich in 1938. I have always refrained from invoking such analogies in the past; I always found them excessive. Not now.
The arrogance on display is staggering. They think their actions will increase U.S. power, but they are in fact wrecking their own country and, in the process, everyone else. This reminds me a lot of the Iraq invasion, but on aglobal scale....
The only hope lies in the sheer enormity of the threat; it might awake us out of our slumber before it is too late.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ghdeeujbx7xg7jvvljnempzo/bafkreiasdnfkubbmrmhvntfnidr75x2hzl3z2hqfbz6y3aqtvaj4dhly4e@jpeg)
![[From Timothy Snyder: https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup]
The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and there is no office that would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal. It is also a coup in its intended effects: to undo democratic practice and violate human rights.
In gaining data about us all, Musk has trampled on any notion of privacy and dignity, as well as on the explicit and implicit agreements made with our government when we pay our taxes or our student loans. And the possession of that data enables blackmail and further crimes.
In gaining the ability to stop payments by the Department of the Treasury, Musk would also make democracy meaningless. We vote for representatives in Congress, who pass laws that determine how our tax money is spent. If Musk has the power to halt this process at the level of payment, he can make laws meaningless. Which means, in turn, that Congress is meaningless, and our votes are meaningless, as is our citizenship.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ghdeeujbx7xg7jvvljnempzo/bafkreifdzh33lcakrms4gxzg62izwqamkso7bfnx2cdefz6avtbpffiiji@jpeg)
February 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Obviously we have to keep earning a living, caring for our kids, getting dinner ready. But as it sinks in that this is really happening, I find myself wondering how we can possibly talk and think about anything else. I mean, does just going about our normal lives now constitute a kind of denial?
Philadelphia sure celebrates in style- “eagles” flying high on the steps of the art museum while a lone saxophone player’s soft sweet notes pump out the national anthem. Someone silently shotguns a beer with tears in their eyes.
a bald eagle is flying with the words fly eagle fly behind it
ALT: a bald eagle is flying with the words fly eagle fly behind it
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Philadelphia sure celebrates in style- “eagles” flying high on the steps of the art museum while a lone saxophone player’s soft sweet notes pump out the national anthem. Someone silently shotguns a beer with tears in their eyes.
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We're in the middle of a winter storm. School is cancelled. I'm procrastinating on shoveling. Somehow I'm supposed to fly to DC this afternoon. 🤷🏼♂️
And in spite of it all, I get to record a podcast with @hechternacht.bsky.social this morning, and THAT is gonna be awesome!
And in spite of it all, I get to record a podcast with @hechternacht.bsky.social this morning, and THAT is gonna be awesome!
February 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
We're in the middle of a winter storm. School is cancelled. I'm procrastinating on shoveling. Somehow I'm supposed to fly to DC this afternoon. 🤷🏼♂️
And in spite of it all, I get to record a podcast with @hechternacht.bsky.social this morning, and THAT is gonna be awesome!
And in spite of it all, I get to record a podcast with @hechternacht.bsky.social this morning, and THAT is gonna be awesome!
Saw an actual eagle about 4pm EST today so #justsayin
February 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Saw an actual eagle about 4pm EST today so #justsayin
Just washed my windows and made it worse. Dang streaks! What’s the recipe?
February 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just washed my windows and made it worse. Dang streaks! What’s the recipe?
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"By many other measures of well-being — especially health and happiness — the U.S. fares worse than many other rich countries and has fallen further behind since the 1990s."
February 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"By many other measures of well-being — especially health and happiness — the U.S. fares worse than many other rich countries and has fallen further behind since the 1990s."
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My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.
February 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My staff is hearing reports from Head Start programs in Oregon that they're still locked out of federal funds. My office is doing everything it can to get more info and get funds flowing before providers have to start closing their doors.
#Kinderchat February topic is up! open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...
Indigo
A flip- flop with a half twist! Let's do this!
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
#Kinderchat February topic is up! open.substack.com/pub/kinderch...