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Joanne Tolles
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Retired ACE High School English/Guidance teacher - owner of LampLight Travel a home-based Nexion/Travel Leaders agency - dog lover - plant lover - writer - poet - grandma - Christian.

Please visit my website for travel — lamplightravel.com
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Is This the Final Knockdown of America’s Public Schools? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Many well-prepared educators have spent years teaching and leading schools and are well-prepared to improve public education, even making our schools the best in the world! Instead, Trump chose an edu...
nancyebailey.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Let them read for the pure love ❤️ of reading.
December 27, 2024 at 2:33 AM
We must save reading and writing in our schools.
December 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM
November 28, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Linda Mc Mahon, like Trump, is not an educator. Her short education job at the state level was unremarkable and she left it to run unsuccessfully for political office. We are in big trouble. Big trouble.🤬🤬🤬
November 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM
“I see with a different set of data eyes; others look at test scores. errors, and deficits. I see the data in the smiles, laughs, and tears of the child next to me. I hear my data speaking to my heart, I am what Dr. Yetta Goodman called a Kid Watcher. ” - Dr. Jesse Turner
November 18, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Michigan student wins 2024 FOI Award for pushing for school board transparency - Student Press Law Center
Michigan student wins 2024 FOI Award for pushing for school board transparency - Student Press Law Center
SPLC and the Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project are proud to honor Michigan high school journalist Julia Roeder with the 2024 Student Freedom of Information Award.
sno.buzz
November 18, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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Quiet this might be DIE kind of thing. childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com/2024/11/my-p...
My Pedagogy is seen through the lens of my heart, it doesn't fit on your data walls or uploaded any expensive online data tracking systems. #tBATs
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
CCSU Literacy Center Director
My Pedagogy is seen through the lens of my heart
childrenaremorethantestscores.blogspot.com
November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Dream on…

“El Mundo Es Mio: The World Is Mine” by George E. Miller II.
November 17, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Reposted by Joanne Tolles
My fears for public education are thoroughly political. Teach the truth, and nothing but the truth. A brief memoir of a conversation with a German grad student about how the Holocaust is taught in Germany: teacherinastrangeland.blog/2024/11/15/h...
How Do German Schools Teach Their Political History?
It was Ernest Boyer who declared that public education functions as a stage where Americans test and play out their deepest values and convictions. Everything that happens around us shows up in pub…
teacherinastrangeland.blog
November 16, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Have worried about this for a long time, & now I fear it is closer to reality than ever.
nancyebailey.com/2023/02/22/w...
Will the Future Include Free Democratic Public Schools and Teachers? - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Will today's babies grow up with free democratic public schools, or will they attend schools stratified by wealth, with parents paying most of the cost, schools that allow for few differences, cyber s...
nancyebailey.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Bring back the Joy

#EduSky
November 16, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Some daily ramblings. I am a bit scattered today.
November 15, 2024 at 12:11 AM
November 13, 2024 at 9:36 PM