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✨ Fresh News: New enforcement function at Texas Education Agency appears into educator misconduct
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Making certain the greater than 5.5 million scholars in public faculties throughout Texas have a protected finding out atmosphere will now fall on Levi Fuller.
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New enforcement function at Texas Education Agency appears into educator misconduct
As an early childhood educator with everything going on in America, I am so angry at the people running my country right now. My heart is broken, and bitter and I feel so disgusted. I truly cannot fathom the evil taking place.
Laura Lengnick, a renowned soil scientist, has three decades of experience in sustainability in U.S. agriculture. She has received national recognition for her work, including a USDA Honor Award. As the founder of Cultivating Resilience, she collaborates on climate resilience projects and authored t
On 8th of February 1599 Robert Rollock, the first principal of The University of Edinburgh, died.
Rollock was born at Powis, near Stirling and educated there before entering St. Salvator’s College and St Andrews.
In 1583 the Town Council of Edinburgh appointed Rollock sole Regent of their newly-founded college. As the University grew his position changed to that of Principal or First Master. Rollock took a prominent part in ecclesiastical affairs as a supporter of the policies of King James VI.
At the end of the 1586-7 academic year, Rollock’s original class graduated, or ‘laureated’ as it was then known, with the MA degree. Although in subsequent years the principle was established that no regent would examine his own class, it was impractical to implement this at such an embryonic stage of the University’s development. So 47 final year students (known as ‘magistrands’) were examined by Rollock himself and then given their degrees.
Each graduate signed the ‘sponsio’, or ‘Confession of Faith’, of 1580 in the University’s First Laureation Album. The sponsio was also signed by each new Regent upon taking up employment with the University. The first two regents to sign the sponsio were Rollock and Duncan Nairn in 1585, while the first student signatory from the 1587 laureation is Thomas Stewart.
The King nominated him Moderator of the General Assembly in 1597. This portrait was painted two years later, in the year of his death.
Robert Rollock died at Edinburgh on this day 1599
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Watched a kid today eat shit on the stairs. He slipped and fell down the step on his stomach.
Then he proceeded to roll onto his back and just stare into the void for a bit.
Then got back up and went back to playing.
And I just… I felt that pain.
On January 13th 1796 John Anderson, founder of “Andersonian Institute” now Strathclyde University, died.
Born in Rosneath in Dunbartonshire, in 1756, Anderson graduated MA from the University of Glasgow in 1745. After working as a private tutor, he was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages at the University of Glasgow in December 1754. In 1757 he transferred to the Chair of Natural Philosophy, where he earned the nickname “Jolly Jack Phosphorus” from his students, he continued in this role until his death.
Anderson was an energetic character, who served as a soldier during the Jacobite rising in the 1740s; published academic texts on subjects including experimental physics and the use of field artillery; designed a cannon, which he presented to the French nation in 1791; and in 1772 installed Glasgow’s first lightning conductor on the College steeple. He was a friend of the University’s instrument maker,James Watt, and it was he that asked Watt to repair a steam engine, perhaps igniting Watt’s interest in the engines that made him famous. He was also an acquainted with Benjamin Franklin.
The Professor was also a quarrelsome guy who became heavily involved in the factional squabbling and costly litigation which plagued the University during the late 18th century. Embittered by the experience, he bequeathed his estate to found a new university in the city. Anderson’s Institution, one of the “ancestors” of the University of Strathclyde, was founded by his executors in 1796.
Originally the institution was called Anderson’s University but in 1877 it was obliged to dispense with the title ‘University’ as it lacked a royal warrant -it’s names included Anderson’s Institution, Anderson’s University and Anderson’s College. The Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution which was an offshoot from it, and more recently the two combined (with Allan Glen’s School) as the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. . In 1887 this became an independently run institution, finally being absorbed by the University of Glasgow in 1947.Throughout its existence, Anderson’s was frequently styled as ‘the Andersonian’
The last pic is a Memorial to John Anderson and his grandfather, Ramshorn Cemetery, Glasgow, the old building is the University’s original home.
Morris Singletary—an HIV advocate, educator, and community leader whose work reminds us that while science gives us tools, love is what truly heals.
My son’s dyslexia went overlooked for years. After getting proper phonics-based instruction, he finally learned to read — and it changed his life.
My son’s dyslexia went overlooked for years. After getting proper phonics-based instruction, he finally learned to read — and it changed his life.
Before the Nobel Prize. Before the breakthrough. Before the Belém Accord.
There was a teacher in a classroom saying, “That’s a great question. Let’s find out.” 🍎✨
As we head into Thanksgiving, we are focusing on the ultimate renewable energy source: Human Curiosity. And the people who keep that energy alive—our educators.
Despite the bans, the budget cuts, and the noise, you keep showing up. You are building the minds that will solve the climate crisis.
Who was that teacher for you? Shout them out in the comments! 👇
The kind of blood boiling rage that sinks into the cracks between your bones and settles in the bottom of your chest. That’s the kind of rage that fills me when I think about the children in this country (usa) having to fend for themselves because all the systems we set up for them have failed so spectacularly. Children going hungry. Children going home to their abusers. Children hating themselves because they don’t have the language to ask for help. Children that are made to feel stupid because the system wasn’t built for them to succeed. We are failing them.
We are failing them.
Everyone in education can see it. Everyone who looks at it for even a second can see that we are failing them. Everyone who survived a childhood that was less than ideal in this country has felt it. So why are we still allowing this to happen?
AND WHY ARE WE CUTTING FUNDING?!
What the hell. What are we doing?
We were supposed to survive and make it better for those who came after us. We were supposed to finally make it out and put a hand out behind us to pull them out too.
And instead, it’s getting worse. We have failed them.
I’m sorry I know this isn’t really twilight content. I know I have 10 followers who didnt follow me for this. I’m so tired and sad and above all ANGRY at how spectacularly we are failing our children in the USA. I’m devastated and feeling quite hopeless. I work in education and it’s getting harder every year to hold it together as I watch children struggle and I can only do so much. I can’t save them all. I can’t feed them all. I can’t even get cps to give a shit.
The holidays and the breaks give me anxiety because I know their home lives are hard and now they’re stuck there. I remember it myself. They deserve better.
I’m so gods damned angry. What are we even doing? This is a five alarm fire and it’s being treated as a joke.
