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Student feedback got you in your feelings?
These students will come for you will NO 👏🏽 ONE 👏🏽 SENT👏🏽 FOR 👏🏽 THEM. But still, their voices must be sought out, heard, and consider… ALL of em! Even your favorite student 😒 who always has something to say when you didn’t ask.
You know how to get them together, take control of your thoughts and take action on their feedback.
My guide for processing students feedback is guaranteed to transform your mindset and the cultism’s climate of your classroom by answering the questions “how do I ensure I’m meeting the needs of all students?”
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This IS NOT normal. This SHOULD NOT be normal. As a mom of 4, my heart could only imagine the anger, hurt, and questions.
Like I said earlier this week, schools should be a SAFE space but what happens when the “creators and curators of safe” spaces don’t know what a safe space looks, feels, or sounds like?

I was a social butterfly mixed with a avid fence hoping ditcher!
I started skipping school in about the 7th grade and by the time I made to high school, I graduate from ditching to go hang at a friends house to ditching and going to hang at the beach (perks of being a Cali girl).
School didn’t interest me really until about my 11th grade year because I felt so disconnected and judge for my older brother’s behavior or my mother’s drug addiction.
So, what kept me in school was the opportunity to be social. If we’re being honest, I went to because I just knew it was a LITUATION!
Let me ask this, how are you capitalizing on your students desires to be in community? Over the past three years, I’ve talked to countless students about their views on school and many expressed an excitement with being about to be back around their friends while at the same time still feeling disengaged and disconnected.
I know we’re in the mist of some crazy times and just trying to survive. My concern, however, is the impact disengagement and disconnection will have on ALL students but most importantly, the historically underserved and vulnerable students/schools.
Now I’m not saying high energy instruction is a must everyday but CONNECTIONS and COMMUNITY are a non-negotiable.
During such as time as this, how are you building community inside your classroom/school and ensuring students, families, and communities feel connected? Let me know in the comments 👇🏽👇🏽

I don’t know about y’all, but I know I went to ONLY socialize. Like seriously, my friends are what kept me coming to school and if they weren't at school, I was trying to be where they were at.

It’s saddening to hear when my 8yo says he can’t talk to his friends during lunch or I go into classrooms and schools and kids are punished for socializing.

Like let’s be honest, if it weren’t for the ability to socialize at school, some of y’all schools and classrooms would be dead.

Let me let you in on a little secret, you can still manage your classrooms and hallways AND let students socialize…especially when you’re connecting what’s happening in your classroom/school to what is relevant to THEIR lives and communities.

But, this is going to require you to do a lot of relationship building and I know how y’all educators like to tussle when it comes to losing instruction time during the Spring.

Calm your butt down! You can still build meaningful relationships with all students and let your students have a joyful social life, in your class/school, WITHOUT losing instructional time. I got you!

There are many relationship building activities on the TwistED Teaching website (link in the bio) that will support you in connecting your content and instruction with students’ social lives. Check it out and let me know in the comments did you go to school to socialize with your friends or “learn”?