High school English/Journalism/Philosophy teacher, School District of Philadelphia. Adviser to The Flash FLC.
Germantown, Philadelphia
Joined July 2016
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Colin Chrestay retweeted
What is the value of the “sky is falling” narrative? I don’t know, but I assume there are profiteers working on that calculation as I sit and write.
What we lose when we focus on test scores | Opinion inquirer.com/opinion/comment… via @phillyinquirer
My stack for #TheSealeyChallenge this year. See thread for individual books and excerpts.
7/31 A Series of Small Boxes (2007, Fish Drum, Inc.) by @TomDevaney215
From “Trying to live as if it were morning”
I’m not here to settle that.
I’m here to write a poem because I’m a morning person and it’s morning.
This is a morning poem.
#TheSealeyChallenge
8/31 Rains Rain (2023, FutureCycle Press) by @MattRoth70
From “Resurrection”
and pray
to whatever
makes the fig
forgive you
and give you again
what you say
you want
that sweetness
and then
the amen.
#TheSealeyChallenge
Colin Chrestay retweeted
folks I left warped tour ‘05 without a single phone number, he’s not the first fella to be the architect of several strikeouts while wearing vans
Colin Chrestay retweeted
“…journalism is the sad stepsister in the curriculum… because administrators are intimidated by the fact that student journalists do know what is going on inside and are reporting the truth for the public to see.” - @worddoct
Y’all. Read this.
eriereader.com/article/press…
Just taking a curmudgeonly minute to lament the students who slow down everything by clicking the wifi on my ethernet-connected media computers and then have the gall to ask “How can they get internet without wifi” when I complain.
The kids are fine—this is an Aging tweet.
Colin Chrestay retweeted
Do the right thing family. All of it hard, but this one is easy.
Make the open layup.
You are unblocked, make the tackle.
They pulled the goalie, make the shot.
The count is 3-0, the bases are loaded, and you are down 1. Don’t swing.
No homework over spring (or any) break ❤️
Compare to the breakdown for the entire district this year.
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9 teachers is almost 20% of our staff. More than 1 in 6 of my incredible colleagues will not be allowed to return next year.
For the record, this was a choice. When you choose to use an admissions algorithm, you co-sign the results of the algorithm. #phled
Franklin Learning Center's staff and students rallied outside of their school building this morning to stand protest against a district budget that will cause FLC to lose 9 teachers next year. FLC is not alone in losing teachers. (1/2) #phled #stopthecutsdp #flchs
This week my students embarked on a new project researching living poets in Philly. By far the best part of the week was our poet draft which saw my students ruining each others’ lives by stealing their draft picks.
Poetry is not a luxury. We should all be so hype.
#phled
