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Jessica Leader πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ @JessicaLeader

PBS Learning Media curriculum developer; Author of NICE AND MEAN (S&S/Aladdin), and others to come. Queer mom of two cuties; she/her

Joined March 2009
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Please spread the word about these amazing writing workshops for healthcare providers. (I'll be leading one next week!) washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

Perspective | In writing about pain, people from D.C. to Africa are finding healing

A Washington-area therapist asked an ICU doctor to write about a haunting loss. From that grew a project that is helping people across the world.

washingtonpost.com
What about hackle? We get our hackles up, don't we? Or too busy playing with beachballs (also not allowed)? #Nytspellingbee
I need to write some scenes with big, miserable feelings. Anyone want to give me some songs for a misery playlist? Along the lines of "Why" by Annie Lennox, or almost any Annie Lennox, really.
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Want to stick it to Amazon on Prime Day? (Or, as I think of it, Horde Prime Day)? Buy books through bookshop.org. I'm sure you have some you want to read!
Really enjoying the Dear Intern thread. Those mess-up moments that glaze your entire body with fear--more people have cause for them than I think. And survive!
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Happy Pride! Parents let's celebrate with collective gender equity and, in a mom-dad family, include BOTH parents on correspondence about school events and social gatherings. Dads want to know! Or if they don't, they should know the labor behind the scenes!
Really appreciated this article about how free tuition to community college is a start--but new and minoritized college students need personalized support to make it to graduation. Hoping it gets a wide read! nytimes.com/2021/05/25/opini…

Opinion | Community College Should Be More Than Just Free (Published 2021)

For Biden's community college plan to work, students are going to need a holistic system of support, not just free tuition.

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I worked HARD for that money this week. Now off to outdoor dinner with friends--for the first time in a year!
If this is how police departments write internal memos, how will anyone know the truth? So glad this was leaked. Now I want every police department memo summoned.
Jake Tapper πŸ¦…
@jaketapper
20 Apr 2021
Seriously, read it again knowing what we know:
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Mikel Jollett
@Mikel_Jollett
20 Apr 2021
Remember: none of Chauvin’s colleagues turned him in. He murdered a man in broad daylight and we are here today because a brave Black girl named Darnella Frazier kept taping despite threats from the cops on the scene.
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Mpls Attorney General Keith Ellison: "Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something." A good reminder.
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MN Att'y General praising the people who had the 'courage....and intestinal fortitude to get into Good Trouble."
To quote my friend Royce Conner, maybe this is the day that 2020 ended.
In the way of things, my daughter has to add Biography to her indep. reading list. So I've been scrolling through the libe catalogue, hearing in my head, "Who was Clara Barton?" "Who Was Sitting Bull?" "Who Was Winston Churchill?" Suspect I'll want to know more than she does...
Proud to have created curriculum, along with @juliaerin80, for Ken Burns's "Hemingway," which invite students to grapple with the author's many complexities. A favorite of my lessons here, along with the NY Times review: pbslearningmedia.org/resourc… nytimes.com/2021/04/02/arts/…

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More wisdom from my 6yo: "You want to know why I don't want to be immortal? Because then people would want to stab me and stuff." #truth
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Bc talking about Achilles. Whose mom must really have been strong.
Dear edutwitter, I just realized I can take a screenshot from a doc and paste it into Jamboard so I can use my own desired formatting. Feeling like a Jamboard PRO.
When you need to read Pachinko for your book club but you're dying to finish Circe. (So many books....etc.)
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