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  1. Mar 18

    Half the spots for our 3/31, 4pm PST virtual book club on Mountains Beyond Mountains are already gone. Register today if you want to join and discuss Paul Farmer’s legacy and our own search for moral lives:

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  2. Mar 18

    I found this to be a very helpful analysis of the choices facing American leadership as we decide how to show up for those in Ukraine:

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  3. Mar 18

    "The whole policy makes me become a market actor, permitting all kinds of racial capitalist calculations. I'm called by the social structure to ask myself if this school..is 'good’.” Well-put . h/t

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  4. Mar 17

    Such fantastic on elder care. Thank you ! cc

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  5. Mar 16

    I am retraining myself to resist the political performance anxiety that has seeped into my psyche, to ask the deep, wide ?s of genuine care not shallow, protective questions of performance, to offer, not soundbites, but solidarity.

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  6. Mar 16

    Have you said anything about Ukraine? Asian Hate? Transphobia? On political performance anxiety:

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  7. Mar 16

    What is the measure of a meaningful life? Register for 1st ever Examined Family virtual book club on Mountains Beyond Mountains about the late Paul Farmer, by Tracy Kidder. With special guest :

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  8. Mar 15

    You’re not getting rid of me. (And thank you, so honored by this.)

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  9. Mar 11

    Hey , have we learned anything about ’s death? Missing him much and wondering about any kind of resolution.

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  10. Mar 9

    Yes agreed. We can get the basic science right and instill love and joy of reading and stories.

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    It's not that I am not concerned that we should be addressing literacy outcomes, it's that I was concerned before the pandemic. The mental health/trauma informed education conversation is not separate from academics. We have such an opportunity to rethink our approach.
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  11. Mar 9

    “We have turned our schools into a free-market-based system where there are winners and losers. That is a system that may be applied in business and in capitalism but in a public institution, all schools should be working,” Williams told The Oaklandside.

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  12. Mar 9

    "61% of school-age children in Oakland are attending an OUSD school, 28% go to a charter school, & 11% attend a private school. What is leading over 1/3 of Oakland families to opt out of the district?” Thank you for this reporting

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  13. Mar 9

    White and/or privileged parents--when we systematically disinvest from our public school system, underpay and disrespect teachers, and then hire private tutors for our own children, we are far more detrimental than those 10K words.

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  14. Mar 9

    "Tamara Cella, a phonics specialist who holds a Phd from Johns Hopkins University, left the New York City public school system in 2016, frustrated by the strain of principal turnover. In addition to a job at a New Jersey private school, she now moonlights as a phonics tutor."

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  15. Mar 9

    "It does not help that there is surging demand for private reading and speech therapy for children from affluent families. Fees can run up to $200 per hour, allowing some educators to leave the classroom entirely.”

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  16. Mar 9

    There are also cultural causes. Sure, those 10K words (the oft repeated idea that families in poverty speak 10K words less to their kids, preventing them from developing their vocab). But this article is so important b/c is shows another side of the culture conversation...

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  17. Mar 9

    Literacy is basis of success for kids--esp from historically marginalized backgrounds. We can't sleep on this. There are structural causes, inc that nearly 1/2 of public schools have teaching vacancies, esp in special ed & elementary grades.

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  18. Mar 9

    This piece is critical. And it's not a reductive "learning loss" argument. We can hold two things in our minds & hearts at once: kids' mental health is tattered AND we need to teach them how to read.

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  19. Mar 9

    🧵"As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now show that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic."

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  20. Mar 9

    Just finished ’ wide-ranging Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change. So worth a pre-order if you’re interested in the ways in which mothering can be a political act of reimagination, re-embodiment, and repair. Q&A coming for my newsletter…

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