Shannon Salter

Can we just be open about how “originalism” is just code for “we miss the Constitution before the 14th Amendment.”

Recording this episode with Mary Beth Tinker and Elizabeth Evans was a DREAM! We discuss teaching and protecting free speech in the classroom. Give it a listen!

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Thank you!!!

Grading should be about mastery of the subject being taught. Putting everyone on a normal distribution is fundamentally unfair.

Mr. Bob Dodge, high school, Modern European History and AP MEH. Introduced me to the Scarlet Pimpernel and Barbara Tuchman…first time I encountered history outside of terrible textbooks. He’s one of two teachers who whisper in my ear as I teach today: “Keep the story in history!”

In addition to so many good ideas…I teach high school. My instructional plans are always in the same place in our LMS and my students are well versed in how to figure out what’s expected on any given day. Whether they are absent or I am, they know how to get the learning they are owed.

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Stop comparing #AlligatorAlcatraz to Nazi concentration camps. The U.S. gov has built concentration camps before. What Trump is doing is not un-American. The worst things he could do are things our government has already done.

Native history is often treated like a tragic, distant chapter of the American story & the legal terrain it created like a siloed, backwater of American law. But it is foundational. Not knowing this history is like not knowing you have cancer. One day it will take over.
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Grades should reflect what a student knows and can do at the moment in time when the grade is published. We don’t make Olympic athletes average their training runs into their final race times.

A little on the nose…

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

What will you pledge?

@lucykirchh.bsky.social Hi! I’m so excited- I’m registering for your digital citizenship class (ISTE)! I’m tasked with writing a new digital citizenship elective for my HS over the summer.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Duckworth statement on Trump’s strikes against Iran nuclear sites.

Trump bombing Iran was illegal and unjustified.

I ran for Congress to make sure our leaders consider the true costs of war.

And I will be in the Senate, standing on my titanium legs, demanding answers from Trump.

My statement:

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

It becomes frustrating to see elementary and middle schools refusing to implement the consistent evidence that the pathway to literacy travels through authentic reading and writing in content…social studies and science.

Who’s in?

Shapiro Administration Announces 33 PA High Schools Earn<br>Governor's Civic Engagement Awards for Helping About 5,000<br>Eligible Students Register to Vote The <strong>Shapiro Administration</strong> announced today that 33 Pennsylvania high schools won <a href="https://www.pa.gov/agencies/vote/programs/civic-engagement-award.html" target="new">Governor'...

It was my honor to escort students to Harrisburg to accept our school’s 7th straight Governor’s Civic Engagement Award. I am humbled by the Commonwealth’s surprise recognition of my work.

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FACTS!

NASA has never built a rocket. They’re all built by private contractors- the military-industrial complex. Boeing. McDonnell Douglas. Lockheed Martin. Every era of US Space exploration has had its SpaceXs.

A lot of rockets blew up. Astronauts died during tests. We just didn’t get to watch it live while it happened.
There has been a time in the history of everything that works when they didn’t work.
There’s a reason we don’t routinely fly to other planets…yet.

The administration has- or had- institutions it could direct to conduct research according to its agenda . It dismantled them.

Studio C70 - Shannon Salter Election Day Interview YouTube video by Committee of Seventy

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The Constitution doesn’t give rights to Presidents. It gives rights to the people. The very fact that she started there shows the dangerously unconstitutional mindset we’re seeing in action now.
With regard to Lincoln, his suspension (not use) of habeus corpus was quite controversial.

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Today on FB, @committeeof70.bsky.social is hosting an Election Day Edition of Studio C70. Join me at 3:30 as we discuss civic education and how the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap can help us deliver quality civic preparation for all students.

I believe in making students show me what they’ve learned, even if it’s late. But I’m firm with them from the get go. In exchange for a very accommodating policy about due dates, you will accept my grading timeframe. When you put work In my hands I’ll give you an estimate, and you’ll accept it.

I’m thinking “tonight’s my mom’s birthday and I planned not to work tonight.”

It’s one of those things that people don’t see about teaching. Because we don’t have enough time during the work day to grade everything, we sometimes plan our work/our life around when big student task will be turned in. Turn something in a week late? You may think “it’s only 1 thing to rate,”

@herberthistory.bsky.social so I guess #HATM can’t do Air Force One ‘cause it’s a rental/purchase on Prime. Sigh. It’s totally a history movie.

I was obsessed with this movie for a time as a kid. I am often opposed to nostalgic remakes, but I think someone could do something brilliant with this. #HATM