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The Bee Guy
@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Mornin’.

Read this recently and it hit hard.

Good teachers are the foundations of good people and a better society.

Great teachers are star dust.

Maybe take a moment.

#teachers
#kids
#caring

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!

Here comes a film thread! 👇

PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!

Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.

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#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching

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@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!

Here comes a film thread! 👇

PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!

Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.

@histodons
#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching

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@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

If you have joyful protest and activism on your mind, we have some great film recommendations to feed your heart and at the same time learn about protest history!

Here comes a film thread! 👇

PS Links go to our website, which includes information on where you can view these films, as well as our free lesson plans and discussion guides for your own use or for teaching with these films in your classrooms and community groups!

Edit: Added film trailers because they are all wonderful.

@histodons
#Activism #Democracy #Protests #History #Movies #Documentaries #NoKings #Histodons #CivicEngagement #Education #Homeschooling #Teachers #Teaching

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

A man in Fukuoka arrested for allegedly using a forged teaching license changed his surname repeatedly, apparently to avoid being identified on a national registry for teachers punished for child sexual abuse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/17/japan/crime-legal/fukuoka-man-teacher-database/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #students #teachers #childabuse #sexcrimes #prostitution #fukuoka

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Teacher in Fukuoka avoid identification on child sex registry by changing name

The board of education said that it did not find the suspect's name on the national register when it hired him this spring.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

At a time when overwork among teachers is attracting attention as a serious social problem in Japan, education technology services to help them out digitally are gaining traction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/edtech-teachers-burden/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #education #teachers

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Education technology on rise in Japan to ease teachers' burden

The market for 'ed tech' will grow some 1.4 times from fiscal 2021 to ¥362.5 billion in fiscal 2027, Nomura Research Institute estimates.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Teachers in Japan are paying out of their own pocket to prepare teaching materials and other supplies that are supposed to be covered by the schools’ budgets, according to a nationwide survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/13/japan/school-teacher-payment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #hiroshima #education #teachers

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Many public school teachers pay out of pocket for work-related costs

Payments for expenses related to classes made up 58.8% of the cases, the highest rate.
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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Elementary and junior high school teachers in Japan still work the longest hours among their peers worldwide, according to an OECD report released Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/japan/society/oecd-survey-japan-teachers-working-hours/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #teachers #surveys #oecd #education #schools #ai

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

An elementary school teacher pleaded guilty to charges of sharing child pornography via social media, in the first hearing on his case at the Nagoya District Court on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/01/japan/crime-legal/teacher-child-pornography-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #nagoya #yokohama #teachers #childporn #socialmedia

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Elementary school teacher pleads guilty to sharing child sex abuse images

The charges are 'correct, and I'm very sorry,' said Fumiya Kosemura, a teacher at a public elementary school in Yokohama.
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DoomsdaysCW
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

One of the folks I had the opportunity to talk to at a #MaineRivers conference some years ago was #PenobscotNation member #JohnBanks. So glad to see him being honored... He has been a tireless advocate for the #PenobscotRiver!

"Banks was the Penobscot Nation’s representative on the Maine-Indian State Tribal Commission from 1987 to 2021, making him its longest-serving member. He also served on many local, regional and national organization boards, including the National Tribal Environmental Council, Native American Fish and Wildlife Society, National Indian Policy Center, and the Tribal Operations Committee with the federal EPA.

"But arguably Banks’ most noteworthy accomplishment involves bringing a Wabanaki voice and leadership to the historic #PenobscotRiverRestorationProject (1999-2016) in which two dams nearest to the sea were removed and a stream-like bypass channel was completed around a third dam at Howland.

"Completed in 2016, the $63 million restoration project opened almost 2,000 miles of habitat for 11 species of sea-run fish that had been choked off from their spawning grounds for almost two centuries by dams across the river.

"Since then, the river has come back alive with millions of river herring joined by Atlantic salmon, shad, sturgeon and other species in numbers that hadn’t been seen on the Penobscot River for nearly two centuries. Laura Rose Day credits Banks with a key intervention in 2002, when it looked like negotiations that had been going on for three years between #EnvironmentalGroups and the #hydro company owner were about to collapse.

" '[John] asked for a few minutes,' she wrote in a 2014 Christian Science Monitor commentary recalling the moment. 'Removing an eagle feather from a cloth wrap, he circled the table, laying the feather on each shoulder. He reminded us that, no matter whom we served, we were also responsible for being the voice for all the creatures of the river – the birds, the fish, and all of the people as well. The common goal had to be the health of the river.' "

Read more:
https://www.wabanakialliance.com/nihkaniyane2025-johnbanks/

#WaterIsLife #WabanakiAlliance #Wabanaki #Nihkaniyane #MaineRivers #DamRemoval #RiverRestoration

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DoomsdaysCW
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

Another 2025 #Nihkaniyane honoree -#BrianneLolar!

"Brianne Lolar is one of three individuals honored by the #WabanakiAlliance at the 2025 Nihkaniyane event. A citizen of the #PenobscotNation, Lolar is a beloved elementary school teacher who left the classroom four years ago to begin doing equally important work as the first #WabanakiStudies Specialist for the Maine Department of Education. In that work she is bringing voice and representation to the Wabanaki people through partnerships with Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and organizations who’ve been working together to achieve unmet goals and objectives of the 2001 requiring that #WabanakiHistory and culture be taught and integrated into the K-12 curriculum.

"A 2022 report from the Wabanaki Alliance, #AbbeMuseum, #ACLU of Maine, and Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission noted the law has not been implemented meaningfully across the state. Those findings and the work of a task force leading up to the report are what led Lolar to leave her 'happy place' of teaching in the classroom and enter the challenging give-and-take realm of state government where she’s been working on year-to-year contracts to help teachers and school districts fulfill the goals of the 2001 law.

" 'I knew I can’t complain about nothing being done if I’m not going to step up and sacrifice,' she says. 'My thinking was ‘It’s just a year and I’ll go back to teaching. It could go away again at any time. So I need to make the most of this opportunity.'

"Her sense of urgency motivated a 'can-do' approach that made sure yearly progress was being made to create a solid foundation for Wabanaki studies being taught across the entire state."

Read more:
https://www.wabanakialliance.com/nihkaniyane2025-briannelolar/

#WabanakiAlliance #Wabanaki #LanguagePreservation #WabanakiLanguage #CulturalPreservation #PreservingHistory #IndigenousLanguage #IndigenousHistory #Teachers

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

We have free resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom and community.

The Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down film guides include tools for sensitive, productive conversations about gun violence. These guides are powerful, accessible and not political at all. The team that worked on them includes gun violence survivors and it shows.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

We have free resources to help you talk about gun violence in your classroom and community.

The Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down film guides include tools for sensitive, productive conversations about gun violence. These guides are powerful, accessible and not political at all. The team that worked on them includes gun violence survivors and it shows.

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/gabby-giffords-wont-back-down/

@education

#GunViolence#SchoolSafety#US#UsNews#Shooting #Education#Teachers#Minneapolis#Minnesota#Teaching #K12

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The education ministry is considering launching a model project in fiscal 2026 to dispatch cram school lecturers and others with teaching qualifications to public schools as temporary teachers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/japan/japan-substitute-teacher-plan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #schools #teachers #education #mext

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

What we're reading:

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."

We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/3

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/

@education @edutooters

#Education#Educators#Edutooters#Teachers#Teaching#EdTech

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

What we're reading:

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."

We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/3

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/

@education @edutooters

#Education#Educators#Edutooters#Teachers#Teaching#EdTech

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Journeys In Film
@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

What we're reading:

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows."

We know that educators are bombarded with (VC-funded) hype about AI tools as magical solutions. Please don't take these claims at face value and do your own due diligence. 1/3

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/ai-teacher-assistants-promote-racial-bias-study-finds/

@education @edutooters

#Education#Educators#Edutooters#Teachers#Teaching#EdTech

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The boards of education in two rural towns in Oita Prefecture will together launch a program in fiscal 2026 to nurture educators who have strong connections to the local community. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/04/japan/nurturing-teachers-locally/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #education #schools #teachers #kusu#kokonoe #oita

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

A group chat that teachers allegedly used to share illicit images of elementary school girls has reignited the question: Is Japan facing a systemic failure to protect children from predatory educators? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/16/japan/crime-legal/teachers-students-sexual-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #schools #students #children #sexcrimes #mext #teachers #sexualharassment #childporn

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@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

STEM teachers, did you know that we have film-based lesson plans for STEM classes, too? Many of these lessons can work with showing just scenes of the film or without showing the film at all.

Check out:

Calculating Orbits for Space Travel - Hidden Figures

Chinese Number Rods - Please Vote For Me

Echolocation Class Activity - Whale Rider

Generating Electricity - The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Goldilocks Planets - One Strange Rock

Rainforest Ecology - River of Gold

(These are just examples, there are many more!)

Like all of our resources, these lesson plans are available free from our library. If you have questions about our materials our would like help finding something for your classroom, we're happy to help.

https://journeysinfilm.org/library/

@stemeducation @education @edutooters

#Education#Stem#StemEducation#Teachers#Teaching#Homeschooling

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@JourneysInFilm@hcommons.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

STEM teachers, did you know that we have film-based lesson plans for STEM classes, too? Many of these lessons can work with showing just scenes of the film or without showing the film at all.

Check out:

Calculating Orbits for Space Travel - Hidden Figures

Chinese Number Rods - Please Vote For Me

Echolocation Class Activity - Whale Rider

Generating Electricity - The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind

Goldilocks Planets - One Strange Rock

Rainforest Ecology - River of Gold

(These are just examples, there are many more!)

Like all of our resources, these lesson plans are available free from our library. If you have questions about our materials our would like help finding something for your classroom, we're happy to help.

https://journeysinfilm.org/library/

@stemeducation @education @edutooters

#Education#Stem#StemEducation#Teachers#Teaching#Homeschooling

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