A total of 281 teachers and staff at kindergartens, public elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan were disciplined for sexual offenses in fiscal 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/japan/crime-legal/sexual-misconduct-educators/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #mext #elementaryschools #juniorhighschools #highschools #children #sexcrimes #kindergartens #teachers #surveys
A panel on Monday released draft guidelines for a system to check the sexual offense records of teachers and others whose work involves contact with children. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/japan/japan-dbs-guidelines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sexcrimes #teachers #children #schools #childrenandfamiliesagency
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#Mexico - Clashes between police and protesters broke out during the march organized by #teachers from the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).
They think they are very radical in the CNTE, but in reality they join forces with the right wing."
That is the criticism made by President Claudia Sheinbaum. (The government that would not repress the people 🤡)
Hundreds of teachers marched once again in the historic center of the Mexican capital during the 48-hour national strike called by the CNTE union to demand increased education funding, improved conditions in rural schools, and the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE law and the 2019 education reform.
After the clashes with police, teachers set up a tent city in front of the Chamber of Deputies building to demand the government respond to their demands.
The National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), one of Mexico’s most powerful teachers’ unions, has maintained a series of protests in Mexico City since May 15 as part of a national strike to demand changes in working and educational conditions.
Demonstrations have included toll booth takeovers, embassy protests, sit-ins at the capital’s Zócalo, blockades at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and main roads.
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#Mexico - Clashes between police and protesters broke out during the march organized by #teachers from the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE).
They think they are very radical in the CNTE, but in reality they join forces with the right wing."
That is the criticism made by President Claudia Sheinbaum. (The government that would not repress the people 🤡)
Hundreds of teachers marched once again in the historic center of the Mexican capital during the 48-hour national strike called by the CNTE union to demand increased education funding, improved conditions in rural schools, and the repeal of the 2007 ISSSTE law and the 2019 education reform.
After the clashes with police, teachers set up a tent city in front of the Chamber of Deputies building to demand the government respond to their demands.
The National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE), one of Mexico’s most powerful teachers’ unions, has maintained a series of protests in Mexico City since May 15 as part of a national strike to demand changes in working and educational conditions.
Demonstrations have included toll booth takeovers, embassy protests, sit-ins at the capital’s Zócalo, blockades at Mexico City International Airport (AICM) and main roads.
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZvqvIZdFkgcRurzuk27J2z7zeag7PPfnP7
Tokyo’s Board of Education has drafted guidelines aimed at protecting teachers from irrational requests and abusive behaviors from parents, from limiting the duration of meetings to having a lawyer handle complaints. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/10/japan/society/teachers-parents-tokyo-harassment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #schools #children #teachers #tokyo #parenthood #customerharassment
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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/
The government’s plan to tighten background checks on prospective teachers for records of sexual offenses leaves major loopholes, as certain crimes such as stalking will remain outside the system’s scope. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/27/japan/crime-legal/dbs-flaws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #teachers #childabuse #sexcrimes #fukuoka
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.
1/x
Ika Makimaki
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
