Christina Junko-Charuk
@msp_bhs
Ukrainian 🇺🇦 English teacher 📖 Poetess 🖋️ Coffee devotee ☕ Dog mom 🐶
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Here is a portrait of Ira Aldridge(1807-1867), one of the first Black American tragedians, made by Ukrainian artist and poet Taras Shevchenko in 1858. About their connection and how did they meet – read the thread. 🧵 Celebrating Black History Month (which should be every month)
For nearly 50 years, bell hooks was an influential thinker, theorist, and cultural critic. Here’s where to start with the work of this trailblazing Black Feminist. on.nypl.org/3j59yML
To every Eastern European who sees this - you are smart and beautiful, you deserve all respect and love in this world. You are not “less than”. You are brave and resilient. You should be proud to be Eastern European and say it loudly every time people ask you where you’re from.
Read Ukrainian poetry. It tells more about Ukraine than one may suppose. ❤️
Do not become indifferent to #Ukraine. Do not become indifferent to war.
1. In what year was this person teaching that students were passing notes? 2. Who are students supposed to talk to if not each other?
I ruled my first few years teaching with the “GOTCHA!” mindset. Chewing Gum? GOTCHA! Passing notes? GOTCHA! Talking to peers? GOTCHA! When I shifted my focus from “rules” to “rapport” everything changed. Trust is the bond of a relationship in which one knows they are loved.
I love teaching AND — interacting with 160 often fairly needy teenagers each day can be exhausting
#Unions are more popular with the public now than at any point in the past 5 decades because working people are fed up with low pay, unsafe working conditions & shoddy treatment on the job. This momentum won't wane; in fact, workers are doubling down on standing together. @AFLCIO
Not to name and shame but to know who are those who voted against a tribunal for putin @Europarl_EN In favour - 472 Against - 19 Putin is a war criminal, and criminals should be punished. European citizens deserve to know the names of EMPs who don’t agree and promote impunity
A few of the problems with attrition and the lack of new teachers pool is: 1) workload increases every year without relief 2) many feel lack of support, respect, value, etc. 3) pay doesn't even keep up with inflation, much less reflect the professional nature of the work.
Without a way to name our pain, we are also without words to articulate our pleasure. —bell hooks
Winter came once again to teach me things I don’t want to know. This ground is fallow. Used. Depleted. Holding it's breath for Sirocco. Wondering if all winds blow cold. But poetry lies beneath. Dormant. Hallow. Music... Birthing hope. Birthing life. Birthing victory. 🇺🇦
I don't care if you're a Ukrainian *in* #Ukraine, or a Ukrainian in Canada, Chicago, Taiwan, or Brazil; every one of us is part of the "we", when we talk about #Ukraine. Ukrainians are united in trauma, grief, pride, & love. WE are living through this together. WE are a family.
"When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights—that we respect and uphold their rights." ~bell hooks rlstollar.com/2020/12/06/lov…
Meet Elton from the search and rescue dog unit @Antares_poshuk These volunteer dog trainers work with all structures simultaneously: the police, SES,and others, without payment or medals. Now they’re in the Dnipro, looking for people under the rubble. Photo: Antares.Poshuk (Inst)
I know you feel terrible about all of those pictures. We are terrified to see it and to feel it over and over for real.
These people were having a regular weekend in their homes, despite everyday war, families and children thought they were safe. They wanted to feel safe. But you are never safe with a terrorist neighbor. Ukraine needs weapons. To fight, to defend. To avoid such horrible deaths.
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