Beth Puma

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This morning I returned to @intlschoolsservices where I started my international school career!

I had the pleasure of facilitating a #ISSedu workshop where we explored the belonging and language.

I saw a funny video of a Spanish TV judge saying a person who speaks two languages is bilingual, a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and a person who speaks one language is an Americano

#MLL #badbunny 🍎

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I have no hot takes. Lots of amazing people have talked about the layers and layers of imagery, resistance, and joy from Benito Bowl. Just wanted to let it be known, I fucking loved it.

AI, TPT, corporate intervention programs, kitchen-sink-scripted curriculums, and state-approved reading lists are trying to "teacher-proof" education to protect an ugly status quo.

Designing learning with love, intention, strategy and equity is one of our most powerful forms of resistance.

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.

This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.

They hate the helpers.

Which is why must keep helping.

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Join me in February.

January newsletter out later this week.

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Another #MLLEcosystemProject testimonial rolls in.

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A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.

Tan Huyhn and I are excited to share our third @Edutopia article featuring strategies for supporting experienced Multilinguals with writing.

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I will always remember five years ago today teaching a distance leaning US History class to English Language Learner Newcomers. We were studying the Civil War and neither they or I could understand how the Confederate flag was being waved in the US Capitol

Cultivating Multilingual Ecosystems by Embracing Systematic Change | The International Educator (TIE Online) What if "every teacher is a language teacher" wasn’t a slogan but a schoolwide commitment to multilingual learners’ success...

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alway always always money for perpetual war. never enough for education and healthcare.

Coaching Session - Beth Puma Personalized coaching sessions are about you! We can explore an inquiry question you have about your practice, strategize around collaboration, look at students' artifacts of learning, or whatever els...

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BREAKING

Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”

In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING at the Sipsey River make small steps. in this wild place there are signs of life everywhere. sharp spaces, too: the slip of a rain-glazed rock against my searching feet. small steps, like prayers-each one a hope exhaled into the trees. please, let me enter. please, let me leave whole. there are, too, the tiny sounds of faraway birds. the safety in their promise of song. the puddle forming, finally, after summer rain. the golden butterfly against the cave-dark. maybe there are angels here, too what else can i call the crown of light atop the leaves? what else can i call my footsteps forward, small, small, sure? By Ashley M. Jones

Ashley M. Jones Ashley M. Jones is the Poet Laureate of Alabama. She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections, including most recently Reparations Now! She is the co-editor of What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People. Her work has been featured by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, ABC News, and the New York Times. She is the associate director of the University Honors Program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and she teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Converse University.

I love @jess5th.bsky.social’s tradition of starting and ending the year with a poem. Ashley M. Jones’s “Lullaby for the Grieving” is perfect.

maybe there are angels here, too—

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Through consulting, coaching, and the #MLLEcosystemProject I tried to walk in my values and help others walk in theirs.

Thank you to the educators across the 🌎 who trusted me to be apart of their learning journey.

#multilingualecosystem #mllscando

MLL Ecosystem Project Are you tired of one-and-done professional developments that are exciting yet don't gain traction in your school? Are you ready to transform your practice? Are you looking to transform a system? Are.....

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January is the perfect time to be in community with other equity minded educators.

Whether you are an educational leader designing systems aligned with your values, or an educator strengthening your instructional toolbox, we are stronger when we learn and grow in community together.

A Promising Mythconception | The International Educator (TIE Online) Exploring opportunities to make the often-repeated but inaccurate mantra that "every teacher is a language teacher" a potential reality…

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Hexagonal Thinking: A Colorful Tool for Discussion | Cult of Pedagogy If you've been looking for a fresh way to get students thinking outside the box, this may be just what you need.

This strategy sparks joy. So simple, minimal prep. High discussion. High reasoning.

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That feeling as a coach, when you share a strategy that really sparks your coachee. You see them get excited. You see the wheels turning. You see them immediately start building/planning.

It's the small wins, am I right?

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Trump and McMahon Wipe Out Special Education Staff in Education Department Secretary of Education Linda McMahon took advantage of the federal government shutdown to impose additional cuts to the Department of Education. The deepest cuts were imposed on the Office for Civi…

Trump and McMahon slash staff that oversees funding for special education:
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September Newsletter is out this week. I'm exploring alignment to core values and being real with who we are as educators, especially in times when so many of our students are under attack.

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