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Jerry Jennings

@jerryjennings.bsky.social

Retired teacher and school administrator, adjunct at Michigan State University for three decades, many years as a leadership coach, and I love to garden. Married over fifty years, three kids, and four grands.

37 Followers  |  70 Following  |  30 Posts  |  Joined: 26.01.2025  |  2.0795

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#democracy
#community
#lawinforcement
#democracydefender
#resist
#isthisanautocrary

As a citizen, I find these questions to be very inappropriate.

10.02.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#democracy
#community
#commongood
#FredRogers
#interdependance
#kindnessmatters
#collaborate
#languageshapesourreality

08.02.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The false story Trump is pitching (to wage his authoritarian crusade) must be challenged.

#turthmatters
#democracymatters
#democracy

08.02.2025 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yup!

08.02.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#

05.02.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#together
#strongertogether
#democracydefender
#createinconcert
#cocreate
#democracy

04.02.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just saying . . . working together is going to be important.

#collaborate
#democracy
#democracyforward
#thecommongoodmatters
#democracydefender
#justice
#createinconcert
#movetowardabrighterfuture

03.02.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Makes sense to
me!
#resistance
#democracyfotward
#createinconcert
##knowyourvalues

03.02.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thuth.
#democracy
#movetowardabrighterfuture
#commongood
#embracingcomplexity

03.02.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Government employees take an oath to the Constitution. Their mission is to serve the public.

03.02.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just sayin…

#demcray
#embracingcomplexity
#valuesmatter
#cannge

02.02.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Truth!

#readingmatters
#education
#learning
#allmeansall

01.02.2025 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As we consider how we can make a difference, as we think about our values may we be focused on the common good.
#commongood
#service
#leadership
#movetowardabrighterfuture

31.01.2025 17:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yup!

30.01.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes.

30.01.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Correspondent?😐πŸ«₯

30.01.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jerry Jennings's review of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5/5: β€œRight is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.” - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of H...

I I suggest it is time to reread or read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn you just read James by Percival Everett

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#fiction
#book
#booksky
#readingispower
#teachers
#education
#libraries
#systemicracism
#bookreview
#history
#timetothink

Click below - my review.

29.01.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jerry Jennings's review of James 5/5: James by Percival Everett (2024) is an insightful, important and necessary addition to the American canon - adding depth and breadth to the essential understanding of America through literature. ...

James is a necessary read!
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#James
#PercivalEverett
#book
#history
#readingispower
#bookaky
#teachers
#bookworthreading
#awardwinning
#education
#racism
#systemicracism
#libraries
#bookreview
#fiction

29.01.2025 16:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elections have consequences. We are in this together. We must not succumb to inaction and retreat.
It is a time to be aware. A DEMOCRACY DEPENDS on the will of the people.
#democracy
#thefuture
#commongood
#thewillofthepeople

29.01.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jerry Jennings's review of Goodbye Days 5/5: Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner (2017) is β€œIntelligent, intense, and life-affirming” according to the School Library Journal School Library Journal. This is the story of Carver Briggs, a teenager w...

Reviewers say this about Goodbye Days. β€œAn absorbing effort with emotional and psychological integrity.” β€œAn often raw meditation on grief and the futility of entertaining what-ifs.β€œ
My review is at: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#YA
#realisticfiction
#yafiction
#jeffzentner
#booksky
#greif

28.01.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jerry Jennings's review of The Night War 5/5: The Night War by Kimerly Brubaker Bradley (2024) is as Kirkus says in their starred review, this book is, β€œA gripping, humane tale that examines what war demands of children and what it costs.” ...

The Night War is an accessible middle school novel about the early stages of World War II. It is a fictionalize story of a true event that took place with a young person making a difference. See my review at; www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#middlegrade
#history
#teachers
#MG
#book
#booksky
#war

28.01.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (2024) is a middle grade novel for in verse and was a 2024 National Book Award Finalist in the category of Young People’s Literature.
Here is my review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
#middlegrade
#booksky
#ShifaSaltagiSafadi
#readingispower
#teachers
#MG

28.01.2025 20:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know Joyce is right. And I agree, learn what you have bandwidth for.

28.01.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Day 2

28.01.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here’s the money line in the acting AG’s letter firing the prosecutors who worked on the Trump case. Leadership does not trust you in β€œimplementing the president’s agenda.” DOJ supports and defends the Constitution, not the president’s agenda.

27.01.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4190    πŸ” 1379    πŸ’¬ 218    πŸ“Œ 87

True!

27.01.2025 22:58 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Here is another.
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton.

#Blacksky
#History
#Blackhistory

26.01.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Madness by Antonia Hilton.
#Bluesky
#nonfiction
#books
#Jimcrow

26.01.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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