Stef G-W

Thanks friend. I have a lot of regrets with life. Being a teacher is the greatest regret.

I went back to teaching public schools to work with #Deaf and Hard of Hearing Kids where I can actually make a difference.

Turns out my entire job now is writing IEPs and managing paperwork. I have to cancel time with kids to do paperwork.

Week 9: I don't want to be a #TeacherOfTheDeaf anymore.

I'm exhausted.

Working two jobs to make up for the one that nearly caused me to lose myself.

I thought my education would save me from 14 hour work days in dead end jobs. I was wrong. My education solidified my place in dead end jobs.

Things that jolt my brain in Indiana:
1. Smokers on school campuses
2. Vapers in school campuses
3. The sheer number of 'Indian' heads as mascots
4. How bad Dhh services are compared to other places (that said Center on Deafness is awesome)
5. Not knowing any of the swim officials yet.

The irony of the amount of rage I have completing these mandated #CrisisPreventionInstituteTM modules is not lost on me.

It really sucks to have a birthday party for both your kids and no one shows.

Driving around Indianapolis every day is making this place grow on me.

I'll never be at home in IN, but I'm feeling like I belong in Indy. #ItinerantTeacher #DeafEd

The more I see professionals out of certificate programs for deaf Ed, the more concerned I am for our kids.

Americans are more worried a kid will be gay than dead from another shooter.

We shouldn't be crying for dead children at the hands of another shooter again. And again. And again.

Searching for the Indianapolis #Union and #Labor events for #LaborDay2025... Find out they held their event this weekend instead of next weekend. Missed it completely :(

It's like going back to school in July. The state has schedules that makes no sense.

I kept checking to see if it was a full moon.

This is terrible! I hope to still communicate with you all here. If not, I’m on LinkedIn and FB.

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Stef is wearing a green UPI shirt. Her curly hair is styled like 2001 with butterfly clips and there is a gash in the middle of her forehead that looks more like Ashes for Lent.

I got hit in the head by a kid with a book titled "Love One Another" and needed stitches this week.

It's a reminder of just how sheltered I was from a lot of the hardest parts of teaching in academia.

That said, the scar on my head damaged me less than the scars on my spirit via HigerEd. #Trauma

I'm pretty sure that the plague is going around the first grade classroom that I co-teach in... And I'm pretty sure a respirator wouldn't prevent me from getting it. 😭

Who would have ever thought that "I" didn't mean "school"

Do not write IEPs for the services that you can fit in your schedule or the providers that are available. Write the IEP for the services that are needed because the only way to get more providers or justify a need to train more providers is to have shortages in meeting plan delivery.

Courts Let Trump Strip Collective Bargaining Rights From Huge Number of Federal Workers Just days after a federal appeals court cleared the way for President...

The answer to this is a strike. If they don't strike, they've handed their collective bargaining rights to him. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

So much I could have done in the last 10 years had I been met with doors instead of walls.

Bestie: ooo. You started church hunting. I hope it's a place with good potluck and zero bitches.

Me: that's the best blessing ever.

The most painful thing for me to watch is a kid denied a chance to thrive because their parent is a lawn mower.

Chinese TV translations into sign language aren't going well : Deaf professor who worked on one product says developers won’t listen to feedback – about their products or their tech bro ways

Well, duh. That’s why you should listen to deaf people. They know what they’re talking about. Hearies shouldn’t assume they have all the answers.

My #FlyDelta flight has an info screen that says Indianapolis is self-declared as America's most walkable city.

I would love to know if these people have ever gone to another city.

There is no walk-ability in the places I'm living and where there is a walking area, there is nothing to walk to. 🤷

If I could spend every single day of the rest of my life at Deaf camp, I would.

I am on the highest of highs from working with the greatest staff and the coolest kids.

One of the modern Dante's Inferno levels of hell punishments customized to Middle Grades Teachers would include the damnation of sitting with only teachers who love to pretend play scenarios during PD.

I'm with them. July 30 is a stupid start date for school. 🤣

School starts Wednesday. My older kid said, "we don't get 104 days of summer vacation." 🤬

#PhineasAndFerb

The mortuary?

Why must #PowerSchool continually use "SPED"? As a field, we know that disabled people prefer not to use the umbrella term "SPED" because it gets used to lower their value or dehumanize.

The amount of times I have heard "we can't find qualified interpreters, so we just assign language facilitators so they don't need an interpreter license" makes me want to scream.

Language deprivation is neglect.

School starting in July instead of August or September has completely taken everything from me.

#IndianaSucks