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As a teacher who has worked with Rachel & her colleagues in school, is supervised by her at #EdD and has beared witness to the working relationships & collective dialogues she creates, all I know is that she is actually freakin' awesome ... (1/?) https://twitter.com/DrRLofthouse/status/1287612970013532161
... (2/) yeah, she peeves ppl now & again because she doesn't agree with everything that everybody says & she quite rightly asks questions that many are too scared to put out there - what self-respecting academic wouldn't? Heck, she doesn't always agree with me but she never ...
... (3/) beats me down or tells me I'm in the wrong. We discuss & she is open to my experiences & my understandings - sometimes she might even learn from me, although it's mainly the other way round tbf ...
... (4/) I'm not a player on twitter, I learn lots from it & enjoy the opportunity to meet ppl I wouldn't in real life but there are aspects to twitter that are quite frankly, diabolical - when somebody on the outskirts like me can predict exactly who will react to a post ...
... (5/) & how vile an exchange will take place. Not just on the original thread but elsewhere too, then you have to question the motivation of those repeat offenders. As a teacher, I am all too often disappointed in the behaviour of some other teachers on here & as a parent ...
... (6/6) I can only ever hope that my children are never taught by such individuals. Not because of their teaching approaches but because of the petty & obnoxious commentary I see on here. No wonder education is such a fractured mess if we can't even play twitter properly.
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