#<- has the media literacy of a walnut

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Solar saying "why did you do this?" has me feeling ill. I will be rotating this in my mind forever, hope this helps

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THE RUSSIAN ARMY IS DOING ETHNIC CLEANSING IN UKRAINE YOU ABSOLUTE ROTTEN WALNUT. THIS IS VERY WELL DOCUMENTED. HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU COME ON MY POST CASTING DOUBT ON AN ONGOING ATTEMPTED GENOCIDE PACKAGED IN CONCERN ABOUT MEDIA LITERACY.

(Also almost every country on earth has at least one English language news outlet. To claim that you can not access other perspectives as an English speaker is incredibly inaccurate. No one else has an easier time accessing media from every country than English speakers.)

Not having terrible takes about China gets sooooo much easier when you drill it into your head that China and the US are two capitalist authoritative systems that are competing for global market domination by any means.

Like, that's all there is to it. The US will say shit about China that's inaccurate and fearmongering, but when we address that misinformation we should acknowledge that China is not some underdog we should be rooting for, it's a massive state that's genuinely terrible in other, accurate ways because it is a capitalist authoritative system.

There are differences, of course. Like the US tries to uphold a vague pretense of democracy and human rights and is a little more restrained about putting minorities in concentration camps (but still doing some of it), while China has been less aggressive about starting wars in other countries and drone bombing countries it claims not to be at war with. But it would be ridiculous to look at that and decide that one of these is a Good Guy. They are states. They are not on our side. Not ever.

China and the US are two capitalist authoritative systems that are competing for global market domination. When the chips come down, both of them would probably work together if they thought it was necessary to keep oppressing the working class, because in terms of class interests they are on the same side. Not our side.

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have y’all seen the weirdos on tiktok trying to truth espresseleine being canon in the same way that SEAMOON is. because wtf is up with that

(edit: p.s. read my tags)

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Daily Digest

Tennessee Gets $19.6M For Charter Schools

The Tennessee Department of Education is getting a $19.6 million share of $245 million in federal funding to support public charter schools.

The grant from the the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday, Sept. 29, will be used to start and expand charter schools selected by state education officials as well as replicate successful charter school models, said Sara Gast of the Tennessee Federal money Department of Education.

Gast said the grant will also be used to “decrease the number of academically poor-performing charter schools by strengthening charter school accountability and oversight of authorizers and support improvements in all schools with emphasis on closing achievement gaps for educationally disadvantaged students.”

– Bill Dries

Trampoline Park Coming To Trinity Commons

A new retail tenant in Trinity Commons shopping center in Cordova could have some Memphians jumping for joy.

Loeb Properties Inc. announced it has leased 30,000 square feet at the center, 700 N. Germantown Parkway, to national trampoline park chain Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park.

Construction on the facility should begin before November, with an opening date in spring 2017.

Urban Air provides a variety of activities, weekly events, and kids’ birthday parties that are safe and affordable. The Cordova location will include Urban Air’s award-winning wall-to-wall trampoline arenas, dodgeball courts, volleyball courts, drop zone, performance trampoline, slam dunk tracks, trampoline runway, and an area for ages 7 and under. The Cordova location will also have Urban Air’s latest adventure attractions the Urban Warrior Course, Warrior Battle Beam, TUBES Indoor Playground, Climbing Walls and Indoor Ropes Course.

“This will be a one-of-a-kind facility that will attract families from across Cordova, Germantown, Bartlett and Memphis,” Michael Browning, CEO of Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Parks, said in a statement.

Urban Air will employ 45 at its location in Cordova, and will begin accepting applications this winter.

– Daily News staff

Memphis Has High Density Of Health Care Jobs

Memphis has one of the highest densities of health care jobs in the nation, according to a new study.

Findings of the study by apartment listing service Abodo found that 63.1 of every 1,000 jobs in the Memphis metropolitan statistical area are in the health care practitioner and technician sectors, making Memphis No. 7 in density of health care jobs among the nation’s 25 largest cities.

Adobo’s study was released Wednesday, Sept. 28, and looked at jobs in the five fastest-growing occupation categories, calculated using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2012 to 2015.

Among the other categories, construction and extraction jobs garnered 29.9 of every 1,000 jobs in the Memphis MSA, while computers and mathematics accounted for 14.7 of 1,000. Community and social service jobs came it at 9.8 of every 1,000, while the arts, design, entertainment, sports and media sectors accounted for seven of 1,000.

Nashville also was listed among the cities with the highest densities of health care jobs. With a ratio of 63.9 out of 1,000 jobs, it came in at No. 6 on the list.

– Madeline Faber

Tri-State Reports Success Of Bank-a-Thon Campaign

Tri-State Bank of Memphis is reporting its inaugural Bank-a-Thon, a community outreach campaign last month to engage with and attract new customers, resulted in 294 new accounts totaling $1.1 million in new deposits.

The Bank-a-Thon included a series of events designed to increase awareness of its services, improve financial literacy among its target audiences, and empower consumers to recognize their individual and collective potential to drive economic growth in African-American communities, according to the bank.

Founded in 1946, Tri-State is the only black-owned bank in the city of Memphis. It is headquartered Downtown and has branches in Orange Mound and Whitehaven. The bank also serves customers in Northern Mississippi and Eastern Arkansas.

“Tri-State Bank has built financial relationships since 1946 and we remain committed to providing personalized service and financial solutions to meet the growing needs of an entire community,” CEO Thomas Felder said in a statement.

The bank reports that partnerships with other minority-led institutions, including the Southern Heritage Classic and the LeMoyne-Owen Community Development Corp., have shown success in building and maintaining relationships with its target consumers.

– Daily News staff

Agricenter Harvest Festival To Be Held Oct. 15

The annual Agricenter Harvest Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 15, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be held at the Farmer’s Market Big Red Barn on Agricenter property, 7777 Walnut Grove Road, and is free to the public. Among the activities: pumpkin-painting, arts and crafts, hayrides, food, and entertainment by local bluegrass band Tennessee Ripple.

Some 40 volunteers are needed to help with the Harvest Festival. Visit agricenter.org/harvestfestival to sign up.

– Don Wade

Ferguson Named AAC Offensive Player of Week

Junior University of Memphis quarterback Riley Ferguson was named the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week after tying a Memphis and league record with seven touchdowns, including one rushing, in a 77-3 victory over Bowling Green.

Ferguson now shares the TD mark with former Tiger quarterback Paxton Lynch, who twice accounted for seven touchdowns (Miami Beach Bowl, 2014; vs SMU, 2015).

Playing just the first half against Bowling Green, Ferguson was 20-for-27, finishing with 359 yards passing and adding his first career rushing touchdown. The 359 yards was the 11th-best mark in Memphis history. In all, Ferguson found six different receivers for touchdowns in the opening half of the game as the Tigers had 11 different players score in the non-conference victory.

Memphis closes its non-conference schedule Saturday, Oct. 1, at Ole Miss in a game that will kick at 6 p.m. The game will air on either ESPNU, ESPN2 or the SEC Network+.

– Don Wade

Memphis YMCA Gets $10,000 Comcast Donation

The YMCA of Memphis & the Mid-South was one of five Ys chosen to receive $10,000 from Comcast as part of its Internet Essentials program.

The YMCA of the USA partnered with Comcast on a comprehensive $15.3 million plan that combines the Y’s commitment to strengthening communities and improving the lives of children and families, and Comcast’s Internet Essentials, a program to help prepare the next generation for the future.

The multiyear partnership will bring more visibility to the Y’s “For a better us” English and Spanish public service announcements, and Comcast will provide grants to further support digital literacy and academic achievement programs at Ys nationwide.

The $10,000 donations to Memphis and Ys in Philadelphia, Houston, Indianapolis and central Maryland mark the partnership’s launch.

– Daily News staff

Overton High Chosen For Advise TN Program

Overton High School has been one of 30 schools statewide chosen to participate in Advise TN, a new program to increase the number of students accessing higher education.

Schools taking part in the program will work with an Advise TN college adviser to provide college counseling services to 10,000 junior and senior students across the state this fall.

Advise TN services will include one-on-one counseling sessions for each junior and senior to map out college goals, participation in events such as College App Week and TN FAFSA Frenzy, and ensuring students are completing the applications and financial aid paperwork to enroll in college.

Advise TN counselors will also provide parent and family outreach.

In May, high schools with a college-going rate below the state average were invited to apply for the program. More than 100 schools applied and underwent an evaluation process by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and a team of proposal readers. Selected schools indicated a commitment to collaborative and innovative college access programming.

THEC is finalizing the hiring of the 30 college advisers and creating implementation plans for the partner schools.

Advise TN was included in Gov. Bil Haslam’s 2016-17 budget proposal and approved by the General Assembly with funding of $2.5 million.

Advise TN partner schools are expected to develop sustainability plans to continue the program beyond initial state funding.

– Daily News staff

UTHSC Adds New Department Chair

Dr. Boyd Gillespie has been named chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

He comes to UTHSC from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, where he was a professor and vice chair of clinical outreach in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck in the College of Medicine, and director of the MUSC Salivary Clinic and the Karl Storz U.S. Reference Center for Salivary Endoscopy.

Throughout his career, Gillespie has focused on the treatment of head and neck cancer, thyroid tumors, voice and airway disorders, swallowing disorders and sleep apnea. He was one of the first four surgeons in the U.S. to perform endoscopic salivary surgery, and has educated many U.S. surgeons who perform the technique.

– Andy Meek

Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein Campaigns in Memphis

Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein will campaign in Memphis at a rally Monday, Oct. 3, at Amurica Studios, 410 N. Cleveland St.

The rally organized by the Green Party of Shelby County is the first appearance in the city by a presidential contender of the general election campaign season. It comes two weeks and two days before the early voting period opens in Tennessee in advance of the Nov. 8 Election Day.

Stein is scheduled to hold a similar event at 7 that evening in Oxford, Miss.

– Bill Dries

UTHSC Professor Awarded $3.4M in Grants

Dr. Subhash Chauhan, a professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pathology in the University of Tennessee Health Science Center Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine, has received two grants totaling $3.4 million to develop targeted nanomedicine for pancreatic cancer.

Chauhan and his research team are developing new and innovative nanotherapeutic options to combat the disease. His projects, titled “Targeted Nanotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer” and “Development of Targeted Nanotechnology Platform for Pancreatic Cancer,” are funded by the National Cancer Institute. Each $1.7 million grant will be distributed over five years.

– Andy Meek

August Unemployment Rate Dips in Shelby County

Shelby County’s preliminary unemployment rate was 5.7 percent in August, down from 6.7 percent in August 2015 but up slightly from July’s revised rate of 5.6 percent, according to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

The rate within the city of Memphis was a little higher – 6.3 percent – but still lower than the 7.4 percent rate a year ago.

Statewide, August’s preliminary rate came in at 4.4 percent, down from 5.6 percent in August 2015. U.S. unemployment was 4.9 percent, a slight drop from 5.1 percent a year earlier.

Across Tennessee, the unemployment rate increased in 58 counties, decreased in 26 counties and stayed the same in 11 counties.

Williamson County reported the lowest rate (3.7 percent), while Hancock County reported the highest (8 percent).

– Daily News staff

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Innovative educators know that students preparing for the challenges of work and further study in our ever-changing world need to achieve fluency and comprehension—but they also need to develop higher-level thinking skills and build deep knowledge. The following schools and districts are using edtech tools to integrate literacy skills across the curricula.

LESSONS OUTSIDE THE BOX

A third-grade classroom at St. Martin East Elementary is transformed into a waffle house as students work on math standards and a related writing project.

Students returned to St. Martin East Elementary in the Jackson (MS) County School District after Thanksgiving break to discover a winter wonderland. With lessons from i-Ready (“Penguin Chick”) and Ready (“Frozen Desserts”), teachers incorporated this magical transformation into multisensory instruction to teach reading skills.

As a result of the school’s new PURE classroom initiative, which encourages teachers to teach with passion, urgency, rigor, and high expectations, teachers are including more such “outside the box” lessons in their weekly plans. Classrooms are coming alive and “multisensory lessons and high expectations that integrate math, science, social studies, and language arts are common in every classroom,” says Assistant Principal Jillian Vallo.

Multiple resources, including live video streaming, interactive games (Kahoots), and virtual field trips all contribute to creating these cross-curricular learning opportunities. Using the Ready program, for example, teachers can bring literacy lessons using scientific- and geography-based passages alive by showing videos from around the world.

The increased engagement among students is palpable. “We have seen low performing students who were apathetic about coming to school evolve into higher-performing students excited about learning,” says Vallo.

COLLABORATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARE KEY

“The cross-curricular initiative at St. Martin East sometimes leaves teachers struggling to know whether they are teaching standards to mastery level,” says Vallo. Encouraging teachers to plan with the end in mind, she says, in addition to providing time for teacher collaboration and increased teacher capacity in all areas of technology through PLCs, are essential. “Teacher ownership, exposure, and consistency are critical for success.”

KEY TOOLS THEY USE ST. MARTIN EAST ELEMENTARY

► Chromebooks ► ClassDojo ► ClassFlow ► Flocabulary ► Google Classroom ► i-Ready ► iPads ► Lexia Learning ► Newsela ► Promethean boards ► Renaissance Learning AR ► Smart TVs

WORKING HARD AT THINKING HARD

Walnut High School ELA students use their Chromebooks and LANGUAGE! Live to work on literacy skills.

Thanks to Common Core, “students can’t just regurgitate what they read anymore,” says educational specialist Lisa Tanner. Even struggling students in Tanner’s special ed ELA classes at Walnut High School in Los Angeles County are learning to analyze, infer, reflect, extrapolate, discuss, and cite supporting text.

Tanner’s students benefit from two-class block periods, one of which is dedicated to individualized instruction using LANGUAGE! Live, an intensive intervention program for grades 5–12, and the other to direct instruction. It’s a comprehensive, research-based program, Tanner says, that teaches all the components of being a reader, writer, and thinker so that students have a deeper foundation for transitioning successfully into general education classes. With these gaps closed, many students are also able to access other cross-curricular classes like history and science.

BEYOND EXPECTATIONS

The literacy tools and strategies these students learn also give them the confidence necessary to achieve what they never thought possible. Because they’ve always found reading and writing such a struggle, many freshmen in Tanner’s classes have never thought of college as a realistic option. But when they take these key literacy skills into general education classes and realize they can be successful, many of them go on to complete two- and even four-year degrees.

KEY TOOLS THEY USE WALNUT HIGH SCHOOL

► Big Ideas ►Chromebooks ► Google Classroom ► Kahoot! ► Khan Academy ► LANGUAGE! Fourth Edition ► Quizlet ► LANGUAGE! Live

BUILDING CONFIDENCE AND REASONING SKILLS

CASA students collaborate on a project.

How can teachers make writing more “hands on” and engaging for students while also teaching them close reading strategies in all content areas? At Corona Arts & Sciences Academy (CASA) in New York City, where “literacy is the life blood of education,” Principal Beth Hert, Assistant Principal Amanda Gardener, teacher April Taitt, and team are in their third year of using ThinkCERCA with their Integrated Co-Teaching (ICT) classes. When students have authentic texts at their individual reading levels, “everyone has an entry point into the conversation.”

Current eighth graders in the CASA ICT class, who have been working on ThinkCERCA for three years now, demonstrate “an overwhelming build in confidence with both their use of technology and their written and oral work as opposed to classes who are not using the program.” While Hert and her team see many students “who support their claims but don’t successfully use their reasoning skills to synthesize and show how the evidence supports their work . . . it just seems more natural for these students to support their claims with evidence and reasoning.”

CASA teachers are being supported and encouraged to design cross-curricular lessons, such as a science/ELA collaboration exploring GMOs. In addition, CASA students have further opportunities to expand their cross-curricular learning through new coding and website design clubs.

LEARNING IN THE FISHBOWL

Since CASA is a new and growing school, it’s a challenge to get new staff up to speed every year without overwhelming them with “just one more thing.” So they’ve created “lab classrooms” led by more experienced teachers. ICT teams will float through these “fishbowls” this December to see the work in context and demystify its implementation before engaging in their next session of professional development. “We have found in our practice that showing versus telling makes the practice come alive,” Hert says

KEY TOOLS THEY USE CASA

► BrainPOP ► Edperformance ► Engrade ► G Suite ► iPads ► Kahoot! ► Khan Academy ► Laptops ► MasteryConnect ► Newsela ► Plickers ► Promethean boards ► ThinkCERCA

THINKING, LEARNING, AND LEADING

Third-grade students at Biltmore Preparatory Academy in the Creighton Elementary SD collaborate on a project.

Creighton (AZ) Elementary School District aims to inspire students to be adventurous thinkers, collaborative learners, and kind-hearted leaders. A successful capital override recently enabled the district to significantly expand their technology integration and infrastructure, building on a strong foundation of pioneering work in technology and flipped instruction, says Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Dr. Eric Dueppen.

Using tech-forward materials including McGraw-Hill Education’s Wonders (K–5) and StudySync (grades 6–8), the district is seeing increased reading achievement and engagement among all students. Students, particularly those in grades 6–8, are participating in deeper, more scholarly cross-curricular discussions sparked by engaging materials on current topics from StudySync TV and Blasts. Teachers are also finding these quality, vetted materials helpful for fostering discussions and supporting instructional design across the curriculum.

CURRICULUM AND IT PARTNERSHIPS

In any implementation, Dueppen says, it’s important to build an “interconnected, interdependent” team including both instructional and IT leaders. “They need each other very much,” he says. Other key components include a “focused but high-level vision and an open-ended process that encourages creativity but also formulates a clear plan with goals and benchmarks,” in addition to including student voice as much as possible.

“It’s important to ensure that layers of PD and time for teachers to learn about the technology and what it can do are built into the implementation timeline,” says Chief Academic Officer Dr. Sue Pederson. Integrating ISTE standards into ELA and math curriculum at all levels has also been key in helping the district determine how to leverage the power of technology to meet their goals.

COMMUNITY INVESTMENT AND INVOLVEMENT

At a recent Community Town Hall event co-led by students with Superintendent Dr. Donna Lewis, students shared examples of work they’ve done using technology. The conversations around the tables between community stakeholders and students, Dueppen says, “led to a deeper understanding of what’s happening in our district” and fostered leadership and relationships as these collaborative learners shared their knowledge.

KEY TOOLS THEY USE CREIGHTON ESD

► Explain Everything ► G Suite ► Seesaw ► StudySync ► Wonders

SHOWCASING LITERACY AND CREATIVITY

THE CHALLENGE

Students at Essrig Elementary in Hillsborough County SD work on digital projects in the library media center.

Last year, the large and diverse Hillsborough County (FL) School District set out to create a literary event that would motivate students in over 225 schools and across all grade levels to read great books, to make cross-curricular connections by responding creatively to these books, and to use technology in meaningful and creative ways.

THE SOLUTION

An inclusive and representative cross-curricular team of people from across the district collaborated to create and plan the inaugural Student Literacy and Media (SLAM) Showcase. Students read books from grade-level Florida award nominated lists, created a diverse array of projects in the two different categories (2D and video creative expression), and presented them at their schools’ SLAM showcase events. Schools then selected representatives to bring their work to the district-wide Con-style event at the Tampa Convention Center.

We were building the plane as we flew it,” says Kimberly DeFusco, Supervisor, Library Media Services 6–12. Sharing and sparking ideas across the district, through PLCs and Twitter and other social media outlets, was key to the collaborative process of showing educators how they and their students could contribute to this event. As John Milburn, Supervisor, Library Media Services K–5, says, “You make the best plan you can and implement it—and then all of these other connections open up.” This year’s event adds a 3D category, which will further expand the creative possibilities to include, for example, sculpture, robotics, and 3D prints.

THE POWERFUL RESULTS

Students from Hillsborough County SD’s Lockhart Magnet Creative Science Centre commemorate SLAM Showcase 2017.

While art teachers, for example, immediately saw natural opportunities for cross-curricular connections as students used a variety of media to respond creatively, other connections weren’t as obvious at first. At Davidsen Middle School, the Computer Applications for Business class realized that, since they were already using Office Mix, they could create book trailers. At Blake High School, a public magnet arts school, TV and film production majors wrote, cast, and directed trailers “as if that book were a movie.” A fifth-grade student at Schwarzkopf Elementary created a stop-motion-animation trailer for a book she enjoyed using iMovie. Her project was tweeted, retweeted, and eventually reached the author—who loved it, came to the event, and met her young fan. These organic connections, particularly with authors who responded with excitement to students’ creations, created “a powerful symbiosis” that has surprised and delighted both DeFusco and Milburn. See more at bit.ly/SLAMWEB

KEY TOOLS THEY USE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY

► Animoto ► HP devices ► iMovie ► Movie Maker ► myON ► Office 365 ► OneDrive ► OneNote ► PowerPoint ► PowToon ► Soundzabound ► Tinkercad ► Windows

PASSIONATE EXPERTS

Students in the rural South Central (NE) Unified School District may live an hour and a half from Lincoln and two and a half hours from Omaha, but thanks to innovative and thoughtful educational leaders, a supportive school board and community, over a hundred business partners, access to University of Nebraska resources, and 1:1 devices with an array of rich digital resources, the world comes to them. Opportunities for cross-curricular learning experiences and college and career preparation abound here, and a 100 percent college acceptance rate and improved test scores across the board are only part of the story.

CELEBRATING SUCCESS

Through the Learning in Depth (LiD) program, which promotes critical thinking and deep knowledge acquisition, each elementary-school student studies a topic throughout their time in elementary school. Paraprofessional Sharon Radabaugh says students connect a passion for reading—fiction and nonfiction texts across subject areas—to their passion for learning about these topics. At a recent event, elementary students introduced their topics to their grandparents, who gave them three to six more questions or ideas for further research.

Quarterly celebrations of student work have included a rock concert, trips to museums and the movies, and more. And students are responding with overwhelming enthusiasm. No less than 100 percent have met their Accelerated Reader 360 goals over the past year. A shy girl who exceeded her goal by 400 percent was nervous but proud to be able to participate on stage in a “magic of reading” show. Another student, who initially was not interested in learning about cells, is extracting DNA from strawberries.

EXPERTS IN THEIR FIELDS

High-school freshmen who choose to participate in the new NCAPS (Nebraska Center for Advanced Professional Studies) can choose from over 900 career options in nine different career pathways and develop a real-world project with a career mentor. Superintendent Randall Gilson explains that, with the goal of becoming an expert in their field, each student pursues this passion throughout high school following a design-thinking process. Students read, research, explore, and test their goals, culminating in a Shark Tank-like public presentation to parents, mentors, peers, and an industry panel.

Tools like Renaissance Learning enable students to read with purpose, develop problem-solving skills, innovate, and develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Students take charge of their learning and teachers integrate core curriculum with students’ individual projects. Many students graduate with career experience and connections, college courses completed, and a deep knowledge of the process of following their passion to become an expert.

KEY TOOLS THEY USE SOUTH CENTRAL USD

► Adobe Creative Cloud ► Artsonia ► Basecamp ► CAD ► G Suite ► iPads ► MacBook Airs ► Renaissance Learning ► Scholastic’s Investigators ► Schoology

ALL BOOKS, ALL THE TIME

Students at a Wake County elementary school learn about rain forests.

All students in the 114 elementary schools in the Wake County (NC) Public School System have 24/7 access to more than 11,000 leveled ebooks. Sherri Miller, Director of K–12 Literacy, says Big Universe gives teachers and students an incredibly rich resource of texts covering all topics in the curriculum, in a variety of genres. Big Universe addresses an important literacy shift, she says, as it “provides rich texts to allow students to read widely in text sets and build content knowledge around topics.”

Third graders attending summer camps as part of North Carolina’s Read to Achieve legislation, created around engaging topics like sports and animals, also find resources for independent reading and research. Miller is reaching out to community organizations such as the Y and Boys and Girls Clubs, where students spend time outside of school, to raise awareness that students with a connected device can log in and continue reading any time.

A PARTNERSHIP

A Wake County elementary student reads anebook on his iPad Mini.

When Wake County adopted a new curriculum built on cross-curricular content, the OER EL Education, Miller turned to Big Universe for help. “They created our own Wake County bookshelves with texts around topics that align to the curriculum,” she says. “Students can go in and see their module bookshelf, and teachers can add to it. The resource provides students with texts at their fingertips to read independently at home and/or at school. Teachers can also use the texts within their instruction.”

THE DREAM

Miller’s vision is that one day every child waiting in a doctor’s office, at the laundromat, or in the car will reach for a parent’s device and, instead of a game, the book they’re reading will pop up. It will require a cultural shift, she admits, but the excitement being generated around reading at Wake County and other districts offers hope that dream could come true.

KEY TOOLS THEY USE WAKE COUNTY

► Big Universe ► Chromebooks ► Discovery Education ► EL Education ► G Suite for Education ► iPad Minis ► NC Wise Owl ► SMART Boards

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On the flip side, people will see Villains and abusers actually acknowledge that their behavior is bad and take steps to correct/fix it and consider it abuse apologism and say that it is saying "it's telling people that abuse is okay as long as you apologize and that victims need to forgive abusers." and it's just like no you absolute walnut for brains. It is saying that "seeing and acknowledging that your behavior and treatment of others is bad and taking the steps to change said behavior is a good thing."

So many people engage in fictional content and then give some lukewarm takes about how cybernetics eating your soul is inherently ableist because it is saying that getting protestics is bad, that being bad is okay as long as you were sad once, that having a traumatic backstory for a villain is demonizing trauma victims, etc. because they lack even the most bare sense of media literacy and critical thinking.

Any and all information has to be spoonfed to them like they're an infant who is just learning how to eat relatively solid food for the first time. If the story doesn't basically shove it in their mouth's that this thing is bad they'll assume the author is just promoting or condoning it and/or saying that certain things are just inherently bad and awful.

It's why you got so many people claiming to be good people and empaths but turning around and sending death threats to creators and VAs for not making their ship canon or for the crime of being the VA to character that is a bad person or saying that anyone who is a fan of x character is an abuse apologist or some other just off the wall shit.

Like, they don't realize that you actually have to do some occasional critical thinking when their lukewarm takes get them validation in reblogs or likes and anyone critical of them is just a bad person

not to post even more Villains Discourse on main but it really bugs me how people read giving villains tragic backstories as inherently excusing their actions and/or demonizing trauma survivors.

the actual message of Tragic Villains is (almost) always “people who are never taught or given any healthy, constructive outlets for their emotions will often find unhealthy, destructive outlets.” it’s that people who are traumatized and never learn how to cope with that trauma can become a danger to themselves and others. the message isn’t “trauma makes you evil!!!!” or “genocide is okay if you’ve been sad before!!!!” it’s “people need compassion and help to recover from trauma instead of becoming increasingly angry and harming themselves and others in the process.”

this site takes an alarmingly behaviorist and punitive approach to everything and it’s literally the most annoying thing. y’all have this concept that “if we just punish people hard enough, if we just scare them enough, if we just make them feel guilty enough.” that people just Do Bad Things Because They Do Bad Things, I Guess, and Because We Didn’t Threaten Them And Shame Them Enough. but humans are an innately social species. at our very core, we need compassion and kindness. we need healthy relationships with other humans.

you can keep looking at traumatized villains and being like “haha this dumb pathetic sadboi thinks murder is okay because his parents died” but as a survivor myself, unaddressed/untreated trauma absolutely can make you ragey and destructive. i was lucky enough to have support and eventually get the treatment i needed. but it’s not hard at all for me to imagine how, if that hadn’t been the case, that could’ve been me. obviously not on a movie-villain scale like murder or war crimes, but it’s so irritating as someone whose trauma has always manifested as anger to watch people on this site be like “this is just bad writing!!! real survivors/good survivors don’t end up like that the writers just hate survivors and want the audience to condone murder!”