Educator. @mtholyoke & @riceuniversity alum. Senior Manager College Readiness @ #HoustonISD #AVID #GoGrowGraduate.Tweets are mine, all mine!

Houston, TX
Joined August 2016
Dr. Michelle Watts retweeted
Loving the energy at #AVID General Session. #AVID4Possibility
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It’s a homecoming for @TannishaG! Congratulations!!
Congratulations Ms. Gentry, new Principal @STERLING_HS @GPonceHS
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Congrats to @MrDevinAdams! Looking forward to working with you and making #AVID a part of @flemingvikings
📣📣📣Please help us congratulate the NEW Principal of The Fleming Middle School, Mr. Devin Adams! It’s only up from here!!!! LIKE AND SHARE! #BeCommitted #flemingmiddleschoom #VikingStrong #hisd #5thWard
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Dr. Michelle Watts retweeted
Today, all #HISD schools and offices are closed in observance of Chávez-Huerta Day. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought for the rights of the working class, immigrants, and women. Their legacies of hard work and perseverance continue today. ¡Sí, se puede!
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Dr. Michelle Watts retweeted
#HISD is monitoring the potential for severe weather this evening and tomorrow, March 22. Please check back at HoustonISD.org and on our social media pages for more updates.
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Dr. Michelle Watts retweeted
The HISD State of the School Address was an epic event. The Road Ahead is paved with promise. I am excited to be on the journey!
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ALERT: Due to inclement weather, all University of Cincinnati campuses will be CLOSED on Wednesday, January 30. Please visit uc.edu/alert for more information.
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#TuesdayTip: Get as much financial aid as possible by filing the #FAFSA sooner rather than later.
The 2019–20 FAFSA form is available! Fill it out ASAP to get as much financial aid as possible: fafsa.gov
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Amarillo College in Texas is working hard to help low-income students get through school—but it can only do so much, writes @MLBombard: theatlantic.com/education/ar…
New on the NCAN blog - White Paper: Shutting Low-Income Students Out of Public 4-Year #HigherEd. ow.ly/J2sp30k2P5r via @BillDeBaun
Yet another example of why we should all be lecturing less and using active-learning strategies more in the college classroom. chroni.cl/2rd6OxW
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On Beychella, HBCU's And Black Culture: Beyoncé's Performance Reinforced That We Never Need Whiteness To Validate Us essence.com/culture/beychell… @CandiceBenbow lays it all out in @ESSENCE! #BeyChellla
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"The colleges make efforts to open up access to low-income students while at the same time culling applications in ways that give an advantage to the very wealthy — from the persistence of legacy admissions..." nytimes.com/2018/04/07/opini…
"While the majority of public school students in the United States are now people of color, school leadership positions have yet to diversify. As late as 2012, 80 percent of principals in the U.S were white." hgse.me/2BCGnso @UKnowHGSE
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"Protect your child (and yourself) from seeing traumatic visual images over and over again." hgse.me/2Bvq2ph @UKnowHGSE
How to talk to your child — in a way that both reassures and acknowledges fears — in the wake of trauma and community violence hgse.me/2o0BMsa via @UKnowHGSE
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"No matter how much faculty members cling to 'the good old days,' there is no going back. We might as well embrace the possibility of creating a new kind of academic." chroni.cl/2CCdFZm
Dr. Michelle Watts retweeted
Educating for peace, in #2018 and beyond: *Model kindness, empathy *Repair, don't punish *Create a democratic space *Include the excluded *Talk, serve gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/1…
Do you like year-end lists? We made our own. Here are the most-viewed teaching & learning resources we published this year: nytimes.com/2017/12/20/learn… #edchat #sschat #engchat #tlchat