Kwa NateKo episodes:

• March 23, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Working, Thinking, Planning Ahead

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  "But in the last few weeks in the mornings when they do reflections, I've been with the third through sixth graders and they're going through the same process. And then in, in the school that I teach at, where I teach high schoolers, writing written responses to prompts or questions in sort of a long open ended form is challenging for a number of students. So I'm realizing that that's a skill set we don't necessarily talk about a lot."

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• March 23, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: I knew it was bad. But I didn’t know it was that bad.

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  "So apparently there are almost no teachers in the state of Connecticut that are satisfied with their job, according to this survey. Check the link."

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• March 23, 2025@kwa | Discipline

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  "I just saw this. This on Instagram. What's the associated, like, chat thing they have with it? Whatever that's called. Instagram something. They have, like, a feed that's all text, but anyway. No, no, I saw this on actual. On. On Instagram, so it looked. I don't know, I just, like."

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• March 23, 2025@kwa | I Need a Place to Write Again

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  "So that came up. But also some other stuff came up. Like I used to do music reviews, music interviews, I used to write, and some book reviews also came up. And I'm listening, I'm sitting, laying down here, listening to music now, and I'm thinking about how much I missed writing. Sometimes writing was cool because it did get me into other corners that I wouldn't ordinarily have access to or think to go."

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• March 23, 2025@kwa | Sade - Cherish the Day

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  "I went to the bar and they played this song and I was like, I can tell that's. I'm pretty sure that's side A. But what song is that? I couldn't tell exactly. I didn't know what song it was. I'm like, have I heard this before? But it turns out it's a song Cherish the Day I Came Home and whatever. This song totally matched my vibe. I played it like 10 times over."

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• March 22, 2025@kwa | Questions 3/21

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  "And so, essentially, I'm cleaning out that playlist and dumping some things on you guys, because I need a place to keep it. But I also want to clear clear that out, and maybe it'll spark some responses from you guys. So I have a few videos, and I'll I'll ask you guys a few questions. Well, I'll post a question for each one of these videos."

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• March 21, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Second interview. History. Me, supplemental education, federal changes.

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  "One is in New York City. It's a day program and it's math. Preparing math that's at a level to prepare kids to enter fields in STEM or mathematics at least gives them the foundational skill sets and, and ways of thinking that would allow them to pursue either one of those things. So they have a day camp in the city and they have a sleep away program outside of the city. I don't think it's in Poughkeepsie. I don't think Westchester."

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• March 21, 2025@kwa | Book Lists 3/21 (re: @iamchantal)

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  "The next one would be you can, I'll call it Global Levers. And I may or may not do a third one, but it'll basically be about minorities in his Minorities Minority history in the United States. So I have five books here in this first group. The first book is Black Gotham. I have not read this yet, but it is a family history of African Americans in 19th century New York City. So that was kind of relevant to what we discussed."

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• March 20, 2025@kwa | Live and Learn: City planning. Local government boards and commissions. Supplementary math volunteer.

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  "Now the school board has a reputation for being a mess, as does the public school system. They don't really have a lot of people with education experience or nobody there does. I've talked to a couple other board members and it's not just that there's. There are quite a few people who don't have a lot of education themselves, which isn't. Doesn't necessarily cancel you out, but you want some balance. But what really."

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• March 19, 2025@kwa | Endorsement: Tea Houses

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  "So I suppose if anybody's in Connecticut and you wanted a recommendation for like a, like a place you could reach out and I will, I would. This is one of the places I certainly would suggest. I'm curious, does anybody have any, any place like this, like near them? I don't know how like common tea houses are and I think I've. I've never gone searching for them."

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