Lindsey Jensen, EdD
@iltoy2018.bsky.social
2018 IL Teacher of the Year; 2024 ISU College of Ed Hall of Fame; Ed Activist; Writer; Public Speaker; IEA Early Career Development and Aspiring Ed Director; EdRising Illinois State Coordinator; Musician; Proud Childless Woman; Dog & Cat Mama ❤️🍎✊🏻🎶
This is America. Heartbreaking.
Please take 30 seconds to watch this video and SHARE it widely (and contact your legislators).
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Please take 30 seconds to watch this video and SHARE it widely (and contact your legislators).
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Families Are Beautiful
YouTube video by National Education Association
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June 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is America. Heartbreaking.
Please take 30 seconds to watch this video and SHARE it widely (and contact your legislators).
youtu.be/1B8XY8RywXs
Please take 30 seconds to watch this video and SHARE it widely (and contact your legislators).
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It was a beautiful evening of celebrating Illinois Educators at ISBE’s Those Who Excel Teacher of the Year Banquet. I’m honored to emcee this event and be a part of elevating the incredible work happening in our schools. We laughed, we cried, and we sang. 🎶❤️🍎
#JoyIsResistance #TeacherOfTheYear
#JoyIsResistance #TeacherOfTheYear
May 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It was a beautiful evening of celebrating Illinois Educators at ISBE’s Those Who Excel Teacher of the Year Banquet. I’m honored to emcee this event and be a part of elevating the incredible work happening in our schools. We laughed, we cried, and we sang. 🎶❤️🍎
#JoyIsResistance #TeacherOfTheYear
#JoyIsResistance #TeacherOfTheYear
IDHS launched a new website that brings together everything our immigrant neighbors need to know to get prepared and stay protected — whether you’re looking for legal help, resources during a crisis, or want to better understand your rights. 🌐 lnkd.in/ebUw4_RU
IL IMMIGRATION INFO | Know Your Rights
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May 15, 2025 at 10:59 AM
IDHS launched a new website that brings together everything our immigrant neighbors need to know to get prepared and stay protected — whether you’re looking for legal help, resources during a crisis, or want to better understand your rights. 🌐 lnkd.in/ebUw4_RU
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Illinois residents! We need your help to pass our bill for Paid Student Teaching IL! Please take 2 mins to fill out a witness slip. (sec 2 write SELF for “person, groups or firms represented”; sec 3 choose HB1375 and select PROPONENT; sec 4 choose RECORD OF APPEARANCE ONLY.) SHARE!
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May 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Illinois residents! We need your help to pass our bill for Paid Student Teaching IL! Please take 2 mins to fill out a witness slip. (sec 2 write SELF for “person, groups or firms represented”; sec 3 choose HB1375 and select PROPONENT; sec 4 choose RECORD OF APPEARANCE ONLY.) SHARE!
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Illinois residents! We need your help to pass our bill for Paid Student Teaching IL! Please take 2 mins to fill out a witness slip. (sec 2 write SELF for “person, groups or firms represented”; sec 3 choose HB1375 and select PROPONENT; sec 4 choose RECORD OF APPEARANCE ONLY.) SHARE!
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May 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Illinois residents! We need your help to pass our bill for Paid Student Teaching IL! Please take 2 mins to fill out a witness slip. (sec 2 write SELF for “person, groups or firms represented”; sec 3 choose HB1375 and select PROPONENT; sec 4 choose RECORD OF APPEARANCE ONLY.) SHARE!
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Do yourself a favor and read this piece by one of my favorite humans, Madi Riley. And feel free to share! madiriley.substack.com/p/the-curric...
The Curriculum of Girlhood
The price of girlhood was always a little bit of grief.
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May 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Do yourself a favor and read this piece by one of my favorite humans, Madi Riley. And feel free to share! madiriley.substack.com/p/the-curric...
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Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
May 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.
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Congressman Casar tells it like it is. This should go viral! Seriously!
May 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Congressman Casar tells it like it is. This should go viral! Seriously!
On a recent panel in a room full of Aspiring Educators, I was asked to answer in one word what gives me hope for the future of Education. My response? “YOU.” They know this work matters and they are committed to creating affirming spaces for kids despite negative rhetoric about what we do.❤️🍎
April 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On a recent panel in a room full of Aspiring Educators, I was asked to answer in one word what gives me hope for the future of Education. My response? “YOU.” They know this work matters and they are committed to creating affirming spaces for kids despite negative rhetoric about what we do.❤️🍎
Trump’s legislative agenda includes a tax credit voucher scheme to divert $100 billion in taxpayer dollars to private schools with no public accountability. Rural communities and students with disabilities would be among those hit hardest. Please act now! www.nea.org/advocating-f...
Protect Federal Funding for Public Schools and Colleges | NEA
A GOP-led proposal in the 2025 budget resolution would cut funding for public schools and colleges to pay for tax cuts that benefit billionaires.
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April 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump’s legislative agenda includes a tax credit voucher scheme to divert $100 billion in taxpayer dollars to private schools with no public accountability. Rural communities and students with disabilities would be among those hit hardest. Please act now! www.nea.org/advocating-f...
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When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond?
By garnishing their wages.
When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?
By extending their tax cuts.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
By garnishing their wages.
When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?
By extending their tax cuts.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
April 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When student loan borrowers are in default, how does the Trump regime respond?
By garnishing their wages.
When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?
By extending their tax cuts.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
By garnishing their wages.
When billionaires see their wealth hit record highs, how does the Trump regime respond?
By extending their tax cuts.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
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Vouchers are a billionaire scheme to pay tuition for wealthy families—but are education’s predatory lending for the rest.
All part of today’s disinvestment from schools, Medicaid, Social Security & more.
I sat down with @nymag.com to discuss in this lengthy interview
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All part of today’s disinvestment from schools, Medicaid, Social Security & more.
I sat down with @nymag.com to discuss in this lengthy interview
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘Education’s Version of Predatory Lending’
School vouchers don’t help kids. Their real purpose is more sinister, says a former supporter.
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April 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Vouchers are a billionaire scheme to pay tuition for wealthy families—but are education’s predatory lending for the rest.
All part of today’s disinvestment from schools, Medicaid, Social Security & more.
I sat down with @nymag.com to discuss in this lengthy interview
nymag.com/intelligence...
All part of today’s disinvestment from schools, Medicaid, Social Security & more.
I sat down with @nymag.com to discuss in this lengthy interview
nymag.com/intelligence...
If you live in Illinois, please take a moment to help us ensure that Paid Student Teaching becomes a reality in Illinois! ❤️🍎
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April 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If you live in Illinois, please take a moment to help us ensure that Paid Student Teaching becomes a reality in Illinois! ❤️🍎
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
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April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Yes, @neapresident.bsky.social 👏👏👏❤️🍎
Trump and Musk are stealing resources from our students by destroying the Department of Education.
March 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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For anyone else who needs to hear this… My entire life I’ve been told I’m “too much.” I feel things too deeply. I’m too passionate. I worry too much. I love too hard. I speak too loud. To everyone else who is often called “too much,“ you are perfect, and you’re everything this broken world needs.❤️✌🏼
March 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For anyone else who needs to hear this… My entire life I’ve been told I’m “too much.” I feel things too deeply. I’m too passionate. I worry too much. I love too hard. I speak too loud. To everyone else who is often called “too much,“ you are perfect, and you’re everything this broken world needs.❤️✌🏼
At our Educators Rising Conference yesterday, a reporter asked about my thoughts on the closing of the Department of Education. While that was not what I wanted the focus of the interview to be, I didn’t hold back.❤️🍎 www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/06/o...
One educator is rock solid on her career choice as possibly Dept. of Ed elimination looms
Educators Rising Illinois state coordinator Dr. Lindsey Jensen said she and her organization will never stop sharing the joys of teaching, whether the department ends or not.
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March 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
At our Educators Rising Conference yesterday, a reporter asked about my thoughts on the closing of the Department of Education. While that was not what I wanted the focus of the interview to be, I didn’t hold back.❤️🍎 www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/06/o...
We 👏 have 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 playing 👏 politics 👏 with 👏 our 👏 children. Public education is the FOUNDATION of our democracy!
When schools are run like businesses, our kids become commodities. We can't let profit-driven interests dictate the future of our children's education.
Dont Defund Public Schools #ProudBlue
Dont Defund Public Schools #ProudBlue
March 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We 👏 have 👏 to 👏 stop 👏 playing 👏 politics 👏 with 👏 our 👏 children. Public education is the FOUNDATION of our democracy!
I say it all the time: I have the best job in the world, and these humans are the reason why. Elmhurst University is preparing some amazing educators to enter our profession, and I feel so fueled and sustained by the JOY I experienced today. #AspiringEd #JoyIsResistance #EduSky
February 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I say it all the time: I have the best job in the world, and these humans are the reason why. Elmhurst University is preparing some amazing educators to enter our profession, and I feel so fueled and sustained by the JOY I experienced today. #AspiringEd #JoyIsResistance #EduSky
So many are feeling defeated and hopeless by the current state of the US. Yet I firmly believe we must remain focused on doing the work in our little corners of the world. Organizing 101 says to start local; those local efforts will have ripple effects. Chin up, eyes forward. We’ve got work to do.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
So many are feeling defeated and hopeless by the current state of the US. Yet I firmly believe we must remain focused on doing the work in our little corners of the world. Organizing 101 says to start local; those local efforts will have ripple effects. Chin up, eyes forward. We’ve got work to do.