StephShade Balt.City: Orff Teacher/National Board Candidate
@musicandmuse.bsky.social
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Center Stage Again! Confident Storytelling Through Songtales & Puppets, a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students culturally diverse family puppets, a bear, a fox, and a crab so they can take the lead in performing songtales and building confidence through creative storytelling. My Pre...
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December 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Pls RP-sprinkle if you can! Need $284 for my kiddos!
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Center Stage Again! Confident Storytelling Through Songtales & Puppets, a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students culturally diverse family puppets, a bear, a fox, and a crab so they can take the lead in performing songtales and building confidence through creative storytelling. My Pre...
www.donorschoose.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Pls RP-sprinkle if you can! Need $284 for my kiddos!
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@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social @bankwell.bsky.social @givingtuesday.bsky.social @robertfsmith1.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @steelethoughts.bsky.social
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Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social @womendonors.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com @fortheloveofhumanity.community
Let Him Play: Tools for a Young Composer's Journey (Part2), a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students an iPad and two music learning apps so he can grow his talent, creativity, and skillswithout private lessons or internet at home. This project builds on Part 1, which provi...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social @womendonors.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com @fortheloveofhumanity.community
Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @go4know.com @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social @womendonors.bsky.social @insidephilanthropy.com @ceceliagracesees.bsky.social
Let Him Play: Tools for a Young Composer's Journey (Part2), a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students an iPad and two music learning apps so he can grow his talent, creativity, and skillswithout private lessons or internet at home. This project builds on Part 1, which provi...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Let Him Play: Tools for a Young Composer's Journey (Part2), a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students an iPad and two music learning apps so he can grow his talent, creativity, and skillswithout private lessons or internet at home. This project builds on Part 1, which provi...
www.donorschoose.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @womendonors.bsky.social @donorschoose.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social @steelethoughts.bsky.social @thomasfuchs.at
Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @teacher2teacher.bsky.social @edweek.bsky.social
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Let Him Play: Tools for a Young Composer's Journey (Part2), a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students an iPad and two music learning apps so he can grow his talent, creativity, and skillswithout private lessons or internet at home. This project builds on Part 1, which provi...
www.donorschoose.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Pls support - Expires 12/19! Middle schooler w/the mind of a composer-can't afford lessons or wifi-but can develop his talent with your help! www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @teacher2teacher.bsky.social @edweek.bsky.social
@bloombergdotorg.bsky.social @bankwell.bsky.social
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PLs RP! - Doubled donations TODAY w/code: TREAT! Still looking to fund tech tools 4 a talented, young, aspiring composer who cannot afford piano lessons. www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @donorschoose.bsky.social @womendonors.bsky.social @donorsaurus.bsky.social @classroomgiving.bsky.social
Let Him Play: Tools for a Young Composer's Journey (Part2), a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students an iPad and two music learning apps so he can grow his talent, creativity, and skillswithout private lessons or internet at home. This project builds on Part 1, which provi...
www.donorschoose.org
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 PM
PLs RP! - Doubled donations TODAY w/code: TREAT! Still looking to fund tech tools 4 a talented, young, aspiring composer who cannot afford piano lessons. www.donorschoose.org/project/let-... @donorschoose.bsky.social @womendonors.bsky.social @donorsaurus.bsky.social @classroomgiving.bsky.social
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A preschooler bringing a loaded gun to show-and-tell should shock everyone, but in a country awash in easily accessible guns, it sadly comes as no surprise. In fact, a child gains access to a loaded firearm and unintentionally shoots themself or someone else nearly every day in the US.
Investigation underway after child brings loaded gun to preschool 'show and share'
Investigation underway after child brings loaded gun to preschool 'show and share.' Nobody was injured and children were immediately escorted away from the gun.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A preschooler bringing a loaded gun to show-and-tell should shock everyone, but in a country awash in easily accessible guns, it sadly comes as no surprise. In fact, a child gains access to a loaded firearm and unintentionally shoots themself or someone else nearly every day in the US.
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Feel It! Read It, Clap It, Sing It, Tap It!, a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students rhythmic books so they can connect reading with singing, chanting, moving, and playing instruments in music class. Music class is a great time of day. My students and I gre...
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April 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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Black History in Children's Music: Call, Response, Rhythm and Rhyme!, a project from Ms. Shade
Help me give my students music literature and musical instruments so they can create and collaborate through rhythmic games, songs, text and instruments. My students are very excited about Black Hi...
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Reposted by StephShade Balt.City: Orff Teacher/National Board Candidate
Let’s be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities.
Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.
Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.
March 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Let’s be clear: the Dept. of Ed. provides resources to 26 million children living in high-poverty school districts; Pell Grants to over 7 million students; & funding for millions of children with disabilities.
Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.
Closing its doors would be a disaster for working class families.
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We are supposed to be a democracy.
Elected officials are supposed to listen to the vast majority of the American people when they say:
NO tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy
NO cuts to Medicaid
NO more billionaires buying elections
Elected officials are supposed to listen to the vast majority of the American people when they say:
NO tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy
NO cuts to Medicaid
NO more billionaires buying elections
March 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We are supposed to be a democracy.
Elected officials are supposed to listen to the vast majority of the American people when they say:
NO tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy
NO cuts to Medicaid
NO more billionaires buying elections
Elected officials are supposed to listen to the vast majority of the American people when they say:
NO tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy
NO cuts to Medicaid
NO more billionaires buying elections
Reposted by StephShade Balt.City: Orff Teacher/National Board Candidate
Don’t tell me that Trump/Musk are not trying to destroy Social Security.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
March 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Don’t tell me that Trump/Musk are not trying to destroy Social Security.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
30,000 people died last year while waiting to get their benefits.
Under this new policy, those numbers will skyrocket.
We can’t kill seniors so that billionaires get their tax breaks.
Reposted by StephShade Balt.City: Orff Teacher/National Board Candidate
Reposted by StephShade Balt.City: Orff Teacher/National Board Candidate
Ts, thank you for the way you pour your ❤️ into your Ss.
(Reminder via T Kimberly Barnes)
(Reminder via T Kimberly Barnes)
March 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ts, thank you for the way you pour your ❤️ into your Ss.
(Reminder via T Kimberly Barnes)
(Reminder via T Kimberly Barnes)
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20 Blue states sue Trump for layoffs and the attempt to dismantle the Dept. Of Education.
“The states accuse the administration of “effectively nullifying” mandates by Congress that require the department to carry out certain functions.”
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
“The states accuse the administration of “effectively nullifying” mandates by Congress that require the department to carry out certain functions.”
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
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Democratic states sue Trump over major cuts to the Department of Education | CNN Politics
A new lawsuit from Democratic attorneys general in 20 states and the District of Columbia alleges this week’s mass layoffs at the Department of Education are gutting the agency as a way to implement a...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
20 Blue states sue Trump for layoffs and the attempt to dismantle the Dept. Of Education.
“The states accuse the administration of “effectively nullifying” mandates by Congress that require the department to carry out certain functions.”
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
“The states accuse the administration of “effectively nullifying” mandates by Congress that require the department to carry out certain functions.”
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...
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I’m leaving this here for all the MAGA Republicans and 10 Senate Democrats (which represent a mere 4% of Democrats).
Always heed the lessons & lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always heed the lessons & lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I’m leaving this here for all the MAGA Republicans and 10 Senate Democrats (which represent a mere 4% of Democrats).
Always heed the lessons & lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always heed the lessons & lead of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.
March 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.