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Writer, Spiral Notebook: Helping parents follow #education from K to #college. Former man ed Seattle's Child, producer @SeattleTimes, newspaper copy editor

Seattle, WA
Joined May 2017
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A little comic relief for frustrated #parents ... "Despite recent national test scores showing that local elementary schoolchildren are ordering from food apps at below a first-grade level ..." jilloconnor.substack.com/p/d… – at Seattle, WA
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Schools can't seem to commit to phone bans. If kids can have phones in class, I guess that means using food delivery apps is just fine too. #Education
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Call me crazy, but I'm pretty certain high school kids can read more than 3 or 4 novels each school year. #schools #Education open.substack.com/pub/jilloc…
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In #Seattle, public school parents received an email on Monday that made the terms of the Sunday #Seahawks victory clear for each and every family. There will be no FUN during regularly scheduled school hours ... jilloconnor.substack.com/p/s… #seattleschools #education
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Hello, 4th #SeattlePublicSchools superintendent since 2020! Greetings from our highly functional school district. #schools #Seattle #Satire jilloconnor.substack.com/p/a…
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#Seattle schools are happy to trumpet the new hypothesis that kids do better when they don’t have access to cellphones in class. It took only some expensive magnetic bags, and, presumably, a whole lot of degrees in education, for people to figure that out. jilloconnor.substack.com
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Well, it wasn't saving enough money when 21 #SeattleSchools were going to close, and now we're down to 5 schools. Huh. School Board members horrified as they realize, months after approving closure proposal, that 20 schools might close (satire) open.substack.com/pub/jilloc…
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Here's a new (satirical) approach to the looming school shutdowns! #Seattle @seapublicschools #Satire Public school shutdown: The best plan for all children, according to new statistics (satire) jilloconnor.substack.com/p/p…
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Seattle Public Schools says it will close 17 to 21 schools. But it's not quite adding up, is it? jilloconnor.substack.com/p/s…
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It's been really frustrating to watch the importance of the #SATs be downplayed in #SeattleSchools. jilloconnor.substack.com/p/s…
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My local author Q&A with Donna Barba Higuera, who just won the Newbery Medal for "The Last Cuentista." I'm very excited for her! @dbhiguera @SeaChildMag It's in the Jan/Feb issue of Seattle's Child: seattleschild.com/issues/sea… seattleschild.com/qa-seattle…
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#ISpySasquatch author @hsiaoching on the cover of this month's @SeaChildMag 🤩 The perfect start to #AAPIHM (magazine hit newsstands this week!) issuu.com/seattleschild/docs…
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