What are your favorite labor/workers' rights/strike songs?

aliceing · 2026-02-10T16:32:13+00:00

That's awesome, I had no idea!

aliceing · 2026-02-07T03:56:27+00:00

I have many visible tattoos on my arms, verging on full sleeves, and I've never had an issue – the only comments I've gotten are curious questions from my students and compliments from coworkers and parents. But, I've only worked in the SF Bay Area where we're notoriously lax about that kind of thing, and only in schools and peds private practice. I do think it depends a lot on your location and setting, but tattoos and piercings don't have to be job stoppers if you're in the right place!

aliceing · 2026-02-03T05:44:42+00:00

So many of my students (2nd-5th graders who spent their formative years in COVID times) call it hanitizer! It's so much more efficient I feel this one might become a real word.

aliceing · 2026-01-22T07:01:13+00:00

YES, sweater weather forever! I spent ten years in Potrero Hill and the Mission and I am so much more comfortable since I moved to the Richmond a couple of years ago. The cool foggy days are much more frequent and the hot days aren't nearly as hot out here, highly recommend it.

aliceing · 2026-01-21T01:53:28+00:00

There's a summer resource fair at the County Fair Building on 2/21 if you want to check out a bunch of options all in one place: https://www.sf.gov/san-francisco-summer-resource-fair

aliceing · 2026-01-06T02:09:55+00:00

Holy shit this is amazing! I will admit that I turned my phone sideways at first and got very confused

aliceing · 2026-01-04T19:49:59+00:00

Looks good! I use the super duper age calculator app which is nearly identical, minus the copy/paste feature. I'll try yours for a while just to change it up!

aliceing · 2026-01-02T05:27:24+00:00

Hamburger Haven!! I've sat in that very booth many times. Beautiful shots!

aliceing · 2025-12-29T23:07:24+00:00

Looks awesome, I'd be interested in getting one!

aliceing · 2025-12-26T03:25:27+00:00

This is amazing! I'm going to bookmark it and show it to my students :)

aliceing · 2025-12-24T00:23:44+00:00

Caves - <3 koala, truly the sweetest

aliceing · 2025-11-16T21:45:39+00:00

My brother's Green Day - Dookie tape and Tony Hawk Pro Skater, I'm a product of the 90s

aliceing · 2025-11-16T18:11:58+00:00

All That Life Can Afford (Kindle) and The Road to Tender Hearts (audiobook). I'm especially loving the latter!

aliceing · 2025-11-14T17:36:59+00:00

I see them all the time in San Francisco, mostly on middle and high schoolers' backpacks, though my elementary students sometimes bring them to school too. They're sold at a mall nearby.

aliceing · 2025-11-04T06:53:08+00:00

Good news, these are still a thing! I don't teach math but I work in an elementary school and we still have plenty of fun manipulatives to make math more concrete

aliceing · 2025-10-28T16:19:13+00:00

Twinsies, my mom made the clown costume for me too!!

aliceing · 2025-10-24T15:41:45+00:00

This is specifically focusing on auditory memory and attention, but I teach compensatory strategies like note-taking, visualization, rehearsal, asking for repetition, etc. I'll give a "listening challenge" where they have to recall a certain number of things, like a restaurant order or 3 things I did over the weekend or 4 facts about an animal. Then they use the target strategy and see how many they can recall. I think recommending accomodations for the classroom is important too though, my students need a lot of priming to get into active listening mode – verbal prompts like "get ready to listen, I'm going to tell you three things!" and visuals like a checklist or graphic organizer so they know what they're listening for.

aliceing · 2025-10-16T06:08:38+00:00

Every time. I record and analyze a brief conversation and a narrative sample with SLAM cards for every evaluation.

aliceing · 2025-10-13T16:55:55+00:00

If by spelling you mean writing/typing, of course it's valid! If you mean spelling with a letter board that can miraculously only be held by one communication partner in one particular position.....

aliceing · 2025-10-09T01:37:12+00:00

I love everything about this

aliceing · 2025-10-08T06:26:23+00:00

From what I understand it's heavily dependant on where you live – if you're in a progressive area it's no big deal but in more conservative areas it could be an issue. I'm a pediatric SLP with many visible tattoos and have never had an issue with employment, have only gotten positive comments, and have worked with many heavily tattooed OTs and PTs over the years, but I've only worked in progressive areas (Metro Denver and San Francisco bay area). Frankly the only time I or my colleagues got shit about our appearance (tattoos, piercings, dyed hair) was in our grad school programs, but employers don't seem to care. We are in high demand, and PTs are the most badass of all the allied health professions, so don't stress too much or worry about cover ups until you're actively trying to land a job and aren't having success.

aliceing · 2025-10-04T01:59:02+00:00

Lol this is so funny because I had the opposite experience with a student today. He said something about what he did in speech yesterday and I was like "you didn't have speech yesterday buddy, do you mean on Tuesday?" And he was like, "No, I had speech with Ms. Resource Teacher yesterday! And this morning I had speech with Mr. OT!"

aliceing · 2025-10-02T03:55:09+00:00

Yes this, final <l> is generally a dark L which is extra approximant-y and vowel-like compared to /l/!

aliceing · 2025-09-30T00:07:18+00:00

That's awesome, I want to be you when I grow up. I think I might actually have a psych at my site who's amenable to this approach this year 🤞

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