"Students are highlighting the same sentences in the same passages and writing down the same main ideas and details, producing identical written responses."

As a parent, unless your child is with a rouge teacher, chances are they’re reading even less than the bare minimum from your high school English class.

Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’m always amazed by my students. #TeacherSky

is it just teachers who have to say “I noticed” before giving even the mildest critical feedback? I’ve stopped doing this & instead say things like “we need to get better at” (especially with students) because it’s more direct and communicates that I’m confident in my feedback AND their ability

Thanks @marcusluther.bsky.social for the great community check-in questions! #TeacherSky

This is spot on. I spend so much of my day policing student with their laptops. #TeacherSky

Watching (and listening) to my teenage children’s taste in music evolve as they get older is a privilege.

Help students connect to their community and see how their actions can have a positive difference with these 7 activities! 🤩 #ElementarySchool #EduSky #ServiceLearning

Every year I write a letter of gratitude to each of my students. It’s nothing deep; I’ve been making little notes about beautiful sentences they write and smart things they say in discussions. Even my “tough” students get a “thank you for challenging me to see things differently!” 😂 +

"Teaching is hard. Being a parent is hard. Being a good human can be hard some days. There are so many aspects to our lives that make it easy to numb and remain stagnant." 🎯 Starting with generosity, in conferences and elsewhere, is the way. (As always, read @mrneibauer.bsky.social)

I attended my oldest’s kindergarten parent-teacher conf last week. This part about advice really resonated. My son is more than fine academically, but still working on the social side. The way she laid that out was considerate and she engaged it as more an invitation for partnership than criticism.

Meeting with parents for our first conference gives me a chance to build a meaningful partnership with them. It’s also a practice in non-judgment. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

I have many feels watching this. “The only way to honor them is to live a life worthy of their sacrifices.” I’ve always striven to be the best teacher/husband/father/human I can be. Now that I’m a proud father of a Marine, I realize that I still have much work to do. youtu.be/6Vw0jTk4rqQ

Teaching is not fun right now. It’s actually pretty draining and soul-crushing.

Trying something new in the classroom is both the most exciting and scary thing. This is such a great reflection of that pedagogical process! #TeacherSky

“My kid used to love reading. What you’re doing now, they don’t like it anymore.” I’m hearing this a lot during parent conferences this week. It breaks my heart and I don’t know how to respond, but I do know that we are losing young readers. #TeacherSky open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

I’m grateful for supportive parents who acknowledge the challenges I’m facing (and praise my efforts) to make learning engaging despite the pressure to standardize teaching and learning to drilled isolated skills. They love how excited their child is to come to school. That matters! #TeacherSky

As the days get darker, simple pleasures help me stay grounded. What simple pleasures do you enjoy? #TeacherSky #SubstackSky open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

I don’t know what this says about me, but I strongly believe that Doo-wop is the best genre of music ever created.

"I want my son/daughter to be in your class" is the single best compliment I can receive. #TeacherSky #EduSky

I think the term "college and career readiness" is an incredibly well-intentioned shift in education that has left many, many high school students disengaged + disconnected from their learning. They deserve to learn things that have value + enrich their lives in the present—not just the future.

Teaching has always been hard. Teaching through the pandemic was hard. Teaching this year feels harder than usual. A different type of hard. #TeacherSky

When multiple students say stuff like “You aren’t going to tell us how many paragraphs our paper has to have or how many pieces of evidence we have to have per paragraph? But that’s how we were trained!” it really shows how algorithms replaced writing well before chatbots. It’s about pedagogy. 🤷‍♂️

One of the ongoing challenges as a teacher has been navigating "two classrooms" at once: one for students who are there regularly/moving forward confidently; the other for students who are frequently absent and very much disconnected from what we're doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Teaching English learners is complex. Educators share a few tested strategies. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

I don't care how long it takes me to write individual student comments on their report cards. Reflecting on each student as a human being, allows me to better help them with their academic goals because I know them. I'm not using AI to mine students' data into a report; I'm co-creating their story.

"I have learned how to be a good teacher, and as with any relationship, I have learned how to give and take, even when I give more than I should." Talk about a stretch of writing for teachers to read to begin the week... 🙏 @mrneibauer.bsky.social adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/teaching

What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

I am sort of curious if at some point we distinguish between pre-AI literature and post-AI literature as a society? A line between when authenticity was taken for granted and when every text was read with at least a wondering of skepticism?

Weekly report: Last week 173 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Mesa, Arizona; Carlsbad, Oxnard, and San Jose, CA; Arlington, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Charlotte, NC; Gladstone, OR; Schwenksville, PA; Plano, TX; Pomeroy, WA; & many more cities. Some reasons why ⬇️🧵

Talked with teachers in my building. Everyone is feeling more stressed this year. More meetings. More unreasonable expectations. More admin control. Less time. Less agency. Less autonomy. What started as a heaviness is now overwhelming fatigue and weariness. #TeacherSky

Reason # 1,759 why the high stakes standardized testing regime is even more detrimental to the very purpose of writing in the age of LLMs than it was in the before times. Too many students experiences with writing begin and end with exercises in mindless compliance and contrived performance.

Welcome to #EduSky 🍎 a communuty for educators! Check out the list: tinyurl.com/EduSky Join the list: tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm Pin the feed: tinyurl.com/EduSkyFeed ⬇️

Please read this essay aloud. “[Teaching] is about being present. About staying long enough to know what to ask. About saying: ‘I think I know what you mean,’ even if we’re wrong. Especially if we’re wrong.” Thanks @heymrsbond.com for sharing this. It impacted me. therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

I’ve thought about this article every day for 14 days. It so perfectly encapsulates why showing up in all of our humanity beats machines every single time. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.” Nope. That’s my job.

I keep returning to this conversation. #TeacherSky #EduSky

Never underestimate the power of repetition. If you want students to remember stuff, you need to say it, show it, repeat it over and over and over again. #TeacherSky #EduSky

Confession - I've never had the Sunday Scaries. I know. I'm nuts. The reason I speak to educators is to share what renews and refreshes me. A big part of that is people like @mrneibauer.bsky.social Here he discusses "why" we get it and how to solve it: adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/sunday-sca...

Another Monday means anticipating the stressors of the upcoming week. Interrupting this cycle and looking for more positives will help me keep my moral center intact. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky open.substack.com/pub/adrianne...

Anyone else suffering from the Sunday Scaries tonight? How do you cope? #TeacherSky

Anchor chart titled "Things We Should Say to People More Often" contains a long list of encouragements, affirmations and kind words.

Also: hopping on @teachersonfire.bsky.social at 8am PST to talk about different uplifting moves you can use in the classroom (and I'm sure we'll end up talking about AI, too, because, well, we all know) youtu.be/kxdg2zHN5Ng

I detailed the "ordeal" here along with a reflection building off what @mrneibauer.bsky.social wrote earlier this week: "Efficiency is replacing humanity, valuing compliance over agency." thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/a-good-les...

It is really incredible to read about how @marcusluther.bsky.social designs and implements an incredible learning experience based on exactly what is happening in his classroom in the moment. This post a real gift!

when we think about what makes for good learning, if you aren’t seriously thinking about how to make space for these things to happen (and not just hoping they happen eventually after you finish with the “more important” stuff), then you’ve lost the plot

Reading is a huge part of my life. For two years, I've been recommending books and resources that help me grow as a teacher. If you are looking for a one-stop shop, here is my ever-growing Bookshop.org recommended reading list. #TeacherSky bookshop.org/lists/adrian...

This is so awesome! I love seeing students celebrate each other.

“You need to model somewhere in the curriculum what it means to read a whole text in the company of an engaged community.” Yes. Yes. Yes. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...