We can’t imagine moving through the world of education without the light that Jess consistently provides for children, families, and communities. Now more than ever we need this light and each other. 1/2

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In the feedback on my most recent grad school assignment, my professor said, “your voice is clear; I hear your heart and passion,” and referred to me as an “emerging doctoral scholar.” Nobody can tell me anything for the next 7-10 business days. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

But WAIT this poem by Jacqueline Woodson is so beautiful! #PoetryPeople @thevogelman.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social

I’m building my annual living poets unit and removing Nikki Giovanni has made me undone. I’ve got a few years left in me and I’m gonna transition to a “contemporary poets” unit, because this sucks 😩

Is anyone having fun at their job? Asking teachers, but also (maybe especially) not teachers/educators

My resistance lately is designing keychains. I have the models available for 3D printing. So far I have two designs, "tax the rich" and "abolish ice". Abolish ICE: makerworld.com/models/1798840 Tax the Rich: makerworld.com/models/1132253

I’ve been getting back into reading traditional books by picking up a book of poetry every morning and night. This one is a must-have for #PoetryPeople and #BlackSky and anyone who loves truth and beauty.

lol when we say listen to Black women, we mean ACTIVELY listen

Hey. I need a favor. 817-877-1959 Text this ^ number and type RAIDERS in the message. No strings. No list. My kids just need your vote. They’re playing a team of notoriously racist teenagers and adults and I’m hoping we can get them enough votes to win some money for their program.

Send mine a few minutes ago. Help a teacher out if you can.

Today, I will do a damn good job of educating the youth of my community in spite of a state and a nation that wants me to cower.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Well damn…

Come on #blacksky!!

With 2 exceptions: 1) custodial staff 2) the nurse there is no job more important than or that should take priority over teaching in a school.

So easy!

It's super easy to do

Hey. I need a favor. 817-877-1959 Text this ^ number and type RAIDERS in the message. No strings. No list. My kids just need your vote. They’re playing a team of notoriously racist teenagers and adults and I’m hoping we can get them enough votes to win some money for their program.

The first post is 🔥, but googly moogly is also stellar

White people will try to police black people on how to feel about racism before they confront their racists white friends for being racist.

It is so hard to ask for help, especially when you’re disabled & chronically ill. When you’ve spent most of your life being treated as “less than” or a drain, you worry anyone you ask for help will judge you. It takes a surprising amount of courage, so the best thing you can do is be kind

Being a teacher is fucking hard, but it’s so much harder when the world is hard and home is hard and nowhere feels soft enough/safe enough to be still.

I don’t think of myself as a edu-celebrity or education influencer, but I have built a community of folks who take what I say seriously, so I offer this advice to anyone whose mission is edu-acclaim: Be authentic. Be honest. Be vulnerable.

Millennials made the wizarding lady a God as a way to escape our own repression and religious trauma and now she’s behaving like the Gods we needed to escape.

Millennials made the wizarding lady a God as a way to escape our own repression and religious trauma and now she’s behaving like the Gods we needed to escape.

This is so niche and I understand that it’s also “first world problems.” I ordered a navy blazer and it came with plastic buttons and now I’m so irritated! Where’s the metal? Where’s the drama?!

“I am the one thing in life I can control. I am inimitable. I am an original.” LMM went off with that one

@phonisha.bsky.social I’ve been following you here + on LinkedIn and I wish I could have had you as a teacher. I just know I wouldn’t be an “I hate math” girl with you guidance and approach to equitable math ed 💜

“How bad is it?” “Drinking wine and listening to Coldplay bad.” 😂

Conservatives are so invested in this most recent public murder because it makes them feel as unsafe as the rest of us have been feeling for a long time. Yes, it truly sucks knowing that you’re not even safe from being gunned down in broad daylight in a crowd. It’s an impossible pill to swallow.

It’s not the “Sunday Scaries.” It’s a deep sense of dread.

This is the attitude of people who sit in the pews at church next to Klan members & sing hymns with them knowing they go out to terrorize by night.

Sometimes I think about how Warsan Shire, Clint Smith, Ocean Vuong, and I are the same age and that makes me feel big feelings 😭😂

Being a teacher in Texas who really loves teaching, my heart and my spirits are breaking more and more every day. I’m watching lawmakers, district personnel, and community apathy drain the life out of my colleagues and me and I don’t know how to combat it.

What strategies are y’all using to talk to kids who’ve witnessed a man being murdered? Turn and talk? Think pair share? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SYs9T7/

That video is appalling and made me want to throw up. Nobody deserves to die that way. Not children and their teachers in school. Not people praying in church. Not even someone who said murder by gun violence is an unfortunate necessity.

The absolute irony of saying political violence is never the answer on the eve of 9/11 even after decades of politically motivated violence under the guise of fighting a “global war on terrorism” while living in country built on political violence that’s done more violent regime change than anyone.

My students and I are analyzing Sinners in the hands of an Angry God for the next two days. This year, I’ve decided to PREACH the word in order to facilitate discussion about rhetorical moves and devices. I’m wearing all Black, got a robe and a lectern to preach from, and the slideshow is 🔥

The dehumanizing of marginalized populations in the face of violence and the hyper-humanization of the "ruling class" are 2 sides of an ugly yt supremacist coin. They have a CK in their family, & can accept them in all their cruelty but us holding them accountable for their actions is "mean"

Right? Charlie Kirk is killed and the murder is immediately deemed "political." George Floyd is killed and it's the RESPONSE to the murder that is deemed "political." It's so clear and obvious what's going on here.

Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

What strategies are y’all using to talk to kids who’ve witnessed a man being murdered? Turn and talk? Think pair share? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SYs9T7/

It’s really hard to get students’ attention back after they’ve watched someone get shot online.

My friend @plainy.bsky.social wants to know if y’all think teachers provide pencils for their students. 💀

America is civilization’s most destructive toddler

This is huge!!!!

I need the most haunting poem you’ve ever read WRITTEN by A LIVING POET.

Reading this buoyed my spirit 🥹

Hey #poetrypeople If you teach “Do not go gentle into that good night,” This is a formidable paired text. It holds special meaning to me. www.sambakermusic.com/lyrics-goinp...