Tuesday morning we are diving into this slow-read: one poem a day throughout July! #PoemADayJuly List of the poems for the first week here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ICYMI: Our most recent episode, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI with @heymrsbond.com, is already on track to be our most-listened to of 2025! Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen at: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #EduSky

Help feed protesters!

Portland and Salem, too

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

Right? 👇🏽🤢

Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

Between this and the wave of integration already happening in independent/private schools, no child and no educator is safe from the AI edtech grift. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are cooked.

Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Research says: To preserve your focus, hide your phone! 🧠📱 #EduSky

Keep it up. It all helps. ❤️👊

Read Harvard’s response to the Trump Administration.

MIT following Harvard's lead here

Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

Had a really good experience with this last week, so I wanted to detail each step of the lesson (spoiler: we spent nearly an hour doing "stuff" before students got their actual feedback!) thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/before-you...

Journalists: you cannot deport U.S. citizens out of their own country. Do not simply regurgitate the words of the administration if those words are inaccurate. To do so is spreading disinformation. Deportation, according to the govt itself, is for people with no legal right to be here.

This is what the so-called war on “woke” was always about it, convincing people that what happens to the marginalized can’t happen to them. It can, it will. First, challenge citizenship by birth. Then, unconstitutionally expel citizens from their own country. “Deport” is the incorrect word, btw.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Sigh. Fine, I will put my braids back in.

Speaking up matters.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.

What a nightmare for parents and children. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/05/n...

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

If you can't protest tomorrow, you can do other things: - call your reps - donate to orgs like the ACLU, Indivisible, etc - be protest support (be the one people call if they're arrested, offer water/first aid, etc) - write an op-ed for your local paper ...and so much more. We can all contribute!

The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

"First they came for the museums..." @katyevansbush.bsky.social #DEI #Trump

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

We sat down with influential psychologist David Yeager to talk about the recent science shaping our understanding of the adolescent brain and why kids resist feedback. 🧠 #EdResearch #EduSky

Super useful guide for how to focus efforts (donation, time, keeping informed, etc.) to resist this administration

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Universities in France and elsewhere in Europe have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.

The saga continues. The district leaders fail to rise to the occasion www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...

GOP stands for genital-obsessed party. These two GOPers in Florida are trying to ban inclusive displays at their respective public libraries because, well, they can't stop thinking about what's in someone's pants. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

I spoke against this bill at my local school board meeting to let them know this was coming. How are they going to protect their teachers? A solution isn't a new process or policy, but about loud, consistent internal and external messaging that they trust their teachers to teach students well.

Educators & students: All welcome! Co-hosted by PBS NewsHour Classroom & The Jacobson Institute on entrepreneurship & invention💡 PLUS, a chance to win invention posters, sticker, tshirts👕 for your whole class💫 RSVP: bit.ly/NewsHourZoom... #stem #InventEd #busEDU #CTE #invention #scichat #edchat

Happening this Saturday in Altadena, California:

Good news from Colorado: A U.S. District Judge ordered a school district to restore library books they banned by next week, prohibiting the district from further restrictions on access to books that the school board objects to politically. #UniteAgainstBookBans www.denverpost.com/2025/03/19/e...

Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.” —Madeleine L’Engle

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

🎉Cover reveal 🎉 My new book comes out 6/2/25! I venture into a tough topic with caution, humility, and a classroom-eye view of how to create artfully with our words in a new era. I hope you’ll join me in thinking through it all 📖 #artfulai #EduChatAI www.corwin.com/books/artful...

Social Studies Teachers and Friends, We are bringing #sschat to Bluesky! We have a slow chat lined up for you for National Civics Learning Week. You can keep up with us at: @socialstudieschat.bsky.social. Want to help? If so please: Share with your friends! Tag awesome Social Studies teachers!