Hot off the press, new research brief: design principles & evidence for Applied Learning (AL) in K-12 schools, with @annarsaavedra.bsky.social and @sarahmfine.bsky.social

[Exit Clown.]

The entire right-wing propaganda machine came after Zohran Mamdani. The president and his allies came after him. Democratic leaders, by and large, did not have his back until the last minute. He still won, turning out historic numbers and inspiring young voters. His politics can win anywhere.

Instead of starting with a lecture, we're kicking things off with dialogue. #CTRH2025 participants get access to this flipped keynote ahead of time to listen & watch at their own pace before joining @sarahmfine.bsky.social in a live Q&A! www.humanrestorationproject.org/conference #EduSky

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

Are you at #AERA2025 today? Join @sarahmfine.bsky.social and me as we share fresh off-the oven findings on how some districts in California are #LiberatingLearning in high schools. Today at 1:30pm, Colorado Convention Center. More details here: tinyurl.com/26kcl3th

On Monday, I will be running the @bostonmarathon.bsky.social with my sister in honor of our mother, who was diagnosed last year with grade IV brain cancer and had been receiving exceptional care at @danafarber.bsky.social. We are thrilled to have raised 30K for DFCI in her honor. Now, 26.2!!!

The revolution will not be televised…. and it won’t be covered by the Washington Post, either.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

I’m thinking it’s time to revive @johnkrasinski04.bsky.social’s “Some Good News” from the last time the world felt this scary and dark (March 2020). I’ll start: This is my dog. She’s 106 in dog years. Good news!!! She still loves her daily walks.

@sarahmfine.bsky.social's '“But Money Makes It Real!”: Problematizing Capitalist Logic in Project-Based Learning' is a powerful and thorough argument for why, in her words, "Dewey needs Freire, and vice versa." #EduSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Divider-in-chief. I'd forgotten how nauseating it is to listen to a president politicize a tragedy, to debase and disparage his opponents at a moment that calls for reflection and healing.

Apropos of nothing, stopped to spend some time with this poster today. It’s on the wall of the office I share with my spouse.

Conservatives are sharing a video about a cultural competence training that was part of new employee orientation for LA firefighters. I have news for them about the efficacy of one-time, one hour workshops.

My manifesto (er, article) is out in AERA Open today! It’s about how #neoliberal & #racial capitalist logic worms its way into far too many project-based learning experiences, and what #educators can do about it. Come for the righteous anger. Stay for the solutions! @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

Hands-down the best thing about not being Christian is taking the late flight cross-country on Christmas Eve and having the flight attendants shower you with kindness and sympathy and extra snacks and drinks because you’re “missing out.”

If nothing else, I will celebrate the gradual return of the light.

Weird to share my recent piece about running as one of my first posts here, but there you have it. Trigger warning: the piece is about terminal illness & the prospect of losing a parent. Oh, and running! It’s also about #running. And the ways that the body, and the land, can be #teachers too.

Things I made today: fresh sourdough pitas, crispy fried tofu, curried peanut sauce, sautéed kale, spicy greenbeans, pumpkin cheezecake. Plant-based Thanksgiving is delicious — and sustainable!

Donald Trump chose Chris Wright, the CEO of a fracking company who’s a climate change denier, the Secretary of Energy. MAkE CaNcEr CluSterS GreAt AgaiN. 🙄

Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.

Unexpected beauty on my trail run this morning: fresh snow!!! There is so much in this world still worth savoring and saving. 💙

Chew on this: Trump's #education agenda includes project-based learning -- because, duh, capitalism: "President Trump will support project-based learning inside the classroom to help train students for fulfilling work outside the classroom." PBL folx, how do we jump on this train and hijack it?

Whoah, Brooks cites our book in his most recent piece in the Atlantic. It’s a dubious honor, to be sure, but I’m still kind of tickled. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Effective pedagogy must first of all be affective pedagogy. Just saying. In the words of neuroscientist Mary Helen Immordino Yang “it is literally neurobiologically impossible to think deeply about things that you don't care about.” Make learning matter.

reparations for any failson forced to endure the indignity of competing for a job with a black person thegrio.com/2024/11/12/t...

Hello, blue-skied world! By way of introduction: I’m a teacher, teacher-educator, scholar, academic mama. I’m also a bread-maker, a musician, and a trail runner. I care a lot about public schools and what happens in them. For my politics, see: Bernie, Reich, AOC. And Freire. Always Freire.

Woah!!

Remembering that dancing, too, is warfare.