The Puerto Rican band blends bomba, plena and salsa into its sound, trading ocean blues and sunset pinks for playful jazz breaks and tasteful synthesizer effects.

Brilliant!

I always have to remind people of this when they come at me with some weird idea of “jazz” being obscure or esoteric

"How can we be more responsive to Ss' needs if we don't really understand who they are and what they're bringing and contributing to the classroom?" 🎯

The New York Times Learning Network is going to be publishing four lessons over the next four weeks on Tuesdays, based on my Math, Revealed series from a few months ago. Here's the first installment: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/l...

🎙️ Today’s the day! Four powerful voices in math ed discuss student identity, trust, and the shift we need in our classrooms. "Believe students of color have something worth sharing." Full Stop. @abpaul3.bsky.social, I felt that in my soul. #MathForAll #StudentVoices #NewEpisode #trustourstudents

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This is shameful. Imagine how demoralizing it must be to work and go to school in buildings that are falling apart and unhealthy.

I get that we should be able to walk and chew bubble gum, but there's been decades-long activism for safe & healthy school infrastructure that I feel like the curriculum & culture wars stole the spotlight from in their Tinkerbell-like need for attention.

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

Why push this connection? Because it's strategic to make autism seem preventable. If it's preventable, then responsibility for prevention falls to moms. And if that responsibility is moms', then society doesn't need to spend public resources supporting autistic people and their families.

Some news.

It feels good to get back into my writing, this time about math education and what we're missing when we discuss improving educational outcomes. To be among the first to get this well-researched essay, sign up at thejosevilson.com/newsletter. Thank you!

"Too often, we believe doing well on a standardized test is equivalent to giving students an education." 🎯

What are we missing when we talk about NYC Solves or any math education initiative? How about culture and outcomes?! Read on for more here!

Three U.S. states incarcerate women at a rate higher than El Salvador, a country that's been described as an authoritarian police state. The rest are not far behind – take a look at who holds the top 10 spots for women’s incarceration around the world:

PS - this is not a Substack. I’d still love for my people to support it as my work ramps up. Thank you.

Evergreen.

Great bedtime reading. If you're an educator, I'm finding therapy and closure in sharing my two cents and experiences. Very proud of how it's being shared and welcomed. #MathEdEfficacy #iteachmath

WaPo not covering itself in glory.

@axios.com headlines matter

When you are a stenographer for a government abusing its powers

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Although my online shop Differential Geometry is a primary source of income, I maintain (on a static html site) a list of other creators' mathematical online shops: www.diffgeom.org/misc/math_sh... I hope you will browse and support us all! #MathSky #MathArt #ITeachmath #SmallBusiness

Also one of the greats sportsmanship ambassadors of the sport. Loved this moment when Sha’Carri was on her comeback.

Here’s last night’s Fieldwork album release concert at Roulette (starts about 15’ in). Enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/jGBzIOg...

The only way this could be more suspect would be if Tom Homan was wearing a little Hamburglar mask as the money was handed to him in a sack with $$$ signs on it.

Take a minute to experience these short films about autism. Beautiful and show the complexity of experience. Would be a great tool in teacher ed #EduSky

Again Bouie from the top rope

Oh come on

“No one needed all these fidget toys back in our day!” Explain these then:

“Prompting people to actively notice birdsong, plant textures and smells can significantly improve wellbeing…” Interesting study that suggests simple and small interventions, eg signage, that encourage people to notice nature can boost people’s wellbeing. Open access article below.

Got this in the mail today–looking forward to reading it! (Just need to find some time😭)

But I really wish more people could see what happens when teachers grade state tests on rubrics, and what kids look like when they take online reading tests, and what we all do when we see that info

Full stop.

The dumbest people in charge.

Discussion went round in circles on CDC’s review of the strong evidence supporting current vaccine administration. Prompting this from member Retsef Levi: “I’m hearing a lot of ‘there’s no evidence of harm.’... I think the question is ‘Is there evidence of no harm?’” 4/

show up for mahmoud khalil like you do for jimmy kimmel

The Benefits of Teaching Young Kids How Their Brains Work | KQED

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel. Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣 This is a must-watch. 🔥

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.

"From Ezra Klein's point of view, the only purpose of talking is to be seen talking." - @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/il-est-charlie/

“Thirty-one Democrats joined Republicans in voting to restrict judges from having discretion to dole out lighter sentences to young people. Eight voted alongside Republicans to allow 14-year-olds to be charged as adults.”

New episode tomorrow! Who are the “hiders” in your classroom? Math workshop can help us reach the quiet kids, the anxious ones, the unsure. @jennifer-lempp.bsky.social This one’s for the teachers doing that work. #MathPeople #BlueGlassesMath #MathWorkshop

Reading June Jordan yesterday and this made me think of your post. "It's on you, whoever you are... It's your responsibility to make yourself knowledgeable about where you are in this very complicated world right now, to the best of your knowledge and capacity to understand things. Then, to act."

I have appreciated some of Klein’s work in the past, but what turns me off is that he and I clearly live in different worlds. I live in a world where power concedes nothing without a demand. He lives in a world where power is open to feedback and the *possibility* of openness is all that matters.

New blog post on this PYTHAGOREAN SQUARES day! Go For Geometry! 7 is here, how to build the squares-on-sides Pythagorean figure with all technology platforms! karendcampe.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/g... Happy 9-16-25! #MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #Geometry #MathSky #MathsToday

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Emphasizing the measurement of test scores ensures that test taking is the priority at the expense of real learning.