More than 60 educators and allies gathered on rematriated sacred land in Berkeley to say that our students deserve to learn a full and inclusive history and read diverse voices! We will not be intimidated by Trump or anyone else! #TeachTruth #Edusky

Furious and devastated about this. SFUSD Ethnic Studies was exactly the reason why I was drawn to the district in the first place. Please show up and support Ethnic Studies in SFUSD!! www.kqed.org/news/1204612...

Sometimes teaching is printing out a GQ article about Timothee Chalamet and making up a pretend homework assignment so a lonely middle school student who's frustrated about the tedium of the day after school has something to look forward with you tomorrow.

I miss the days when your Internet persona was decidedly split from your real life. I was very young then but tbh it was helpful to have that split and know that none of it should spill into one's personal life. growing up, it made me more critical and careful with what I consumed or put out there.

Crystal Palace have done it. They have won their first ever major trophy. Oliver Glasner's side beat Manchester City 1-0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Selhurst Park's immortals. #FACupFinal

Something that people overlook about The Acolyte is the throwaway line where The Stranger basically says that "sith" is a term for anyone who does not follow the teaching of the Jedi. This was hundreds of years before ANH. This should make subsequent mention of the Sith by the Jedi questionable.

You're probably aware of all these distinctions, but I liked Coogler's breakdown on film formats

Think suspensions are key to classroom order? Think again. Evidence from Chicago public high schools shows that reducing suspensions through restorative justice doesn’t harm learning—and improves school climate, especially for Black students. By @aadukia.bsky.social . Read more: bit.ly/4jstK5j

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Had a fabulous meal last night at Work & Class in Denver. The colorado lamb was outstanding and overall the place was so fun, everyone clearly had a deep sense of love for the food and work they do.

Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky. We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully. www.zinnedproject.org

I'll be sharing my work on how I considered a restorative methodology to study educators of color navigating relational trust in restorative justice practices on this panel with some excellent folks at #AERA2025!

LOL at the AERA app having 1.5 out of 5 stars

so struck by @airealejoi.bsky.social's presentation with an amazing team on the ethics of witnessing racial harm as educational researchers! really sitting on the idea of burying as death and burying as life, and methodological opportunities to better understand the work of witnessing with care.

Barbara Lee is Oakland’s next mayor.

Barbara Lee won her Mayor race!!! Well done Oakland!!!!

Being a bad teacher isn’t a moral failure. You can be a bad teacher and a good person. But you shouldn’t stay a bad teacher without trying to get better and/or walking away.

Some thing I'm proud of implementing in our hiring process: - a short answer application instead of a cover letter - threading values throughout the hiring process - performance task for everyone - being clear and upfront with the expectations rather than abiding by implicit norms

🎯 all of this, more often and louder

Trump and Republicans can lie about their plan to cut taxes for the rich, but votes don’t lie. We asked them: will you rule out tax cuts for those making over $1 billion? Republicans voted no. So we tried no tax cuts for $1 billion companies like Amazon? No. That says it all.

I'll be on a panel with the fabulous @thejosevilson.com at #AERA2025! Would love to connect with folks while there!!

Frost: They want us to believe that they are the patriots of free speech. They are the ones kidnapping and disappearing college students

Great, and agreeably angry, thread Happy autism awareness month

Watching a music class today-- seeing a room of all dyslexic students make music is so special! You can see how it really, truly plays to their strengths and how connected they feel as neurodivergent learners. Specialty classes ARE core academic classes!!

Excited to share a workshop about cultivating relational trust in restorative justice practices in schools at the PoCIS conference this weekend!

When journalists echo the claims of AI insiders who suggest we're on the verge of artificial general intelligence (AGI), that's a choice. This week I share insights from another AI insider who is deeply skeptical that we're anywhere close. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

Just finished Mo, a funny, sweet, remarkably brave & sharp two-season show about a Palestinian family in Texas; @heymrsbond.com, this one is a MUST-watch for you. And for everyone else! Please check it out. There's nothing else like it. Honestly a miracle that this gem of a show exists. #mo #netflix

Listen to this 1994 interview with Edward Said and see how little has changed. If anything, what he warns about has come to pass and only gotten worse. He even said that the Israelis will seek to have all of southern Syria demilitarized. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAu-...

You may have seen memes, t-shirts, tattoos claiming the Mayan phrase "in lak'ech ala k'in" means "you are another me, I am another you" or words to that effect. A sort of Indigenous "namaste," if you will. Well, nope. Written in standard Mayan, the phrase is "in láak'ech a láak'en." It means— 1/

Or a HBCU, many of which have been shortchanged by the Federal government even at the best of times but are important custodians of African American history in this time of great erasure.

Palestinian students in Gaza call on solidarity movements to escalate #IAW2025 actions and remind us that "Israel would not be able to further entrench apartheid and continue to carry out genocide if it was not for the complicity of states, institutions, and corporations around the world."

We are teaching kids that kindness is NOT people pleasing. You can be kind and set boundaries. You can be kind and say no despite someone else’s feelings. You can be kind and advocate for yourself. You can be kind and disagree with people.

Make sure you truly see every one of your students

Project 2025’s Education Department dismantling plan calls for moving oversight and implementation of funding for students with disabilities to HHS. Trump is using Project 2025 like a checklist.

I get the impression that parents nowadays are more isolated and have less supports and more responsibilities than they did back in the day, and I feel like that's something to consider when thinking about family engagement in schools.

An article on the Defense Department website devoted to Jackie Robinson’s military career disappeared and then reappeared, joining a series of government web pages on Black figures that have vanished under the Trump administration’s efforts to purge government websites of references to DEI.

YES! And please let me remind you, strip searches are common in youth prisons too. They are often done after a class if a pencil goes missing. What does it mean that tools of learning are considered weapons inside youth prisons & the punishment is sexual violence? I write about this in the book:

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity. this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

*Yells for the 1 millionth time* The states already control K12 education. The federal government finacially supports all states with additional funding and support for all students because the states alone don't have enough money to function. Hope that helps.

Demi Johnson, a teen scientist from Mississippi.won the prestigious National Geographic award for her oyster reef conversation efforts.👏👏👏✊

As someone who works for a private school for students with disabilities, I find this absolutely horrifying and know that access to public education for students with disabilities is the best outcome for all. This is truly deplorable.

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QOTD: "The job of a good message isn't to say what's popular. It's to make popular what we need said."

I don’t know if the general public realizes that there are like no teachers coming out of college. I’m told our local university has 1 pre-service science educator. 1!!! I think my district has close to 200 total vacancies.