Today is World Aids Day. The current administration has barred federal offices from acknowledging it. In middle school I memorized Elizabeth Glaser's Address at the 1992 Democratic Convention for a forensic competition, and I've never forgotten it. awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/a...

I would pay a substantial amount of money to know how she chose her giant square emoji face to attach to this tweet.

#ThesisoftheWeek for Week 3 of October is inspired by a beautiful poem by Marjorie Saiser entitled "Crane Migration: Platte River." Find this prompt & others on the Poetry as Practice Blog! (Photo credits: Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy & USGS) poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Check out our upcoming #CEL virtual session open to all NCTE members & literacy leaders. @tanisleads.bsky.social @oonziela.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @bnjmnkwdcck.bsky.social @sjeducate.bsky.social @thereadingzone.bsky.social @teachkate.bsky.social @angelastockman.bsky.social

feels like the holidays start earlier every year

The memes are the ideology. I really wish more people understood that over the past decade. Every time I reported a student using a meme like Pepe as a school avatar I was told to calm down because “it’s just a joke”. The jokes are a meme and the memes are the ideology now.

Launching a resource that I hope helps ELA teachers! Thesis of the Week = low-risk formative literary analysis practice. Weekly poems & practice w/ thesis statements are NOT for a formal grade, but intended to grow students' writing efficacy. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

“Don’t say thoughts and prayers. These kids were literally praying. They were in church.”- Mayor Jacob Frey

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...

Again. 😭 I’m so tired of being angry while politicians send thoughts and prayers. Do. Something.

You know what’s great about the state of education? Every single tech company advertises an app/extension to teachers, lets them use it for free, and then makes it a paid subscription.

Rewatching Derry Girls; it’s just as funny as the first time I watched it.

I am not at all surprised to learn that the most right-wing NJ teacher influencers are also pro-AI and pro-standardized testing.

All these Hamilton videos reminded me that the Schuyler sisters were just as messy as the Fisher brothers. #tsitp #hamilton

A lot of folks not in the classroom making decisions negatively impacting the classroom—folks who will face absolutely zero consequences for these decisions while students and teachers do. Make education worse, climb the ladder = education in America

My FYP is currently Taylor Swift, Bonrad edits, Gilded Age behind the scenes, 90s-2000s music, and the fall of democracy. As they say in John Proctor is the Villain, “I contain frickin’ multitudes!”

This fall we are getting new Taylor Swift music, Wicked: For Good, new Ed Sheeran music, and the finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty? 😍🥰

As an OG elder Swiftie this is wild and amazing. (Why yes, I did start a free trial of YouTube Premium so I could watch this ad free on my TV).

*English teacher hat on* I am so fascinated by how Jenny Han is centering the female gaze in this season of TSITP (esp the last 2 eps). It’s jarring how the relationship b/w Belly + Conrad is so different from what we see in the majority of media. 1/2

We are so back. 🤡 #taylorswift

I saw John Proctor is the Villain for the second time yesterday. I can not stress enough how incredible this production is. I cried again, and my friends who were seeing it for the first time were stunned by the production. You have until Sept 7 to see this show. It should be mandatory viewing.

Do people not remember the sexist manboys in Home Improvement or Everyone Loves Raymond, Girls Gone Wild during every commercial break after 10pm, or cancelling Ellen because her character came out as gay? Any feminist, queer, or trans representation could only be found at the small indie theater.

#CopaAméricaFemenina Tell me you are watching this game without telling me.

Flashbacks to the Eras Tour tonight as I frantically search TikTok for clips from the performance of Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl. My reaction so far is OH. MY. GOD.

Someone in my neighborhood is setting off huge fireworks at 10:45pm. No warning. Nothing earlier. Just a whole lot of house-shaking booms at almost 11pm. Now I’m sitting in the bathroom w/a terrified dog. Why are fireworks a thing on any day, let alone random non-holidays?!

July reading!

For no reason at all I want to remind you that I created three thematic guides for English/ELA teachers who want to bring climate change education into their curriculum. #edusky

“My commitment to banning AI tools comes from my commitment to ensuring that students grow and nurture their voices and acquire the skills that our education system promises. [Banning AI] made me a better…educator, and it’s crucial for my students’ future success.” www.edutopia.org/article/bann...

Sorta feels like "they are actively gutting cancer research" should be finding more purchase out there

Heard an interview w/a young person who was in the Manhattan office building yesterday. She said she + a few of her coworkers took charge and led the rest of their floor because “We were the youngest. We knew what to do because we practiced for active shooters our entire school career” (paraphrased)

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting. Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months. Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

What great conversation with @thereadingzone.bsky.social @kschulten.bsky.social and the team at @nytimes.com Learning Network. If you don’t use their resources yet, check them out! www.nytimes.com/section/lear... Got to take the family for some NYC fun too 🙂

Still can’t believe I’m going to watch two Rutgers players be lottery picks tonight. 🤪

Spent a fantastic morning chatting with @thevogelman.bsky.social, @kschulten.bsky.social, and others at the NYTimes Learning Network. It’s so great sharing ideas and conversation with smart people!

I have a degree in Ed Tech, but I am. Just. So. Tired. of teachers being pushed to design instruction for the sole purpose of using technology rather than to identify the best method of delivering instruction, regardless of whether technology is used or not. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

I’m sorry, but how do you let Casey Murphy stay in goal after that collision? #SdvsNC

Gotham are the first-ever W Champions Cup champions!!!! 🏆 They punched their ticket to the 2026 FIFA Women’s Champions Cup and the 2028 FIFA Women’s Club World Cup 👏🌎 📸 IG/GothamFC

THEY'VE DONE IT! 🏆🫶⚽️ @GothamFC make history as the first-ever W Champions Cup Champions!

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Weirdest game ever but they did it! #gothamfc

Check out #Rutgers Alum Riley Tiernan tearing it up for @angelcity.com right now! #NWSL

Interior Department Weighs Less Conservation, More Extraction - The New York Times

Ahh! New backyard bird at the #wildlifecontainerpond A female Black-throated blue warbler!

Caution for students using AI as 'virtual tutors', even the best chatbot (Claude in this study) only got 83% of medical neuro multiple choice questions right. Overall chatbot performance was 67% or 7% lower than student avg. @apsphysiology.bsky.social journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

when you teach students to write like robots to get into college why wouldn’t they use robots to write once they’re there

“skills” is not the main point of the humanities, she yelled, dying on a hill

Its fun watching this at real time in K12 spaces. 🫠