We are seeing this with the iReady lawsuit. AI is even worse!

Brought in Alan Gratz's latest book today (War Games) and the kids are practically fighting over the order of the borrow list. They are comparing their favorite Gratz titles and arguing over which one is the best.

Still angry about AI use being forced on students and educators at the K-12 level. Why aren't schools disclosing to parents how the district is using AI (ie what tools teachers have access to and how they will be used on student work).

We are at a crossroads with genAI and schools. I am going to lose my mind thanks to people not in the classroom constantly pushing teachers, especially in the humanities, to use AI.

What a day. I’ve teared up so many times watching NASA’s coverage- the Carroll crater, mae the friendship bracelets and 🫶, poetry and photography alongside science, so many women in Mission Control, the science, and so much more.

THIS THIS THIS. Districts need to stop pushing AI into the curriculum. There is no good pedagogical or developmental reason to give K-12 students access to AI tools. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Audible exclusives should be illegal. The only way to access a particular format of a book, especially one that makes a book more accessible to all readers, should not be behind a paywall for years. (This complaint right to you by the second half of the Throne of Glass series).

What are you up to Tuesday, March 31 at 7pm ET? Join @ncte.org's Secondary Section (7-12 ELA teachers!) for Zoom space to chat, connect, and explore NCTE. How can NCTE support you? What has worked? Come meet other secondary ELA teachers who are members of NCTE. ncte.org/secondary-of... #NCTEChat

Ludacris performing the soundtrack of my college years is exactly what I needed this week. #iheartradioawards

The wholesale adoption of AI in schools is awful. I am a teacher who used social media with teens in the 2010s. I piloted using cell phones in the classroom. My students have been blogging and creating videos for Project for Awesome for over 15 years. I say this to make it clear that I love tech.

This week the copy machine jammed every time used it, 2 printers broke, + I spent way too much time dealing w/phantom paper jams. My laptop broke last year & I had to use a 10+ yr old loaner until I got a slightly newer loaner last week. We have to justify ordering paper & pens. Robot teachers. 😂

The push to use AI in the classroom, especially reading and writing classes, may be what finally breaks me. I need anyone who is not in the classroom to just stop. I need parents to start asking more questions about why districts are forcing/allowing educators to upload student work to an AI abyss.

This week at work is going to end me. Spring break can’t get here fast enough.

Melissa gambling on this week’s Abbott Elementary is a little too close to what some high schoolers are doing. 😬

Oh Gotham. 😬

I almost took a baseball bat to the copy machine today, à la Office Space. And we use Papercut, so you get logged out within a minute and can’t see your jobs/what’s left/any info. 🤬

What a time to be an English teacher. My seniors just finished The Handmaid’s Tale and today we begin Parable of the Sower.

The American Indian Youth Literature Award for best young adult book goes to ‘Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories,’ edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith #ALAyma

As we kick off #alayma this morning, I want to say that I STILL THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA! What morning show wants to bring back the fun and glory, shine a little light on these beautiful books for kids? Everyone says they care so much about getting kids reading. Help us make it happen! #kidlit

The ALAYMA broadcast once again reminds me how angry I am that Twitter was destroyed by Musk. It also irritates me to see how many groups and companies exclusively post there.

American Indian Librarian Association Youth Literature Award #ALAyma Best Picture Book Honors Braided Roots by Pasha Westbrook, illus Madelyn Goodnight Fierce Aunties by Laurel Goodluck, illus Steph Littlebird For a Girl Becoming by Jo Harjo, illus Adriana Garcia

Raven's Ribbons by Tasha Spillet, illus Daniel Ramirez We Weave by Daniel W. Vandever, illus Deonoveigh Mitchell Winner Chooch Helped by Andrea L. Rogers, illus by Rebecca Lee Kunz

Watching the ALA Youth Media Awards on my phone while attempting the Ticketmaster war on my laptop. Thank goodness it’s a snow day!

It’s Youth Media Award season. While we hope to see some #youngteenlit receive awards, we decided to create our own list. Introducing the First Annual Young Teen Lit Top 10 Award list, announced on January 25, honoring books from 2024-2025 that we and our MS students enjoyed the most. #yma #yma2026

May the odds be ever in my favor.

“Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse. That is not because of any one or two things he and his administration have done but because of the totality.“ Better late than never.

"Pope Leo XIV on Saturday stressed the risks of generative artificial intelligence, how it could usurp human identities and relationships, influence public opinion and deepen social polarisation."

Oh good. 😡😩

This. If you make money pretending to teach or you only teach to shill TPT, you should be using that privilege right now.

A few days ago I set off the smoke alarms while cooking and now my dogs hide whenever I cook. Get smart dogs, they said. It will be fun, they said.

What a time to be teaching Handmaid’s Tale followed by Parable of the Sower.

Not Mayor Mamdani telling everyone at his press conference that today is perfect for borrowing Heated Rivalry from the public library. 😂 We love pro-library announcements!

Join us this Wednesday (1/21/26) at 7pm ET to debrief on #NCET25 and #CEL25. We invite anyone who views themselves as classroom, school, district, community, or state-level leaders in ELA/literacy. Must be an NCTE member. An hour of casual reflections! #NCET26 #CEL26 ncte.org/reflect-rela...

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...

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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!”