I forgot to post a #Caturday post this week! So Cinderpelt gave me the stink-eye and asked me to remind you all to do your best to pronounce students' names correctly. She says if you can say Tchaikovsky, you can learn to say Leticia & Soogia & Ali!

Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.

Hey @nytgames.bsky.social, a changeling isn't a shapeshifter!

My 2025 Halloween costume:

Love it when I immediately spot the red herring in Connections! #NYTGames #Connections

Why teaching lexical chunks is more efficient than teaching single words.

Free Resources From All “My” Books larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/10/12/f...

Language Revitalization Boosts Indigenous Health

Madly in love with today's Spelling Bee pangram 🩷

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Every trans person who transitions later in life is a gift to the community. Your example tells those still waiting: it’s not too late and you are not alone.

I did not agree with #CharlieKirk, and I believe his death occurred not for his opinions, but because guns are too common in the US. No human life is so cheap as to deserve this treatment. I hope we learn that while people kill people, a gun grants responsibility most humans do not deserve.

Education Department ends some aid aimed at minority college students wapo.st/4phalaL

"Adults connected students to important services, including counseling and mentoring programs; having an adult simply listen to young people’s stories helped them feel less alone or embarrassed about their circumstances, and more willing to seek assistance." www.the74million.org/article/for-...

Blue was very purple today!!!! Also very vile imho #nytconnections

What in the world is a cantab??

Green was kind of purpling today!! Connections Puzzle #803 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟨🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩

Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/four-more-... "Despite...federal threats, these VA school districts are doing what some of the nation's most prestigious univ.s & hospitals have refused to: standing up 4 the transgender individuals in their care." THANK YOU Loudoun, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, & PWC!!

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Three Accessible Ways To Search For & Find My “Best” Lists larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/07/23/t...

I’m honored and thrilled to be a keynote speaker at the Rooted in Resistance Conference in Atlanta Feb 27-March 1, 2026! Dr. Bettina Love is putting a powerful gathering together that you need to be a part of! Get your tickets at rootedinresistance.org #EduSky

This is a long shot, and I already searched on Twitter and it looks like he completely deleted his account there. There was a guy, pretty sure he was an educator, that would do tweets on the weekends about his first cup of coffee in the morning, we'd have a little banter going about the old Folger+

There's a picture opposite me Of my primitive ancestry Who stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free! Though I admire that a lot I'd be fired if that was my job After killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts!

Fredrik Backman’s new book “My Friends” is my second summer read and it’s a gut-punch and I am immediately undone. Lots of loss lately. Lots of heaviness. Teenagers really are the best kind of human.

"If writing itself is devalued because so many people start using AI to generate it, what does that do to our work as English teachers?" From our conversation yesterday: the tidal wave analogy that continues to haunt me 🌊🌊🌊🫣 (Also: sort of fun to picture @thevogelman.bsky.social the 🏄‍♂️!)

Mark your calendar 🗓️ #MillysJourneyBooks, a series of 4 bilingual books, based on my personal experiences, will be available soon! First 2 books will be available Tuesday, July 1st, 2025!! ✳️ For early released copies, visit the author’s website — www.InspiringELLs.com

Rest in power all the victims of the #Charleston shooting that was 10 years ago today. I can't believe it was that long ago. White supremacy is a scourge this country and world.

In June 2025 the Nat'l Park Svc put up a sign at #Manzanar Nat'l Historic Site asking visitors to report "any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans..." www.sfgate.com/california-p... What follows are things that happened there in June 1943, 1944, & 1945:

I really don't understand why some educators want to punish children so badly.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.

One of the great joys of reading is learning not just the things you know you didn’t know, but the unexpected things you didn’t even know were possibilities. And then to gain new perspectives. New ways to think of things.

One of the big things in UX is to check to see if you’re asking the right questions. How can you know what the right questions are? How can you be sure you have enough context when you consistently outsource learning to an algorithm that can’t question its own assumptions or understand context?

Pins OR needles, NYT?? Pins OR needles?!?!?!?!

White House released its "merit" hiring plan. Faster hiring? Great. But “race-blind” hiring? Not real. Multiple studies: same resume, different names—white-sounding names get more callbacks. If bias stays baked in, so does inequality. 🔗 www.chcoc.gov/content/meri... 🔗 www.npr.org/2024/04/11/1...

This absolute icon at Canterbury Pride 🩷🤍🩵

Trans youth are under attack: 25 states have passed gender-affirming care bans since 2021. @southernequality.bsky.social's Trans Youth Emergency Project provides patient navigation services, emerg. grants, & more as they travel long distances for care. Get support: www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

📣 Calling all teacher librarians & people who love them! Join us TONIGHT at 8pmET/5pmPT for #TLSkyChat! Let’s connect, share & grow together! This week's topic AND questions are posted at tlskychat.com! 🌟💬📚

I yell this everyday.

Chatgpt is not google! It does not search for information! Please don't use AI like a Google search!!

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

If anyone knows anyone who is looking to hire an experienced professional learning expert who is bilingual and just got her doctorate... Hmu!

Happy #Caturday #EduSky! Cinderpelt has a rhetorical question: What's the point of abundance if it isn't shared?

Part of resisting: Learning how to stop waiting for permission to do what needs to be done.