The irony of the amount of rage I have completing these mandated #CrisisPreventionInstituteTM modules is not lost on me.

It really sucks to have a birthday party for both your kids and no one shows.

Driving around Indianapolis every day is making this place grow on me. I'll never be at home in IN, but I'm feeling like I belong in Indy. #ItinerantTeacher #DeafEd

The more I see professionals out of certificate programs for deaf Ed, the more concerned I am for our kids.

Americans are more worried a kid will be gay than dead from another shooter. We shouldn't be crying for dead children at the hands of another shooter again. And again. And again.

Searching for the Indianapolis #Union and #Labor events for #LaborDay2025... Find out they held their event this weekend instead of next weekend. Missed it completely :( It's like going back to school in July. The state has schedules that makes no sense.

This is terrible! I hope to still communicate with you all here. If not, I’m on LinkedIn and FB. linkedin.com/in/joshua-ey... www.facebook.com/share/191b2M...

I got hit in the head by a kid with a book titled "Love One Another" and needed stitches this week. It's a reminder of just how sheltered I was from a lot of the hardest parts of teaching in academia. That said, the scar on my head damaged me less than the scars on my spirit via HigerEd. #Trauma

I'm pretty sure that the plague is going around the first grade classroom that I co-teach in... And I'm pretty sure a respirator wouldn't prevent me from getting it. 😭

Do not write IEPs for the services that you can fit in your schedule or the providers that are available. Write the IEP for the services that are needed because the only way to get more providers or justify a need to train more providers is to have shortages in meeting plan delivery.

The answer to this is a strike. If they don't strike, they've handed their collective bargaining rights to him. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-f...

So much I could have done in the last 10 years had I been met with doors instead of walls.

Bestie: ooo. You started church hunting. I hope it's a place with good potluck and zero bitches. Me: that's the best blessing ever.

The most painful thing for me to watch is a kid denied a chance to thrive because their parent is a lawn mower.

Well, duh. That’s why you should listen to deaf people. They know what they’re talking about. Hearies shouldn’t assume they have all the answers.

My #FlyDelta flight has an info screen that says Indianapolis is self-declared as America's most walkable city. I would love to know if these people have ever gone to another city. There is no walk-ability in the places I'm living and where there is a walking area, there is nothing to walk to. 🤷

If I could spend every single day of the rest of my life at Deaf camp, I would. I am on the highest of highs from working with the greatest staff and the coolest kids.

One of the modern Dante's Inferno levels of hell punishments customized to Middle Grades Teachers would include the damnation of sitting with only teachers who love to pretend play scenarios during PD.

School starts Wednesday. My older kid said, "we don't get 104 days of summer vacation." 🤬 #PhineasAndFerb

Why must #PowerSchool continually use "SPED"? As a field, we know that disabled people prefer not to use the umbrella term "SPED" because it gets used to lower their value or dehumanize.

The amount of times I have heard "we can't find qualified interpreters, so we just assign language facilitators so they don't need an interpreter license" makes me want to scream. Language deprivation is neglect.

School starting in July instead of August or September has completely taken everything from me. #IndianaSucks

In the current state of the US, I really could use Mr Rogers returning just one more time to say "It'll be ok. Good prevails." I'm pretty sure he's the only one who could fully convince me.

A year ago I was so excited for new starts. This year is another series of new starts and they all feel like they are shredding what was left of my broken heart.

On boarding and Professional Development have two different goals and two different types of training needed.

It's July 15th. First day for teachers. 🙄

Friend: are you excited for the school the year? Me: Do you want the truth or a lie? 2024-2025 took my heart and soul. I have no hope for 2025-2026. I am just working to keep a roof over our heads.

The school year starts in 2 days. I can't handle this.

This is odd and just another reminder that we’re living inside a propaganda machine. Fox News reporters rode along with the ICE-led convoy, entering and exiting vehicles with federal agents, attempting to capture footage that would paint the raids, and Trump’s agenda, in a positive light.

It really sucks to have a kid swim an entire season with #USASwim and age up the day of conference meet, therefore not qualifying for anything. Aging up at start of season would be less frustrating than aging up the day before championships, making an athlete ineligible based on cut times.

The fact that the neighboring town to where I grew up (Nesquehoning) has gone viral for the kidnapping of a Ronald MdDonald statue is... Appropriate and hilarious. #WhereIsRonald #BringHimHome. That said, I don't like clowns.

I just watched "Hidden Figures" with my girls (7&9). The frank conversations we had are critical to who they will become both as women and as white adults. I never had these types of conversations w/ trusted adults. I hope they learn about their responsibility for equality sooner than I did.

Just threw out an entire fridge full of food for the second time since January because of a junk fridge in our temporary living zone. Sigh. There's a month's worth of work in the trash.

Been boycotting Florida for almost a decade. Will continue.

My parents' generation are the first to complain about kids being on screens and the first to hand screens to our children even when we say "no."

The number of times academics are portrayed in media as villains, good turned evil, or bitter-to-burned up ex-scientists with dead-end eccentric careers feels less and less like fiction and more and more like reality.

I don't think I'll ever stop mourning the loss of my career and identity that happen in 2024-2025. But for now, I have a job and a place to live.

Why is it that social media managers for public entities will remove hate speech of only certain protected groups and not others?

We have been doing #KidsBowlFree 1-2 times a week. It's been a ton of fun and gives a break from the sun. I've always hated bowling, but I'll admit, it's been fun. www.kidsbowlfree.com/referral.php...

My kids just realized that their favorite song (1985) and their favorite theme song (Phineas and Ferb) are both by #BowlingForSoup and their brains are blown. I see a lot more of this band in my future.

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

I love having "reciprocal licenses" invalidate two decades of teaching, evaluation, and credentialing because the Praxis is used as the only evaluation of teacher quality and effectiveness in the new state of licensure.

How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

K-12 going back to school in July should be illegal. That is all.

Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

@glaucomflecken.bsky.social doing shorts with New England Journal of Medicine is the boost academic publishing needs right now. I'm jealous I'm not in the right field to have his cast show up on a reel for my work.

Does anyone know where to get super super skinny pants for a long-legged kid? They must have pockets and be made out of "Dockers-like" material. Pockets and belt loops required. We have cinched the size 10 kids pants to max and they still fall right off. I can't sew.

I'm pretty sure I could have written 97% of this OpEd. I was a G/T kid. I had the best teacher ever and he greatly changed my life. That said, I don't think I'll ever recover from being the G/T kid because I'll never live up to expectations put on me. www.huffpost.com/entry/gifted...

In the far back corner at the very bottom of my 10x10 storage unit- the one that contains all my possessions while we try to find housing and work- was a box containing 20 yr old test scores that I needed to get an entry level job in teaching... having spent the last 13 years credentialing teachers.