Every adult: I wish I was more comfortable speaking. No adult: I wish I was more comfortable reading Shakespeare. Sadly, we make every student suffer through Macbeth, but we never specifically teach every student the skills of effective speaking. Ditch Shakespeare. #edusky

We killed reading. No one writes about how teachers contributed to the problem. No student ever said, "Wow, that was fantastic and I am really inspired to read!" after being forced to suffer through The Scarlet Letter. Dreadful, boring, and ancient. Our choices make reading painful. #edusky

Hey, #edusky people: can you help me compile a list of all the things that came by in your teaching career? Coding Makerspace Clickers Math manipulatives Differentiated instruction 6 trait writing Drop Everything And Read Centers Thematic units Writing across the curriculum And?...

Income inequality question: One million seconds = 11.5 DAYS One billion seconds = 31.7 YEARS Does Jeff Bezos need a few more billions or do his employees need better pay?

Nine years ago, I said that oral communication would greatly increase in importance as digital tools develop to showcase speaking. Unfortunately, schools are still teaching the same old stuff while students demonstrate daily that they can't speak well. #edusky pvlegs.blog/2025/12/05/l...

Can English teachers ever admit that poetry is overrated? That it demands WAY less time than they give it? So many much more important lessons are being shortchanged so students can get yet another haiku unit. #edusky pvlegs.blog/2025/11/08/p...

Remember to set your scales back five pounds tonight to get ready for Thanksgiving.

Bondi: 1 fentanyl pill can kill 10 people. Oz: each American will lose over 300 lbs. by midterms. RFK, Jr.: 250,000 Americans over 124 yrs. old are getting Work. Comp. Trump: I'm lowering drug prices 1500%. And we all just accept this idiocy and move on.

My condolences to everyone working retail at this time of year. I can't imagine hearing all the Xmas dreck songs multiple times a day every day from November 1 to December 25. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" eight times a day times 55 days? 440 times? And 440 "Jingle Bell Rock" and.... Sickening.

I remember when voters chose their representatives. Now, representatives choose their voters. #gerrymandering

What do we value? Hatred, not education.

Want an AI-proof skill? Want all students to master the #1 language art? Want to give students an effective voice? pvlegs.blog/2025/10/01/w... @edusky.bsky.social

Want an AI-proof skill? Want all students to master the #1 language art? Want to give students an effective voice? pvlegs.blog/2025/10/01/w... #edusky

300 million died from drugs coming in from Venezuela. Armenia and Cambodia were at war. Acema...let's see, how do you say it?...admeni... And no one does a thing to call this out in the mainstream press.

Heading back to school? Making podcasts? A quick read to see how to make them WAY better: www.hmhco.com/blog/how-to-... #edusky

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We have shortchanged the #1 language art. We make kids talk but we have no specific lessons to teach them how to talk well. @edusky.bsky.social

We have shortchanged the #1 language art. We make kids talk but we have no specific lessons to teach them how to talk well.

What is uniquely important about learning speaking skills? How does it expand on/reveal other skills? #StenhousePub author @erik-palmer.bsky.social answers these questions from his book Well Spoken on The Authority Podcast with @rossromano.bsky.social. authoritypodcast.net/episodes/wel...

Conference season! You'll see lots of slides like these: docs.google.com/presentation... That's a shame. If you present, be the one to break the dreadful mold. pvlegs.blog/2024/07/13/n... @edusky.bsky.social @eduskyteam.com

Hey. The guys good at pool

States’ rights!

Bad luck x2

It’s not hoarding if you call it an 'asset class.‘

Now I remember where I saw Pam before!! Miss South Carolina: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3i... Pam Bondi: www.facebook.com/thedailyshow...

We are being led by idiots. According to Pam Blondie, our Attorney General, two-thirds of all American would be dead today if DJT hadn't seized 22 million fentanyl pills. Yes, each pill can kill more than 10 people!! (I guess a pill cutter is needed.) www.facebook.com/thedailyshow...

We are being led by idiots. According to Pam Blondie, our Attorney General, two-thirds of all American would be dead today if DJT hadn't seized 22 million fentanyl pills. Yes, each pill can kill more than 10 people!! (I guess a pill cutter is needed.) www.facebook.com/thedailyshow...

DID YOU TRY TURNING THE UMPIRE OFF THEN BACK ON AGAIN

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This is the time of year when students prove that we have failed to give them an effective voice. Dull poetry presentations, hard-to-listen-to podcasts, biography presentations that bore classmates...IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. www.routledge.com/Well-Spoken-... #edusky

I can't meet my expenses so I am going to cut back my hours so I have less income. Or, in government terms, I'm running a huge deficit so I am going to lower taxes so I have less income.

This was state-of-the-art hi-tech when I started teaching. #edusky

Paul McCartney's song to end the SNL special was one of the most painful and sad things I have ever seen.

Does this look suspicious to you? From my email inbox...

Happy new year! This is my year: the Year of the Snake. Please send gifts.

Add this end to everything you say about Trump: "...and it doesn't matter." He is a convicted felon... His action was unconstitutional... His words made no sense...

Our government is having a "rapid unscheduled disassembly."

Foresight. Not everyone has it.

According to Bleacher Report, the winner of the Rams/Vikings game was Washington.

Remember when you were upset about the cabinet picks? You forgot about them now because they distracted you with other insanity. The people who run Trump are brilliant--bury the opposition so they can't react to all of it. @marcelias.bsky.social @sundaedivine.bsky.social @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

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Seems about right. #edusky