We do not educate children for labor.

Filling out paperwork for my kid at @nationwidekids.bsky.social and spotted a checkbox that said something like “Check here if adopted and no biological information is known.” My whole life of being adopted and filling out forms, I’ve never seen anything like this - wow I was THRILLED. More of this!

People who talk about “student behaviors” as if they’ve magically declined without addressing any of the structural inequities in/around education get a side-eye from me. “Student behaviors” is a dog whistle used to justify mistreatment of children from marginalized backgrounds.

I really wish this were getting more attention. What Ohio legislators are doing to higher education should prevent them from getting a moment's peace.

“Sane-washing” isn’t the cute, creative phrase you may think it is. It’s an ableist euphemism.

How do we get just a fraction of the energy there is for the target boycott or starbucks boycott for a Facebook/Meta boycott? If people left Fb/Instagram en masse, what would Zuckerberg have?

I would teach about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, ableism in school, how to write a good IEP goal, reframing “behavior,” teacher wellness, eliminating bifurcated systems of education . . . Tag me @booker.senate.gov I’m ready!

We realllllly need to stop using the word “un-American.”

Come on, Wisconsin

The absolute shameless audacity of @housedemocrats.bsky.social asking me for money right now. For what?? What exactly do you need money for?? You’re doing literally nothing! It’s completely free to be as worthless, feckless, and ineffectual as yall are.

I won’t let them make me less empathetic. I won’t be “they got what they voted for” when folx lose their jobs or their 401ks. Even if you don’t care what happens to me and my family, I’m still rooting for you. The only way out of this is allowing those who ushered it in a way to course correct.

My students just finished reading Troublemakers by @cshalaby.bsky.social and we watched her webinar for @humrespro.bsky.social to put the themes into practice. This is the exact messaging future educators need in this moment. There are no disposable people.

A little bit about RFK Jr overseeing IDEA if it moves from ED to HHS www.teachingisintellectual.com/so/71PKLT7p5...

This is helpful (which I don’t often say about @jillbarshay.bsky.social) for understanding some of the preliminary impacts of DOGE cuts to IES.

It’s hard to know what to even say in this moment but here’s my attempt in this weeks Teaching Is Intellectual newsletter www.teachingisintellectual.com/_files/ugd/0...

My heart has shattered every single day this week. lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h... I can’t even find words for this destruction. It’s unfathomable.

Nick is providing a live feed from Linda McMahon’s sham hearing today. Follow along if you can’t watch live!

Linda McMahon’s responses in her confirmation hearing are absolutely chilling for public education

And now they’ve come for us. www.propublica.org/article/depa...

I’m trying to track state bills proposing ghoulish policies like NH SB 699 stating that any student receiving services and supports under IDEA must receive them in a self contained setting. Any good tracking sites or strategies I’m missing?

Will the department of education make it through the day?

This is what inclusion looks like. Imagine being threatened by this.

Looking at the ED website this morning is bone chilling. www.ed.gov

Our new Teaching Is Intellectual newsletter launched today and I’m hopeful it’s useful to people! If you want to sign up, teachingisintellectual.com

Just deleted my meta accounts - my professional community of over 20,000 educators cultivated over years - just gone. I’m so sad. And yet I know it’s right. Right and sad.

Downloading my photos, my content, and popping off the Meta platforms. It’s weird. I built a community there. But yesterday’s shenanigans are just the beginning. Better for me to get out now.

Education faculty and researchers are just not as alerted to and activated by how our work and industry is going from crumbling to crashing. Educators have always been spectators or even assisted in the demise but wow this is wild to see how we’re all just going along to get along.

Who has written well about the threat of school “choice”?

JFC the ways in which I simply just cannot do it all. Whew.

All kids are gen ed kids

A little story about my students @ohiouniversity.bsky.social www.ohio.edu/news/2024/12...

Join us on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, at 7 PM ER as we discuss the future of IDEA in light of possible changes with the Department of Education. The webinar will be recorded, and auto-captioning through Zoom will be turned on. Register Here: bit.ly/IDEA-future

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

Inclusive ECE Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/VCDTB6y

“We’ve been here before,” you say. “We survived it once already.” Not all of us, first of all. Remember the kids in cages? The 407,000 people who died of Covid didn’t survive it. So many others.

I attended a research colloquium at @tashorg.bsky.social and wanted to share a resource! RainbowGuidebook.com - There are so many resources included. Videos, teaching tools, examples that you can build more lessons from, and the lived experiences of people with IDD with gender and sexuality.

I did a podcast with Ms B about the Dept of Ed open.spotify.com/episode/3DVJ...

Inclusive ECE Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/VCDTB6y

All I want to talk about is education, inclusion, special education, dept of ed, and I fear there’s increasingly small interest in

I made an Inclusive ECE starter pack per @itsmountaintime.bsky.social request. Let me know if you or someone you know should be added! #EduSky

“Sane-washing” isn’t the cute, creative phrase you may think it is. It’s an ableist euphemism.

Do we all just have to accept that we must talk about AI now in all academic/professional/conference places? It’s just so borrrring.

Did you know dismantling the Department of Education requires a supermajority of 60 Senate votes unless Republicans abolish the filibuster? This is not a foregone conclusion. Fight for the country you want to live in.

Love this. We need so much more of this in courses like this. I always get “yeah I can see how you do it in your courses but I could never.” @roberttalbert.bsky.social shows you how!