On Tyranny lessons from @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Thank you to the Japanese American National Museum for this wonderful teacher institute. In April, they learned that they had lost their NEH funding. They privately fundraised to make it happen, bringing dozens of educators from around the US to Little Tokyo to learn together. @jamuseum.bsky.social

Check out the Japanese American National Museum's teacher resources! Everything from origami videos to built-out lessons on internment and community activism. janm.org/education/reso… @jamuseum.bsky.social

A special moment: Richard Murakami shared carvings his father made in internment camps in CA & AR. One act of kindness: Richard told us that a Long Beach neighbor carefully stored all of his father's farming equipment for the years of internment to return when they came home. @jamuseum.bsky.social

Brian Niiya spoke to our @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute on the topic of redress (formerly interned Japanese Americans received a presidential apology and $20K each in 1988). Brian also runs Densho.org, which provides excellent resources for teaching Japanese Internment.

Incredibly fortunate to hear from four Japanese Americans who lived in internment camps as children. Two went on to serve in the US military. Thank you, Ms. Berk and Mr. Iwashashi, Mr. Yamashita, & Mr. Murakami for telling your story to our @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute.

Our @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute group had a very meaningful visit to Manzanar today. In the blazing sun, it was hard to imagine that many families spent years interned here, simply because they were of Japanese ancestry.

Our @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute learned about the US Army's 442nd regiment, comprised entirely of Japanese American soldiers who lived by their "Go For Broke" slogan and fought valiantly in the European theater of WWII- all while their families were interned in camps. Heroes!

Our @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute kicked things off with very interesting walking tours of Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights, both historic centers of the Japanese American community in LA. One of our tour guides was born in Manzanar in 1944.

Kick off day for the @jamuseum.bsky.social teacher institute on Japanese American history in Little Tokyo, LA. My teacher roommate and I are staying at the Miyako Hotel, which has an Ohtani mural on the side and served LA Dodger helmet shaped buns in its coffee shop.

Bone chilling. A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States. The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0. 1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

Making Plans for Battle Road 250 from boston1775.bsky.social boston1775.blogspot.com/2025/04/maki...

Like many teachers across the country, I was accepted into an NEH summer institute on April 2, and found out on April 4 that the institute was cancelled because of DOGE's gutting of NEH funding, including already-issued grants. Please take action! nhalliance.org/federal-fundin…

LPS in the (packed!) house at the Association of Black Citizens of Lexington's special Rev 250 event unveiling banners and introducing a film series to celebrate the Black patriots who fought in and supported the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

No longer… 😔 🫡

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

Mark your calendar for 8:00 a.m. on April 18th to watch Boston 25 News! LPS social studies' Jane Hundley & Kerry Dunne took Gene Lavanchy to visit Revolutionary War sites. LHS teacher Matt Gardner was off-camera historical consult during filming of this Zip Trip to Lexington!

The U.S.S. Lexington, the Blue Ghost of Corpus Christi, on the Gulf of Mexico!

Proud, full-circle moment: Re-enactor Jude Kalaora was my student in AP US History my first year teaching at Framingham High School, 1998-1999, and is now a successful entrepreneur bringing history to life across the country!

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Important to note today. In 1933, opposition parties might have been able to stop the Nazis. But, they were divided on how to do that. The Reichstag passed a law making it illegal to speak out against the government. Hitler later outlawed opposition parties. www.facinghistory.org/resource-lib...

Is there anything better than running into a long-ago former student? I taught this guy in 9th grade world history in the 2001 - 2002 school year at Framingham High School! He served in the US Marines out of high school and has been working as a Framingham firefighter ever since. Very proud of him!

Clarity from esteemed professor Bob Allison: the first shots of the American revolution were indeed fired in Lexington.

@kerrydunne.bsky.social Good idea to keep on eye on the College Board for any of this nonsense in other courses.

I'm back!! Back to work today sporting my new bionic knee. 🦵 Grateful to my department for the warm welcome. ❤️

Here we are on Bluesky! Sharing our student and faculty history and social studies learning wherever we can!

A February highlight: Our Lexington High School student history club worked with community members to transcribe primary source documents connected to Frederick Douglass. This project was sponsored by the Library of Congress!

Tough game for the Keefe Tech Broncos vs. Fenway/Dearborn, ending a great season for my daughter and her teammates. ❤️🏀 www.metrowestdailynews.com/picture-gall...

RIP Roberta Flack www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

When reporting on Trump, don't be like the AP; be like WHDH 7 News Boston. The AP: "Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbs..." 7 News Boston: "TRUMP LIES ABOUT UKRAINE and Zelenskyy." That's how you do it.

May I see some ID? Sure! (Just discovered this classic in a drawer)

Bad time to have a setback (significantly increasing pain in hip) after an otherwise successful total knee replacement surgery: President's Day weekend during a snow/ ice storm. Here's hoping all the doctors/PAs/nurses are back at work answering their messages tomorrow morning.

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

I loved Thomas Fuller's The Boys of Riverside, about the California School for the Deaf's state championship in 8-man football. Loved the mention of the sand/dirt field in Trona, where my dad grew up playing eight man football before attending UC- Riverside

This, exactly. "Oh, it's just a little thing, we can do that. ... Well, this is a bit worse, but I guess we can go along with that too. .... Huh, this seems a lot but what choice do we have now?"

Day 2: What was the biggest jerk thing you did as a kid/teen? A: I was about 16, my mom was taking me out for lunch. She hinted that she wanted to talk to me about boys and college. I jumped out of the car at a stoplight and ran 2 miles home. I think about this often while parenting my own teens!

Twice a year the 5th/6th grades would be crowded on to the auditorium stage, curtain closed, lights out, & we'd watch the school's 1935 version of David Copperfield on a 16mm projector. I saw it four times. I think the message was "be glad you're not an orphan." At least for those of us who weren't.

Do we do sports on Bluesky? I hope so! Last night my daughter's Keefe Tech 12-3 basketball team won the league championship with a win over Assabet. This is their first year with a varsity program, only JV last 3 years.They will be headed to the playoffs! An amazing last season for her. ❤️🔥🏀😭

A lot of Drake humor. bsky.app/profile/rodg...

1970s bomb drills. We lined up in the hallways, duck and cover, heads against the wall.

Not sure about the Gatorade ad but about 20 NFL teams would be better off with @thecaitlinclark.bsky.social as their quarterback.

bsky.app/profile/katz... The humor is here - you just have to dig a little for it.

In the 70s, my elementary school music teacher got her hands on a synthesizer. She put it in the sound proof room and gave us each 5 unsupervised minutes to push buttons and see what sounds it could make.

Day 1: Tell your school story from your childhood that absolutely would not happen today. My A: One of my elementary school lunch ladies would pull out kids' teeth. Kids with loose teeth would stand in line for this. She was from Poland and everyone thought she was awesome including the parents.

Bluesky is the place we all need to be but TBH it kinda lacks humor & connection. So for the next 10 days I'm going to ask one question a day that (I hope) inspires some swapping of ridiculous stories to lighten things up a bit. Yes, absolutely, carry on with the resistance too.