Trans kids should be able to exist freely, fully, and joyfully.

If everything we do just comes down to “how can we save time,” then what are we even doing?

today on “y’all need to learn that two things can be true at once” aircon is good and should be more easily accessible and affordable across Europe And we need to fix climate change yesterday because it should not be getting this hot in Europe and that is the bigger issue

I think it's time for the yearly "how to deal with extreme heat" thread. Please reskeet and comment with advice.

As a language teacher I get asked my opinion on Duo all the time. I used to say that if you’re looking for a free way to get through the beginning levels, Duo is fine. But since they switched to an AI first model, I can no longer recommend them even for the novice stages.

Today is my 54th day of posts on Coretta Scott King. Juneteenth seems like an important time to revisit who she was, her leadership, faith & life of activism (that began long before meeting MLK) & how that is largely missed in dominant portrayals of her as a "beautiful helpmate." Check out the 🧵!

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

#langchat this would be fun with FVR books! Thinking about my heritage speakers specifically but it would be doable with simple language for L2 learners as well

NEW from me on @edutopia.org www.edutopia.org/article/help...

"In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us"

it’s because LLMs have no relationship to the truth. LLMs do not and cannot think or evaluate or decide or understand anything. the only things LLMs do is make sentences that seem like sense-making sentences, by choosing the most statistically likely next word in their input data set. THAT IS ALL.

Come teach French at our middle school in Melrose, MA, or kindly spread the word! #langchat #edusky www.schoolspring.com/jobdetail?jo...

❤️‍🔥📣 MORE THAN HALF YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US Y’all check these incredible stats — most Americans—*including OVER 50% OF TRUMP VOTERS — want trans-inclusive sex ed in schools. How much did they spend to try to make us hate our children? FAILED. ❗️Action item next skeet ❗️

Hearing people, this is a good opportunity to be an ally. When the speaker inevitably asks “can you all hear me?”, respond with “please use the microphone”. People in the room who need the microphone may not even hear the question being asked and therefore cannot answer.

Part of making teachers feel appreciated is empowering them with the autonomy to do what's best for their students and classroom. (That's more important than a gift card or balloon.)

"It takes zero courage to love you." the ten year old trans kid in me is just ... welp, the 40yo me is crying.

This is AWFUL and should get national press.

Me to my students while storytelling #langchat #tprs

Hey #langchat what are your favorite Spanish readers for any level??? We have extra department budget and want to spend it on our classroom libraries 🎉🎉🎉

Hey #langchat ! My high school near Omaha, NE has a Spanish teaching position that just opened up for next year. Excellent department, strong but flexible curriculum, great students. Reply or message me for details!

Hey #langchat ! My high school near Omaha, NE has a Spanish teaching position that just opened up for next year. Excellent department, strong but flexible curriculum, great students. Reply or message me for details!

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today. 1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship 2. An inflatable raft 3. A rope swing 4. Helicopter 5 Aircraft carrier 6. Airplane. 7. Van.

EVERYBODY'S HOME!!!! god something about the mission commander being last out of the ship really got me. I know it's such a tiny thing but we're just surrounded all the time by leaders who don't give a shit and just like, the symbolism of making sure your people get out first is a lot

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

New data shows 85% of Americans believe trans people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans support trans rights, yet politicians continue scapegoating this population instead of focusing on the real issues. buff.ly/17U1WGw

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation. We have to live into the world we want to create.

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

I am just so fucking delighted right now. DAGGERBOUND by @tkingfisher.com comes out on Aug 26, so you can definitely at least reread Swordheart before then, but tbqh, The World of the White Rat is the best, and you will love all of the books in it.

Also, teachers are professionals who know how to do our jobs. We could do an even better job if we didn’t have to spend so much time dealing with things we’re required to do by people who create policies from outside the classroom.

Reposting the image with alt text. So EVERYONE can see which of the thirteen airports will have ICE agents on site

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

tw: sexual assault

So many of us are struggling to stay positive right now. But you don’t have to fix everything, just start small. Sow love where you are. Help one person, care for one thing. 🌱 If enough of us plant it, maybe we’ll grow a more beautiful world. ❤️

#langchat this is a great resource for selecting books for your classroom library, and I am sure it will be a great session!

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

Not a mantra, but a really useful tip I wished someone had taught me early in my teaching career: build some down time into every class so you can get your own shit done. Yes, I know, circling the room and being engaged with students 100% is best practice. And exhausting.

We are way too quick to ascribe students with a "lack of motivation." It takes much less vulnerability to say "I don't wanna" than it does to say "I don't actually understand this" or "I don't know how to do this" or "I am just trying to make it through the day."

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

“A lot of people say to me: 'Aren't you afraid that they're going to get behind?' And my response is: 'I know that when my students leave my class that they know how to think and they know how to write.” - @heymrsbond.com Inspiring. That’s the gig, folks, that’s what educating is for!!!

Offering what I can for any teacher who needs it! Please spread the word #EduSky www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...