@rweingarten.bsky.social addresses the violence shaking our communities—but also highlights how we're holding power accountable by challenging cuts to community schools, defending educators' rights, and securing victories for families. Watch Randi's Weekly Report ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaUj...

In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky

NEW: @rweingarten.bsky.social issues statement on the murder of Renee Nicole Good and incidents involving ICE agents threatening educators and students in Minnesota: "ICE must leave our schools and communities immediately—they are making us less, not more, safe." www.aft.org/press-releas...

Five Things Steward Training Gets Wrong, by Richard de Vries, a 30-year union rep, now retired, with Teamsters Local 705: labornotes.org/2026/01/five...

ICE unlawfully detained one of our members and used pepper spray on high school students shortly after shooting and killing a Minneapolis woman yesterday. We demand they stay away from our schools. Immediately.

BREAKING: The House voted to extend the ACA tax credits. This vote is a promising step to save 130,000 health care jobs and stop a massive spike in health care costs. We commend the Republicans and Democrats who stood with working people. https://bit.ly/4sEjiwz

"ICE is still on our streets, kidnapping our neighbors, terrorizing our families and acting like lawless thugs with badges.” #ProtectOurKids and Communities @leslieblatteau.bsky.social @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

“Tentative New Haven teachers union contract includes pay increases, but not state health plan” — New Haven Register #UnionNews #teacher #teachers

#BREAKING UPDATE: A viewer sent us video of a man appearing to use pepper spray at last night's anti-ICE protest in #Hartford. https://www.wfsb.com/2026/01/09/hartford-officials-investigate-vehicle-strike-federal-courthouse-protest/ 

“Let’s remember that after they murdered [Renee Good], they still went to a high school in Minneapolis and still terrorized teenagers in that city. And we in New haven, we as teachers must prepare to protect our students and our neighbors.” #ProtectOurKids @leslieblatteau.bsky.social @aft.org

"Let's remember the power we have. It is us against the billionaires, folks. We are many, they are few." #ProtectOurKids and Communities @leslieblatteau.bsky.social @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

I'm really proud of this academic freedom syllabus language that the @aaup.org CDAF fellows developed. Having language like this opens up an opportunity to talk with your students about what academic freedom is (and is not). If you add it to your syllabus this semester let me know how it goes!

Winter blues? Paint them gold. This next in our series, presented by artist-in-residence Stuart Beckford, draws inspiration from the season: aftct.org/event/jan_26... #StrengthInUnity @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

January is National Braille Literacy Month! ♿📖 Introduce students to accessibility tools like canes, guide dogs, braille, & screen readers with this inclusive coloring packet https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/blind-independence-coloring-packet-learning-about-accessibility-inclusion-410199

🎓 @aft.org members: Elevate your AI skills! Join this 90-min webinar to create custom classroom AI agents from instructional aides to feedback partners, with a focus on safety, privacy, and teacher control https://sharemylesson.com/webinars/agents-action-building-classroom-partners-ai

In the Winter 2025-2026 edition of American Educator, Dr. Vin Gupta shares what inspired the Vital Lessons webinar series, his unique career path in medicine, and why having these timely, science-based health discussions is so important at this moment. Check it out here ⤵️ www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

Women have always led, history just hasn’t always told the story. 👩🏾👩👩🏻 @sari.bsky.social explores why uncovering these narratives matters for today’s classrooms. A great read for educators! 👉 https://sharemylesson.com/blog/women-have-always-led @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

Congress is voting on whether or not to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits for another 3 years, helping working families afford the care they need. Please take 5 minutes to call your representative at (218) 453-8077 and tell them: Extend the ACA tax credits. #HealthcareHeist

The most “in” thing you can do in 2026? Organize and form a union with your coworkers.

“We’re excited that we’ve arrived at a tentative agreement for a new contract for our teachers with the leadership of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, and we are hopeful that it will be approved by the union’s membership and the Board of Education,” #FundOurFutureCT

"#ProtectOurKids & Communities" virtual town hall later this month is among events + highlights & featured benefit in the latest edition of "Inside #AFTCT." #RealSolutions @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

Make your voice heard—tell your lawmakers to keep healthcare affordable and vote to restore critical ACA tax credits this week. Premiums have skyrocketed since tax credits expired in the new year. Take action here ⤵️ actionnetwork.org/letters/affo...

Happy New Year, educators! 🎉Start 2026 with the 2025 Best of Share My Lesson educator-favorite lessons, blogs, webinars, & classroom resources that made an impact all year https://sharemylesson.com/collections/2025-favorites aremylesson.com/collections/2025-favorites @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

New from @cfreducation.bsky.social: Three Ways to Teach About Venezuela in a Nonpartisan Way education.cfr.org/blog/three-w...

Over 2,800 people have signed on to the AAUP petition challenging the requirement for faculty across universities in the North Carolina System to make syllabi publicly available. The petition is still taking signatures: add yours today and say no to political pressure from right-wing think tanks 👇

How can essential early career teachers be retained for years to come? Better working conditions, professional support, and compensation were all named in CAP’s recent survey: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-to-increase-the-retention-of-early-career-teachers

Going Public embraces the notion of bravery and collectivity. We want to examine how scholars are engaging w the public. What are you doing as a scholar-activist? How can we present our research, teaching, and ideas in creative ways? @lawcha.bsky.social @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

"...defending one’s right to speak is the essence of our democracy. You don’t lose your constitutional rights when you decide to become a teacher—the Constitution, for it to have any meaning at all, has to work for all Americans, not just some." - @rweingarten.bsky.social @texasaft.org

"Health-profession degrees are expensive to deliver, so it would be difficult for universities to drop their tuition prices." you know who can help? states CAN increase their support to universities. maybe not every state this is a place where organizing can and does move the needle.

We’ve extended the deadline to register for the AFL-CIO Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil & Human Rights Conference! Join us in Baltimore January 15-18 as we build on our victories, honor our history and fight for a future that works for working people. https://themlkconference.org/

If AAUP's 2025 can be summed up in a phrase, it would be: Organize, Fight, Win! We will remember 2025 as a year of membership growth, mass actions against Trump's loyalty oath compact & major legal victories for the AAUP. We invite you to organize, fight, and win with us in 2026!

Happening now: #union leaders join #CTGeneralAssembly lawmakers to support proposed resources to stopgap x’d federal Grad PLUS loans; impt legislation aimed at empowering RNs & #HospitalStaff to seek advanced careers. #CodeREDCT @aft.org @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

📚 Book Club 📚 Join @rweingarten.bsky.social and author Dashka Slater for a discussion on accountability in the digital age as they explore Slater's book, "Accountable," and the harm a racist social media account caused a school community. Register here ⤵️ sharemylesson.com/webinars/aft...

I'm glad that Democrats are standing firm for truth about Jan 6th today. They are live streaming expert witnesses, including Republicans, police and people who participated in the insurrection. www.youtube.com/live/EUEmzBY...

We cannot let anyone rewrite this history. Jan 6th was violent. Police were murdered by domestic terrorists trying to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. And it’s shameful that the insurrectionists have been pardoned. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...

"Pulling this funding mid-year forces our districts into an impossible choice between cutting essential services or facing insolvency" #FundOurFutureCT

2025 ended with some new #UnionFamily members! More #PublicEd professionals, nurses and #HospitalStaff, #HigherEd faculty, and #CTStateWorkers said #UnionYES last month. #BetterInAUnion @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @psrp-aft.bsky.social @afthealthcare.bsky.social @aaup.org

@aft.org members: Your certification journey starts here! Join our 8-week online licensure prep course with live instruction, guided practice, and strategies to break down test items for Praxis or white paper exams. Register ➡️ bit.ly/AFT_licensure_course2026 @rweingarten.bsky.social @uft.org

Get students talking about love idioms (even “blind date” 😄)! Use this ESL lesson to make learning idiomatic expressions fun for your class. https://sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/idioms-describing-love-off2class-esl-lesson @aft.org @aftteach.bsky.social

Our New Year's Resolution is to establish guardrails around the harmful uses of AI. What's your New Year's Resolution for working people? #newyear #newyearresolutions

More importantly George Leef is also platformed by libertarian/Koch-funded orgs such as John Locke Foundation and James Martin Center ($ from Art Pope...aka "the Charles Koch of NC"). Right-wing ideas about higher ed. pour out of these think tanks, and we pay the price. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

A billionaire won't shovel the snow from your sidewalk. Or lend you tools to finish a project. Or watch your pet while you're away. Don't let anyone convince you that your neighbor is the enemy when it's the billionaires who are stealing from us all.

Never trust anyone who would rather raise the retirement age than make the rich pay their fair share into Social Security!

If you're thinking of ways to supercharge your organizing in 2026, you might find inspiration in our staff's goals for the year ahead 1/2 labornotespodcast.podbean.com/e/2026-is-ou...

"If you want to go back to the old wobbly maxim--an injury to one is injury to all-- you got to mean it," @kimkelly.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of @conjuncture.bsky.social. We discuss labor, solidarity, and her book, Fight Like Hell: trinitysocialjustice.com/kim-kelly-on...

Venezuela 🇻🇪: We strongly condemn the US military intervention against the Bolivarian Republic of #Venezuela These events violate the sovereignty, territorial integrity and right to self-determination of the Venezuelan people. publicservices.international/resources/ne...

After the Brown University tragedy, Sydney (2017 Nat’l Teacher of the Year & TU Ambassador) & Abbey (TU co-founder & Sandy Hook survivor) spoke with @bostonglobe.com. We refuse to normalize this! Crisis Team help: [email protected] | (203) 296-3689 ☮️💔❤️‍🩹📚

"AFT Connecticut stands with the national @aft.org and the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council in demanding that the @usdoe.bsky.social honor its legal and moral commitment to our schools." #ProtectOurKids @leslieblatteau.bsky.social

Thank you for decades of leadership on gun violence prevention and for uplifting educator voices and @teachersunify.bsky.social! Proud to work alongside you. Here’s to a safe 2026! ☮️📓📚❤️‍🩹