🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

Saturday's a rugby day! Had a blast supporting the USA Women's team!

Evergreen.

Excited to spend the day learning with people who love to innovate! #FCPSInnovatED

Y'know... I wonder if we'd be seeing so many instructors jumping to use AI in the classroom if we actually trained people how to teach. At all. sr.ithaka.org/publications...

I was reading the comments on a local news article about Medicaid cuts and a Missouri woman called having access to healthcare a “lifestyle” that isn’t meant for folks who can’t afford it. I have never read anything more sad, or American, in my life…

A timely quote from Dr. Carla Hayden: “Libraries are a cornerstone of democracy—where information is free and equally available to everyone. People tend to take that for granted, and they don’t realize what is at stake when that is put at risk.”

Something surprising is happening: After a steep drop-off during the pandemic, youth drug use is *continuing* its remarkable decline—defying the predictions of many experts. We spoke with researcher Richard Miech to get his take on the phenomenon. 🧵1/9 #EduSky #education

She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.

Apparently we're going to surveillance our way to learning. Anyone who doubts that AI is inextricably bound up with intensive monitoring of student behaviors need only look at how those who genuinely believe this technology is a help are positioning it.

If your assessment is not valid and reliable, then it's not an assessment; it's just an activity.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

It's poetry that racist Strom Thurman's filibuster record to stop the Civil Rights Act was broken by a black man in the Senate. Condolences in Hell, Strom.

This is utterly incredible to watch. Beating Strom Thurmond's record and speaking truth into the historical record is an absolute achievement. Do not go quietly and keep making good trouble @booker.senate.gov

“History has shown us that authoritarian regimes target academics first, fearing the power of inquiry, free expression and the pursuit of truth. We do not choose the times in which we live, but we do choose how we act in those times.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

It's true! Adults are also baffled when we tell them that and it always worries me

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

Historian here: “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

I'm so glad we are back!!! #EduSky

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Report: You Live In An Embarrassing Country

It’s almost as if we shouldn’t use an educational model that perpetually rewards thoughtless obedience.

Sporty Spice since birth, y’all. Sports made me who I am. Every girl - and that includes trans girls - should be able to participate and be welcomed into the incredible sports community and family. Happy National Girls & Women in Sports Day! #NGWSD

I'm gonna live to outlive this malignancy, and even if they live in its shadow my kids have their whole lives ahead of them with the next four years in the rear view. It's not choosing escapism or ignorance to focus on building a bridge to *that* world starting today.

I stand by this.

It's truly bewildering to me that anyone could look at 25-39% increases in suspensions & expulsions as the problem of actual children and not the problem of school systems.

I don’t want my class to prepare students for ‘the real world.’ I want my class to help students dream of a better world.

The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

A revelation that hit me during my conversation w/ @pernille.bsky.social is the tension & pressure of training American teachers to be superheroes needed to rescue kids from failing economic systems while ignoring those systemic failures. The demand to be superhuman is ultimately dehumanizing.

Thanks #VSTE24, it's been real!

So glad I got to present about student voice at the secondary level with the amazing @annebaker.bsky.social at #VSTE24 today! Grateful to have a space to share our experience and learn from our audience.

Loving this battle between two big tech tools - I've learned so many new things in such a short time! #VSTE24

Hey #VSTE24 - adjust your settings in BlueSky to require alt text before posting! It's a great reminder to make your posts accessible.

"Our jobs are hard, community is the answer." 🎯🎯🎯

Ribbon game starting strong at my 4th? 5th? VSTE! Excited to dig into the learning at #VSTE24

Anchors away #VSTE24 - here we come!

Sunday scaries are a little less intense with a snoozing cat, a book, and a heated blanket.

Shirley Chisholm was an early childhood teacher, then 1st Black woman elected to the US Congress. Re-elected 6 times. Ran for U.S. president. Spoke for civil & women’s rights, for economic justice, against Vietnam War, much more. Watch "Unbought and Unbossed" www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ch...

In case you missed it in 2017, here is a foundational text on how to use gifs. Much to consider here in 2024 if you haven’t yet.

I did it to myself this year, no regrets