Zach Czaia
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Poet. High School English teacher. Substack, "Teacher / Poet" here:
https://zachczaia.substack.com/
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Ted McCormick
3 days ago
I donāt know what saving either the profession or the discipline means, if it doesnāt involve preserving pathways to full careers. If the institutions best placed to do so, however troubled, are not willing to make that commitment, then it is delusional to think those less well placed will step up.
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Ted McCormick
3 days ago
Has either a discipline or a profession ever been built wholly on 1-3-year stints of gig work? And, at that, gigs open only to those 0-7 years out of their training, on the pretence that this is preparation for a career? Because thatās where weāre going. To a great extent, itās where we already are.
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Ted McCormick
3 days ago
Weāre arguing about content. We need to be arguing about labor.
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New piece "Having the (Awkward AI) Conversation" is out:
zachczaia.substack.com/p/having-the...
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Having the (Awkward AI) Conversation
Having the (Awkward AI) Conversation
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/having-the-awkward-ai-conversation
20 days ago
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Mo Ryan
27 days ago
I think if I were to send the head of legal at Grammarly a note that said I broke into his house and took his wallet, but in future, he could opt out of me stealing his wallet, that would go great and they would be fine with that šš»
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Marcus Luther
about 1 month ago
"My choosing not to use AI as a tool is not because I donāt understand it, but rather itās because I do understand it." š from
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Adrian Neibauer
about 2 months ago
āThe Teacher/Writer series challenges the prescriptive and standardized educational status quo, and fires the imaginations of those hungry for greater depth as both teachers and as writers.ā And thatās just the preface! This is going to be an excellent read.
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@annieabrams.bsky.social
"In English class, teachers can show students what has moved others to use language with care and pleasure, and invite them to join a long tradition of people who have found a way to say something new." So grounded. So sane.
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Freedom of Intelligence | The Point Magazine
In the name of progress, public education is now pressed into the service of agendas that align with corporate profit, workforce readiness, ideological reproduction and demand for quantifiable results...
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/freedom-of-intelligence/
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Charles Logan
3 months ago
IDK seems like a bad idea to offer cover to a social arsonistā¦also Common Sense Education and OpenAI partnered to produce an industry-friendly AI literacy curriculum so š¤·š¼
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Charles Logan
3 months ago
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'Weāre at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out whatās working and whatās not working.'" Convenient that *now* is the time for evidence, once these products are released and pushed into schools.
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Tech Giants Are Racing to Embed A.I. in Schools Around the Globe
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/technology/school-ai-chatgpt-estonia-iceland.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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New piece up on Pope Leo's "Drawing Maps of Hope":
zachczaia.substack.com/p/discerning...
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āDiscerning the Spiritsā in Making Decisions about AI
On Powers, Principalities, and Pope Leoās New Document on Catholic Education
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/discerning-the-spirits-in-making?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1793650&post_id=183093747&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=el8lt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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"We should also imagine new tripartite forms, such as AI ethics boards that place organized labor and civil society (including the Church) across the table from technologists."
@sohrabahmari.bsky.social
Yes. New essay up in
@commonweal.bsky.social
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www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-chris...
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Escaping the āTorment Nexusā
The fate of the twenty-first century turns on whether we appreciate the logic of Christian democracy and of the social teaching that inspired it.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/future-christian-democracy-leo-sohrab-ahmari
3 months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
4 months ago
Everything is so stupid
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Charles Logan
4 months ago
"Big Tech and data center developers appear to be siting data centers in vulnerable communities...These locations show a troubling trend - they primarily impact working class and Black and Latine communities."
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The Unequal Burden of Data Centers - Kapor Foundation
An examination of the Environmental and Public Health Impacts on Communities in California
https://kaporfoundation.org/datacenters-envt-health/
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Remy Nakamura (he/they)
5 months ago
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts. "When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
5 months ago
Iām good in the hood.
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Charles Logan
5 months ago
Last week, I gave a talk pushing back against claims that AI will democratize education, and I included this slide meant to trouble narratives - and self-serving programs like OpenAI's new "free" ChatGPT for teachers - that focus narrowly on access to technology as some kind of transformative force.
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Marcus Luther
5 months ago
Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd!
#SundayMacbethChat
Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes!
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āI Donāt Wannaā
Reflections on Teaching and Parenting, and with Many Guest Appearances
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/i-dont-wanna
5 months ago
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Adrian Neibauer
5 months ago
What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching.
#TeacherSky
#EduSky
#SubstackSky
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"To tell students not to use AI for the work that was AI-generated for us is, in my opinion, beyond ridiculous. She wants to know what we know. Itās only fair that the same should apply to teachers." Thanks, Scout Snider, for telling it like it is. And
@jsanofranchini.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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"Never a Dull Moment, Babe": Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
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"Never a Dull Moment, Babe"
Notes on Surprise--in Teaching, Writing, and Publishing
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/never-a-dull-moment-babe
6 months ago
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Adrian Neibauer
6 months ago
AI is not a mere tool for helping teachers. When you remove the human element of teaching and learning, you are not being more efficient nor effective. The ability to learn is what makes us human, and humans teaching humans is a fundamentally human act that is necessary for meaningful engagement.
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Talia Argondezzi
6 months ago
Teachers! If your students are using AI to write their papers, maybe it's because you personally are not using AI enough. Here's my new
@mcsweeneys.net
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I Need AI to Write Better Lesson Plans So My Students Stop Using AI to Write Their Papers
I care deeply about my studentsā learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that theyāre not doing the...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-need-ai-to-write-better-lesson-plans-so-my-students-stop-using-ai-to-write-their-papers
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University of Notre Dame Press
10 months ago
"Scrupulous and well researched, this is a much-needed portrait of an often-overlooked area of American Catholicism." ~Publishers Weekly #Racism #Identity #Religion Read the review:
https://bit.ly/4mGTM6z
#Racism
#Identity
#Religion
LACK AND CATHOLIC by
@tiaphd.bsky.social
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Adrian Neibauer
7 months ago
It is important to not mistake the demands of the job for your real work in the classroom. Show up for the students in ways that count the most and that the system canāt measure. Thatās where your agency lives. Where your work matters most.
#EdChat
#EduSky
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Alfie Kohn
6 months ago
1/2 My new essay on AI (
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
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@emilymbender.bsky.social
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@palan57.bsky.social
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@stopgenai.com
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@ddmeyer.bsky.social
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@zachczaia.bsky.social
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@lutzfernandez.bsky.social
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@empittsdonahoe.bsky.social
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The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym
EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...
https://www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
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āAI Literacy as Sex Ed?ā
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AI Literacy as Sex Ed?
āThereās a line I use when teaching about building AI literacy in K-12 classrooms: āAt the end of the day, itās just sex ed.ā Every time I share it, Iām met with nods, chuckles, and that look of sudde...
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/ai-literacy-as-sex-ed
6 months ago
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āConsider the bad times, and who they are good for.ā Brilliant line and brilliant piece.
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7 months ago
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āKnow Where You Stand and Stand Thereā: Notes on Some of Daniel Berriganās Poems and Another School Shooting
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"Know Where You Stand, and Stand There"
Notes on Daniel Berrigan's Poems and Another School Shooting
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/know-where-you-stand-and-stand-there
7 months ago
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One Subject Press just released our first new book, and it is a beauty. TEACHING WITHOUT TEACHING by Scott F. Parker.
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Teaching without Teaching by Scott F. Parker
Introducing One Subject Press' First New Book!
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/teaching-without-teaching-by-scott
7 months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
7 months ago
Minnesota is taking an ungodly amount of hits this year.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
8 months ago
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion ā the predation is often fun or a little useful. Criticism makes a reasonable person sound like an asshole. LowerEd weathered me for this kind of social death. So Iāll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
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Ted McCormick
8 months ago
asking the non-sentient sentence generator that uses sentient authorsā works without their consent if it consents to you using a pastiche of othersā work that you commanded it to produce is some of the highest decoupling I have seen Lo these many years
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New post out, āAnother Roundā up on Substack.
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"Another Round"
A Movie Review & Other Back to School Recommendations
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/against-compartmentalization
8 months ago
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This about sums it up
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Some thoughts on the Instructure/OpenAI partnership.
open.substack.com/pub/zachczai...
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Bots Over Books
In Which OpenAI and Canvas Steal from Real Artistsāand Childrenāfor their Mediocre Group Project, and the Schools Give them an āAā
https://open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/p/bots-over-books?r=el8lt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
8 months ago
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Thank you
@alvinahoffmann.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) āš
9 months ago
Israel is starving Gaza. And killing those trying not to starve. God who keeps faith with all who sleep in the dust, have mercy. Give us courage to act, to end & atone for this evil, for the blood we have spilled & watched being spilled, for the universes forever lost through our action & inaction.
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Michael Kleber-Diggs
9 months ago
Iām pleased to announce the formation of a new political party, the United States party. Our core platform: tax the rich until every last one of them is middle class; use what our gain$ to save the planet.
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Marcus Luther
9 months ago
Starting Tuesday:
#PoemADayJuly
with myself,
@heymrsbond.com
and
@thevogelman.bsky.social
š The first seven poems listed hereāwe'll discuss one each day, and everyone is welcome! Building community by talking about poetry is a pretty cool thing, so let's do it!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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New post up on Classical Education Movement and Heritage Foundationās āPhoenix Declarationā:
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"The Best That's Been Thought And Said"
Some Thoughts on the Classical Education Movement & The Heritage Foundation's "Phoenix Declaration"
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/the-best-thats-been-thought-and-said
9 months ago
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Thank you
@frankstrong.bsky.social
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@annieabrams.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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madoc cairns
9 months ago
Strong words from the Pope on Netanyahuās crimes & the complicity of the west: āHerod, for fear of being deposed, murdered children, who even today continue to be torn apart by bombs; Pilate washed his hands, as we risk doing every day until we arrive at the point of no return.ā
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āAll true artists suspect that if the world really knew what they were doing they would be punished.ā Ben Okri New essay up on Substack, āOn Distance & Closenessā:
open.substack.com/pub/zachczai...
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On Distance & Closeness
Teacher / Poet #51
https://open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/p/on-distance-and-closeness?r=el8lt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
10 months ago
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Kumail Nanjiani
10 months ago
I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.
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Yes to this sane response. Thank you for sharing
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New essay, āIāma Catholic School Teacher. Chris Rufo Doesnāt Speak for Meā up on Substack.
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I'm a Catholic School Teacher. Chris Rufo Doesn't Speak for Me
Teacher / Poet #50
https://open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/p/im-a-catholic-school-teacher-chris?r=el8lt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
10 months ago
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