Zach Czaia
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Poet. High School English teacher. Substack, "Teacher / Poet" here:
https://zachczaia.substack.com/
@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
about 1 month ago
IDK seems like a bad idea to offer cover to a social arsonistâŠalso Common Sense Education and OpenAI partnered to produce an industry-friendly AI literacy curriculum so đ€·đŒ
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Charles Logan
about 1 month ago
Drew Bent, the education lead at Anthropic: "'Weâre at a point now where we need to make sure that these things are backed by outcomes and figure out whatâs working and whatâs 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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âDiscerning the Spiritsâ in Making Decisions about AI
On Powers, Principalities, and Pope Leoâs 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
about 2 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 âTorment Nexusâ
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
about 2 months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
2 months ago
Everything is so stupid
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Charles Logan
2 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)
3 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
3 months ago
Iâm good in the hood.
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Charles Logan
3 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
3 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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âI Donât Wannaâ
Reflections on Teaching and Parenting, and with Many Guest Appearances
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/i-dont-wanna
3 months ago
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Adrian Neibauer
4 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. Itâs only fair that the same should apply to teachers." Thanks, Scout Snider, for telling it like it is. And
@jsanofranchini.bsky.social
for sharing.
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4 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
4 months ago
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Adrian Neibauer
4 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
5 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 studentsâ learning, but with all the new technologies available to help them cut corners, I worry that theyâre 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
8 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
is coming soon!
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Adrian Neibauer
5 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 canât measure. Thatâs where your agency lives. Where your work matters most.
#EdChat
#EduSky
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Alfie Kohn
5 months ago
1/2 My new essay on AI (
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
) includes quotes from, or links to, writings by
@emilymbender.bsky.social
,
@palan57.bsky.social
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@stopgenai.com
,
@ddmeyer.bsky.social
,
@zachczaia.bsky.social
,
@lutzfernandez.bsky.social
,
@empittsdonahoe.bsky.social
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@garymarcus.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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âAI Literacy as Sex Ed?â
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AI Literacy as Sex Ed?
âThereâs a line I use when teaching about building AI literacy in K-12 classrooms: âAt the end of the day, itâs just sex ed.â Every time I share it, Iâm met with nods, chuckles, and that look of sudde...
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/ai-literacy-as-sex-ed
5 months ago
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âConsider the bad times, and who they are good for.â Brilliant line and brilliant piece.
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âKnow Where You Stand and Stand Thereâ: Notes on Some of Daniel Berriganâs 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
5 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
6 months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
6 months ago
Minnesota is taking an ungodly amount of hits this year.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
6 months ago
This is one of the absolute toughest things about predatory inclusion â 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 Iâll say it: your enjoyment does not matter & should not matter.
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Ted McCormick
6 months ago
asking the non-sentient sentence generator that uses sentient authorsâ works without their consent if it consents to you using a pastiche of othersâ 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, âAnother Roundâ up on Substack.
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"Another Round"
A Movie Review & Other Back to School Recommendations
https://zachczaia.substack.com/p/against-compartmentalization
6 months ago
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This about sums it up
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7 months ago
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Some thoughts on the Instructure/OpenAI partnership.
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Bots Over Books
In Which OpenAI and Canvas Steal from Real Artistsâand Childrenâfor their Mediocre Group Project, and the Schools Give them an âAâ
https://open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/p/bots-over-books?r=el8lt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
7 months ago
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Thank you
@alvinahoffmann.bsky.social
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) âđ
8 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
7 months ago
Iâm 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
8 months ago
Starting Tuesday:
#PoemADayJuly
with myself,
@heymrsbond.com
and
@thevogelman.bsky.social
đ The first seven poems listed hereâwe'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!
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New post up on Classical Education Movement and Heritage Foundationâs âPhoenix Declarationâ:
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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
8 months ago
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Thank you
@frankstrong.bsky.social
and
@annieabrams.bsky.social
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8 months ago
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madoc cairns
8 months ago
Strong words from the Pope on Netanyahuâs crimes & the complicity of the west: âHerod, 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.â
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âAll true artists suspect that if the world really knew what they were doing they would be punished.â Ben Okri New essay up on Substack, âOn Distance & Closenessâ:
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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
8 months ago
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Kumail Nanjiani
8 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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New essay, âIâma Catholic School Teacher. Chris Rufo Doesnât Speak for Meâ 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
8 months ago
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Sigal Samuel
9 months ago
The new pope is so focused on AI that he actually chose the name Leo XIV *because of AI* Is it weird for the Catholic Church to be making this a priority? Not at all! I argue it makes perfect sense â other religions should do the same
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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The new pope has strong opinions about AI. Good.
Pope Leoâs unusual crusade should be a model for every religion.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/414530/pope-leo-ai-artificial-intelligence-catholicism-religion
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20th anniversary of first year of teaching this coming fall. Iâve got some thoughts.
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(Almost) 20 Years in the Game
(Almost) 20 Years in the Game
https://open.substack.com/pub/zachczaia/p/almost-20-years-in-the-game?r=el8lt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
9 months ago
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Jonathan Morgan
9 months ago
"ChatGPT Is a Gimmick" â a great read from Jonathan Malesic
hedgehogreview.com/web-features...
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ChatGPT Is a Gimmick
AI offers a tempting illusion to students—and evidently to some teachers.
https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/chatgpt-is-a-gimmick
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JFW
9 months ago
I crave the end of the semester. There's a rhythm to the year: 10 frantic months/2 reflective months. I just read
#TheEndofBurnout
by Jonathan Malesic. He's a former professor who left academia after earning tenure. It's both memoir & history of American burnout culture. đ§” 1/X
#booksky
#academicsky
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Jeffrey Austin
9 months ago
Want to stop anti-intellectualism from spreading even further? â End corporate influence in schools (Lexia, iReady, College Board, etc.); start trusting teachers, caregivers + kids. â Give a damn about what kids are reading. â Think about purposes for learning beyond "metrics" + "outcomes."
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Rachel Swarns
9 months ago
Pope Leoâs ancestors had roots in Black Catholic communities that were deeply impacted by the Churchâs involvement in and support of slavery/segregation. That they held on to their faith and worked to make the Church responsive to a diverse flock â and produced our new pope! -- inspire me.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
10 months ago
Everyone is capable of writing a good essay. I firmly believe this is a skill that can be taught to anyone, and we should be teaching it. And I donât mean a stupid 500 word AP exam essay. I mean a real one that people might want to read.
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