The numbers are in! 2025 activity on @sharemylesson.bsky.social shows a clear pattern: Educators are looking for new ways to "protect and support the students who needed it most—and to do it with care, equity and community trust."

"System-engaged families are clear: They wish someone had spoken to them before taking concerns to an unknown [child protective services] agent with the power to take their kids." --Jim Arey, retired teacher & union pres 4 steps to talk directly w/ families about suspected neglect: bit.ly/491eNTK

I commissioned @radicalemprints.bsky.social to make this letterpress print for me. I think that it turned out beautifully. You should check out their other work: www.radicalemprints.com - this is my twist on a @ladyofsardines.bsky.social comrade card. A few folks are receiving a print.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Buying my copy! 📕 We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso is available now at @haymarketbooks.org This is a call for us to build a just future together!

Let's not immediately assume AI is the solution to every problem, especially in health, where AI cause harm and has the potential to amplify existing health inequities. Let’s listen to communities first.

Thee UFT has compiled resources on the rights of immigrants, the current threat of deportation and how we as educators can support our immigrant students and their families. NYC public schools have extra city and state protections, regardless of federal policy. Read more: https://bit.ly/4iLJpgp

"Families don’t need more scrutiny—they need more support. Trauma grows in systems built on punishment, but healing happens in systems built on trust." --Kim Ochs, RI SEL coach, shares lessons from this year's "Call to Action to Change Child Welfare" Kempe conference Her blog: bit.ly/3KzXlNY

we keep us safe 💛

this is disappointing new brief suggests that schools should innovate around mandatory reporting ... by more carefully integrating AI www.aipolicylab.org/post/ai-chat...

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

Quinta Brunson has launched a fund to provide free field trips for public school students in Philadelphia. The Emmy-winning actress also donated $25,000 for students experiencing food insecurity. 🔗: form-renderer-app.donorperfect.io/give/fundsdp...

One bad decision as a teen shouldn’t cost young Californians decades of opportunities. #CDFCA’s Milinda Kakani warns CapRadio News how a new state law treats youth like adults and expands surveillance instead of addressing root causes. Read more: https://bit.ly/4iisBxfx

Florida is moving toward eliminating vaccine requirements for school enrollment - an open door to infectious disease. Educators worry first about their students. www.aft.org/news/florida...

New brief from UCLA explores how schools can balance technology use with focus, well-being, and equity. Read the report to explore thoughtful, community-centered cell phone + personal device policies for today’s classrooms at transformschools.ucla.edu/research/str...

The average SNAP recipient gets a $6 daily boost - about the equivalent of working 38min at minimum wage. Even brief lapses in benefits distribution are related to increased risk of child welfare system engagement. imprintnews.org/law-policy/h...

New evidence: "Across [countries of all income statuses], safe and enabling school environments (whole-school approaches) have the strongest evidence for reducing youth violence." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Blog on what makes a (Lowell, MA) community school: health van to boost vax; insurance enrollment support; civic debate instruction; on-site barber, laundry + food pantry; garden; MS college mentors; before-school programming; early warning data tracker www.communityschools.org/news/buildin...

Children's Grief Awareness Day is this Thursday, November 20. Check out free, self-paced resources from the Coalition to Support Grieving Students to know what to say (and not say) to bereaved kids - just after a loss + for the 'long haul' of mourning thereafter. sharemylesson.com/partner/coal...

Listened to these @workingclasshistory.com podcasts today. Really great lessons on using whats at hand to defeat the oppressors. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-...

Across the U.S., various organizations work to ensure that people who are incarcerated have access to literature.

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

The people Who were never going to vote for you Are not convinced By your abuse of the people who will

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

absolutely incredible data on what's being reported to the Administration for Children's Services in NYC familypolicynyc.org/data-brief/h...

Criminalizing immigrants disrupts kids' right to education ICE raids are linked to a 22% increase in daily student absences ... and 1 in 6 students live in a targeted household (e.g., with at least one non-citizen adult) learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/implica...

Solidarity With Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy is available now! Happy Publication Day, @lalouverouge.bsky.social! 💐 www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2610-s...

Hundreds of Kansas children were separated from their families for truancy and neglect - a bill aims to change that. kansasreflector.com/2025/02/07/c...

“Chicago is the future.“ @joseolivarez.bsky.social for @chicagomag.com

what would you add? www.aota.org/advocacy/adv...

School policies on personal device use are changing rapidly! Round-ups are often super useful for seeing what's new ... a few I've read recently 1. Blog from @shankerinst.bsky.social asks whether tablets provided by school are different from cell phones www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/school-...

#tdih 1963 Freedom Day: massive (200,000+) student boycott & demonstration against segregated schools (decade AFTER Brown v. Board) & inadequate resources for African American students in Chicago. CRM in the North. Read ⬇️ & watch 63 Boycott doc. More #tdih🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/19...

You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information

There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers. In studies, cancer survivors who contracted Covid had a statistically significant higher risk of cancer-related deaths buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

Remember our Dirt in a Cog zine gives you handy dandy ways to incorporate pushing back on alt right authoritarianism into your everyday life. Check it out on our website below. invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...

a small cohort of @aft.org educators joined me to learn at last week's Kempe conference One emailed me takeaways: "One theme is clear: the [family regulation] system is broken, it unfairly hurts minority populations, and a new system is required. The good news is that models and templates exist."

a lot of people have been talking about links between kids' social media use and #mentalhealth this study looks at social media and learning tl;dr - increased exposure to social media is associated with lower and memory scores www.npr.org/sections/sho...

350 organizations -- including @aft.org -- call for reversal of layoffs at the Department of Education with specific attention to continuity of support for students with disabilities. autismsociety.org/department-o...

"We've seen a significant increase in donations, unlike we've ever seen before," said Steve Sosebee, president of the U.S.-based Palestine Children's Relief Fund...."the fund, which usually has an annual budget of around $12 million, had raised $15 million in just 10 days."

Latest from Florida - as the # of uninsured kids rises in FL, the bipartisan CHIP expansion continues to be stalled by the Governor. State reveals how many kids lost health coverage after being unable to do so in Senate committee floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/07/s...

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

"Radical educator and philosopher Paulo Freire wrote, “The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled.” 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 - Chapter 9

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

We know that drug-free zones and gun-free zones were created to protect students. Now the local community is creating ICE-free zones so all students feel safe and welcome. @rweingarten.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social

This Children's Environmental Health Day, mobilize for equitable environmental protection policies that promote kids' health and well-being. aftvoices.org/aft-leaders-...

Teachers & public employees—know your rights online. 🗣️💻 Join @aft.org’s @rweingarten.bsky.social + experts from @penamerica.bsky.social & @ncacensorship.bsky.social for a webinar on free speech, digital safety & protecting yourself online. REGISTER here 👉 sharemylesson.com/webinars/fre...

this week, I'm at an international virtual conference, "A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare" my favorite session so far has been on family resource centers + I'm thinking about how to synthesize lessons from a panel yesterday on which I was a presenter - our audience was so engaged!