One of the things my students love is being able to customize their Qbit avatar in @wayground.bsky.social! Then Wayground assembles a "class photo" of all the Qbits/students in the class So cute & such a great way to create a symbol of your class community. @alanacolabella.bsky.social #letsfindaway

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

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Writers, authors, scholars, professors, teachers: I need compelling persuasive/argumentative NONFICTION texts my students can read and study in ordered to better understand the genre. Preferably no more than 10 pages and about issues that are current.

A word from Pastor Trey.

Just 34 people control 12% of income in the U.S. and people still think immigrants are the problem.

‘I wonder if the sap is stirring yet, If wintry birds are dreaming of a mate,        If frozen snowdrops feel as yet the sun And crocus fires are kindling one by one: Sing robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring’ ~ Christina Rossetti. 🖼️ William Bell Scott

This is Kevin. He's a reactive dog getting some training to be more comfortable. His trainer brought him to a pet store for some socialization where they learned he is no longer reactive when given a giant stuffed dinosaur. 14/10 (TT: katieandtatesfostermates)

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

"In the space of three years, three of us in my family of five have been diagnosed with autism and ADHD. We’d previously all belonged to the Generalized Anxiety Disorder club (where the beats and existential dread never stop stop stop), and which I now see as a gateway diagnosis."

It costs a lot to share knowledge sometimes 🫠😩😔 #library #schoollibrarian #edtech #librarians #librarian #presenter #tiktok #teachers #edusky #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians

Remember who you are, American. Part of a nation that proudly went to war against the kind of fascists who embrace stupid white supremacist slogans like "one homeland, one people, one heritage"

Thrilled to be part of this linguistic fivesome! 😃 Join us on January 27th for a conversation on writing about language. 7 pm / 19h CET 6 pm GMT 1 pm EST It's free - you only have to register below:

As teachers, we could all use more time to finish grading, plan instruction, and do professional development. Free up some time by using the public Resource Libraries on @wayground.bsky.social! Language teachers, there are plenty of things for us. @alanacolabella.bsky.social #letsfindaway

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My first post of 2026. A challenge with beginners is to find interesting reading material at the right level. Parellel texts can help with this, ensuring that all language is comprehensible. #Edusky frenchteachernet.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-pa...

🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

I just confirmed on the City of Minneapolis website, there has only been a single homicide in Minneapolis in 2026--the killing of Renee Good. Who's making Minnesota safe?

Once a political and economic powerhouse, Ohio is now expected to lose 675,000 people by 2050, the state Department of Development said. That's due to lack of sufficient job opportunities, an overwhelming majority of economists said in a recent survey ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/09/o...

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Millions of Americans watched a middle-aged US citizen get shot in the face and killed by an ICE officer today. That's a level of national trauma that deserves a more respectful response from this administration than falsely claiming she's a domestic terrorist. We have lost our moral compass.

So… here’s the thing… When a government (that is actually supposed to serve you) can murder you and then just like… lie about it??? You’re in hell. “Hell” is not about eternal conscious torment. It is about evil normalized. Mayhem for the soul.

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

Not too shabby!

You don’t have to give a personal testimony about your reading habits and literacy. The problem is that Americans in general are becoming less literate and literacy is one of the things tied to not just a happier intellectual life but also to one’s potential of moving up the economic ladder.

Even in a time when 40% fewer people read for pleasure than a decade ago, I have faith in books. Because I have faith in people to find ways to rebel and look harder for an alternative when they're being suffocated, to this dire extent, by a technological regime that no longer wants us to think.

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

finally, we're living through precedented times

FOX NEWS: What are your expectations when you get briefings from senior Trump administration officials in the coming days? GALLEGO: Well, they're just gonna lie

my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Is the Senate possess’d of this?

Your daily reminder that a plurality of Americans decided that all of this was preferable to having an experienced, intelligent, capable, poised, & serious woman of color in the Oval Office

the American opioid crisis is almost entirely the work of Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Sackler family of murderous profiteers, but because Americans can't imagine anything being their fault, we've invaded Venezuela over it

Trump promised no “new stupid wars,” yet he’s starting one with Venezuela without congressional approval. People can’t afford groceries and millions are losing healthcare, but this is where his focus is. This is unconstitutional and not what the American people asked for.

Quick tutorial explaining Trump’s smash and grab of Venezuela last night.

From the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat:

#LangChat #LangSky

It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that if educators get a critical mass of young people to reject extensive LLM usage because it can damage their minds and souls, then a US economy largely being kept afloat by AI Utopianism will be at risk of collapsing.

The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is an annual international competition that brings together secondary school students and experts from various fields of linguistics.

Latin had six noun cases, but in all Romance languages except Romanian, nouns and adjectives only have one singular form and one plural form left. What happened? This extra large infographic tells you how the Latin case system collapsed – and why it's the accusative case that lives on in Romance.

Reading Mansfield Park right now and I swear an entire chapter was devoted to the carriage debate. 😂 " Argue less about who’s taking which carriage. We’ll all get there eventually."

Ladies and gentlemen, the brilliant mind who’s been called the “philosopher behind JD Vance”

I.... well, this ought to be an interesting year!

Wayground is the best!! Also a proud ambassador!

“But why DiDnt ThEy jUsT LeT tHeM EnteR?!” Because no day care in its right mind opens its doors to strangers. Also it’s illegal. Let a group of 8 screaming Black & brown men with cameras show up to a daycare in a predominately white neighborhood & watch how fast the police arrive and open fire.😐