How did dogs become man's best friend? Dive into the neuroscience behind domestication in this week's post by Eve Gautreaux pennneuroknow.com/2026/07/14/b... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪

Does anyone listen to Social Studies Teachers Have Issues? m.youtube.com/@SSTHI-Webcast #sschat

@freereed59.net Can I ask you a SEND question? I am reading a book about gifted education provisions (or lack thereof) in the UK, and being able to compare the recommendations to SEND provisions would be useful. The most important question: do SEND students have a designated mentor/advocate?

#iteachenglish #iteachsocialstudies @mattneil.bsky.social @astrokatie.com @biblioracle.bsky.social @jayceemoore.bsky.social @iamnotclara.bsky.social

#iteachsocialstudies This is important for a lot of reasons and also excellent source material for student learning experiences.

The Conference on English Leadership has our full 2026 Annual Convention program up! Peruse our sessions then register to join in #Philadelphia, November 22-24. Stay after #NCTE26 or just join for #CEL26! ncte.org/groups/cel/c...

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Today is Disability Awareness Day! For everyone who is a unique indvidual who feels like a square peg in a round hole. The goal is not to make a square peg fit a round hole. The goal is to value the square." #giftededucation #gifted #disavilityawarenessday

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I was on a post–America 250 break, so I’m only now catching up on absurd articles about historians. I've already spent today's newletter energy on Greenidge but I'll give this banger the Twitter treatment below. newrepublic.com/article/2117...

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@cberwick.bsky.social I added you to the #iteachenglish feed! Hello!

PBS News Classroom Daily News Lesson — Walter Isaacson on what he calls 'The Greatest Sentence Ever Written' Ask students: In what ways do you think the U.S. has lived up to the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence? In what ways has it fallen short? https://loom.ly/N0P0UIE #sschat

Can I say that am so happy that Yawp has been updated… so, so happy as I remap 30 chapters of textbook readings, secondary sources, reflection questions, links embedded into guides, and calendaring to fit the new Yawp. 😬😭🫠 *They actually did a great job with the revise 👍👍 … but 😱 #APUSH 🗺️

HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD by Katy Doughty: not a how-to manual but a fascinating science-filled exploration of existential threats--and done in a remarkably optimistic way! I know, right? Also, the art is bright and fabulous. Engaging #YA (and I think upper #MG readers, too) #kidlit 📚👍

#iteachsocialstudies Perhaps a model for a project?

#iteachenglish ???? American Indian Stories by Zitkala Sa, The Grapes of Wrath, and Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Victor Willis, the iconic police officer and lead singer who co-founded the disco supergroup the Village People, dies at 74. The musician who co-wrote global anthems like "Y.M.C.A." and "Macho Man" succumbs to a short but aggressive illness, his bandmates confirm.

An annual reminder that setting off fireworks is bad for the environment and pets. Someone setting off their own fireworks is causing distress and doing harm.

A protest music research assignment and podcast production was one of my favorite ELA assignments. This would have been a perfect addition to the optional source material available to students. #iteachenglish

#iteachsocialstudies #apgov #apush

#iteachenglish ....who has a favorite article on writing as thinking? @naemmanuele.bsky.social ???

Announcing The Next Draft, an #America250 student writing contest from NCTE, @humanitiesall.bsky.social#America250 and The Teagle Foundation: https://bit.ly/4xR75Hr Students in grades 9–12 may submit a written literary reflection or a multimodal creation. Winners will receive up to $1,000!

Teachers & family members⭐️: Encouage your kids to send in their response by tomorrow for an opportunity to be published on PBS News Classroom! @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social #America250 #July4th #EduSky #sschat

STUDENTS, we want to hear from YOU for America's 250th birthday! Join us in reflecting on U.S. history and for a chance to be published on PBS News Hour Classroom! LINK: https://bit.ly/PBSNewsStudentA250 #America250

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#iteachsocialstudies Got any ideas?

My dissertation research is open-access on ProQuest: "Navigating Disability Stigma, Reader Identity, and Special Education Services in Secondary ELA Classrooms: A Mixed Methods Study of Adolescents With Specific Learning Disabilities in Reading" www.proquest.com/docview/3353...

🧷ing this to read—such an important topic that almost every ELA teacher I know has struggled with and feels like we're on an island with. (Imagine how students feel, then?)

**Hey TEACHERS!** We want to hear from you!📢 Join PBS News @pbsnews.org Classroom in reflecting on America's history over the last 250 years -- see below! LINK: https://bit.ly/PBSNewsTeacherA250 #sschat #EduSky #America250

I’m excited to share that I’m guest editing a special issue of Thresholds in Education about the state of literacy education. You can check out the full call for papers at tinyurl.com/Literacy-2027. #academicsky #iteavhenglish #edusky

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#iteachsocialstudiea Designing the National Mall could be a neat US History project.

If you have a moment to help @alistairdickins.bsky.social out with this research, that would be brilliant. #historyteacher

"Students with disabilities deserve educational systems that are designed around their needs, rights, and opportunities, not administrative restructuring that risks disrupting critical services and protections." (h/t @stimpunks.org)

Yes, absolutely, know your content and know it well. But more, know your kids and know them “weller.” We have to be expert connectors of content, not just experts of content. We teach humans.