I am on the edge of something I have prayed for since I first started teaching. 14 years of teachering. I won't be giving up when we are 95% there.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

When I say I dress for other women, this is what I mean- this sweet lady on the bus just complimented how my Jordans, purse, and water bottle all match. YES. THEY. DO. ✅️

The Class of 2026 is my reward.

Bribed the children with extra credit to go to an author event- I knew they'd enjoy it, just had to get them there. Y'all the pictures they sent as their proof of attendance. Melted my heart.

I'm not taking credit for inventing this but last night I made my favorite garlicky soup broth with kale and then I boiled pierogi in it. "Pierogi soup" was a hit. Will make again.

The essays I could write about my love for Fruit Riot

Yall I've been thinking about this nap all day.

"Miss you dress very elegant. How come you're doing that?" may be the nicest compliment I have ever received from a teenager. Answer is because I have to be a role model and can't just wear sweatpants anymore, because I have to be a leader. But lord I wish. 😭

And every day I thank the man upstairs that I ain't you and you ain't me

Y'all the black puffy coats are OUT!

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

The Amtrak Metropolitan Lounge is not the Delta Sky Club, but I'll take it. Going to settle in with my free Dr. Pepper and some cookies and watch some Game Show Network.

The Twilight Soundtrack still goes hard.

Ok chat, what pop culture can I use to introduce allusions this month? Last year I had all the Kendrick/Drake rap beef and it was perfect. These lessons need an update.

Jacket season is FINALLY here.

I dread grading writing tasks. It makes me feel insane. Every time. It is also the most human act, the most compassionate part of teaching for me. Reading and deeply responding to the words of a young person. Why would I ever give that up to an AI?

I am definitely more of an apple cinnamon girly

Okay but I've never worked in a school with a dishwasher in the lounge.

Yes, the College Board has so suborned modern high schools that we willingly knuckle under & sacrifice a whole school day every year so that some combination of 9/10/11th graders can repeatedly take PSATs for 'practice,' and to better integrate them into the College Board's data collection system.

Hayley Williams writes like she actually took AP lit.

Dolly. Rebecca. Parton. It isn't even a contest.

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

Tyler Childers is just out here, existing. Being delightful. So why Morgan Wallen.

It’s her spiritual closer here that really gets me. Just poignant, poetic and powerful.

Season change sickness has me in a chokehold

It's cake season! Cake season runs from October to March and is one hundred percent something I made up

Last fall and winter if you were in my close friends story on IG you had to listen to me whine, wail, and worry over "The Secret Project." If you weren't, well it was the Flag Award. And hey, we made it y'all. Not even in my wildest, most delulu teacher dreams. Yet, here I am.

But cruel are the times, when we are traitors / And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour / From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, / But float upon a wild and violent sea / Each way and move. Macbeth, 4.2.22-26 #ShakespeareSunday

I really thought showtime on the train had died out. 🤔

Pay close attention to who wants you to do The Reading and who only wants you to read their interpretation

Some highlights from over the past two years- for spring break we did a build your stack event with a mix of gently used books from Project Cicero and grant books

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

For the past two years, my school has received a grant for family and community literacy. I have been able to provide hundreds of culturally sustaining books and literacy events in a book desert. That grant was canceled by the federal government this week.

One of my favorite journal prompts with seniors is: Tell me about how your culture cooks rice. 😍

The umbrella issue this morning was a sign of things to come. My classroom ceiling was raining today too.

La vida te da sorpresas. That's for damn sure.

Only took 3 tries to find a working umbrella this morning. Doing great 👍🏼

I am a deeply unromantic person, but I love a good romance novel. (Sighs)

Getting my roots done 💇🏼‍♀️ so I can get raptured looking refreshed

These phishing texts are so annoying. Someone texted me "had dinner yet? ❤️" and I was like "no but here's my social security number and mother's maiden name."

The alarm just went off. The way I just kicked my legs under the covers when I remembered no school today. Glorious.

I love WIRED headphones. Let's bring this back please.

I'm not saying it's always this easy but I had the big attendance talk with one of my seniors last week. They're a chronic attendance problem but genuinely want to do right. They've been early every day since.

My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.

Ok but is there an opt out form for the rapture? I'm not ready to spend eternity with some of these people.

A good weekend should consist of one day when you do like 25,000 steps and another where you move so little that your Fitbit briefly considers triggering a welfare check.

I swear, we’d all be better off with a 4 day workweek and a 3 day weekend every week

have the courage to be disliked