When T @marcusluther.bsky.social wants to know how Ss are feeling about his class, he asks! Check out this monthly survey he shares with learners:

Research shows that accommodations are only one key to success at college for students with disabilities. Learn what else  helps: https://bit.ly/LDBlog134x   #LearningDisabilities #ADHD #Dyslexia #CollegePrep #SpecialEducation #IEP #CollegeSucces

Our 10th graders returned to our Life Skills support classrooms to read the stories they created based on their LSS peers’ ideas. It was wonderful listening to my students read aloud in compelling ways. Then we got to play games and practice socials skills! #inclusion

Today, I wrote about two truths and a lie about AI in the classroom…I’m here to talk about it + hear about what you are seeing lately too 🙂 #AIinEducation #EduskyAI #Writing #GenAI brettvogelsinger.com/two-truths-a...

Today’s English department meeting consisted of reading, annotating, and discussing poems in small groups—because sometimes we just need to talk about words on a page. #poetry

LESSON: #Inclusion & Storytelling Today, our 10th grade ELA class combined with our life skills support (LSS) class. We played Uno, Jenga, Sorry, & puzzles. Then my coteacher & I read a story. Finally, my students asked questions of their LSS peers in small groups to generate a new story. 🧵 1/4

I’m so excited to facilitate a discussion between these brilliant women (& #CEL members) who lead ELA teams on October 23! Listen in to our panel discussion on text selection & stay for breakout conversations! Open to all @ncte.org members. #CEL25 #OnLeadership #NCTE25 bit.ly/CELVirtual

I know independent reading in class should be time where I, too, am reading (to model and to catch up on my own stack), but I also have been needing that time to stay on top of emails, feedback, and paperwork. #TeacherProblems

Banned Books Week starts on Sunday, October 5—there are a ton of ways to support! Find ways to get involved here: www.ala.org/bbooks/banne... (If you're overwhelmed, even just checking out, buying, or elevating a banned book is helpful! Talking about them w/ the ppl in your life is an action!)

🎶 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

LESSON: #Inclusion & Storytelling Today, our 10th grade ELA class combined with our life skills support (LSS) class. We played Uno, Jenga, Sorry, & puzzles. Then my coteacher & I read a story. Finally, my students asked questions of their LSS peers in small groups to generate a new story. 🧵 1/4

‪Teachers - we have so much on our plates right now. Please don’t forget that even our “small” successes have life-long impacts. One success at a time.‬

Register for our On Leadership on text selection! Oct 23rd at 7pm EST. More information on our programs here: ncte.org/groups/cel/ @ncte.org @naemmanuele.bsky.social

Des Moines public school issues statements yesterday (scroll down) saying that Ian Roberts had an FBI background check in 2023 and it raised no red flags and Roberts said he was a US Citizen. To summarize: ICE said Roberts entered the US in 1999. He was running track for Copin Sate though in 1997

When students (and parents) are obsessed with grades, undoing that mindset is no easy task. Here are a few shifts you can consider to emphasize *learning* over scores. 📚🌱 #EduSky #assessment

Here is my open letter to the writers of future math standards where I make the case for more practical standards. robertkaplinsky.com/open-le...

These handouts help teacher Katherine Efremkin teach her students about cognitive overload—and how to overcome it. 🧠🏋️ Download a template: https://edut.to/42P3qM8 #ElementaryTeacher #metacognition

I know this seems simple, but bread-and-butter teaching: ⓵ have students write stuff that matters ⓶ read that stuff and take notes/leave feedback ⓷ design next lesson in response to what you notice Yes, this takes time. But it's worth it.

After reading Of Mice and Men with our tenth graders, we looked at how disability and othering is portrayed in two films: Simon Birch and Peanut Butter Falcon. #PairedTexts

I wonder…does imposter syndrome ever stop creeping into one’s mind in the teaching profession? I’m year 23…and somehow it haunted me this week 😣

Dr. Roberts was one of my former superintendents I worked under. I appreciated his visibility and messages during his tenure with us, and I’m following this story with great concern and interest.

In addition to the #MTGStrixhaven web fiction there will be a full novel set in the school of Strixhaven penned by Seanan McGuire! Omens of Chaos is a YA novel set at Strixhaven about the first-ever class of interplanar students who have journeyed to the school via Omenpath.

I get a lot of good close reading & discussion from this remixed empathy map (s/o to Gamestorming)! Ss read a ch. from Tyson’s “Using Critical Theory” then used its concepts & text evidence from Egger’s “The Circle” to explore how the company begins to manipulate Mae’s drives, desires, & anxieties.

#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm. bit.ly/CELVirtual

And check out this 2022 issue of English Leadership Quarterly on text selection! publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

English Education is accepting submissions for the special issue “Legacies of African American Pedagogical Excellence and Future-Making in Teacher Education.” Read the manuscript guidelines and submit here: https://ncte.org/resources/journals/english-education/write-for-us/ #NCTE #EnglishEducation

Breaking news: “Library Joy” is coming to #NCTE25! PBS resident librarian and literacy advocate Mychal Threets is now part of our amazing lineup of speakers. You’ve seen him online. Now see him in person. Early-bird pricing through October 15—register now! https://convention.ncte.org/registration/

#OnLeadership: Promises and Pitfalls of Text Selection Tune into our panel discussion around @ncte.org's report on secondary text selection, where we will focus on how leaders facilitate text selection processes. Then, stay to join a breakout room to troubleshoot and brainstorm. bit.ly/CELVirtual

Because I work backwards, 1 month after booking lodging, I've just purchased flights✈ Denver, here I come!!! If you are a literacy leader, also register for NCTE_CEL happening from 11/23-11/25. It's where literacy decision-makers and leaders meet 🌟 📚 @ncte.org @naemmanuele.bsky.social

A classroom culture of self-reflection “allows for a more authentic understanding of how students perceive their progress,” HS English teacher @marcusluther.bsky.social writes. Here’s a simple strategy he uses that reveals how students are doing as well as how they view their own performance: 🧵1/6

Four small adjustments I've made so far this year: 📌 embedding "challenge scaffolds" 📌 "interlocking learning" across lessons 📌 more writing as a tool to capture thinking 📌 whole-class guidance --> individual follow-ups

I was able to talk with Dennis Shepard (Matthew Shepard’s father) tonight. He had Zoomed with our high school cast of The Laramie Project this past January, but meeting him in person was a joy. A true dad. The Shepards & others have made progress in equity: we all must work to keep and grow it.

Exactly. And let’s be clear that when the right came for mostly Black & Brown women & queer professors, the left & universities didn’t protect us. The right used us as targets before they went to CRT, DEI, universities generally & now broader culture. They let us be harmed & now it’s harming them

“Mr. V, I’m so glad you made me read that book!” Favorite words I heard at school today 🙂 It was a reminder if the importance of physical books and student choice. I “made” him read it, but it was a title he chose from the classroom library. Glad to read in a place that is not just passages 📚

We read OF MICE & MEN by considering disability and othering and follow it by viewing both SIMON BIRCH and PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. We’ll continue our study of Story by retelling fairy tails by collaborating with our Life Skills Support class. I’m excited to explore this with students! #inclusion

I really love doing #TarValonOrBust but I gotta say, a p big part of it is that I get to talk to one of my best friends in the world about a book we both love for two hours every other week, and every recording is HEALING. Highly rec.

Intense Thursday as my Drama class finished viewing A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and my 10th graders on ELA finished reading OF MICE & MEN aloud. It was a classical kick-off to a year, and we’ll be exploring contemporary pieces next.

I’ve been translating some simplified texts into Arabic to assist one of my emergent multilingual learners for the past year. It took me until now to realize I have not been using right-justify on documents, even though I know the language is read right to left. Always learning and doing better!

Experts Universally Pan Jonathan Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation” As Unscientific Garbage, But Politicians Keep Buying It Anyway

School’s back in session and sickness abounds. Just got my flu and #COVID vaccines. #health #BackToSchool

I noticed that my nails may make it easier for students to follow along as we read!

It’s not an easy time to be a teacher, and some of us just finished the first week of a new year. If you want to keep growing this year as a teacher, but could also use some uplift and hope, I think my book Poetry Pauses could be the PD read you’re looking for 🙂 www.amazon.com/Poetry-Pause...

To end the week, we had conversation an about what “analysis” means, understanding the pieces and the whole. We studied a partner’s Lego build closely, broke it down, put it together again piece by piece. “We’re going to do this with texts all semester…this is our metaphor!” Poem of the Day:

As part of “signing off on the syllabus” this year, I took @scmaestra.bsky.social’s recommendation and also asked guardians “what makes your child awesome and unique.” It is a joy to read the responses as they come in!

In our pre-service secondary methods class, we dove into UDL (and its intersection with equity and social justice). Students discussed the reading and then identified and added UDL elements from their first mini-lesson they presented the other week in class.

We’re starting the year looking at our storytelling influences. What has inspired us and what has shaped our idea of Story? Students wrote past influences, shared them on large paper, and are working in Canva to share their inspirations. We’ll build on them with our readings this year!

📚Lee & Low is excited to be teaming up with @ncte.org for a back-to-school giveaway! 100 NCTE members will be selected to receive a classroom set of 48 copies of Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame by @supriyakelkar.bsky.social! 💻 Enter by 11:59 p.m. ET, Sun., Sept. 7, 2025: ncte.org/back-to-scho...

Launching a resource that I hope helps ELA teachers! Thesis of the Week = low-risk formative literary analysis practice. Weekly poems & practice w/ thesis statements are NOT for a formal grade, but intended to grow students' writing efficacy. poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...

Calling ELA department chairs, supervisors, & literacy leaders! The Conference on English Leadership hosts virtual social hours to connect, troubleshoot, & share ideas through relaxed, casual discussions. Register today & pop in on 9/9/25! Free to all @ncte.org members. ncte.org/groups/cel/v...

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