🚨PLEASE🚨 If you attended #HandsOff today, be sure to ☎️ call (202-224-3121) or 💻 email your 2 Senators and 1 Congressperson to say WHY you attended. One sentence is enough. Please.

I keep hearing people say that we should not panic we will get through this somehow we will get through this, but I must confess at this point I am beginning to lose track of how many catastrophes we are currently trying to get through.

Gonna make a $24.19 donation today because when you actually show up to call out the harm being done instead of just going along with it, that deserves an acknowledgment. Well done to the Senator from New Jersey.

"Never let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something." - @corybooker.com Cory Booker, D-NJ

Oooh okay maybe I will do this! #Napomo

Future iteration of a screen time warning that I need

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Please, please read and donate if you can—and share if you can’t. There but for the grace of God go all of us—and we all need to be able to believe in the good of humanity.

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

Making my @5calls.org rounds today and just got the message that the Senate phone system is offline due to call volume. KEEP IT UP, EVERYONE. #CallYourRepresentatives

#Edchat the novelty of analog tasks that require critical thinking gets me more student engagement than any tech-based activity I do.

We shaved our heads!! We’re still about $500 out from our goal…the fundraiser is open for another week!! Can you help us fight pediatric cancer? www.stbaldricks.org/teams/twobal...

This afternoon I spent a few hours eating crepes and drinking tea with brand new French-speaking friends and their adorable kids. It’s the best time I’ve had in a long time. 💕

I went to give blood today, met a lovely French family, and scored an invite to a francophone gathering at their house this afternoon. Doing good never paid off so quickly. #GiveBlood #MultilingualismRocks

Two days until Shave Day! Help us fund pediatric cancer research!

This Sunday, my wife and I are shaving our heads to raise money for pediatric cancer research (which received 4% of total cancer research funding BEFORE...all this). If you are interested in making the world suck a little less, we would be so grateful for your financial and signal/boosting support.

I wrote a thing about being a tool of white supremacy culture in education. White people, we have to be able to say, write and hear these words. White supremacy is not the shark; it's the water. juliabkoch.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/t...

My discomfort is not a reason to do something that makes any one of my students unsafe. – @jaybeekay518.dftba.social sched.co/1vpxT #nectfl255

Hoping I can find some of this energy this week.

Alexander Graham Bell funded the Milan Conference in 1880, where ASL was banned and oralism was enforced, because Deaf people should just speak. Graham Bell’s wife was Deaf. In which: another white man with money makes decisions for a whole group of people.

“Every language has colonization. Colonization always equates to some BS. BS makes champions: the fight for language justice is born and reborn.” @nectfl.bsky.social #NECTFL25

We’re making money using other people’s languages—it’s our job to bridge the gap! It’s our job to continue to CONTINUE to educate ourselves, to earn our stripes and be okay with being tested. @nectfl.bsky.social #NECTFL25

LANGUAGE. IS. ALWAYS. POLITICAL. We are politicians. We are BIRTHING little politicians because we are instructing little language users—and the way we use language informs how they will use language. -Dr Nicole Morgan is speaking TRUTH this morning. @nectfl.bsky.social

Students need to see words and phrases up to 150 times before it sticks—students looking at chat mats isn’t cheating, it’s STUDYING! #NECTFL25

“What does she want??” If my students feel unsure about my expectations, I know from Krashen that they won’t speak! How can I make expectations clearer by providing supports—LIKE CHAT MATS? #NECTFL25 @nectfl.bsky.social

An activity is just an activity without the correct approach—how do we create an environment in which our students will speak? Starting day 2 at #NECTFL25 with Christina Margiore learning about chat mats! @nectfl.bsky.social

Speed pitching: if elevator pitching and speed dating had a kid. I LOVE this idea for a purpose-driven interpersonal activity! These Tenafly teachers are breaking my brain with all of these ideas! #NECTFL25 @nectfl.bsky.social

“My entire unit is linked to this presentation so you can use, follow, and adapt it.” Megan Williams is the gift who keeps on giving!! #NECTFL25 @nectfl.bsky.social

Talking about UNESCO World Heritage Sites with the amazing language department at Tenafly high school—so many benefits to having a unit on this topic, and you get so much bang for your buck! @nectfl.bsky.social #NECTFL25

AI is a great tool when we use it to make our jobs easier so that our students get more of us. AI is also great when we use it to create activities that give our students more of each other. AI is wonderful when we share MORE of ourselves. @nectfl.bsky.social

Could you have a “France-last” policy? Could you try to find that thing OR a cool way to study that thing in an African country, or in the US (in a resource in French), or in French Guyana, or in Oceania? Look ELSEWHERE. -Mike Lauria spitting great ideas!! @nectfl.bsky.social

Stuck with a curricular resource? No rule says that you have to ask questions about the main character. How can you center the minoritized characters through your questioning and examinations? @nectfl.bsky.social

“We should not be asking people to hide in plain sight.” We owe it to our students to address racism and lack of equity and inclusion. @miltonalanturner.bsky.social #NECTFL25 @nectfl.bsky.social

Three anchors of curriculum: the explicit (which voices we include and exclude), the implicit (our own biases), and the null (what er don’t teach) @miltonalanturner.bsky.social @nectfl.bsky.social #NECTFL25

What is NOT said is just as important as what IS said—what are we NOT saying through our choices about what we include and in our curriculum? @miltonalanturner.bsky.social @nectfl.bsky.social #NECTFL25

We have to understand the context of the people to whom we speak—the important thing is who says what to whom, not just the words said! #nectfl25

I am so excited to hear @actfl.bsky.social President Milton Alan Turner talk about Bruno (aka Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) this morning at #NECTFL25

“The First Order wins by making us think we’re alone. We’re not alone.” This quote from The Rise of Skywalker feels really relevant tonight.

I’m in a hotel and as I flip through the channels I have seen our soon to be Secretary of the Navy answer questions by not answering them, the new Secretary of the Interior not understanding renewable energy, and BBC explaining the theatre of this administration. I hate it all.

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We get lots of new ideas at a conference. Try ONE AT A TIME, and judge on two things: Did it impact student engagement? Did it impact student learning? If no/no, dump it. If kind of, adapt it. If YES, keep it. Then move on to the next one. @grahnforlang.bsky.social #NECTFL25

Level 1 unit themes in a textbook were arbitrarily chosen by an author. Feel free to un-choose it. The content is not the relevance: it’s what you have students DOING with the content that increases their proficiency! #NECTFL25 @grahnforlang.bsky.social

Our students are so used to being consumers…but the data show that they are most engaged when they are the PRODUCERS. How are we giving them opportunities to do that? #NECTFL25 @grahnforlang.bsky.social

It’s a gray day, but still a beautiful day to start #NECTFL25 in manhattan!

#Edchat #EdSky hey, teachers—Ramadan begins on Saturday! Do students who are fasting have a place to go during lunch other than the lunchroom, if they want? If you’re not sure, could you offer to admin to be that place for the month of March?

Get with your people. Build community. A community is the basic building block for love and resistance.

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