One thing they never prepare you for when you become a teacher is the death of a student. Not that this is something anyone can prepare for anyways. Hug your loved ones for me tonight

I need you all to stop what you’re doing and listen to my niece and nephew singing “Let’s call the whole thing off” while dressed as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Halloween 🥹

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Omg my heart! My heart!

I need you all to stop what you’re doing and listen to my niece and nephew singing “Let’s call the whole thing off” while dressed as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Halloween 🥹

Teachers, with SNAP benefits stopping many of our students will be struggling with food insecurity. What’s something your school does to support these students? I’ll go first by sharing one of my favorite things my school does in the thread below. 🧵

Teachers, with SNAP benefits stopping many of our students will be struggling with food insecurity. What’s something your school does to support these students? I’ll go first by sharing one of my favorite things my school does in the thread below. 🧵

Ok friends, buckle up, it’s funny story time! I’m teaching a unit where my students have to learn how to describe people in Spanish. We use famous people to keep it fun and interesting. But because I’m old and out of touch, and I don’t know what celebs these young’uns know…

I’m sorry, I can’t. I have plans. The plans:

My hometown FB page never disappoints. 👑 🌟 🐪 🐪 🐪

“To the best of my knowledge” is doing a lot of work here

A gift for anyone who’s still awake… here’s a photo of a crow I’ve befriended

As someone who is burnt out by living in bad times, I have learned to prioritize number 3 on this list. Because without number 3, I can’t do the other ones either. Find small joy today.

#langchat 😂

Your friendly reminder going into the weekend.

Weekly recap of befriending the crows: they’re starting to trust me and are letting me get closer

Language teacher friends, I’m dead. My very own son thought that if he earns the “Seal of Biliteracy” they print a little tiny image of a seal on his diploma

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Your friendly reminder going into the weekend.

The past few days have been a bummer, but this little one is still making me smile

In a world that’s falling apart, this little one has brought me a lot of joy

With #alttext because this is important and everyone deserves to read it

How have I made it this far into the school year without restocking the pick-me-up candy I leave for myself in my desk drawer???!! #fail

My monstera albo is still pushing out half moons and I couldn’t be happier 🤩

For the first time, NPR's Student Podcast Challenge has a returning champion: a California fifth grader who explored a dark chapter in U.S. history during World War II.

One thing I’ve learned from being on Instagram is that if you’re a woman over 30, you shouldn’t eat anything that doesn’t contain cottage cheese.

Please know that the problems in K12 education are being exacerbated by AI not being helped. -signed former computer science teacher

I set up a TrailCam in my backyard to film the murder of crows I’ve been feeding daily, and this short clip of (what I think is) a juvenile Cooper’s hawk is one of my favorite things I’ve captured. Why are its talons so comically large??? 😆

"This beautifully written book models a humanizing approach to research and inspires educators to foster inclusive and culturally responsive learning spaces where immigrant students can shine." buff.ly/qCrFSmg

Today I tried to draw the 🤒 emoji on the board in class, and let’s just say I’m glad my students are young and innocent

It’s only “free speech” when they’re the ones saying it. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling you-deserve-to-be-fired.

It’s only “free speech” when they’re the ones saying it. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling you-deserve-to-be-fired.

Now we get to watch as the people who said no one should celebrate a death celebrate a possible death.

Just to make sure I understand this correctly… The people who are historically anti- cancel culture are now sending screenshots of social media posts they disagree with to the poster’s employers and demanding they be fired. Did I get that right?

Just to make sure I understand this correctly… The people who are historically anti- cancel culture are now sending screenshots of social media posts they disagree with to the poster’s employers and demanding they be fired. Did I get that right?

Firing a Black woman for quoting a white man about how unintelligent he believes Black women are is a clear example of how misogynoir, white supremacy & ableism work together to harm Black women uniquely. That is how intersecting oppressions work.

instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again

Dorie provides a great description of how she responds when she mixes up student names; I use similar phrasing & I love how Dorie highlights the agency of kids in correcting within a power differential. I, too, mix names up, more so as I get older. Perimenopause has not been kind 1/

I teach around 180 each school day. This means I’m inevitably going to call a student by the wrong game—it unfortunately happens more than I’d like. Recently, when this happens I’ve been making the intentional switch from “I’m so sorry!” to “thank you so much for correcting me”. #EduSky 🧵

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

90s autumn where there were more autumn flavors than just pumpkin spice

And yet we educators are still encouraged to adopt AI

Meanwhile in the Northeast, we’re celebrating our new high speed train that goes an impressive… checks notes… 160 mph

Meanwhile in the Northeast, we’re celebrating our new high speed train that goes an impressive… checks notes… 160 mph

I forgot how ravenous I am when I arrive home after a full day of teaching. Give me all the foods!!!

Part of the reason so many educators are eager to jump on the AI bandwagon is because we’re asked to do way too much with not nearly enough planning time. In a profession where working outside contract hours is the norm, a magic tool that promises to fix that is welcomed.

Yesss!! Imagine if AI companies needed to secure IRB approval before turning our students into test subjects #EduSky

LLM companies are beta testing experimental products our children, and educators are facilitating it.