Its National Library Week! I shared these stats on Instagram stories and the Enoch Pratt Library shared it 💃🏻 8/16 of the books I've read this year came from the library 10/22 movies I've seen this year came from the library

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Is Ekiben an appropriate picnic food? No, its messy as hell. Would I do this again? Absolutely

Need to use my Spring Break for National Board because I need that $10,000 stipend and also have 0 motivation to work on it soo 🙃

Was excited to listen to the Os on the radio.... I will be returning to my book now

Its opening day! Go O's ❤️

Today marks 50 years since Argentina's last coup detat. I spent a long time looking for an English language explanation for why this anniversary is so important ... I failed So here's why I chose to show this (dubbed) documentary to my students today: youtu.be/rZGq15IhAi0?...

Women and girls should be safe in movement work. Holding gratitude and grief for Dolores Huerta’s dedication and bravery. Wishing she didn’t have to be so goddamned committed and brave.

So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.

What a fun distraction in a fairly shitty March ¡Vamos Venezuela! Regular baseball is back next week 🙂

The World Baseball Classic continues with the semifinal between Venezuela and Italy Hopefully it wont be decided by a terrible strike call 🫠 ¡Vamos Venezuela!

As a recovering people pleaser, I still feel very guilty when I tell people no just because I dont want to

Good morning! I went to sleep before the Venezuela v Japan game finished but turns out I saw all the scoring 🙂 What. A. Game. Vamos Venezuela 🇻🇪

People say baseball is boring but both leadoff batters in the Venezuela v Japan World Baseball Classic quarterfinal hit homeruns

Lobbied Baltimore County legislators in Annapolis yesterday with @tabco.org We need 1. The right to strike for public sector workers 2. Our education support professionals (ESPs) like paraeducators, clerical staff, bus drivers, and cafeteria staff to have base pay of $25/hr

Saw Lionel Messi score in real life and had Chiaparellis after The world is scary but good things can happen too

Graded the assignment my students submitted at the end of class on Thursday in preparation for class tomorrow. They averaged a 4.76/10. Median was 4/10. Mode was 4/10. New plan for tomorrow - reteach

Having an emotionally draining week (mostly being mad at adults that are unprepared and/or unable to communicate) makes it very difficult to enjoy a day where my students seemed to learn what I set out to teach them And people wonder why I dont want to be an administrator

My father started experiencing ALS symptoms in January of 2020. He was diagnosed in April. He died in November. Hard not to draw parallels with Eric Dane

Eric Dane has passed away at 53 after a short battle with ALS He will be remembered by many as McSteamy on Grey’s Anatomy, but he should also be remembered for his disability advocacy He worked tirelessly to raise awareness for ALS, including how hard it is to get a diagnosis.

You should definitely go on this tour! Its a great way to spend a few hours supporting a local business and celebrating Black History Month I gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The littlest things can trigger a wave of grief... I saw an article that said it's the 25th anniversary of Dale Earnhardt's death at the Daytona 500. I was four. My dad was obsessed with him so was too. We watched him die live. It's the first time i remember seeing my dad cry

I watched All the President's Men (1976) for the first time last night Very good, but sad to think about how far the Post has fallen

What they won't tell you is that it takes an incredible amount of faith to teach children, especially in conditions that say otherwise. You have to believe in something you're not going to see immediately. That's faith.

Tomorrow, I'm going to try something completely new with my Spanish 3s in front of a grad student who wants to be a teacher and is also old enough to be my dad An adventure!

If you l were intrigued by the half time show, heres a mini documentary about the gentrification in Puerto Rico that Bad Bunny released as the music video for "El Apagón" (the song he was singing on the electrical pole) youtu.be/1TCX_Aqzoo4?... There are English subtitles

I shared "Cuando Te Veo" with my students today, so I thought that I would share it with y'all youtu.be/NemwE1YoTRM?... ChocQuibTown is a Colombian hip hop group from Chocó, a department with a large Afro-Colombian population.

I repurposed an anti Avelo sign for tomorrow's protest... See you there Baltimore

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Given recent escalations, please learn about and share info about standby guardianship in Maryland www.courts.state.md.us/legalhelp/fa... You just need 2 witnesses for this to be legally binding for 180 days.

My first hike in the snow ❄️

I saw Hairspray (2007) in a theater for the first time tonight at The Senator Its deeply nostalgic for me. I was 11 when it came out and its the first time I remember seeing a fat girl as the lead in a movie. She even gets the boy at the end A rewatch i definitely needed

Please go watch this Miles Caton is 20 YEARS OLD youtu.be/wGjcEwAWZtw?...

Directed some organized chaos at the @tabco.org / ESPBC legislative breakfast yesterday We did a jigsaw activity with 150 educators and elected officials 😅 Used my elementary colleagues' toolkit including 1. "Clap 1 if you can hear me 2. "You should be in your seat in 5 4 3 2 1"

At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,

My first for @dropsitenews.com: after a grueling three-year strike, workers at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette returned to work in victory. This week, the 240-year-old paper’s wealthy owners decided to shut it down. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh's largest and oldest newspaper, is being shut down by its owners. This announcement comes shortly after the journalists at the paper won a historic 3-year strike.

Translation is an art in and of itself. I translated 3.5 pages of a bullying policy for class with a partner and it was so hard. It wasnt even literature! Machine translation simply cannot replicate what people do and I fear we're going to lose this art because of AI

This whole thread... but particularly the examples in Latin America

What's a movie you think everyone should see before they turn 30?

My first activity of 2026 was destroying a "F*ck ICE" and a "Ch*nga la migra" piñata Here's to less state sponsored kidnapping and more solidarity in 2026

Here are my favorite books that I read in 2025 in the order that I read them: 1. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson 2. Guía para lesbianas en un colegio católico by Sonora Reyes 3. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa Hagerty 4. Zomromcom by Olivia Dade

Prepare to be sick of me! 88 days until baseball is back

New profile pic (taken by a fancy professional union photographer for this month's MSEA magazine)

My very intense salsa instructor gave me a compliment today and I could not stop smiling

I *love* it when admin make a short term decision that will benefit them that will then screw over every other educator in the long run

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

Some fun updates 1. I turned in my research paper - officially finished my post bacc in professional Spanish 2. I applied to a 3 week study abroad program in Cuenca, Ecuador 3. I watched Die Hard for the first time ever

Just spent wayyyy too much money on Orioles Opening Day tickets 105 days until baseball season 🫣

I got my results for component 1 and component 3 of national board. Crushed the culture question of component 1 and got an overall good score. Did not do well on component 3... back to the drawing board