I’m so glad to have found the #EduSky community after the great Twitter implosion. Bluesky keeps getting better, and I think I'm going to set down roots. So, here's a bit of a reintroduction.

Welcome back, @pernille.bsky.social! Good to have you blogging again. Young people rarely get practice with deciding when and how to reject adults' ideas because we fail to explicitly offer them no as an option and our system is implicitly(?) authoritarian. Thank you for this reminder. #EduSky

If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age

There were twice as many protests in Feb. 2025 as there were in Feb. 2017. They are smaller, but there are more of them, and they are growing more strategic: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi... (via Erica Chenoweth)

NEW: AOC in Vegas. Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥 “If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

I'm biased, but this song crafted by one of my #Civics students about one of the neglected amendments in the Bill of Rights is kind of a banger. 🎶🪖 #EduSky music.apple.com/us/album/its...

Happy The Power Fantasy #7 day!

What challenges are you currently facing at work or in your career? I write a column for the Kappan called Career Confidential, which is like Dear Abby for educators. How can I help you? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #edusky #education #assessment #instruction #behavior #politics #relationships

What do leaders in education and inspired educators have to say about reimagining our profession and empowering our school communities? Join @teacherpowered.bsky.social on October 23rd-25th in Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, MI to find out! www.teacherpowered.org/conference-2... #EduSky #TPS2025

In two weeks!

Just to be clear here, “the left” does not include the goddam Democrats.

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

I do believe we’re facing a generational problem. We have Dems who’ve been in office so long that they think their job is just to get elected in the next cycle and not to govern and wield power. They worry too much about what Rs might weaponize and as a result they refuse to fight.

Each and every god damned spineless one of them.

I kinda think a Dem voting for *anything* on the GOP agenda—a Trump nominee, Al Green censure, anything—functions basically as an endorsement of the ongoing destruction of government. Republicans are the people who can stop him, and they're just fully on board with a coup. You can't join their side!

Once these Let Billions Suffer voters see how gruesome letting billions suffer gets they will surely come crawling back to the Let Millions Suffer party and we’ll finally be able to win elections without catering to those troublesome Nobody Should Suffer radicals

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If they can bring down the US Department of Education, they will be emboldened to bring down your state department of education, your local school board. The target is public education itself, folks.

And after you're done registering for summer conferences, think about spending a fall weekend with @teacherpowered.bsky.social in Michigan! Teach-Toberfest will be here before you know it, and you'll want to be among student-centered friends. 🍂 #EduSky www.teacherpowered.org/conference-2...

The Conference to Restore Humanity from @humrespro.bsky.social is always a highlight of my summer. It helps expand my thinking and rebuild connections with the humanity underpinning all of our work in schools. If you're not registered yet, get on it! #EduSky

Are you a PBIS skeptic? (Or a PBIS hater seeking affirmation?) Join me for my next pay-what-you-can workshop! www.tickettailor.com/events/uncon...

My grandmother was born in Birmingham, AL in 1929. She awoke at 8years old at a cousin's house to see her uncle leaving the house in a full KKK uniform. She spoke out, she raised her kids differently. We can do this. We must do this.

A # of problems would have been greatly reduced by white men simply liking themselves instead of measuring their self-worth by the oppression of others. The ideology of white supremacy & patriarchy is a collective self-esteem failure that prevented many people from building a self-worth on merit.

From historic investments in our schools to making sure kids are fed and have clean, safe drinking water to helping parents get a leg up to get ahead, my budget is the most pro-kid budget in our state's history. Because what's best for our kids is what's best for our state.

What's something good that happened to you this week, even if it was really small?

BREAKING: we’re suing President Trump and the Trump Administration for recklessly firing tens of thousands of federal workers, including thousands of our veterans. It's wrong, illegal, and bad for our state and our country—that’s why we’re headed to court to try and stop them.

First, they came for the standardized tests... and I said nothing because even a stopped atomic clock leaking radiation everywhere is right twice a day. 🤷‍♂️ #EduSky www.the74million.org/article/afte...

I’ve been using WeCroak (wecroak.com) to help keep me grounded in the present moment since it launched in 2017. Sometimes, the quotes it sends me are so timely as to feel a bit eerie. (h/t to the great @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social for writing this one in the first place)

Are you a teacher that is ready to LEAD without LEAVING? Ready to think differently about your role in school leadership? Help build the #teacherpowered movement by presenting at Teach-Tober: Harvesting Shared Power for School Transformation Call for proposals open NOW at bit.ly/4hliM07 #edchat

The psychic weight of trying to hold a space of safety and relative normalcy for my students while democracy burns down around me is turning out to be a real drag on my mental health. 🫠 #EduSky

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Mark your calendar for an amazing national conference this fall! #teacherpowered #studentcentered …Coming to MI!

Now more than ever we need to implore educators (and everyone) to use assets frames. Asset frames = start with strengths *alongside* challenges. Deficit frames = only name deficiencies.

Two parts: 1) Achievement isn't the same as learning, but if it was ... 2) This is a reminder that America is not doing everything possible to raise achievement. A robust and healthier society would create conditions for a better education. But deficit-based narratives win the day.

Tomorrow I plan to go to school and teach the way I taught today & the day before that & the day before that. Respecting the students in my room means knowing their names & how they choose to be addressed. Respecting my content means teaching the truth. Respecting my families means I don’t…

Where are those, “teaching is not a political act” people today? I’d like to have a little chat.

It’s been inspiring to see everyone come together for LA,,, but there’s one community I need to highlight. Not enough is being done for the black families after the LA fires. Ive partnered up with GoFundMe and the BMAC to create ONE main GoFundMe campaign to immediately help those in need. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Basically, the country’s been taken over by a bunch of internet trolls and podcasters who thought running the government would be as easy as complaining about it.

DOOMERISM ISN'T A STRATEGY.

It has come to my attention people don’t realize the neo Nazis are using “my heart goes out to you” as a way to reference Hitler saluting, so now you know.

I’m sitting and working on my computer at Dallas/Fort Worth airport. A stranger gets up to go, but taps the @transpainter.bsky.social sticker on my laptop and says, “I’m an ally, and you are loved, too,” before walking away. There is still so much good in this world. Let’s keep fighting for it. 🧡

Two reasons this post brings me joy this morning: 1. It lets me know about a timely interview from my friends at @humrespro.bsky.social 2. It lets me know that my friend @pernille.bsky.social is here on Bluesky 🧡 Go listen! #EduSky

When I train teachers about trauma-informed classrooms, I emphasize that you cannot simply declare that a person or a place is safe and make it so. People determine safety for themselves based on explicit and implicit cues of safety. (🧵 1/4)

good luck, Florida

Cold weather doesn’t have to freeze students out of outdoor learning. 🥶 Check out my new post for The Art of Teaching for some ideas to make the most of the wintry weather much of the U.S. is experiencing this week! #EduSky #OutdoorEd medium.com/inspired-ide...