Just sharing this one more time. Join us for Public Study — an exploration of alternative schools and learning communities across NYC — this fall; applications are due August 7! crc.metro.org/apply/

Metro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/

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The Arsenal. Back where we belong 👑

Finally!!!

An unfortunate part of the over-personalization/AI-fication of tech is that we lost the randomness that comes from listening to whatever was on the radio. #Spotify does 'made for you' which is so boring: great! you mined songs I already know to suggest a playlist that leaves nothing to chance?

Crafting #literacies is one way to take care of yourself, take a breathe, and make real connections with people at #AERA2026. We hope to see you there!

What are you bringing to Crafting #Literacies at #AERA2026?

Join us during #AERA2026 for Crafting #Literacies, Crafting Community once again! 🎨🧶🧵

We got to our 10-donor goal, but we are hoping to add more to our fund. Please consider a gift today, $5 or $10 makes a difference in the kinds of programming we can provide students and faculty. #PlayforAll #playinhighered pittdayofgiving.com/campaigns/im...

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a student in our teacher ed program. Here are snippets of that conversation: pittnews.com/article/2002... Please consider giving! pittdayofgiving.com/campaigns/im...

We are more than halfway to unlocking a gift (from me!), if we get to 10 donors, I will add $150 to the funds. Please consider a gift today. Thanks to all the lovely friends of our space who have given to date.

As part of Pitt's Annual Day of Giving, I am asking you to consider a gift to Imagination PLAYce, a community classroom I founded that facilitates playful learning for higher education students and faculty. Your gift can continue to center play in higher ed! pittdayofgiving.com/campaigns/im...

Thrilled to share new article in Critical Social Educator - a true labor of love because it features my sons! I examine the critical literacies young children enact through play within their digitally mediated worlds through everyday moments. Please read and share. (Open access). lnkd.in/eTenwy9M

The Educational Policy Studies Department at UW-Madison is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor with a focus on climate, sustainability, and education. Please share with folks you think would be interested! #climatepolicy #edpolicy #EduSky jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Our second substack blog is live! I look at children's biographies as windows into others' worlds, & the way human stories inspired my sons and I, and hopefully you too! Shout out to @carnegielibrary.bsky.social for their collection of biographies. imaginationplayce.substack.com/p/picture-bo...

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Health workers and aid groups fear hunger that has been building in Gaza for months under Israel's blockade is now reaching a tipping point into accelerating death.

Just donated…please consider doing the same.

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

Starvation is Spreading in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...

@aeraedresearch.bsky.social Any chance there will be a slight deadline extension this year? Asking for a friend (me!).

Spent morning observing 1st grade class- joy & movement on the playground, the excitement & play during choice, the earnest responses to the teacher’s questions & provocations; singing along in Spanish… & music, song, gentle words to move the day along. As I left - they were crafting stories. ❤️

I miss the taxi line at JFK ( the whistle!), browsing for dresses at a department store, paper menus, little hardware shops where the owner scales a ladder to find you mosquito coils…

Yeeeeep!

Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents. 56% disapprove of handling of issue 62% oppose removing foreign students 52% oppose renditions to El Salvador Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there Engage, Dems. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1944...

I love my public library. The main branch of @carnegielibrary.bsky.social is just across from our campus. I bring my kids here often- they have an amazing children's section where they can play, do art, read, and hang out. I'm here right now. The fact that libraries are controversial....<sigh>

ERIC! “ERIC is scheduled to run out of money on April 23. After that date, no new documents can be added.” Colleagues, this is catastrophic for educational research. www.governing.com/policy/major...

Last day with my #diglits undergrads today… I learned I give a lot more work… 😂 but also learned this is the only class many of them speak in and/or know each other’s names. Many students started to hang out & chat on sofas before class each week. I’m thankful they came along on the journey.

So we're back to picking fights with Mr. Rogers, Elmo, and the Wild Kratts?

So many protests! How much air time will protests receive in mainstream TV news? What uncritical headline will Times write? (Vs. story on golf cart orange guy rode in after sending the country into economic shock). Systems are designed for the results they achieve…. Just saying…

Worried about a recession? This sheet-pan water pie will make you feel like it's the 1930s again.

“If you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the president of the United States.” - The Economist

Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going… www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Why are we still dealing with clunky old sites like canvas? If I could sit with a developer, I would design something so much more dynamic and flexible that actually facilitated learning... and now I must go back to rewrite the announcement that canvas just deleted! 😑

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

👇👇 remember the summer when we encouraged everyone to read about and discuss Project 2025? Remember how the worst stuff was in the training videos? Here are the links all over again to some of the most relevant stuff.

Devastating that this is where we are.

Is this the first administration to work tirelessly to make LESS jobs in America?

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously. Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Caption contest....

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is. So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

has anyone heard about Woolf? a 'higher-ed' institution with many colleges and 1000s of degrees, but no mention of who teaches? if there is accreditation? or how you actually get a degree? and where did all these mini-college materialize from? genuinely curious.