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@aerinbender.bsky.social
Overeducated (grad degrees x 2) teacher, writer, TEDx speaker, trained theologian. Liberal, cerebral, sapiosexual. Single mom, neurodivergent, perimenopausal, living by books and wit. “No coward soul is mine.” 🌱☕
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AI learns like a teenager: fast, flawed, and full of potential.
Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
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Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
aerinrose.substack.com/p/the-adoles...
Born after 1965 but before 2006? Please help one of my most darling former students with her college capstone!!
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Dating App Survey
This survey is part of my Colorado State University Capstone research project examining how dating apps shape modern relationship expectations, communication patterns, and experiences of intimacy. Th...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Born after 1965 but before 2006? Please help one of my most darling former students with her college capstone!!
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AI learns like a teenager: fast, flawed, and full of potential.
Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
aerinrose.substack.com/p/the-adoles...
Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
aerinrose.substack.com/p/the-adoles...
November 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
AI learns like a teenager: fast, flawed, and full of potential.
Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
aerinrose.substack.com/p/the-adoles...
Maybe mentoring both requires the same thing — curiosity, conscience, and a little grace.
"The Adolescent Mind of AI"
aerinrose.substack.com/p/the-adoles...
Not every ending is loud. Some are just the moment you realize he wanted comfort, not intimacy.
Almost
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Almost
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Almost
on wanting someone who actually shows up
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November 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Not every ending is loud. Some are just the moment you realize he wanted comfort, not intimacy.
Almost
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Almost
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What We Call Enough
On the quiet exhaustion of a generation that’s already out of breath.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Women are taught to ignore the dashboard until the engine melts.
Dashboard
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Dashboard
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Dashboard
Midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s the moment the warning lights finally become undeniable.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Women are taught to ignore the dashboard until the engine melts.
Dashboard
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Dashboard
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Riddle: what is an introvert's most nightmarish holiday?
Answer: Halloween.
Not at all because of the ghoulish costumes or spooky decor, but because there are strangers coming to your door, asking for things, and requiring you to make eye contact.
Hard Pass.
Answer: Halloween.
Not at all because of the ghoulish costumes or spooky decor, but because there are strangers coming to your door, asking for things, and requiring you to make eye contact.
Hard Pass.
November 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Riddle: what is an introvert's most nightmarish holiday?
Answer: Halloween.
Not at all because of the ghoulish costumes or spooky decor, but because there are strangers coming to your door, asking for things, and requiring you to make eye contact.
Hard Pass.
Answer: Halloween.
Not at all because of the ghoulish costumes or spooky decor, but because there are strangers coming to your door, asking for things, and requiring you to make eye contact.
Hard Pass.
They call it prompt fatigue.
I call it Tuesday.
Teachers know the feeling.
#Teaching #AIintheClassroom #TeacherLife #PromptFatigue #Burnout
Prompt Fatigue
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I call it Tuesday.
Teachers know the feeling.
#Teaching #AIintheClassroom #TeacherLife #PromptFatigue #Burnout
Prompt Fatigue
aerinrose.substack.com/p/prompt-fat...
Prompt Fatigue
They said AI would lighten the load. It did—by handing me a different shovel. Somewhere under the promise of progress, I think I lost my weekend.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
They call it prompt fatigue.
I call it Tuesday.
Teachers know the feeling.
#Teaching #AIintheClassroom #TeacherLife #PromptFatigue #Burnout
Prompt Fatigue
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I call it Tuesday.
Teachers know the feeling.
#Teaching #AIintheClassroom #TeacherLife #PromptFatigue #Burnout
Prompt Fatigue
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If you’ve ever tried to keep showing up when everything feels impossible — teaching, parenting, healing, or just being human — this one’s for you.
Go. Read. Share. Remind the world that even half-broken, we still show up whole.
Teaching With One Hand
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Go. Read. Share. Remind the world that even half-broken, we still show up whole.
Teaching With One Hand
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Teaching With One Hand
Learning patience, presence, and punctuation — one comma at a time.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
If you’ve ever tried to keep showing up when everything feels impossible — teaching, parenting, healing, or just being human — this one’s for you.
Go. Read. Share. Remind the world that even half-broken, we still show up whole.
Teaching With One Hand
aerinrose.substack.com/p/teaching-w...
Go. Read. Share. Remind the world that even half-broken, we still show up whole.
Teaching With One Hand
aerinrose.substack.com/p/teaching-w...
When the writer can’t write, the teacher still teaches.
Dictation, healing, and the sound of showing up anyway.
Dictation, healing, and the sound of showing up anyway.
October 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
When the writer can’t write, the teacher still teaches.
Dictation, healing, and the sound of showing up anyway.
Dictation, healing, and the sound of showing up anyway.
A high school teacher reflects on conferences, complaints, and the quiet hope that keeps curiosity alive in modern classrooms.
#parentteacherconferences #teacherperspective #modernteens #classroomstories #educationwriting #teacherreflection #curiosityineducation
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#parentteacherconferences #teacherperspective #modernteens #classroomstories #educationwriting #teacherreflection #curiosityineducation
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Conferences, Curiosities, and the Case of the Modern Teen
Five curiosities from a teacher who’s measured by data but fueled by meaning
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October 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A high school teacher reflects on conferences, complaints, and the quiet hope that keeps curiosity alive in modern classrooms.
#parentteacherconferences #teacherperspective #modernteens #classroomstories #educationwriting #teacherreflection #curiosityineducation
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#parentteacherconferences #teacherperspective #modernteens #classroomstories #educationwriting #teacherreflection #curiosityineducation
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The students in my classroom aren’t just tired — they’re running the same race their parents are losing. I keep wondering what happens to a country when its children stop believing in the finish line.
#Teachers #AmericanDream #Exhaustion #SubstackWriters
The students in my classroom aren’t just tired — they’re running the same race their parents are losing. I keep wondering what happens to a country when its children stop believing in the finish line.
#Teachers #AmericanDream #Exhaustion #SubstackWriters
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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The students in my classroom aren’t just tired — they’re running the same race their parents are losing. I keep wondering what happens to a country when its children stop believing in the finish line.
#Teachers #AmericanDream #Exhaustion #SubstackWriters
The students in my classroom aren’t just tired — they’re running the same race their parents are losing. I keep wondering what happens to a country when its children stop believing in the finish line.
#Teachers #AmericanDream #Exhaustion #SubstackWriters
My energy
(Although, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social, the potato one is pretty perfect. Def. my favorite)
(Although, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social, the potato one is pretty perfect. Def. my favorite)
October 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
My energy
(Although, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social, the potato one is pretty perfect. Def. my favorite)
(Although, @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social, the potato one is pretty perfect. Def. my favorite)