If you have a minute today read Rue’s story and sign the petition - this kid deserves a chance to play basketball as a high school senior www.change.org/p/allow-rue-...

Photos from a snowy state semifinal between Liberty and De Smet in St Louis - 11/30/24

In addition to teaching I love to take photographs and have a separate Bluesky account where I share my work - if you are interested in following my work please consider a follow - I had 1,500 followers over there and am building it up from scratch here @langhorstpicts.bsky.social

6/ ...a powerful network of people with whom I can share ideas and learn from, while also sharing my ideas. I am encouraged by the recent increase in users on this platform and I have already started to piece together many from my existing network. Looking forward to collaborating with you.

5/ In 2007 I was introduced to Twitter by David Warlick. It quickly became my most powerful network as an educator. I can't tell you how many great people I met and the ideas for my teaching, professional development, etc were generated through Twitter. I look forward to once again building...

4/ In 2007 I was selected to represent the state of Missouri as the Teacher of the Year which provided my many opportunities to travel, present and share ideas on teaching. I had a podcast and blog named "Speaking of History" for nearly a decade that allowed me to connect with amazing people.

3/ I have a masters in Instructional Technology (2001) and a doctorate in Teacher Leadership (2015). My dissertation topic was how social studies teachers use social media (primarily Twitter) to create collaborative communities of practice - drive.google.com/file/d/0B27i...

2/ ...Digital Photography, Personal Finance and Social Media in Modern Society. In EDGE we focus on project based learning, assess by competencies, incorporate flexible scheduling that is unique each day and focus on solving problems in our community with real world learning - edge.lps53.org

1) Introduction post : My name is Eric Langhorst, this is my 31st year in the classroom. I currently teach in the EDGE micro school in Liberty Public Schools - Liberty, Missouri. I have the privilege of teaching a variety of topics in EDGE right now : American History, Global Lit, Culinary Arts...

Thanks @clehmann.bsky.social , @karlfisch.bsky.social and @larryferlazzo.bsky.social for the follows here - three social media voices I have admired and respected since the early days of social media - looking forward to connecting on this platform

My first follower on BlueSky was one of my first followers back in 2007 on Twitter - thanks @wesfryer.com

Hello - created my Twitter account in December 2007 and it was a powerful community to learn from and share with for many years - it was even the topic of my dissertation in 2015 - I'm anxious to build that network again in a positive and supportive community here