Giknowbili
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I write farewell letters for my graduating seniors that I hand to them at some point before they walk the stage. It's one of those gestures to let them know that your time together was meaningful. Would recommend if for no other reason than to preserve the art of letter writing.
Every year I write a letter of gratitude to each of my students. It’s nothing deep; I’ve been making little notes about beautiful sentences they write and smart things they say in discussions. Even my “tough” students get a “thank you for challenging me to see things differently!” 😂 +
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I write farewell letters for my graduating seniors that I hand to them at some point before they walk the stage. It's one of those gestures to let them know that your time together was meaningful. Would recommend if for no other reason than to preserve the art of letter writing.
I think an underrated part of why Dems have struggled to get anything substantive off the ground in the Trump era is how they've misidentified the Obama years as a triumph. He had 60 senators and the mantle for change, but he retreated into neoliberal technocracy.
44’s two terms changed my brain chemistry. Maybe I’m jaded, but comparing anyone to Barack makes me instantly think they’re a fraud.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I think an underrated part of why Dems have struggled to get anything substantive off the ground in the Trump era is how they've misidentified the Obama years as a triumph. He had 60 senators and the mantle for change, but he retreated into neoliberal technocracy.
I'm glad I'm not the only one aggrieved by this! It's literally all the things that are intensely political, too!
"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I'm glad I'm not the only one aggrieved by this! It's literally all the things that are intensely political, too!
Had our first class discussion on this on Wednesday, and MAN am I stoked for this book. One of my students told me she was talking to her tia about it. Had another kid who has been really reluctant to read all semester tell me he didn't realize the West Side had a history.
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
October 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Had our first class discussion on this on Wednesday, and MAN am I stoked for this book. One of my students told me she was talking to her tia about it. Had another kid who has been really reluctant to read all semester tell me he didn't realize the West Side had a history.
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I handed out copies of this to my juniors today since we're going to start reading it this week. I mentioned that the two TikTok videos I made about it were my most viewed/liked/commented.
tupress.org/978159534973...
tupress.org/978159534973...
*deep breath, swallows bug, clears throat violently*
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
*deep breath, swallows bug, clears throat violently*
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
TEACHING IS CARE WORK
LMAO AP US Gov has ONE Black person's writing as a "foundational document" (surprise, it's MLK Jr., and surprise, the guided reading exercise CB makes for it excludes the "white moderate" section). They axed Roe v. Wade as a required case the second the SCOTUS overturned it in Dobbs (2022).
"The College Board in particular sometimes appears lost in a progressive haze."
No, it's something else.
www.wsj.com/opinion/clas...
No, it's something else.
www.wsj.com/opinion/clas...
Opinion | An ‘Oorah!’ to the Classic Learning Test
U.S. service academies move to accept an SAT and ACT alternative.
www.wsj.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
LMAO AP US Gov has ONE Black person's writing as a "foundational document" (surprise, it's MLK Jr., and surprise, the guided reading exercise CB makes for it excludes the "white moderate" section). They axed Roe v. Wade as a required case the second the SCOTUS overturned it in Dobbs (2022).
This rules. Being a teacher is so rad when you get to do it right.
I see the light in our teacher candidates' eyes when they speak about working with young people.
We are light workers. I don't want that light hidden under a proverbial bushel. I want it to shine. God knows we need all the candles we can get in these bleak times.
We are light workers. I don't want that light hidden under a proverbial bushel. I want it to shine. God knows we need all the candles we can get in these bleak times.
October 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This rules. Being a teacher is so rad when you get to do it right.
Accomplishment unlocked, slow burn edition: was told by a friend of mine that my one-teen protest in 2002 against the school prayer group doing a 9/11 anniversary event at the flag pole was a radicalizing event for their younger sister.
September 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Accomplishment unlocked, slow burn edition: was told by a friend of mine that my one-teen protest in 2002 against the school prayer group doing a 9/11 anniversary event at the flag pole was a radicalizing event for their younger sister.
Seven weeks into the school year and I feel like I'm having a mini-renaissance.
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
September 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Seven weeks into the school year and I feel like I'm having a mini-renaissance.
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
1. Year 2 of my school newspaper, got lots of kids who never signed up thrown in there. But they're working hard! We're getting everyone press badges this year, there's peer editing, more leadership from my returners...
FWIW I managed to get class sets of two books each this year that I selected for my TX *and* US Government classes. We do weekly class discussions and reflective writing. I teach in one of the poorest public ISDs in my state. We're still out here doing our thing where we can.
at the same time, elite private k12 schools will (continue to) offer literature courses featuring paper books that teachers select while public school teachers will face very real impediments to offering parallel experiences
Some small, wealthy private college will eventually market a bespoke chatbot & mobile phone free academic environment, likely paired with a conservative GenEd curriculum (classical education, or the like). It will take off like wildfire. They will leap up the rankings. It’s just a matter of time.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
FWIW I managed to get class sets of two books each this year that I selected for my TX *and* US Government classes. We do weekly class discussions and reflective writing. I teach in one of the poorest public ISDs in my state. We're still out here doing our thing where we can.
This reveals something important about the difference between the major parties and how they think about and do politics. GOP cleaves tight to their ideological goals,and doesn't feel beholden to public opinion or majoritarian consent in pursuit of those goals. Dems pursue reconciliation from jump.
real problem that democratic politicians fetishize being “responsible” and “the grown ups”
September 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This reveals something important about the difference between the major parties and how they think about and do politics. GOP cleaves tight to their ideological goals,and doesn't feel beholden to public opinion or majoritarian consent in pursuit of those goals. Dems pursue reconciliation from jump.
Slept in a Soulja Boy shirt, woke up with my swag turned on.
Slept in a Tom Petty shirt, woke up in a cabin down below.
Slept in a Dave Matthews Band shirt, and slept like a littlebayBaaaay
September 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Slept in a Soulja Boy shirt, woke up with my swag turned on.
Everyone who wants to make the world a freer, more just place needs to join an organization in their local areas and participate in meetings.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Everyone who wants to make the world a freer, more just place needs to join an organization in their local areas and participate in meetings.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
Also, spend less time arguing with people who want you dead and more with discouraged people who want to help but don't know how.
I know I'm not the only one to draw this connection, but the type of men who were throwing sex toys at WNBA games recently and the men who become feds and do this are the same kind of men.
As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down.
In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...
In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...
August 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I know I'm not the only one to draw this connection, but the type of men who were throwing sex toys at WNBA games recently and the men who become feds and do this are the same kind of men.
Hahaha I was just teaching my Journalism students (high school) about open-ended questions yesterday.
August 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hahaha I was just teaching my Journalism students (high school) about open-ended questions yesterday.
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How do we make sense of professional learners and educators willingly creating this kind of thing? TL;dr — we also often don’t have the sense that god gave a frog in the middle of the highway.
“The AI tool uses cameras and audio recordings to report on whether the teacher looked at or walked through each section of the classroom, how often they used group work, and many other techniques. Even the words the teacher and students use are tracked.”
UAlbany Professor Develops AI to Give Teachers Feedback
A professor of educational theory is creating an AI tool that records video and audio to determine whether a teacher addressed each section of the classroom, how often they used group work and other t...
www.govtech.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
How do we make sense of professional learners and educators willingly creating this kind of thing? TL;dr — we also often don’t have the sense that god gave a frog in the middle of the highway.
Get them to USL1 nyyyyyow.
16 wins, 3 draws, 0 losses.
National Champions.
Forever, The Invincibles.
National Champions.
Forever, The Invincibles.
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Get them to USL1 nyyyyyow.
I sweater god if someone puts me in an airbrushy AI-lookin ass heaven portrait with me next to my racist former coworkers, I will haunt this stupid planet so hard.
July 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I sweater god if someone puts me in an airbrushy AI-lookin ass heaven portrait with me next to my racist former coworkers, I will haunt this stupid planet so hard.
Decided to try "waking up" and I'm still wracked with anxiety. I'm starting to seriously consider other lines of work at this point even though I love teaching high school. I'd love to try teaching community college even if it's a bit of a pay cut, but there aren't nearly the opportunities.
Really dreading this upcoming school year. I cannot tell you how much the TX Lege has done their very best to make being a teacher or parent of any kind of conscience just untenable.
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Decided to try "waking up" and I'm still wracked with anxiety. I'm starting to seriously consider other lines of work at this point even though I love teaching high school. I'd love to try teaching community college even if it's a bit of a pay cut, but there aren't nearly the opportunities.
Really dreading this upcoming school year. I cannot tell you how much the TX Lege has done their very best to make being a teacher or parent of any kind of conscience just untenable.
July 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Really dreading this upcoming school year. I cannot tell you how much the TX Lege has done their very best to make being a teacher or parent of any kind of conscience just untenable.
I say this as both parent and teacher, but we gotta start confronting _those_ parents more. They want right-wing parents to have veto power in public schools. We shouldn't let them have it at all, let alone in advance.
Schools brace for wave of parents seeking opt-outs after Supreme Court ruling: "Some school officials have privately...said they may consider preemptively removing content from the curriculum entirely in order to avoid confrontations with parents."
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sch... #EduSky
abcnews.go.com/Politics/sch... #EduSky
Schools brace for wave of parents seeking opt-outs after Supreme Court ruling
When public school teachers return to classrooms this fall, they will confront a new legal landscape giving parents veto power over aspects of a child’s education.
abcnews.go.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I say this as both parent and teacher, but we gotta start confronting _those_ parents more. They want right-wing parents to have veto power in public schools. We shouldn't let them have it at all, let alone in advance.
Anecdote to drive this home: I learned not long ago that my cousin and her husband who's been at Goddard for years are moving to Portugal.
They were told— per someone who attended the all staff meeting at NASA Goddard two weeks ago, that spacex is hiring.
But otherwise if they wanted jobs they should move to another country.
Gutting NASA is part of the Trump agenda.
But otherwise if they wanted jobs they should move to another country.
Gutting NASA is part of the Trump agenda.
With cuts like these -- 5,000 planned cut staff through 2026, 1414 cut staff at Goddard Space Flight Center alone, where much of NASA Astrophysics is housed -- the United States effectively abandons its decades-old global leadership position in astrophysics.
July 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Anecdote to drive this home: I learned not long ago that my cousin and her husband who's been at Goddard for years are moving to Portugal.
Ca. late 2000s I was an avid reader of a lot of Atlantic blogs and it's pretty clear that Sullivan cannot handle how Coates is better than him at anything that matters: morally, as a writer, as a thinker, his influence, his accomplishments. Crying, screaming, throwing up type behavior from him.
my other sully thought is just thinking about the ways he became obviously embittered by the rise of ta-nehisi coates to prominence
June 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Ca. late 2000s I was an avid reader of a lot of Atlantic blogs and it's pretty clear that Sullivan cannot handle how Coates is better than him at anything that matters: morally, as a writer, as a thinker, his influence, his accomplishments. Crying, screaming, throwing up type behavior from him.