Chanea Bond
@heymrsbond.com
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Chanea Bond
@heymrsbond.com
· Oct 3
Reasons to Teach High School English when the World is on Fire
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Black girls in advanced academics who write literary analyses about “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Queer kids who call the English Department The Fruit Factory. Allowables and Legacies by Nikki Giovanni.
Went into a @barnesandnoble.com SUPER early and tested out some pens!! Wrote myself a little message and thought I’d shared it with you. 💛
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Went into a @barnesandnoble.com SUPER early and tested out some pens!! Wrote myself a little message and thought I’d shared it with you. 💛
These are gonna be the most badass doctors the world has ever seen.
the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.
December 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
These are gonna be the most badass doctors the world has ever seen.
A letter to myself and to all the moms! I celebrate us and I thank GAWD for gift bags 😭🤣
December 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A letter to myself and to all the moms! I celebrate us and I thank GAWD for gift bags 😭🤣
Chanea’s Top Two novels of 2025
1) Chain-gang All-Stars altered my brain chemistry
2) My Friends broke and mended my heart
1) Chain-gang All-Stars altered my brain chemistry
2) My Friends broke and mended my heart
December 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Chanea’s Top Two novels of 2025
1) Chain-gang All-Stars altered my brain chemistry
2) My Friends broke and mended my heart
1) Chain-gang All-Stars altered my brain chemistry
2) My Friends broke and mended my heart
iso book recommendations!
I want to be IMMERSED in a world. Not in a high-fantasy kinda way. In a DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD I THINK I GO HERE kinda way.
Books that fit the bill: Legendborn, Chain-gang All-Stars, My Friends, Black Cake, Remarkably Bright Creatures. Bonus points if the audiobook slaps.
I want to be IMMERSED in a world. Not in a high-fantasy kinda way. In a DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD I THINK I GO HERE kinda way.
Books that fit the bill: Legendborn, Chain-gang All-Stars, My Friends, Black Cake, Remarkably Bright Creatures. Bonus points if the audiobook slaps.
December 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
iso book recommendations!
I want to be IMMERSED in a world. Not in a high-fantasy kinda way. In a DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD I THINK I GO HERE kinda way.
Books that fit the bill: Legendborn, Chain-gang All-Stars, My Friends, Black Cake, Remarkably Bright Creatures. Bonus points if the audiobook slaps.
I want to be IMMERSED in a world. Not in a high-fantasy kinda way. In a DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD I THINK I GO HERE kinda way.
Books that fit the bill: Legendborn, Chain-gang All-Stars, My Friends, Black Cake, Remarkably Bright Creatures. Bonus points if the audiobook slaps.
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Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'?
We are right.
We are right.
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'?
We are right.
We are right.
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Please remember, every time you see a newspaper or magazine article denigrating people - people like myself - who choose to avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2, there will always be a tiny, quiet voice in the mind of the author whispering, 'what if they're right'?
We are right.
We are right.
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Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Bari Weiss is an actual, unqualified diversity hire AND white supremacy hire at the same time
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This is gonna piss some people off, but it’s really shitty to put students out there like this. It’s a tacky trend and we should let it go expeditiously. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yrNHnf/
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is gonna piss some people off, but it’s really shitty to put students out there like this. It’s a tacky trend and we should let it go expeditiously. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yrNHnf/
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100 percent correct
I want better for us as a profession too
We should be modeling the public behavior we want to see in our students
And we should be treating our profession the way we want others to treat it
I want better for us as a profession too
We should be modeling the public behavior we want to see in our students
And we should be treating our profession the way we want others to treat it
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
100 percent correct
I want better for us as a profession too
We should be modeling the public behavior we want to see in our students
And we should be treating our profession the way we want others to treat it
I want better for us as a profession too
We should be modeling the public behavior we want to see in our students
And we should be treating our profession the way we want others to treat it
This is gonna piss some people off, but it’s really shitty to put students out there like this. It’s a tacky trend and we should let it go expeditiously. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yrNHnf/
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is gonna piss some people off, but it’s really shitty to put students out there like this. It’s a tacky trend and we should let it go expeditiously. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yrNHnf/
Also,
“Nonsensical” was a very important word for me in 2025 😅🤣
“Nonsensical” was a very important word for me in 2025 😅🤣
Top New Podcast: Our conversation with @heymrsbond.com, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI, was our most downloaded episode of the year *by far*! 👇
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Also,
“Nonsensical” was a very important word for me in 2025 😅🤣
“Nonsensical” was a very important word for me in 2025 😅🤣
I loved this conversation with @covingtonedu.bsky.social and I’m honored that so many folks tuned in!
If you haven’t heard it, I recommend it! I’m gonna listen to it again!
If you haven’t heard it, I recommend it! I’m gonna listen to it again!
Top New Podcast: Our conversation with @heymrsbond.com, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI, was our most downloaded episode of the year *by far*! 👇
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat
www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #edchat
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I loved this conversation with @covingtonedu.bsky.social and I’m honored that so many folks tuned in!
If you haven’t heard it, I recommend it! I’m gonna listen to it again!
If you haven’t heard it, I recommend it! I’m gonna listen to it again!
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The Pharaoh didn't build the pyramids.
Caesar didn't build the Coliseum.
The faces on Mt Rushmore didn't build this country.
Workers did.
And if we chose to, we could build any kind of world we wanted.
Caesar didn't build the Coliseum.
The faces on Mt Rushmore didn't build this country.
Workers did.
And if we chose to, we could build any kind of world we wanted.
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Pharaoh didn't build the pyramids.
Caesar didn't build the Coliseum.
The faces on Mt Rushmore didn't build this country.
Workers did.
And if we chose to, we could build any kind of world we wanted.
Caesar didn't build the Coliseum.
The faces on Mt Rushmore didn't build this country.
Workers did.
And if we chose to, we could build any kind of world we wanted.
This is why “vote blue no matter who” is bullshit. The tent is too damn big if bigots are allowed to call themselves democrats.
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This is why “vote blue no matter who” is bullshit. The tent is too damn big if bigots are allowed to call themselves democrats.
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I’m blessed to teach in a community college where I have flexibility in dealing with finals. It means higher stakes & students having to get out of bad end of semester habits. Still, @heymrsbond.com is right. I don’t want schlock work framed with desperation
Ya girl went to work (MASKED) with a low-grade fever because it’s finals week but — I have some thoughts about students who are desperate enough to do the wrong thing for what they believe is the right reason. Educators (K-all) what do you think? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yNxRH1/
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I’m blessed to teach in a community college where I have flexibility in dealing with finals. It means higher stakes & students having to get out of bad end of semester habits. Still, @heymrsbond.com is right. I don’t want schlock work framed with desperation
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Ya girl went to work (MASKED) with a low-grade fever because it’s finals week but — I have some thoughts about students who are desperate enough to do the wrong thing for what they believe is the right reason. Educators (K-all) what do you think? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yNxRH1/
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ya girl went to work (MASKED) with a low-grade fever because it’s finals week but — I have some thoughts about students who are desperate enough to do the wrong thing for what they believe is the right reason. Educators (K-all) what do you think? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yNxRH1/
I have COVID. Again.
I need someone who understands infections/viruses/biology to explain to me how I got COVID again after catching it in September and getting vaccinated one month ago. Is it a different strain? Am I more susceptible?
I need someone who understands infections/viruses/biology to explain to me how I got COVID again after catching it in September and getting vaccinated one month ago. Is it a different strain? Am I more susceptible?
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I have COVID. Again.
I need someone who understands infections/viruses/biology to explain to me how I got COVID again after catching it in September and getting vaccinated one month ago. Is it a different strain? Am I more susceptible?
I need someone who understands infections/viruses/biology to explain to me how I got COVID again after catching it in September and getting vaccinated one month ago. Is it a different strain? Am I more susceptible?
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(The IT guy told us today the various hacking of wifi and VPNs of trying to skirt test secure browsers led them to basically yeet the servers ans reboot them. My cantankerous side screams JUST STUDY IT'S EASIER, then my empathetic side whispers back "Ebony, they may not really know how"
December 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
(The IT guy told us today the various hacking of wifi and VPNs of trying to skirt test secure browsers led them to basically yeet the servers ans reboot them. My cantankerous side screams JUST STUDY IT'S EASIER, then my empathetic side whispers back "Ebony, they may not really know how"
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I know we are hurting. But we cannot hide. We must stand tall and proud of who we are. We hold their memories as blessings. And we light the candles anyway. They want us to hide but we stand proud. Find as much joy as you can this first night of #Hanukkah
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I know we are hurting. But we cannot hide. We must stand tall and proud of who we are. We hold their memories as blessings. And we light the candles anyway. They want us to hide but we stand proud. Find as much joy as you can this first night of #Hanukkah
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Ya girl went to work (MASKED) with a low-grade fever because it’s finals week but — I have some thoughts about students who are desperate enough to do the wrong thing for what they believe is the right reason. Educators (K-all) what do you think? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yNxRH1/
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Ya girl went to work (MASKED) with a low-grade fever because it’s finals week but — I have some thoughts about students who are desperate enough to do the wrong thing for what they believe is the right reason. Educators (K-all) what do you think? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yNxRH1/
Ewwww
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Ewwww
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Goodnight, friends.
Kindness and empathy and grace are strengths. Standing up for your values matters. Don't forget that.
I love you.
Kindness and empathy and grace are strengths. Standing up for your values matters. Don't forget that.
I love you.
a clock with the words love justice empathy support hope on it
Alt: a clock with the words love justice empathy support hope on it
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December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Goodnight, friends.
Kindness and empathy and grace are strengths. Standing up for your values matters. Don't forget that.
I love you.
Kindness and empathy and grace are strengths. Standing up for your values matters. Don't forget that.
I love you.
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When my students ask me why I have a baseball bat on top of my classroom closet:
“Because I teach in an American public high school in 2025.”
And they just shrug. Because they know.
“Because I teach in an American public high school in 2025.”
And they just shrug. Because they know.
If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours,
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
December 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
When my students ask me why I have a baseball bat on top of my classroom closet:
“Because I teach in an American public high school in 2025.”
And they just shrug. Because they know.
“Because I teach in an American public high school in 2025.”
And they just shrug. Because they know.