James Noonan
@jmnoonan.bsky.social
associate professor at Salem State University in Salem, MA | studying leadership, learning, unlearning, equity | Boston dad interested in public education & politics | more at https://jamesnoonan.scholar.st | he/him | I support 🏳️⚧️ folx
Faint view of the aurora from Roxbury’s Highland Park. @universalhub.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Faint view of the aurora from Roxbury’s Highland Park. @universalhub.com
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
Turns out that holding hungry people hostage really does work.
So Democrats get:
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
1. A CR that will prevent the GOP from facing the wrath of Americans for a shutdown over the holidays
2. A coupon for one (1) meaningless ACA vote that will fail
3. An end to the illegal RIF/SNAP moves that are already before the courts
Those all seem like wins for the GOP.
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Turns out that holding hungry people hostage really does work.
I'd like to offer the entire golf course for the benefit of dogs.
TONIGHT at 6:00PM: Head to the Franklin Park Golf Course Clubhouse for a community meeting on dog facilities within Franklin Park, hosted by the Boston Parks Department!
Learn more: https://www.boston.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/franklin-park-dog-facility-study
Learn more: https://www.boston.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/franklin-park-dog-facility-study
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'd like to offer the entire golf course for the benefit of dogs.
I was fortunate to attend a session at AERA featuring this research and it’s fabulous—evocatively highlighting the gap between the hopes we pour into professional learning and its constraints, especially when it comes to learning about race and systems of oppression. I’m so glad it’s in print!
my new article, Beyond Antiracism: Abolitionist Teacher Learning Toward Institutional School Change, was just published in the Journal of Teacher Education!
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I was fortunate to attend a session at AERA featuring this research and it’s fabulous—evocatively highlighting the gap between the hopes we pour into professional learning and its constraints, especially when it comes to learning about race and systems of oppression. I’m so glad it’s in print!
Last night was the last meeting of the Boston School Committee before it votes on a proposed revision of its exam schools admissions policy. The changes would make the schools less diverse and halt the progress made these last four years. Here's my testimony: jamesnoonan.scholar.st/posts/4709
James Noonan, Ed.D. - The Courage to Stand for Diverse Schools
My name is James Noonan. I live in Roxbury. I’m an associate professor of education and parent of two students at the Nathan Hale School. I’d like to speak...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Last night was the last meeting of the Boston School Committee before it votes on a proposed revision of its exam schools admissions policy. The changes would make the schools less diverse and halt the progress made these last four years. Here's my testimony: jamesnoonan.scholar.st/posts/4709
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We know how hard it can be to stay current, so we updated this one ourselves
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We know how hard it can be to stay current, so we updated this one ourselves
Everett is a city that thrives thanks to its immigrant communities. And this is despicable — if you are sworn to protect the people, you protect all of them.
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Everett is a city that thrives thanks to its immigrant communities. And this is despicable — if you are sworn to protect the people, you protect all of them.
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"Decision making, or action, is important in part because a stated commitment to antiracist values alone—what Ahmed (2006) calls “nonperformativity”—is too often seen as sufficient action, even though a commitment to antiracism alone still enables racism to persist."
Pleased to share a new publication -- coauthored with @salemstate.bsky.social colleagues Drs. Jacy Ippolito and Megin Charner-Laird -- about the connection between adult development and antiracist educational leadership: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ucea-leadership.bsky.social
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September 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"Decision making, or action, is important in part because a stated commitment to antiracist values alone—what Ahmed (2006) calls “nonperformativity”—is too often seen as sufficient action, even though a commitment to antiracism alone still enables racism to persist."
Pleased to share a new publication -- coauthored with @salemstate.bsky.social colleagues Drs. Jacy Ippolito and Megin Charner-Laird -- about the connection between adult development and antiracist educational leadership: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ucea-leadership.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com
September 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Pleased to share a new publication -- coauthored with @salemstate.bsky.social colleagues Drs. Jacy Ippolito and Megin Charner-Laird -- about the connection between adult development and antiracist educational leadership: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ucea-leadership.bsky.social
Reading Lawrence Wright’s novel about Palestine and Israel (“The Human Scale”), I have to take breaks about every 15 pages. It’s brilliantly plotted and punctuated with paradoxes and history, but the weight of the story is just so heavy with sorrow.
September 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reading Lawrence Wright’s novel about Palestine and Israel (“The Human Scale”), I have to take breaks about every 15 pages. It’s brilliantly plotted and punctuated with paradoxes and history, but the weight of the story is just so heavy with sorrow.
Attention Boston Public School parents: it’s worth wading through the morass of slides on proposed changes to the exam school policy to offer feedback, especially in the interest of preserving the equity-focused policy goals. Here’s the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
English - 2025 Exam School Admissions Policy Feedback
On June 17, 2025, BPS shared a report with the Boston School Committee about the exam school admissions policy. The report included data from the last five years and considerations for possible future...
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August 15, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Attention Boston Public School parents: it’s worth wading through the morass of slides on proposed changes to the exam school policy to offer feedback, especially in the interest of preserving the equity-focused policy goals. Here’s the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
View from Highland Park in Roxbury tonight @universalhub.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
View from Highland Park in Roxbury tonight @universalhub.com
The Shooter McGavin Jacket for Creative Golf Scoring
The Golden Sash for Most Presidential Impeachments
The Kevorkian Prize for Innovation in Self-Harm (for bleach-drinking as a response to respiratory illness)
The Presidential Unfitness Award, sponsored by Diet Coke
The Golden Sash for Most Presidential Impeachments
The Kevorkian Prize for Innovation in Self-Harm (for bleach-drinking as a response to respiratory illness)
The Presidential Unfitness Award, sponsored by Diet Coke
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
Trump: Since 1978 the Kennedy Center honors have been amongst the most prestigious awards. I wanted one, never able to get one. I would have taken it. I waited and waited and waited and I said to hell with it, I'll become chairman. I will give myself an honor. Next year we'll honor trump, okay?
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The Shooter McGavin Jacket for Creative Golf Scoring
The Golden Sash for Most Presidential Impeachments
The Kevorkian Prize for Innovation in Self-Harm (for bleach-drinking as a response to respiratory illness)
The Presidential Unfitness Award, sponsored by Diet Coke
The Golden Sash for Most Presidential Impeachments
The Kevorkian Prize for Innovation in Self-Harm (for bleach-drinking as a response to respiratory illness)
The Presidential Unfitness Award, sponsored by Diet Coke
I did *not* see this coming
New Hampshire’s Governor Ayotte (R) vetoed a series of GOP bills — including meant to help censor books in schools, a “bathroom bill”, a bill to facilitate vaccine exemptions for kids, a bill to require sex eds to emphasize fetal development. www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/s...
Gov. Ayotte vetoes book removal bill, bathroom ban bill, more Republican legislation
Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed seven New Hampshire bills, many intended to strengthen parental rights, bucking conservative wing of her party.
www.seacoastonline.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I did *not* see this coming
The DOE decision yesterday is so disheartening, especially because I feel pretty sure it couldn’t have been accomplished through a normal open process. The public has a strong attachment to schools but we were cut out of this process completely. 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The DOE decision yesterday is so disheartening, especially because I feel pretty sure it couldn’t have been accomplished through a normal open process. The public has a strong attachment to schools but we were cut out of this process completely. 🧵
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Eleanor Duckworth's reminder: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking.
Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
Eleanor Duckworth's reminder: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking.
Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
July 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Eleanor Duckworth's reminder: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking.
Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
Eleanor Duckworth's reminder: The more intensely interested a teacher is in a student’s thinking, the more interested the student becomes in his or her own thinking.
Corollary: The more a teacher just wants to see right answers, the less interested students become in their (or any) thinking.
Critical reporting here. I’d like to see the @bostonglobe.com quoting that #MAedu stands not to receive $107,694,933 in federal funds allocated to it by Congress.
The Trump administration withheld nearly $7 billion from K-12 education today.
Here's how much money was supposed to go each state, for each affected program: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
Here's how much money was supposed to go each state, for each affected program: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
See How Much School Funding Trump Is Holding Back From Your State
The administration is holding back nearly $7 billion for English learners, after-school programs, professional development, and more.
www.edweek.org
July 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Critical reporting here. I’d like to see the @bostonglobe.com quoting that #MAedu stands not to receive $107,694,933 in federal funds allocated to it by Congress.
BIG = a massive expansion of the administrative deep state, especially covert & unaccountable arrests
BEAUTIFUL = applies only to the ultra rich, who can spend stolen Medicaid money on another yacht
BILL = as in, a $5,000,000,000 expansion of the national debt, paid for by our uninsured children
BEAUTIFUL = applies only to the ultra rich, who can spend stolen Medicaid money on another yacht
BILL = as in, a $5,000,000,000 expansion of the national debt, paid for by our uninsured children
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BIG = a massive expansion of the administrative deep state, especially covert & unaccountable arrests
BEAUTIFUL = applies only to the ultra rich, who can spend stolen Medicaid money on another yacht
BILL = as in, a $5,000,000,000 expansion of the national debt, paid for by our uninsured children
BEAUTIFUL = applies only to the ultra rich, who can spend stolen Medicaid money on another yacht
BILL = as in, a $5,000,000,000 expansion of the national debt, paid for by our uninsured children
Jim Ryan is one of the most morally decent leaders I’ve known in higher education. What a loss for UVA. (I wish he’d made the Board fire him.)
Breaking: UVA President James E. Ryan resigns in the face of pressure from the administration as part of its investigation into UVA's DEI policies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Jim Ryan is one of the most morally decent leaders I’ve known in higher education. What a loss for UVA. (I wish he’d made the Board fire him.)
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What if the outcome is MCPS is constantly sending home opt-out letters instead of pulling books. I say do it
June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What if the outcome is MCPS is constantly sending home opt-out letters instead of pulling books. I say do it
The #Mahmoud decision punctuates that for this Court—and government—the “religious development” of children is always elevated above the humanity of LGBTQ+ people
June 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The #Mahmoud decision punctuates that for this Court—and government—the “religious development” of children is always elevated above the humanity of LGBTQ+ people
At least we can still see the stars in Maine
June 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
At least we can still see the stars in Maine