Cait O’Connor
@justteachingela.bsky.social
8th grade ELA teacher, 2023 Outstanding Middle Level Educator, mental health peer, Buddhist, avid reader, lover of iced tea, alternative education enthusiast, social justice advocate, fat studies scholar, fiercely pro-student.
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Knowledge that doesn’t help you materially transform your life and the lives of those around you for the better is just information.
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
A breakdown of the OSERS shutdown.
October 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A breakdown of the OSERS shutdown.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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My book is HERE! Preorders begin in February! Release date in March! Screaming crying throwing UP 😭
September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My book is HERE! Preorders begin in February! Release date in March! Screaming crying throwing UP 😭
@jenniferlagarde.bsky.social Also, hi, I’m Cait O’Connor, middle school teacher whose own nonfiction book is coming out in March! #TLSkyChat
September 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
@jenniferlagarde.bsky.social Also, hi, I’m Cait O’Connor, middle school teacher whose own nonfiction book is coming out in March! #TLSkyChat
My book is HERE! Preorders begin in February! Release date in March! Screaming crying throwing UP 😭
September 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My book is HERE! Preorders begin in February! Release date in March! Screaming crying throwing UP 😭
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Reposted by Cait O’Connor
Reposted by Cait O’Connor
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
August 28, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
The most athletic woman in the world is doing weight loss drug ads.
August 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The most athletic woman in the world is doing weight loss drug ads.
Now this app is censoring any trans authors who criticize JK Rowling. Is nothing safe?
August 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Now this app is censoring any trans authors who criticize JK Rowling. Is nothing safe?
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July 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My manuscript is in the editor’s inbox. I REPEAT: my MANUSCRIPT. Is in. The editors’ INBOX.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
My manuscript is in the editor’s inbox. I REPEAT: my MANUSCRIPT. Is in. The editors’ INBOX.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Raise your hand if recommending books is a love language 🙋🏻♀️
November 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM
Raise your hand if recommending books is a love language 🙋🏻♀️
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“Credit recovery” is an opportunity to unearth what parts of school just aren’t resonating with students. When we treat kids who are repeating a class as if they are learners (because they are) instead of harping on the fact that we think they’re there because they “messed up,” 1/5 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Credit recovery” is an opportunity to unearth what parts of school just aren’t resonating with students. When we treat kids who are repeating a class as if they are learners (because they are) instead of harping on the fact that we think they’re there because they “messed up,” 1/5 🧵
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One habit I had to break as a teacher was affirmation without information.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
One habit I had to break as a teacher was affirmation without information.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
“Credit recovery” is an opportunity to unearth what parts of school just aren’t resonating with students. When we treat kids who are repeating a class as if they are learners (because they are) instead of harping on the fact that we think they’re there because they “messed up,” 1/5 🧵
July 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“Credit recovery” is an opportunity to unearth what parts of school just aren’t resonating with students. When we treat kids who are repeating a class as if they are learners (because they are) instead of harping on the fact that we think they’re there because they “messed up,” 1/5 🧵
One habit I had to break as a teacher was affirmation without information.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 AM
One habit I had to break as a teacher was affirmation without information.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
Phrases like “Great!” “Awesome!” Or even “Right!” aren’t specific enough to tell Ss WHAT they got right or did well. Affirmation alone isn’t data. Reflect, mirror, and specify.
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Knowledge that doesn’t help you materially transform your life and the lives of those around you for the better is just information.
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
January 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Knowledge that doesn’t help you materially transform your life and the lives of those around you for the better is just information.
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
Are you helping learners access knowledge, or giving them information?
Finally met @asv.bsky.social in real lifeeeeeee
June 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Finally met @asv.bsky.social in real lifeeeeeee
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“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.
Juneteenth and the Meaning of Freedom
Emancipation is a marker of progress for white Americans, not black ones.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“There is a vast chasm between the concept of freedom inscribed on paper and the reality of freedom in our lives.” Revisit Jelani Cobb‘s piece, from 2020, on Juneteenth and the meaning of freedom.
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Disabled people shouldn’t have to change their behaviour to make non disabled folks more comfortable.
We’ve done that for long enough. It gets us nowhere.
If disability makes you uncomfortable, you need to own that.
Ask yourselves why. Work on internalized ableism.
We’ve done that for long enough. It gets us nowhere.
If disability makes you uncomfortable, you need to own that.
Ask yourselves why. Work on internalized ableism.
June 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Disabled people shouldn’t have to change their behaviour to make non disabled folks more comfortable.
We’ve done that for long enough. It gets us nowhere.
If disability makes you uncomfortable, you need to own that.
Ask yourselves why. Work on internalized ableism.
We’ve done that for long enough. It gets us nowhere.
If disability makes you uncomfortable, you need to own that.
Ask yourselves why. Work on internalized ableism.
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IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
May 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!