New post up at Moving Writers about how I teach my students to build a metaphor throughout a college entrance essay! movingwriters.org/2025/03/25/m... #mentortexts @rebekahodell1.bsky.social

As a teacher, I’m thinking about… if the federal govt has disallowed employees from using the word “disability” and half the fed. DOE that ensures students with disability receive accommodation, what does that mean for my special education students? Where are you America? Help us! #protectourkids

On Moving Writers, read about my experiencing using AI to try to help all the different language levels in my high school class: movingwriters.org/2025/02/12/u... #aied #teachingwithai #diffit #eduai

The days immediately following school shootings are the very worst to be a teacher in this country.

NYC ornament of the day: the pizza rat. #christmas #nyc

Today’s nyc themed tree ornament. Happy holidays! #nyc

The real luxuries in life.

My favorite nyc ornament. #newyorker #lit

“Let us revel in the fact that dreams are small gifts of liberatory abundance. “ from the #ncte call for proposals for the 2025 conference in Denver. Let’s submit: how are you helping students cultivate their dream farms?

Making my way through rainy streets of nyc this morning to my classroom, I’m thinking, am I doing enough? Parents: know that there is an army in this city thinking the same thing and striving for your kids everyday. #teach

How I’m teaching game design for hope in the Ella classroom: movingwriters.org/2024/12/10/t...

Every year I clean out my closets on Black Friday. Nothing encourages you to NOT buy things like donating bags of stuff you’d forgotten you owned. #boycottblackfriday

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94.

His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Thank you to all the innovative English teachers using games in their classes that I met at #ncte24. I will see you all in English teacher heaven. 💕

Congrats on a impactful, relevant call to action about literacy to build civil discourse in our online and offline world! @rbmann.bsky.social #ncte24

Let’s gamify poetry discussion in our classrooms! Tomorrow I will share Explicate: the poetry analysis card game of my design at NCTE’s Classroom Idea Exchange. #ncte24

Come see me at 2 in room 209 to hear about game design for community identity, empathy building, and understanding narrative.

Then at 3:30 come see our presentation on youth imagination and civic praxis (Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly leading!)