Mandy Zerillo 🦋 💻🍎
@mandyzerillo.bsky.social
Instructional Design Technology Master’s student and lifelong learner of stuff. Exploring history, journalism, education, and how bias and objectivity is reflected in each. Queer lady. 3 kids. Twin mom. Send help. #EduSky #EdTechSky
I’m proud of my state! connecticut.news12.com/connecticut-...
Connecticut Department of Education refuses to sign Trump administration’s DEI order
In a statement, Lamont and Education Commissioner Charlene Russell-Tucker said the state “already does and will continue to comply with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
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April 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I’m proud of my state! connecticut.news12.com/connecticut-...
I can’t stop thinking about tariffs.
April 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I can’t stop thinking about tariffs.
What the hell are the drunk scientists doing to the fruit flies? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Alcohol drinking makes male fruit flies more attractive
Alcohol increases the release of chemical sex signals and makes males more attractive to females.
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April 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
What the hell are the drunk scientists doing to the fruit flies? www.bbc.com/news/article...
We were so close to a headline reading “Boaty McBoatface discovers footage of the Loch Ness Monster” for April 1st. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Camera set up to catch Loch Ness Monster unearthed
No sign of the famous monster was found on the camera that had been in Loch Ness for 55 years.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
We were so close to a headline reading “Boaty McBoatface discovers footage of the Loch Ness Monster” for April 1st. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Do you doomscroll the news while watching movies with your kids? It’s not healthy.
March 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Do you doomscroll the news while watching movies with your kids? It’s not healthy.
I legitimately texted the wrong person a drawing of a cat butt without context last week. I feel a little better about the few days.
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Signal war plans chat: Five takeaways from leaked US top military meeting
What was discussed in the top-secret group that a journalist was accidentally added to?
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March 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I legitimately texted the wrong person a drawing of a cat butt without context last week. I feel a little better about the few days.
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When people tell you you can’t just eat away your problems, show them this article about eating invasive species. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
The fearless lionfish huntresses of the Caribbean
Two women are working to save the coral reef from the invasive lionfish, using it as a sustainable teaching tool and cooking it into everything from tacos to fish and chips.
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February 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
When people tell you you can’t just eat away your problems, show them this article about eating invasive species. www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
This year, respond to the Trump admin by burying my head in #education policy and technology. Just to ACT.
As exec orders passed that 1st week freezing funding for accessibility, my son was diagnosed with #autism. Politics is so personal.
It is strange to be so motivated and so, so tired.
As exec orders passed that 1st week freezing funding for accessibility, my son was diagnosed with #autism. Politics is so personal.
It is strange to be so motivated and so, so tired.
February 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This year, respond to the Trump admin by burying my head in #education policy and technology. Just to ACT.
As exec orders passed that 1st week freezing funding for accessibility, my son was diagnosed with #autism. Politics is so personal.
It is strange to be so motivated and so, so tired.
As exec orders passed that 1st week freezing funding for accessibility, my son was diagnosed with #autism. Politics is so personal.
It is strange to be so motivated and so, so tired.
Some state oversight coming to the rescue in Bridgeport. Good stuff!
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Concerns at Bridgeport schools prompt CT officials to intervene
The state’s concerns include a $38M budget deficit, inadequate special education services and conflict among the local board of education.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Some state oversight coming to the rescue in Bridgeport. Good stuff!
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Connecticut is a little chilly today.
January 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Connecticut is a little chilly today.
Design idea: an ouroboros (snake devouring its tail) with the caption “don’t tread on me for I am also you”. Printed on a gigantic flag and flown from the back of a really shitty truck.
January 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Design idea: an ouroboros (snake devouring its tail) with the caption “don’t tread on me for I am also you”. Printed on a gigantic flag and flown from the back of a really shitty truck.
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The rise of accountability testing, the teacher shortage, the ubiquity of smartphones and social-media platforms — all contributed to Gen Z's academic habits. Then the pandemic arrived, adding new challenges and worsening existing ones. chroni.cl/426IMb4
How Changes in K-12 Schooling Hampered the Preparation of College Students
Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The rise of accountability testing, the teacher shortage, the ubiquity of smartphones and social-media platforms — all contributed to Gen Z's academic habits. Then the pandemic arrived, adding new challenges and worsening existing ones. chroni.cl/426IMb4
A morbid thought as LA burns and half the country was just buried in snow:
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to parish twice
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to parish twice
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
January 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A morbid thought as LA burns and half the country was just buried in snow:
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to parish twice
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
Some say the world will end in fire
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to parish twice
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice
www.bbc.com/news/article... I saw this article and thought-oh it is high time I deactivate this account, and then thought about opportunity to absolutely FLOOD Facebook with liberal content and document whether or not it lands people in “Facebook Jail”. #socialmedia #censorship
Meta to replace 'biased' fact-checkers with moderation by users
Meta says its platforms will instead rely on "community notes" from its users, an approach pioneered by X.
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January 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article... I saw this article and thought-oh it is high time I deactivate this account, and then thought about opportunity to absolutely FLOOD Facebook with liberal content and document whether or not it lands people in “Facebook Jail”. #socialmedia #censorship
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I miss him.
And news.
And news.
January 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I miss him.
And news.
And news.
If this is any indication of what parenthood does to your peace, “please don’t throw Cheerios in my wine” was a sentence I said today.
January 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If this is any indication of what parenthood does to your peace, “please don’t throw Cheerios in my wine” was a sentence I said today.
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While we’re banning books…
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar.
Be. Like. Finland.
January 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I giggled, and then then sighed, and then resolved to teach my kids civics, and support civics education in public schools, charter schools, and homeschooling resources.
January 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I giggled, and then then sighed, and then resolved to teach my kids civics, and support civics education in public schools, charter schools, and homeschooling resources.
Fellow parents…is anyone listening to Miss Rachel play Red Light Green Light by day, but also watching the second season of #SquidGames by night? Are we okay?
January 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fellow parents…is anyone listening to Miss Rachel play Red Light Green Light by day, but also watching the second season of #SquidGames by night? Are we okay?
Great summary of some of the many players at work making decisions and allocating money. #education #EduSky #connecticut
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In CT 2025 legislative session, special education will be a priority
Connecticut's Education Committee will address special education funding and services — as well as other debates involving funding — in 2025.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Great summary of some of the many players at work making decisions and allocating money. #education #EduSky #connecticut
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Fantastic video. Glosses over education @ min 13 but this is how you lean into a disrupted status quo. Let’s grieve political losses quickly and rethink how we will advance quality of life through policy with the chess pieces where they are www.meidasplus.com/p/dems-are-c...
Dems Are Calling Trump's Bluff in Bold Strategy Shift... Good!!!
Exposing Trump’s broken promises, Democrats challenge MAGA hypocrisy with direct legislation and relentless messaging.
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January 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Fantastic video. Glosses over education @ min 13 but this is how you lean into a disrupted status quo. Let’s grieve political losses quickly and rethink how we will advance quality of life through policy with the chess pieces where they are www.meidasplus.com/p/dems-are-c...
If you were born in the 1900s, this is your PSA that you can just watch a New Year Celebration in a different time zone and go to bed early. Happy New Year! We love you, London- Good night!
January 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
If you were born in the 1900s, this is your PSA that you can just watch a New Year Celebration in a different time zone and go to bed early. Happy New Year! We love you, London- Good night!
I tend to make new goals during the new moon, and it’s so close to New Year’s Eve this year! In the next month, I plan to attend some of the town board of ed meetings and get involved in the school systems my kids will attend one day. Anyone else have any #edusky goals?
December 30, 2024 at 9:03 PM
I tend to make new goals during the new moon, and it’s so close to New Year’s Eve this year! In the next month, I plan to attend some of the town board of ed meetings and get involved in the school systems my kids will attend one day. Anyone else have any #edusky goals?
RIP Jimmy Carter. Thank you for all you have done for your country. www.chronicle.com/article/here....
Here’s How Jimmy Carter Changed Higher Education
Many of today’s policy debates and controversies had their origins in the president’s one term in office.
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December 30, 2024 at 3:16 AM
RIP Jimmy Carter. Thank you for all you have done for your country. www.chronicle.com/article/here....
