@marrellen.bsky.social
Christian. Wife. Mother of 3. Teacher. Interested in Literacy, School Improvement, Special Education, Pets and Wine in no particular order.
My kid made his television debut this morning on a local PBS production. It was a perfect experience for my always curious, fact loving boy. #WKAR #publictelevision #curiouscrew
September 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My kid made his television debut this morning on a local PBS production. It was a perfect experience for my always curious, fact loving boy. #WKAR #publictelevision #curiouscrew
Reasons Kindergarteners are funny: one happily rushed up to me to tell me I looked like a dragonfruit fruit today.
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Reasons Kindergarteners are funny: one happily rushed up to me to tell me I looked like a dragonfruit fruit today.
My husband just tried to relate to our teens using the “six seven” meme and he messed it up saying “six nine” instead and now our teens are dying 😂😂
September 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
My husband just tried to relate to our teens using the “six seven” meme and he messed it up saying “six nine” instead and now our teens are dying 😂😂
So, I apparently can no longer be trusted with a chisel 😂
August 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So, I apparently can no longer be trusted with a chisel 😂
Thank you to whomever is setting off commercial grade fireworks in the parking lot behind my house when it’s 1. 95 degrees, 2. No rain for days 3. Outside city ordinance stating fireworks can only be three days prior to or after a Federal holiday. My terrified dog just 💩 on the floor. 😡
June 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Thank you to whomever is setting off commercial grade fireworks in the parking lot behind my house when it’s 1. 95 degrees, 2. No rain for days 3. Outside city ordinance stating fireworks can only be three days prior to or after a Federal holiday. My terrified dog just 💩 on the floor. 😡
It’s officially been 20 years of marriage- 3 kids, 2 dogs and 1 happy life.
June 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s officially been 20 years of marriage- 3 kids, 2 dogs and 1 happy life.
It’s that time of year where teaching feels like working double shifts because you teach all day then do paperwork, report cards and IEPs all night while helping your own children do math with rational numbers, pie, co-signs and “shift” (whatever that is)
When is it time for wine?🍷
When is it time for wine?🍷
June 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It’s that time of year where teaching feels like working double shifts because you teach all day then do paperwork, report cards and IEPs all night while helping your own children do math with rational numbers, pie, co-signs and “shift” (whatever that is)
When is it time for wine?🍷
When is it time for wine?🍷
This is not good. I will continue to advocate for myself, my family and my students for whom even small learning disruptions like being sick and missing school set them back.
Breaking news: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ending his agency's recommendation that healthy pregnant women and healthy children receive the coronavirus vaccine.
RFK Jr. ends covid shot recommendation for healthy children, pregnant women
Currently the vaccine is recommended for all people over 6 months of age.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This is not good. I will continue to advocate for myself, my family and my students for whom even small learning disruptions like being sick and missing school set them back.
Please tell me we can find the DNA clownfish use to do this so I too can shrink my body to a smaller stature for the heat* of summer and need less food. 😂
*by heat I mean fit into shorts and a bathing suit after gaining my annual winter hibernation weight
*by heat I mean fit into shorts and a bathing suit after gaining my annual winter hibernation weight
To survive warming oceans, some clownfish cope by shrinking in size.
It's possible the smaller stature helps them save energy during a stressful scorch since smaller fish need less food, according to scientists.
It's possible the smaller stature helps them save energy during a stressful scorch since smaller fish need less food, according to scientists.
Clownfish shrink their bodies to survive ocean heat waves
Scientists observed that some of the orange-striped fish shrank their bodies during a heat wave off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
nbcnews.to
May 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Please tell me we can find the DNA clownfish use to do this so I too can shrink my body to a smaller stature for the heat* of summer and need less food. 😂
*by heat I mean fit into shorts and a bathing suit after gaining my annual winter hibernation weight
*by heat I mean fit into shorts and a bathing suit after gaining my annual winter hibernation weight
Picking Hawai’i for the vacation destination for my 20th anniversary was well worth the expense. Amazing trip! Highly recommend the Guide Along app for driving tours of the island- well worth the price as we found many hidden treasures we wouldn’t have found otherwise.
May 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Picking Hawai’i for the vacation destination for my 20th anniversary was well worth the expense. Amazing trip! Highly recommend the Guide Along app for driving tours of the island- well worth the price as we found many hidden treasures we wouldn’t have found otherwise.
Teacher appreciation week…not going to lie, feeling pretty down. I don’t want a keychain for “being a key player” or my board members out with “vote no” signs against our bond. I would feel appreciated if I could use my hard earned PTO that is part of my benefit package, but no, that was denied.
May 6, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Teacher appreciation week…not going to lie, feeling pretty down. I don’t want a keychain for “being a key player” or my board members out with “vote no” signs against our bond. I would feel appreciated if I could use my hard earned PTO that is part of my benefit package, but no, that was denied.
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Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
April 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Was there a breast cancer epidemic?!
NO.
Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976.
PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something.
This is also about autism.
Got a long overdue haircut today- cut 4”, added layers and thinned it. Feels springy!
April 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Got a long overdue haircut today- cut 4”, added layers and thinned it. Feels springy!
Parents please know…
Autism is not a disease.
Your child belongs.
Your child is not unworthy.
RFK is not correct.
Autism is complex, under study via medical, social and educational lenses.
Your children make our classrooms and world better places.
Autism is not a disease.
Your child belongs.
Your child is not unworthy.
RFK is not correct.
Autism is complex, under study via medical, social and educational lenses.
Your children make our classrooms and world better places.
April 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Parents please know…
Autism is not a disease.
Your child belongs.
Your child is not unworthy.
RFK is not correct.
Autism is complex, under study via medical, social and educational lenses.
Your children make our classrooms and world better places.
Autism is not a disease.
Your child belongs.
Your child is not unworthy.
RFK is not correct.
Autism is complex, under study via medical, social and educational lenses.
Your children make our classrooms and world better places.
Feeling springy- picked up some flowers and made a little lemon bread for dessert later.
April 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Feeling springy- picked up some flowers and made a little lemon bread for dessert later.
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🔥BREAKING: A federal court ruled in favor of AFSCME case to block DOGE's access to Social Security Administration.
Elon Musk and DOGE were ruled a grave danger to Social Security & must delete private data & BLOCKED them from further sharing, accessing or disclosing OUR Social Security information.
Elon Musk and DOGE were ruled a grave danger to Social Security & must delete private data & BLOCKED them from further sharing, accessing or disclosing OUR Social Security information.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled in favor of our case to block DOGE's access to the Social Security Administration.
The court saw that Elon Musk and his unqualified lackeys present a grave danger to Social Security and have illegally accessed the data of millions of Americans.
The court saw that Elon Musk and his unqualified lackeys present a grave danger to Social Security and have illegally accessed the data of millions of Americans.
March 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
🔥BREAKING: A federal court ruled in favor of AFSCME case to block DOGE's access to Social Security Administration.
Elon Musk and DOGE were ruled a grave danger to Social Security & must delete private data & BLOCKED them from further sharing, accessing or disclosing OUR Social Security information.
Elon Musk and DOGE were ruled a grave danger to Social Security & must delete private data & BLOCKED them from further sharing, accessing or disclosing OUR Social Security information.
Thank you to @firstbook.bsky.social and @pizza-hut.bsky.social for the $500 award for books for my classroom. The books have arrived and the students are thrilled! Most are pictured here for my classroom minus a few that are getting catalogued for our leveled book room.
February 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Thank you to @firstbook.bsky.social and @pizza-hut.bsky.social for the $500 award for books for my classroom. The books have arrived and the students are thrilled! Most are pictured here for my classroom minus a few that are getting catalogued for our leveled book room.
Yes! Schools should have certified librarians or teachers with library/media degrees.
Re-upping this. We need experts in media literacy & stewards of the freedom to read now more than ever.
February 8, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yes! Schools should have certified librarians or teachers with library/media degrees.
I get on streaks of eating the same thing every day for lunch. Currently- two hard boiled eggs with cottage cheese, a diced fresh tomato and basil with a smidge of balsamic glaze. It keeps me full and is fast to make. No picture because I inhaled it at work while typing IEP paperwork.
January 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I get on streaks of eating the same thing every day for lunch. Currently- two hard boiled eggs with cottage cheese, a diced fresh tomato and basil with a smidge of balsamic glaze. It keeps me full and is fast to make. No picture because I inhaled it at work while typing IEP paperwork.
I’m pretty sure my kids ask for bananas and let them go brown on purpose to get banana bread.
January 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’m pretty sure my kids ask for bananas and let them go brown on purpose to get banana bread.
Sobbing watching the news on the California wild fires. Stay safe everyone. 💔
January 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Sobbing watching the news on the California wild fires. Stay safe everyone. 💔
The algorithms on here think I have a “type”- I keep getting followed by accounts that have pictures of men aged 50+ with grey and beards that may or may not be bots. Just to be clear- I’m married, to a man, that just happens to be 50+ with lots of grey and occasionally a beard 😂
December 30, 2024 at 12:52 AM
The algorithms on here think I have a “type”- I keep getting followed by accounts that have pictures of men aged 50+ with grey and beards that may or may not be bots. Just to be clear- I’m married, to a man, that just happens to be 50+ with lots of grey and occasionally a beard 😂
Me: it feels great to tidy the house and have freshly vacuumed/mopped floors after all the company
Penny(my dog): here, let me vomit all over that for you
Penny(my dog): here, let me vomit all over that for you
December 26, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Me: it feels great to tidy the house and have freshly vacuumed/mopped floors after all the company
Penny(my dog): here, let me vomit all over that for you
Penny(my dog): here, let me vomit all over that for you
Oh goodie- ‘elves’ from the wellness team are delivering cookies today 🙄 teacher mental health isn’t about 🍪 -we want relevant PD and enough time and resources to do the hard work.
December 19, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Oh goodie- ‘elves’ from the wellness team are delivering cookies today 🙄 teacher mental health isn’t about 🍪 -we want relevant PD and enough time and resources to do the hard work.
My neighbor’s wandering cat got stuck inside my garage today. Not sure how long it was there. Glad it was warm-ish during the winter weather but holy heck did my child freak out when it ran across her foot. I just hope the cat found the mouse that likes my recycle bin while it was here. 🤞🏻
December 18, 2024 at 2:30 AM
My neighbor’s wandering cat got stuck inside my garage today. Not sure how long it was there. Glad it was warm-ish during the winter weather but holy heck did my child freak out when it ran across her foot. I just hope the cat found the mouse that likes my recycle bin while it was here. 🤞🏻