Melissa Tucker
@melissaetucker.bsky.social
Secondary English teacher & coffee lover currently juggling mom life, grading, learning, reading, sewing, and life! 🤓📚
What if we simply embraced life and the challenges and tensions that come with that? Instead of willingly letting tech bros dictate what they feel is ideal and handing over our data, we unplug? I don’t want to live in a Philip Dick or Ray Bradbury—I think they didn’t either.
“What if you could optimize without effort” is one of the prevailing questions of ai boosters, and I am always left wondering: what is the point of achievement without effort. www.marieclaire.com/beauty/artif...
July 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
What if we simply embraced life and the challenges and tensions that come with that? Instead of willingly letting tech bros dictate what they feel is ideal and handing over our data, we unplug? I don’t want to live in a Philip Dick or Ray Bradbury—I think they didn’t either.
I absolutely love how @biblioracle.bsky.social always comes for standardized testing, manufactured writing, and all its ilk.
Half-baked, uninformed nonsense that repeats mistaken information from another half-baked take.
July 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I absolutely love how @biblioracle.bsky.social always comes for standardized testing, manufactured writing, and all its ilk.
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Half-baked, uninformed nonsense that repeats mistaken information from another half-baked take.
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Half-baked, uninformed nonsense that repeats mistaken information from another half-baked take.
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The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
May 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The rule of law is all or nothing and must apply equally to everyone. If there's no rule of law for some people in America, then there's no rule of law for any of us.
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“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
—Madeleine L’Engle
March 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
—Madeleine L’Engle
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.
You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.
(1/3)
Watching this inaugural address and wondering about the rhetorical choices, exigence, purpose, and assumptions of audience. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
January 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Watching this inaugural address and wondering about the rhetorical choices, exigence, purpose, and assumptions of audience. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
In an effort to improve & enhance leadership, products & services, our #SCCTEBoard needs your input. Survey link from scteachersofenglish@gmail.com. Please check your spam/clutter folders. Deadline to complete the survey is Tuesday, January 28 at 11:59pm. Thank you for your time and honesty!
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In an effort to improve & enhance leadership, products & services, our #SCCTEBoard needs your input. Survey link from scteachersofenglish@gmail.com. Please check your spam/clutter folders. Deadline to complete the survey is Tuesday, January 28 at 11:59pm. Thank you for your time and honesty!
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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
This is NOT how I wanted my break to end. What a disappointing game.
January 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
This is NOT how I wanted my break to end. What a disappointing game.
And… add one more. 🙄
January 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
And… add one more. 🙄
Of all the leads, dropped passes ain’t it. 😔🤬
January 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Of all the leads, dropped passes ain’t it. 😔🤬
Thank you, Cash, for modeling what a catch and secure looks like. ‘Bout dang time!
January 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Thank you, Cash, for modeling what a catch and secure looks like. ‘Bout dang time!
I am sick of punting; there seems to be no magic tonight offensively. It would be nice if they woke up.
January 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I am sick of punting; there seems to be no magic tonight offensively. It would be nice if they woke up.
Settling for 3pts because a soph can’t pay attention is just dumb. 🤬
January 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Settling for 3pts because a soph can’t pay attention is just dumb. 🤬
I am seriously late to the party, but dang! The Boys is seriously good!
a man with a beard is holding a cell phone in his hand and says boom
Alt: The character “The Butcher,” a man with a beard, is holding a cell phone in his hand and says, “Boom,” in a scene from the series The Boys.
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January 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I am seriously late to the party, but dang! The Boys is seriously good!
#TheSixTripleEight is a great film; I highly recommend it!
December 24, 2024 at 7:20 PM
#TheSixTripleEight is a great film; I highly recommend it!
“[When] you … expect us to acknowledge that you are ‘one of the good ones’… you’re showing us that our voices don’t matter... That you are more interested in appearing to be a good … than actually learning what it takes to become good.” An apt description of those who bask in exceptionalism.
You need to read this, all of it.
You likely won't, but you really need to.
Shame must change sides.
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You likely won't, but you really need to.
Shame must change sides.
www.disabledginger.com/p/gisele-pel...
Gisele Pelicot, Medical Misogyny and How Disabled People Face Increased Risk of Abuse
Most of us have heard Gisele's story. It's a reminder that even men you trust can harm you. Did you know that she went to her doctors for help? A look at how medical misogyny contributed to her abuse.
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December 23, 2024 at 1:47 PM
“[When] you … expect us to acknowledge that you are ‘one of the good ones’… you’re showing us that our voices don’t matter... That you are more interested in appearing to be a good … than actually learning what it takes to become good.” An apt description of those who bask in exceptionalism.
Our leadership bowed to people who think Swift’s proposal is a good idea or a playbook.
December 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Our leadership bowed to people who think Swift’s proposal is a good idea or a playbook.
All of this. We need to reflect on our goal: an arbitrary gain on a test made by non-educators carrying too much weight or actual thinking, empowering, etc. One feeds the machine, and the other changes it.
We can't simultaneously decry that students can't seem to do anything for themselves and then make a bunch of digital tools that do things for students. Either we're helping them develop their practices (skills, knowledge, attitudes, habits of mind) of a field, or we're not.
December 15, 2024 at 1:50 PM
All of this. We need to reflect on our goal: an arbitrary gain on a test made by non-educators carrying too much weight or actual thinking, empowering, etc. One feeds the machine, and the other changes it.
As the #SCCTE2025 conference chair, I would like to invite you to our state affiliate conference Jan 31-Feb 1 at Kiawah Island! Our keynote speakers include the Multicultural Classroom’s Lorena Germàn, Rebecca Harper, poet Jay Ward & MuchAdoAboutTeaching.com very own Susan Barber & Brian Sztabnik!
December 9, 2024 at 3:24 PM
As the #SCCTE2025 conference chair, I would like to invite you to our state affiliate conference Jan 31-Feb 1 at Kiawah Island! Our keynote speakers include the Multicultural Classroom’s Lorena Germàn, Rebecca Harper, poet Jay Ward & MuchAdoAboutTeaching.com very own Susan Barber & Brian Sztabnik!
Our SC Dept of Ed has passed a proviso that allows for state-level book challenges. If a text is deemed too explicit, it must be removed from book rooms, school libraries, and teacher libraries statewide. Included in the 2nd round of challenges: The House on Mango Street. They barely permitted 1984.
a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed
Alt: A close up of The Office’s character Michael’s face with his eyes closed
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November 17, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Our SC Dept of Ed has passed a proviso that allows for state-level book challenges. If a text is deemed too explicit, it must be removed from book rooms, school libraries, and teacher libraries statewide. Included in the 2nd round of challenges: The House on Mango Street. They barely permitted 1984.
Despite the world, and specifically US, saying “return to normal,” I think we are now getting to experience some of the fallout from lockdown. My juniors this year are seriously disengaged. No direct instruction, video component, work sample, etc. is working to move them beyond their complacency. 1/
November 17, 2024 at 2:04 PM
Despite the world, and specifically US, saying “return to normal,” I think we are now getting to experience some of the fallout from lockdown. My juniors this year are seriously disengaged. No direct instruction, video component, work sample, etc. is working to move them beyond their complacency. 1/
I am so very grateful to Dan Levy and #SchittsCreek. This show is my go to for stress. First watched during 2020-2021 school year 🤪, and now rewatching 2 episodes for every cabinet announcement 😳🤬.
a man from schitt 's creek says " i 'm feeling this "
ALT: a man from schitt 's creek says " i 'm feeling this "
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November 16, 2024 at 4:07 AM
I am so very grateful to Dan Levy and #SchittsCreek. This show is my go to for stress. First watched during 2020-2021 school year 🤪, and now rewatching 2 episodes for every cabinet announcement 😳🤬.