Sarah F. Pedonti
@sarahpedonti.bsky.social
Asst. prof in early childhood education, special education, early literacy, STEM & language development. Developmental thinker and doer. Rstats enthusiast, outdoor learning. Teacher. Mom.
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Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
November 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget.
Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
We're hiring! Clinical AP in Birth-Kindergarten. Great fit for someone with plenty of ECE training and teaching experience and willingness to work closely with interns! We're a great department, and WNC is a lovely place to live! Reach out with questions. jobs.wcu.edu/postings/31977
Instructor or Assistant Professor of Practice in Birth - Kindergarten - #002414
The primary location of this position is on the main Cullowhee, NC campus.Western Carolina University’s (WCU) Department of Human Services invites applications for a 9-month, fixed-term position at th...
jobs.wcu.edu
October 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We're hiring! Clinical AP in Birth-Kindergarten. Great fit for someone with plenty of ECE training and teaching experience and willingness to work closely with interns! We're a great department, and WNC is a lovely place to live! Reach out with questions. jobs.wcu.edu/postings/31977
In the midst of discourse denigrating the humanities & esteeming "pure" STEM disciplines, I've been struggling to articulate how STEM & SEL interact- This paper presenting a model for storybook STEM from @amandahaber17.bsky.social + Sona Kumar is my new go-to : www.mdpi.com/3541088
www.mdpi.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
In the midst of discourse denigrating the humanities & esteeming "pure" STEM disciplines, I've been struggling to articulate how STEM & SEL interact- This paper presenting a model for storybook STEM from @amandahaber17.bsky.social + Sona Kumar is my new go-to : www.mdpi.com/3541088
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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE HERE!
All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse.
Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...
All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse.
Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE HERE!
All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse.
Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...
All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse.
Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...
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ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
Anybody else on here read the new ACF email yet? Can we get a support group going?
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Anybody else on here read the new ACF email yet? Can we get a support group going?
This was also true at the Society for Research in Child Development in May.
You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.
They are also drinking heavily.
They are also drinking heavily.
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This was also true at the Society for Research in Child Development in May.
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You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.
They are also drinking heavily.
They are also drinking heavily.
September 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media.
They are also drinking heavily.
They are also drinking heavily.
Super cool paper for anyone who’s ever worked with non-normal data or run am interaction model and struggled to describe the effect!
Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...
September 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Super cool paper for anyone who’s ever worked with non-normal data or run am interaction model and struggled to describe the effect!
Are all faculty everywhere still PDFing every acceptance letter and email, or has someone invented a better way to do this tenure dossier thing yet? thinking being able to forward emails to PDF@mydossier.com and get a nicely zipped set of folders +attachments sounds like a great biz idea.
August 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Are all faculty everywhere still PDFing every acceptance letter and email, or has someone invented a better way to do this tenure dossier thing yet? thinking being able to forward emails to PDF@mydossier.com and get a nicely zipped set of folders +attachments sounds like a great biz idea.
Thank a farmworker! ¡Gracias, campesinos! 🍅
ALABAMA: “The verdict is in. The state’s tough immigration law just isn’t working out… American workers not mentally or physically fit enough to last one day…”
August 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Thank a farmworker! ¡Gracias, campesinos! 🍅
Here's what AI has to say about what $200 million could buy taxpayers besides a golden freaking ballrooom.
July 31, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Here's what AI has to say about what $200 million could buy taxpayers besides a golden freaking ballrooom.
Check out my open access work!
Excited to share new work!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
Frontiers | Testing Rural Early Educators Attitudes toward Children's Outdoor Recreation in Nature and Science: a new framework for exploring early educators' situated science teaching
IntroductionEarly childhood educators' dispositions toward science learning in outdoor environments play a critical role in fostering young children's engage...
www.frontiersin.org
July 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Check out my open access work!
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@tll6601.bsky.social @pirkkoelf.bsky.social @stanzucker.bsky.social @sarahpedonti.bsky.social @alexandrashelton.bsky.social @drdpaweston.bsky.social #EduSky
🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky
🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky
Hello everyone!
I am working on my dissertation, & my topic focuses on the social inclusion of students with autism in elementary schools. Please consider taking the survey below, & sharing it with any other educators/ administrators that you may know.
Tinyurl.com/SocialInclusionASD
I am working on my dissertation, & my topic focuses on the social inclusion of students with autism in elementary schools. Please consider taking the survey below, & sharing it with any other educators/ administrators that you may know.
Tinyurl.com/SocialInclusionASD
July 16, 2025 at 11:17 PM
@tll6601.bsky.social @pirkkoelf.bsky.social @stanzucker.bsky.social @sarahpedonti.bsky.social @alexandrashelton.bsky.social @drdpaweston.bsky.social #EduSky
🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky
🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky
Excited to share new work!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
Frontiers | Testing Rural Early Educators Attitudes toward Children's Outdoor Recreation in Nature and Science: a new framework for exploring early educators' situated science teaching
IntroductionEarly childhood educators' dispositions toward science learning in outdoor environments play a critical role in fostering young children's engage...
www.frontiersin.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Excited to share new work!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...
Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
There’s no time like the first week of summer vacation for a dedicated fourth grader to learn to whistle.
June 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
There’s no time like the first week of summer vacation for a dedicated fourth grader to learn to whistle.
My brothers and sisters in Christ: this is why we need academics (or just people with basic statistical training) more than ever.
I don't know what is funniest.
The fact that their Y axis goes to 120%, them not being able to sort the dates properly, or the approval rating that would make Kim Jong Un blush.
The fact that their Y axis goes to 120%, them not being able to sort the dates properly, or the approval rating that would make Kim Jong Un blush.
May 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
My brothers and sisters in Christ: this is why we need academics (or just people with basic statistical training) more than ever.
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Federal research funding cut? Don’t stop now.
Two quick-response grants can help:
Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi
RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D
#SRCD #ChildDevelopment
Two quick-response grants can help:
Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi
RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D
#SRCD #ChildDevelopment
May 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Federal research funding cut? Don’t stop now.
Two quick-response grants can help:
Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi
RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D
#SRCD #ChildDevelopment
Two quick-response grants can help:
Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi
RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D
#SRCD #ChildDevelopment
wonderful time with great colleagues (new and old) at #SRCD2025. Thankful for everyone practicing joy as resistance and speaking truth to power right now.
May 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
wonderful time with great colleagues (new and old) at #SRCD2025. Thankful for everyone practicing joy as resistance and speaking truth to power right now.
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Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
www.datarescueproject.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
#GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
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A #criticalThinking exercise reduced Dems' #fakeNews sharing intent, but not Reps' (N > 1k).
CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively.
🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...
CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively.
🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...
April 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A #criticalThinking exercise reduced Dems' #fakeNews sharing intent, but not Reps' (N > 1k).
CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively.
🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...
CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively.
🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...
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They are hooking all this info up to AI. They don’t have the manpower to go through this themselves.
Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points.
Be academics.
Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points.
Be academics.
April 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
They are hooking all this info up to AI. They don’t have the manpower to go through this themselves.
Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points.
Be academics.
Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points.
Be academics.
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Part of the reason I blasted AEI at AEFP.
Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.
Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Part of the reason I blasted AEI at AEFP.
Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.
Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.
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Kevin, I would like to suggest that future finance historians call this stock market collapse “The Orange Crush.”
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Kevin, I would like to suggest that future finance historians call this stock market collapse “The Orange Crush.”
Thank you in advance.
Thank you in advance.