Kate Roberts
@teachkate.bsky.social
Educator helping connect the realities of actual classroom teaching to the ideals of pedagogy, research, and common sense. My new book, The Heart of Fiction: Reading for Character, Theme, and Craft, is out now at kateandmaggie.com
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I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
January 6, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I just stumbled upon featherbase, a database of feather pictures from a bunch of bird species.🪶
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
So pretty!
www.featherbase.info/zh/home
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We may be heading toward a world in which it seems peculiar or even foolish to read an article or book in its entirety. Incredibly, schools - K-12 & higher ed. alike - seem reconciled to becoming the accomplices of Big Tech by pointing us there.
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
We may be heading toward a world in which it seems peculiar or even foolish to read an article or book in its entirety. Incredibly, schools - K-12 & higher ed. alike - seem reconciled to becoming the accomplices of Big Tech by pointing us there.
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One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
One of the things that happened is that reformers + their allies shifted "HQIM" to include only materials produced by a corporate vendor.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
They don't believe teachers, students + communities can produce "HQIM" because they don't trust or believe in teachers, students + communities.
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The best AI-detection/-avoidance software available is a well-compensated teacher who spends time getting to know their students and their work because they have small classes
December 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The best AI-detection/-avoidance software available is a well-compensated teacher who spends time getting to know their students and their work because they have small classes
So when we keep phones out of class time it works - and kids somehow still learn to use phones. I wonder if there is an attention and effort killing technology out now that we could apply the same theory too? 🧐
People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
nymag.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
So when we keep phones out of class time it works - and kids somehow still learn to use phones. I wonder if there is an attention and effort killing technology out now that we could apply the same theory too? 🧐
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I'd love to talk with some teachers and students about this. DM me if you're up for it.
People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
nymag.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'd love to talk with some teachers and students about this. DM me if you're up for it.
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
They developed the "high school girl's sports" angle as a wedge issue, to lever their way up to full society-wide discrimination. What's endlessly stunning to me is how many purported liberals a) helped them when it started & b) are still helping them even after the larger purpose has become clear!
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This is too much.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This is too much.
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"Fairness in school sports"
So you're controlling access to professional trainers? No? Or accounting for developmental stage differences within the same age groups? No? Creating budgets to keep every kid fairly equipped? No? So what is it that defines a fair sporting experience exactly, I wonder?
So you're controlling access to professional trainers? No? Or accounting for developmental stage differences within the same age groups? No? Creating budgets to keep every kid fairly equipped? No? So what is it that defines a fair sporting experience exactly, I wonder?
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Fairness in school sports"
So you're controlling access to professional trainers? No? Or accounting for developmental stage differences within the same age groups? No? Creating budgets to keep every kid fairly equipped? No? So what is it that defines a fair sporting experience exactly, I wonder?
So you're controlling access to professional trainers? No? Or accounting for developmental stage differences within the same age groups? No? Creating budgets to keep every kid fairly equipped? No? So what is it that defines a fair sporting experience exactly, I wonder?
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
We advocate for reading and writing in authentic ways because we know that control and lock step and excerpts and demands don’t work beyond (maybe?) a test that tests weird things. These pedagogies often stifle everything good and human about the classroom. We will not stop. I will not stop.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We advocate for reading and writing in authentic ways because we know that control and lock step and excerpts and demands don’t work beyond (maybe?) a test that tests weird things. These pedagogies often stifle everything good and human about the classroom. We will not stop. I will not stop.
Wait. It’s past mid November? What is happening? What is time?
November 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Wait. It’s past mid November? What is happening? What is time?
I like em dashes. Am I AI? Maybe I’m AI.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I like em dashes. Am I AI? Maybe I’m AI.
Someone else’s curriculum will (almost) never be exactly right for your students.
Your personalized curriculum you crafted this year will (almost) never be right for your students next year.
We will always need to tweak, prune, fit, adjust, bend, switch, and add.
#Unboxingthecurriculum
Your personalized curriculum you crafted this year will (almost) never be right for your students next year.
We will always need to tweak, prune, fit, adjust, bend, switch, and add.
#Unboxingthecurriculum
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Someone else’s curriculum will (almost) never be exactly right for your students.
Your personalized curriculum you crafted this year will (almost) never be right for your students next year.
We will always need to tweak, prune, fit, adjust, bend, switch, and add.
#Unboxingthecurriculum
Your personalized curriculum you crafted this year will (almost) never be right for your students next year.
We will always need to tweak, prune, fit, adjust, bend, switch, and add.
#Unboxingthecurriculum
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"There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum."
There's no responsiveness because it's clear the purpose isn't to teach kids, it's to "get through" the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum.
November 19, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"There's never a charge to maintain fidelity to children, there is only fidelity to the curriculum."
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Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Look if you're trans, you have to live. Do whatever you need to do to make it.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The weirdest thing about this discourse is that states with shorter school closures have the same amount of learning loss! I keep waiting for all the punditry on this to catch up with basic facts
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Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.
