Christopher Mazura
@thewakingdad.bsky.social
Dad, big ol’ neurodiverse blended fam. he/him
Educator. Writer. Bridging teacher leader networks. Capital District Writing Project, New York State English Council, NWP & NCTE stan.
Educator. Writer. Bridging teacher leader networks. Capital District Writing Project, New York State English Council, NWP & NCTE stan.
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Instructions on Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
poets.org
"It is equally important for us to have poems we keep for ourselves, to heal ourselves."
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
Enriching and moving day at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts — “Transgressing Borders: Reimagining Education and the Role of Learning in Community”. Really too much to put into words, but this is the networking we must be doing to support kids, families, communities. @vassar.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Enriching and moving day at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts — “Transgressing Borders: Reimagining Education and the Role of Learning in Community”. Really too much to put into words, but this is the networking we must be doing to support kids, families, communities. @vassar.bsky.social
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We do not need to cede him any more power than he will have tomorrow. He won the popular vote by 1.5%. He did not crack 50% of the overall vote. His win does not mark a sea change in public opinion. He, his policies, and his cronies will be unpopular. Rest up. Take care of yourself. Then...
January 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We do not need to cede him any more power than he will have tomorrow. He won the popular vote by 1.5%. He did not crack 50% of the overall vote. His win does not mark a sea change in public opinion. He, his policies, and his cronies will be unpopular. Rest up. Take care of yourself. Then...
Criminal.
Propublica reports this morning on how United Healthcare is strangling the gold standard therapy for children with autism—deliberately shrinking its provider network and authorizing fewer hours than the treatment demands. www.propublica.org/article/unit...
UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Criminal.
‘What a life filled with love’ — grateful for those who choose to apply their brilliance to cultivating patience, presence, care, and humor in a world that can be so hard.
that is love, lighting the way, this is Nikki Giovanni
#poetry
that is love, lighting the way, this is Nikki Giovanni
#poetry
We lost another legend today: Ms. Nikki Giovanni. What a legacy, what a life filled with love.
Eternally grateful for all she gifted us, not just in words but in how she lived and what she bestowed to generations.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48224/...
Eternally grateful for all she gifted us, not just in words but in how she lived and what she bestowed to generations.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48224/...
Dreams
in my younger years before i learned black people aren’t suppose to dream i wanted to be a raelet and say “dr o wn d in my youn tears” or “tal kin bout tal kin bout” or marjorie hendricks and grind ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 11:10 AM
‘What a life filled with love’ — grateful for those who choose to apply their brilliance to cultivating patience, presence, care, and humor in a world that can be so hard.
that is love, lighting the way, this is Nikki Giovanni
#poetry
that is love, lighting the way, this is Nikki Giovanni
#poetry
Reposted by Christopher Mazura
These are your words of the week
fascism
conclave
drought
kakistocracy
Uranus
poltophagy
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
fascism
conclave
drought
kakistocracy
Uranus
poltophagy
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Nov.15
Dictionary lookups from politics, cinema, and Uranus
www.merriam-webster.com
November 15, 2024 at 6:32 PM
These are your words of the week
fascism
conclave
drought
kakistocracy
Uranus
poltophagy
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
fascism
conclave
drought
kakistocracy
Uranus
poltophagy
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
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The freedom to read is guaranteed by the Constitution.
This is an excellent starter pack if you’re looking for follows involved in the fight to preserve our right to book access and the fight for our freedom to read.
Thanks to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social for creating this.
go.bsky.app/L59xSVt
This is an excellent starter pack if you’re looking for follows involved in the fight to preserve our right to book access and the fight for our freedom to read.
Thanks to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social for creating this.
go.bsky.app/L59xSVt
November 30, 2024 at 11:17 AM
The freedom to read is guaranteed by the Constitution.
This is an excellent starter pack if you’re looking for follows involved in the fight to preserve our right to book access and the fight for our freedom to read.
Thanks to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social for creating this.
go.bsky.app/L59xSVt
This is an excellent starter pack if you’re looking for follows involved in the fight to preserve our right to book access and the fight for our freedom to read.
Thanks to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social for creating this.
go.bsky.app/L59xSVt
Loving reading Brautigan again, and Clint Smith, and all the poems in the replies in this thread. #poetry #science
🧪 I am trying to gather new science poems for some future work. 📝
Have people got any (not matter how tangential) they would like to share?
I'll go first with this beauty from Richard Brautigan, writing about when he was poet in residence at @caltech.edu 🤣
#SciComm #Poetry
Have people got any (not matter how tangential) they would like to share?
I'll go first with this beauty from Richard Brautigan, writing about when he was poet in residence at @caltech.edu 🤣
#SciComm #Poetry
November 29, 2024 at 3:03 PM
November 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Spending this weekend with family and books.
My best friend from deep childhood recommended @blacktopkid.bsky.social to me, and I opened up to this epigraph.
A lot a lot a lot coming through about fatherhood and masculinity these days.
Grateful today for authors, artists, and thinkers. #edusky
My best friend from deep childhood recommended @blacktopkid.bsky.social to me, and I opened up to this epigraph.
A lot a lot a lot coming through about fatherhood and masculinity these days.
Grateful today for authors, artists, and thinkers. #edusky
November 28, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Spending this weekend with family and books.
My best friend from deep childhood recommended @blacktopkid.bsky.social to me, and I opened up to this epigraph.
A lot a lot a lot coming through about fatherhood and masculinity these days.
Grateful today for authors, artists, and thinkers. #edusky
My best friend from deep childhood recommended @blacktopkid.bsky.social to me, and I opened up to this epigraph.
A lot a lot a lot coming through about fatherhood and masculinity these days.
Grateful today for authors, artists, and thinkers. #edusky
Reposted by Christopher Mazura
Who?
Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc.
Why? Add your voice-collectively or individually. Anonymous or not.
Why? To Let policy makers know how and where we need more support, in the autism community. Over 2,500 responses!
How?
bit.ly/Aut2ask
Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc.
Why? Add your voice-collectively or individually. Anonymous or not.
Why? To Let policy makers know how and where we need more support, in the autism community. Over 2,500 responses!
How?
bit.ly/Aut2ask
November 27, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Who?
Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc.
Why? Add your voice-collectively or individually. Anonymous or not.
Why? To Let policy makers know how and where we need more support, in the autism community. Over 2,500 responses!
How?
bit.ly/Aut2ask
Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc.
Why? Add your voice-collectively or individually. Anonymous or not.
Why? To Let policy makers know how and where we need more support, in the autism community. Over 2,500 responses!
How?
bit.ly/Aut2ask
bell hooks has long been a guide for me — as both an educator and meditator. (Link below)
& sometimes she stops my mind: “They believe that men who are not dominators will not protect them” // “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. . . . To choose life over death.” #edusky
& sometimes she stops my mind: “They believe that men who are not dominators will not protect them” // “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. . . . To choose life over death.” #edusky
November 28, 2024 at 4:16 AM
bell hooks has long been a guide for me — as both an educator and meditator. (Link below)
& sometimes she stops my mind: “They believe that men who are not dominators will not protect them” // “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. . . . To choose life over death.” #edusky
& sometimes she stops my mind: “They believe that men who are not dominators will not protect them” // “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. . . . To choose life over death.” #edusky
"Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving." This is the book I'll be reading in my living room across the holiday season.
Winter szn meditation to thaw and warm the heart.
#edusky #iteachenglish #NCTE24
Winter szn meditation to thaw and warm the heart.
#edusky #iteachenglish #NCTE24
“Looking at the reasons patriarchy has maintained its power over men and their lives, I urge us to reclaim feminism for men… Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving.” - bell hooks #DisruptTexts #Reading
November 27, 2024 at 5:38 PM
"Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving." This is the book I'll be reading in my living room across the holiday season.
Winter szn meditation to thaw and warm the heart.
#edusky #iteachenglish #NCTE24
Winter szn meditation to thaw and warm the heart.
#edusky #iteachenglish #NCTE24
Oh #literacies -- I need to go, it is kiddo bedtime! I really enjoyed this opportunity to connect. Thank you so much for hosting and being in conversation!
November 27, 2024 at 1:37 AM
Oh #literacies -- I need to go, it is kiddo bedtime! I really enjoyed this opportunity to connect. Thank you so much for hosting and being in conversation!
A2: In my context teaching HS, civic discourse looks like supporting students in noticing their inner & outer enviro. These days I'm working a lot with rhetorical reading of images -- noticing what's there, but curious also about what isn't the frame, and where and when it was made. #literacies
November 27, 2024 at 1:16 AM
A2: In my context teaching HS, civic discourse looks like supporting students in noticing their inner & outer enviro. These days I'm working a lot with rhetorical reading of images -- noticing what's there, but curious also about what isn't the frame, and where and when it was made. #literacies
A1: Fresh from NCTE's conference myself, I am also feeling both heaviness and hope. Folx in my school and community seem to feel uncertainty about so many things, no matter how they voted. #literacies
November 27, 2024 at 1:10 AM
A1: Fresh from NCTE's conference myself, I am also feeling both heaviness and hope. Folx in my school and community seem to feel uncertainty about so many things, no matter how they voted. #literacies
Hi #literacies -- joining from upstate NY. Classroom teacher, researcher. Also: five kids in the house rn, on school break. So, distracted but [kinda] present!
November 27, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Hi #literacies -- joining from upstate NY. Classroom teacher, researcher. Also: five kids in the house rn, on school break. So, distracted but [kinda] present!
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Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!
November 26, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!
Chris puts into words what I could not: authors, thank you, shine on, you are already that light.
I heard this again and again from teachers at #NCTE24:
Authors are doing the work. Artists are doing the work. As a result, educators have the tools we need.
Teachers: stay connected, shine on.
I heard this again and again from teachers at #NCTE24:
Authors are doing the work. Artists are doing the work. As a result, educators have the tools we need.
Teachers: stay connected, shine on.
Please authors and illustrators keep announcing and celebrating your new work. Our classrooms and we, ourselves, thrive on your talents.
Don’t diminish yourself because you feel the moment doesn’t call for it. Completely the opposite: shine on bright so we have a guiding light through the dark.
Don’t diminish yourself because you feel the moment doesn’t call for it. Completely the opposite: shine on bright so we have a guiding light through the dark.
November 25, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Chris puts into words what I could not: authors, thank you, shine on, you are already that light.
I heard this again and again from teachers at #NCTE24:
Authors are doing the work. Artists are doing the work. As a result, educators have the tools we need.
Teachers: stay connected, shine on.
I heard this again and again from teachers at #NCTE24:
Authors are doing the work. Artists are doing the work. As a result, educators have the tools we need.
Teachers: stay connected, shine on.
"It is equally important for us to have poems we keep for ourselves, to heal ourselves."
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
Instructions on Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
poets.org
November 24, 2024 at 5:40 PM
"It is equally important for us to have poems we keep for ourselves, to heal ourselves."
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
Ada Limon
And from Instructions on Not Giving Up:
"Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all."
#NCTE24
poets.org/poem/instruc...
"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Perhaps we can make this true of life as well."
Thank you, Ada Limón, for your plenary and reading -- which encourages me to dream my way back to my classroom, home, and community.
#NCTE24
Thank you, Ada Limón, for your plenary and reading -- which encourages me to dream my way back to my classroom, home, and community.
#NCTE24
November 24, 2024 at 5:38 PM
"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Perhaps we can make this true of life as well."
Thank you, Ada Limón, for your plenary and reading -- which encourages me to dream my way back to my classroom, home, and community.
#NCTE24
Thank you, Ada Limón, for your plenary and reading -- which encourages me to dream my way back to my classroom, home, and community.
#NCTE24
As your time at #NCTE24 comes to a close, consider taking five minutes to write about your journey here.
Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site.
Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders.
We are transformed in and through the work, together.
Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site.
Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders.
We are transformed in and through the work, together.
November 24, 2024 at 2:38 PM
As your time at #NCTE24 comes to a close, consider taking five minutes to write about your journey here.
Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site.
Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders.
We are transformed in and through the work, together.
Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site.
Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders.
We are transformed in and through the work, together.
Good day. Good night.
Freedom Dreaming.
How are you going to show up for others? Just sayin’, folks.
#NCTE24
Freedom Dreaming.
How are you going to show up for others? Just sayin’, folks.
#NCTE24
Turning on the lights & warming up the machines at the amateur propaganda factory.
November 24, 2024 at 3:45 AM
Good day. Good night.
Freedom Dreaming.
How are you going to show up for others? Just sayin’, folks.
#NCTE24
Freedom Dreaming.
How are you going to show up for others? Just sayin’, folks.
#NCTE24
"Sustainable Hope" gave me not only hope, but both inspiration and a path forward for teaching climate fiction and ecocriticism. Vital. 🪴
Get in touch with these teachers. Profoundly powerful and important work. Thanks for leading the way! #NCTE24
Get in touch with these teachers. Profoundly powerful and important work. Thanks for leading the way! #NCTE24
November 23, 2024 at 7:10 PM
"Sustainable Hope" gave me not only hope, but both inspiration and a path forward for teaching climate fiction and ecocriticism. Vital. 🪴
Get in touch with these teachers. Profoundly powerful and important work. Thanks for leading the way! #NCTE24
Get in touch with these teachers. Profoundly powerful and important work. Thanks for leading the way! #NCTE24
November 23, 2024 at 12:39 PM