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Dan Pollitt
@dtpollitt.bsky.social
K-12 Kansas public school district admin. PhD in SPED & literacy. 3rd gen Cubs fan. I like sandwiches, equity, podcasts, FanGraphs, & dill flavored BiGS.
It’s good to see Ricketts already in mid-season form to begin the off-season.
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Annual (belated) birthday fitness test:

9:09 mile
365 x 5 squat
225 x 3 bench

43 years
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Current Best of 2025, in no particular order:

28 Years Later
Weapons
Sinners
One Battle After Another
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Absolute powerhouse reporting. Should be required reading for anyone wishing to discuss immigration.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Seventy Miles in Hell
The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.
www.theatlantic.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Cancelling IES and AIR funded research projects is a terribly poor idea. Much of how we analyze schools, districts, and students is due in large part to funding from these organizations.

www.propublica.org/article/depa...
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Best bagel in KC, can't wait
February 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
“Who’s Fabio?!”

“He’s a shortstop. A shortstop from Seattle.”
January 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Probably the most impactful educational practice I’ve led over the last decade is that of restorative circles. Originally intended to guide students and/or teachers through processing trauma or repairing relationships, restorative circles have become my go-to tier 1 classroom intervention…
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM