Jaime Abel
@elabel24.bsky.social
Middle school ELA teacher.
Mama. Wife. Leonberger owner.
Lover of coffee, books, foods, & water.
Mama. Wife. Leonberger owner.
Lover of coffee, books, foods, & water.
Did they make Kraft Mac n cheese healthier!? 😭
August 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Did they make Kraft Mac n cheese healthier!? 😭
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So let me get this straight checks are a small piece of paper someone can tuck in their pocket with all my information including my bank account number and we still use this as a normal form of payment
August 11, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So let me get this straight checks are a small piece of paper someone can tuck in their pocket with all my information including my bank account number and we still use this as a normal form of payment
Speech-to-text thinks my dog “Godric” is “Goic.”
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August 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Speech-to-text thinks my dog “Godric” is “Goic.”
🤷🏽♀️
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I’m honored to be a part of the Advisory Team for One Word at a Time, founded by author and CEO, Kwame Alexander. This non-profit sparks middle-grade students’ motivation to read and write on their own. We make reading cool and fun! #AuthorStudy #TeacherStudy #OneWordAtATime #LiteracyLearning
July 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I’m honored to be a part of the Advisory Team for One Word at a Time, founded by author and CEO, Kwame Alexander. This non-profit sparks middle-grade students’ motivation to read and write on their own. We make reading cool and fun! #AuthorStudy #TeacherStudy #OneWordAtATime #LiteracyLearning
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The LGBTQ+ community is facing a seemingly endless wave of attacks — bans on gender-affirming care, anti-trans legislation, cuts to HIV funding. It is chilling. And deliberate.
However, every time they tried to write us out, we wrote ourselves back in—louder, prouder, and more determined than ever.
However, every time they tried to write us out, we wrote ourselves back in—louder, prouder, and more determined than ever.
July 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The LGBTQ+ community is facing a seemingly endless wave of attacks — bans on gender-affirming care, anti-trans legislation, cuts to HIV funding. It is chilling. And deliberate.
However, every time they tried to write us out, we wrote ourselves back in—louder, prouder, and more determined than ever.
However, every time they tried to write us out, we wrote ourselves back in—louder, prouder, and more determined than ever.
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Why, in an age of book bans and assaults on public libraries, indie booksellers are more essential than ever.
A Refuge From Censorship: Why Independent Bookstores Will Save Us
I was six hundred miles into a two-thousand-mile road trip, doing jumping jacks at a rest stop in Ohio to wake myself up, when my phone buzzed with the update I’d been dreading. The U.S. Court of A…
buff.ly
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Why, in an age of book bans and assaults on public libraries, indie booksellers are more essential than ever.
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Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined.
Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.
Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.
July 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Today, 4 hedge fund managers on Wall St. earn more in a year than every kindergarten teacher in America combined.
Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.
Teachers: join us for a town hall tomorrow w/ leaders from the AFT & NEA to discuss the enormously important issue of raising teacher pay & saving public education.
New best use for AI:
Hey ChatGPT, here’s the pattern I want to crochet (link). This is the yarn I’m using. Rewrite the pattern for me.
Game changer!
Hey ChatGPT, here’s the pattern I want to crochet (link). This is the yarn I’m using. Rewrite the pattern for me.
Game changer!
July 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New best use for AI:
Hey ChatGPT, here’s the pattern I want to crochet (link). This is the yarn I’m using. Rewrite the pattern for me.
Game changer!
Hey ChatGPT, here’s the pattern I want to crochet (link). This is the yarn I’m using. Rewrite the pattern for me.
Game changer!
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So deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. Their poetry will always be some of my favorites.
Meg is doing an absolutely beautiful job continuing their legacy by writing and sharing about things that don’t suck.
Truly, what do you do with their toothbrush? 💕🙏
Meg is doing an absolutely beautiful job continuing their legacy by writing and sharing about things that don’t suck.
Truly, what do you do with their toothbrush? 💕🙏
July 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
So deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Andrea Gibson. Their poetry will always be some of my favorites.
Meg is doing an absolutely beautiful job continuing their legacy by writing and sharing about things that don’t suck.
Truly, what do you do with their toothbrush? 💕🙏
Meg is doing an absolutely beautiful job continuing their legacy by writing and sharing about things that don’t suck.
Truly, what do you do with their toothbrush? 💕🙏
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There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.
July 18, 2025 at 12:14 AM
There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.
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Why are we always more fearful of kids “falling behind” the latest tech than being its guinea pigs? Why do we listen to tech companies when designing our schools? Why don’t we pay teachers more? All these questions are connected
July 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Why are we always more fearful of kids “falling behind” the latest tech than being its guinea pigs? Why do we listen to tech companies when designing our schools? Why don’t we pay teachers more? All these questions are connected
As usual, big business plans to use schools and kids as guinea pigs to push their agendas and make money.
Stop pushing AI on teachers. Research shows time and time again that best practices and good teaching are never about a program or a specific tech tool.
Let. Teachers. Just. Teach.
Stop pushing AI on teachers. Research shows time and time again that best practices and good teaching are never about a program or a specific tech tool.
Let. Teachers. Just. Teach.
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
As usual, big business plans to use schools and kids as guinea pigs to push their agendas and make money.
Stop pushing AI on teachers. Research shows time and time again that best practices and good teaching are never about a program or a specific tech tool.
Let. Teachers. Just. Teach.
Stop pushing AI on teachers. Research shows time and time again that best practices and good teaching are never about a program or a specific tech tool.
Let. Teachers. Just. Teach.
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New crochet series finished! 🧶 Wave, Sunset, Meadow
Coral reef? Seed pods? Alien blobs? It’s in the eye of the beholder. I just wanted to play with color gradients.
Each piece is 5x5”, made of 150-200 individual elements, crocheted from embroidery thread on a 1.25
mm hook and sewn onto canvas.
Coral reef? Seed pods? Alien blobs? It’s in the eye of the beholder. I just wanted to play with color gradients.
Each piece is 5x5”, made of 150-200 individual elements, crocheted from embroidery thread on a 1.25
mm hook and sewn onto canvas.
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New crochet series finished! 🧶 Wave, Sunset, Meadow
Coral reef? Seed pods? Alien blobs? It’s in the eye of the beholder. I just wanted to play with color gradients.
Each piece is 5x5”, made of 150-200 individual elements, crocheted from embroidery thread on a 1.25
mm hook and sewn onto canvas.
Coral reef? Seed pods? Alien blobs? It’s in the eye of the beholder. I just wanted to play with color gradients.
Each piece is 5x5”, made of 150-200 individual elements, crocheted from embroidery thread on a 1.25
mm hook and sewn onto canvas.
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I could spend days bathing in this graphic. Days.
Absolutely incredible graphic from 1880 tracing the history of political parties in the United States.
July 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I could spend days bathing in this graphic. Days.
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Here to follow authors, keep tabs on new great books to hook middle school and high school students, and get great teaching tips.
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles. I'm on page 58 and HOOKED. 💛
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles. I'm on page 58 and HOOKED. 💛
July 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here to follow authors, keep tabs on new great books to hook middle school and high school students, and get great teaching tips.
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles. I'm on page 58 and HOOKED. 💛
Currently reading: The Song of Achilles. I'm on page 58 and HOOKED. 💛
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Interesting take on why many students have stopped reading. The clear way to ignite regular, engaged reading is known by teachers: time in school to read at their own pace, choice in what they read, & access to many, many books.
It’s about love…what we love to read is as individual as we are. ❤️
It’s about love…what we love to read is as individual as we are. ❤️
How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time
Young people might be responding to a cultural message: Reading just isn’t that important.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Interesting take on why many students have stopped reading. The clear way to ignite regular, engaged reading is known by teachers: time in school to read at their own pace, choice in what they read, & access to many, many books.
It’s about love…what we love to read is as individual as we are. ❤️
It’s about love…what we love to read is as individual as we are. ❤️
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I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove
Audiobooks or Reading? To Our Brains, It Doesn’t Matter
Stories stimulate the brain in the same way, regardless of whether they're read or heard.
www.discovermagazine.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:43 AM
I shared this article in Wisconsin last week... AMAZING, right? I listen to several books a month now because of my commute to campus, and I've come to love being read to. How about you? #booklove
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In J vs. K by Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft, both J & K are determined to win a storytelling contest at school, leading to an intense & humor filled rivalry. This collaboration between 2 middle grade faves focusing on themes of competition & creativity will have readers laughing & learning. #MGLit
July 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
In J vs. K by Kwame Alexander & Jerry Craft, both J & K are determined to win a storytelling contest at school, leading to an intense & humor filled rivalry. This collaboration between 2 middle grade faves focusing on themes of competition & creativity will have readers laughing & learning. #MGLit