Gardner Seawright
@gseawright.bsky.social
SLC ➡️ MKE. Asst. Prof. of Educational Foundations @ UW-Whitewater. I study the relational dynamics of classrooms + whiteness & settler colonialism.
Thank you, Alice Wong, for all that you taught us. And thank you for demanding a better world. You will be deeply missed.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thank you, Alice Wong, for all that you taught us. And thank you for demanding a better world. You will be deeply missed.
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky
Stalling White Time: Racialized Temporalities, Classroom Management, and White Supremacy
This article explores the ways that dominant professional norms surrounding classroom management and instructional pacing create racially unequal temporal conditions. Thinking alongside a qualitati...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The pace of teaching can be relentless. This not only makes teaching difficult but is antithetical to pursuits for justice. The professional norms that push teachers to be maximally time efficient from ‘bell-to-bell’ reinforce a racist social choreography. New research explores this dynamic. #EduSky
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This is an example of why we wrote this-Trying to trace the incredible harms that are being committed against children, not to suggest we should be doing these things to adults, but to name the unique traumas and the longlasting harm it is creating in children's lives www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is an example of why we wrote this-Trying to trace the incredible harms that are being committed against children, not to suggest we should be doing these things to adults, but to name the unique traumas and the longlasting harm it is creating in children's lives www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Somehow @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @robinpr.bsky.social were able to discuss the “Halloween canon” without mentioning the Misfits. Revise and resubmit please.
Redefining the Halloween canon : All Songs Considered
Who’s the Mariah Carey of Halloween? Labels and artists are trying to capitalize on spooky season, but these are the songs that belong in the canon, from the truly terrifying to autumnal and nostalgic...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Somehow @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @robinpr.bsky.social were able to discuss the “Halloween canon” without mentioning the Misfits. Revise and resubmit please.
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For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
July 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.
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Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
going to college, living in an international dorm and meeting brown kids from africa, dark-skinned kids with african features from india, spanish-speaking chinese kids from argentina, and many others changed the way i understood the world in some pretty fundamental ways
July 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Despite all the handwringing about “intellectual diversity” the reality is that higher ed exposes young people to a vastly different array of people and experiences than almost anything else you can do.
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Finally, please read (& subscribe) to the magazine that has been my writing home for many years now. There are not many of us — national educational justice orgs & publishers — left. We are not to the fascists' liking.
The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/
The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/
July 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Finally, please read (& subscribe) to the magazine that has been my writing home for many years now. There are not many of us — national educational justice orgs & publishers — left. We are not to the fascists' liking.
The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/
The summer issue just arrived in my mailbox. rethinkingschools.org/magazine/
I also worry that the Mahmoud decision just opened the door for a follow-up supreme court case that would extend this argument and suggest parents have the religious right to not have their students taught by LGBTQ+ teachers, further forcing Queer teachers out of the profession.
With this ruling, trans teachers will be forced to choose between their jobs and their identities. And teachers who don't fit neatly into a gendered box may find themselves forced to prove they are who they say they are.
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I also worry that the Mahmoud decision just opened the door for a follow-up supreme court case that would extend this argument and suggest parents have the religious right to not have their students taught by LGBTQ+ teachers, further forcing Queer teachers out of the profession.
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Happy Disability Pride Month! I encourage you to celebrate by learning about why Black folks & others may not claim disability pride, but still belong in disability community. Check out my free, open access book #BlackDisabiltyPolitics from @dukepress.bsky.social!
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Black Disability Politics
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July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy Disability Pride Month! I encourage you to celebrate by learning about why Black folks & others may not claim disability pride, but still belong in disability community. Check out my free, open access book #BlackDisabiltyPolitics from @dukepress.bsky.social!
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
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Proposed cuts to SNAP could increase the number of people experiencing food insecurity and worsen affordability challenges for those struggling to access food, as well as for those at risk of losing health insurance due to other changes in the legislation.
The Implications of Federal SNAP Spending Cuts on Individuals with Medicaid, Medicare and Other Health Coverage | KFF
Proposed changes in eligibility rules in both SNAP and Medicaid may jeopardize some people’s access to both adequate food and health care if various provisions of the bill take effect, in part…
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June 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Proposed cuts to SNAP could increase the number of people experiencing food insecurity and worsen affordability challenges for those struggling to access food, as well as for those at risk of losing health insurance due to other changes in the legislation.
There’s a through line between the Mahmoud decision and the new segregationist Tr*mp policies, which similarly establish positions where any substantive presence or recognition of a member of a marginalized community is an affront to whiteness. (Go back and re-read @drsubini.bsky.social & Stovall)
June 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There’s a through line between the Mahmoud decision and the new segregationist Tr*mp policies, which similarly establish positions where any substantive presence or recognition of a member of a marginalized community is an affront to whiteness. (Go back and re-read @drsubini.bsky.social & Stovall)
I can’t get passed this… proposed funding for ICE detention will be greater than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I can’t get passed this… proposed funding for ICE detention will be greater than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
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Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
www.supremecourt.gov
June 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
www.supremecourt.gov
June 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Alito's decision here is rooted in a normative claim that Queer people should not exist--apparently the mere existence of Queer people is "burdensome" and "coercive" to the religiously conservative. This is cruel.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
Teachers, please remain stalwart in your care for the LGBTQ students in your world.
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Also for gods sake 330m in the context of an >8b budget isn’t a BOOST. Its barely keeping pace with inflation
It’s not even the 15th most important thing, but I’m disgusted at this framing of WI legislature’s budget:
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Republicans boost state school funding by $330M — billions less than Gov. Tony Evers proposed
Republicans who run the Legislature's budget committee voted Thursday to increase state spending on K-12 schools by $336 million — about $3 billion less than what was proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony ...
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June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Also for gods sake 330m in the context of an >8b budget isn’t a BOOST. Its barely keeping pace with inflation
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More than 47,000 acres of land along Northern California’s Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok Tribe in the state’s largest land back deal to date.
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Parcel 3 times the size of Manhattan returned to Northern Calif. tribe
The area is a culturally sacred and ecologically critical watershed.
www.sfgate.com
June 7, 2025 at 7:52 AM
More than 47,000 acres of land along Northern California’s Klamath River was recently returned to the Yurok Tribe in the state’s largest land back deal to date.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...
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I wrote a thing about the Chicago school finance crisis www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...
Opinion: To fix school funding, Chicago must rethink pension investing
Tapping public pensions to invest in local infrastructure could ease Chicago’s education funding crisis and reduce dependence on Wall Street.
www.chicagobusiness.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I wrote a thing about the Chicago school finance crisis www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/chic...
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Menomonee Falls, rated among the top ten safest communities in Wisconsin, is planning on reallocating $300,000 from its library to its police department.
Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?
Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?
May 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Menomonee Falls, rated among the top ten safest communities in Wisconsin, is planning on reallocating $300,000 from its library to its police department.
Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?
Because Menomonee Falls is just that rampant with crime, right? Who needs a library?
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Why do public entities have to pay interest on loans when they lend to each other? Like why should a school district have to pay interest on a loan from its own state govt? I get that accounting rules say you have to and maybe it’s in law, but like why can’t we change those?
April 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Why do public entities have to pay interest on loans when they lend to each other? Like why should a school district have to pay interest on a loan from its own state govt? I get that accounting rules say you have to and maybe it’s in law, but like why can’t we change those?
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I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12.
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co.
2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require.
&
3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵
Yes. Us too.
And, it’s worth remembering that many IEP services (OT, PT, SLP) are funded in-part by Medicaid.
This resegregationist moment is as also about disability
And, it’s worth remembering that many IEP services (OT, PT, SLP) are funded in-part by Medicaid.
This resegregationist moment is as also about disability
spiraling a lot these days as the parent of a kid who wouldn’t be educated without her IEP + will need Medicaid one day
How the Education Department helps students with disabilities get an education
Special education laws and the U.S. Department of Education have evolved together over nearly five decades. Now, the Trump administration seems to want to separate the two.
www.npr.org
April 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Yes. Us too.
And, it’s worth remembering that many IEP services (OT, PT, SLP) are funded in-part by Medicaid.
This resegregationist moment is as also about disability
And, it’s worth remembering that many IEP services (OT, PT, SLP) are funded in-part by Medicaid.
This resegregationist moment is as also about disability
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It’s just a fact that most of us are not particularly brave. But we *are* social—and we can become braver when someone invites us into action.
March 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It’s just a fact that most of us are not particularly brave. But we *are* social—and we can become braver when someone invites us into action.
As an educator and parent of a child who receives special ed services, this is terrifying.
“Trump then said, "Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services, will be handling special needs."”
#edusky
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“Trump then said, "Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services, will be handling special needs."”
#edusky
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Trump says Education Department will no longer oversee student loans, 'special needs'
The president said federal student loans would move to the Small Business Administration, and hinted that the Department of Health and Human Services would take over special education oversight.
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March 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As an educator and parent of a child who receives special ed services, this is terrifying.
“Trump then said, "Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services, will be handling special needs."”
#edusky
www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...
“Trump then said, "Bobby Kennedy, the Health and Human Services, will be handling special needs."”
#edusky
www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...