Cody Miller
@hcodymiller.bsky.social
English teaching, pop culture, comics, politics, and plants. FL ➡️ ROC. He, him, his.
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Headed to #NCTE2025? This doc has the sessions related to censorship! The bolded sessions feature members from @ncte.org's Committee Against Censorship.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
The book banners are on the wrong side of history, but we need community, solidarity, and strategy to make that happen. Join us in the work.
Censorship related sessions - NCTE Convention 2025
Thursday 11:30-12:45 Intellectual Freedom Dreams Deferred: Banned in the "Blue(ish) States" Room 203 2:30 English/ELA Department Chairs Facing Tough Topics Together Room 402 Friday 9:30a-11a The...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
Following the recent election, leadership will be changing in many districts where conservative values previously dominated school board meetings and community actions.
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
epgn.com/2025/11/18/v...
Voters shift school boards toward LGBTQ+ inclusion across PA and N.J. - Philadelphia Gay News
School boards in PA and NJ are shifting fast—LGBTQ+ leaders are winning, conservatives are losing, and policy battles are heating up.
epgn.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
It's only one poll etc. etc, but if this result were to hold true next year then the GOP loses the Senate race in TX (among many, many, MANY other races).
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's only one poll etc. etc, but if this result were to hold true next year then the GOP loses the Senate race in TX (among many, many, MANY other races).
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we are going to win
Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!
November 19, 2025 at 12:34 PM
we are going to win
I'd love to see how a candidate who aggressively said, "I'm going to tax people like Elon Musk so we can get food in kids' bellies and books in kids' classrooms" would do in a general election.
Some more results:
- 65% of respondents blame Trump or Republicans in Congress more for the shutdown, while 35% blame Democrats
- By 2:1 margin voters say SNAP should be completely funded during a gov shutdown
- 63% of adults said they's support raising taxes on corps/high-income to fund programs
- 65% of respondents blame Trump or Republicans in Congress more for the shutdown, while 35% blame Democrats
- By 2:1 margin voters say SNAP should be completely funded during a gov shutdown
- 63% of adults said they's support raising taxes on corps/high-income to fund programs
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'd love to see how a candidate who aggressively said, "I'm going to tax people like Elon Musk so we can get food in kids' bellies and books in kids' classrooms" would do in a general election.
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
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Finally got my Election Recap posted! The summary? Voters hate book banners. It’s an established pattern, even in red states like Texas.
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Election Recap: Another Bad Night for Book Bans
It’s becoming routine:
franklinstrong.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Finally got my Election Recap posted! The summary? Voters hate book banners. It’s an established pattern, even in red states like Texas.
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Read the details of how pro-censorship school board candidates took another drubbing in the Lone Star State:
franklinstrong.substack.com/p/election-r...
Top 5 film genres:
- Sad girls looking pensively out windows
- It's bad but I'm gay so it's camp
- Slice of life animated movie
- Passage of time's impact on friendships
- Julia Roberts romcom
- Sad girls looking pensively out windows
- It's bad but I'm gay so it's camp
- Slice of life animated movie
- Passage of time's impact on friendships
- Julia Roberts romcom
Top 5 film genres:
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
-this woman sure is an asshole
-boy, this person just keeps on murderin people huh
-these neurodivergent children are on an ADVENTURE
-these women/girls say they're friends but I don't think that's true
-is that a ghost???
Top five film genres:
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
-rustic folk of this town have peculiar religious rituals
-hottest villain ever conceived is doing awful things but shot so erotically that I'm riveted
-these doomed nerds yearn in gay ways, then tragedy or war or something makes it worse
-kaiju
-childless woman wins
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Top 5 film genres:
- Sad girls looking pensively out windows
- It's bad but I'm gay so it's camp
- Slice of life animated movie
- Passage of time's impact on friendships
- Julia Roberts romcom
- Sad girls looking pensively out windows
- It's bad but I'm gay so it's camp
- Slice of life animated movie
- Passage of time's impact on friendships
- Julia Roberts romcom
I finished this book today. Highly recommend! One lesson, among many, is that successful work requires taking setbacks as opportunities to recalculate strategies & widen coalitions. It's about LGBTQ history in K-12 CA schools & policy work at-large.
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-cu...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-cu...
Contested Curriculum - Rutgers University Press
Today, many states have proposed so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bills that prohibit public school teachers from mentioning LGBTQ topics in the classroom. Bu...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I finished this book today. Highly recommend! One lesson, among many, is that successful work requires taking setbacks as opportunities to recalculate strategies & widen coalitions. It's about LGBTQ history in K-12 CA schools & policy work at-large.
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-cu...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/contested-cu...
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All K-12 schools and colleges should be doing this——-Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
All K-12 schools and colleges should be doing this——-Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/n...
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So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Can't wait to be among friends at NCTE and NCTE_CEL next week!! @naemmanuele.bsky.social @hcodymiller.bsky.social @ncte.org
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
Register for CEL and/or stop by our NCTE Conference on English Leadership sessions where you can learn more about how we are driving literacy leadership forward!
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To frame this another way: there are a lot of decision-makers sounding the alarm about a "student reading crisis" while implementing policies in their districts and schools that are actively removing books from the hands of students
(And that's BEFORE we talk about the censorship going on, too)
(And that's BEFORE we talk about the censorship going on, too)
November 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
To frame this another way: there are a lot of decision-makers sounding the alarm about a "student reading crisis" while implementing policies in their districts and schools that are actively removing books from the hands of students
(And that's BEFORE we talk about the censorship going on, too)
(And that's BEFORE we talk about the censorship going on, too)
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Trying something new in the classroom is both the most exciting and scary thing. This is such a great reflection of that pedagogical process! #TeacherSky
Trying something new in the classroom can be a "best of times but also worst of times" experience—esp. if you want that "new" to be both good/sustainable
That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/bringing-s...
That's what I reflected on today: learnings from bringing a new strategy/system into the classroom
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/bringing-s...
Bringing Something New Into the Classroom
my experience bringing literary theory into our classroom this year (so far!)
thebrokencopier.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Trying something new in the classroom is both the most exciting and scary thing. This is such a great reflection of that pedagogical process! #TeacherSky
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It's time for CUNY to shine, not only in ed-tech but in broader curriculums that link fair education to fair work and fair tech.
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
It's time for CUNY to shine, not only in ed-tech but in broader curriculums that link fair education to fair work and fair tech.
Saying this in a room full of unionized teachers is very cool! 💪
November 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Saying this in a room full of unionized teachers is very cool! 💪
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Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mamdani says in his victory speech, “we will hire thousands of teachers.”
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
This, and not the proprietary chatbot classroom, is the future of education.
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Every school board election.
Local elections turn on small numbers of votes and they are winnable! Don't give them up without a fight!
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Every school board election.
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One of the largest school districts in Texas, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, has come to be dominated by the Christian right.
But conservative board members lost 3 seats last night to a slate of candidate running on separating church and education: www.houstonpress.com/news/progres...
But conservative board members lost 3 seats last night to a slate of candidate running on separating church and education: www.houstonpress.com/news/progres...
Progressives Pick Up All 3 Cy-Fair ISD Trustee Seats - Houston Press
Lesley Guilmart, Cleveland Lane Jr. and Kendra Camarena — a slate of pro-public education candidates who support the separation of church and state in Progressive candidates Lesley Guilmart, Cleveland...
www.houstonpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
One of the largest school districts in Texas, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, has come to be dominated by the Christian right.
But conservative board members lost 3 seats last night to a slate of candidate running on separating church and education: www.houstonpress.com/news/progres...
But conservative board members lost 3 seats last night to a slate of candidate running on separating church and education: www.houstonpress.com/news/progres...
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* repeats for emphasis *
"Neither movement waited for courts to recognize their rights; they interpreted the Constitution for themselves"
or to paraphrase Justice Thurgood Marshall, do what's right and let the law catch up
"Neither movement waited for courts to recognize their rights; they interpreted the Constitution for themselves"
or to paraphrase Justice Thurgood Marshall, do what's right and let the law catch up
Hard agree
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
* repeats for emphasis *
"Neither movement waited for courts to recognize their rights; they interpreted the Constitution for themselves"
or to paraphrase Justice Thurgood Marshall, do what's right and let the law catch up
"Neither movement waited for courts to recognize their rights; they interpreted the Constitution for themselves"
or to paraphrase Justice Thurgood Marshall, do what's right and let the law catch up
It's very cool that "public schools are good and should serve all kids" was a message that unequivocally crushed fascists across the country last night. Let's keep that up! 🗳️📚💪
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's very cool that "public schools are good and should serve all kids" was a message that unequivocally crushed fascists across the country last night. Let's keep that up! 🗳️📚💪
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
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The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!
Pine-Richland Schools (PA), which have dealt with nonstop book and curriculum censorship, just saw its board flip over to progressive representation.
People
Don't
Want
Bigots
Overseeing
Education.
community.triblive.com/news/3913768
People
Don't
Want
Bigots
Overseeing
Education.
community.triblive.com/news/3913768
Challenger slate 'Together for PR' sweeps election for Pine-Richland School Board
community.triblive.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The freedom to read picked up a lot of wins last night! So did support for local libraries! Thank you to everyone who worked on these races. When we pull together we win!