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Mark Anderson
@mandercorn.bsky.social
Reading and writing about reading and writing, and thinking about teaching kids how to read and write, and the beautiful complexities of multilingualism and learning to read and write.
https://languageandliteracy.blog
I press myself into a density of the withheld. I am dropping silently into the depths, leaving only a trail of screaming bubbles that burst somewhere distant unseen.

#CreativeWriting #PersonalNarrative #Poetry
October 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“Twenty-one years prior to Nicolls's arrival [in 1643], a visiting Jesuit priest learned that eighteen languages were being spoken in the little town, and that at a time when the population wasn't much more than five hundred."

#history #NYC
July 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Sales of blue books this school year were up more than 30% at Texas A&M University and nearly 50% at the University of Florida." --Wall Street Journal

#AI
May 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
May 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Speaks volumes
April 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The irony of an oil-and-gas executive using the analogy of a frog in a boiling pot . . . to describe being challenged by people who care about our planet.

#climatecrisis #Greenpeace #news
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Recommended reading if you want to see more clearly the historical threads of racism and anti-democratic values that connect slavelords in the antebellum South to Trump and his followers.

#history
February 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
😒
December 29, 2024 at 5:53 PM
NYC's grit and challenge is part of the allure, tho, right?

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
December 14, 2024 at 3:01 PM
What I'm reading
November 18, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Just kicked off our new cohort of learning about structured literacy for linguistically diverse learners with school teams in the Bronx and Queens with the amazing Dr. Elsa Cardenas-Hagan at Hostos Community College in the Bronx!
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Pictures of my birds today, taken by my kids
October 26, 2024 at 9:23 PM
A beautiful rainbow in Maine
August 22, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Orange fungi
August 10, 2024 at 1:48 PM
"Without examining the role of stereotypes at the level of fine- grained interactions, we believe that it is impossible to make sense of crime and punishment in the United States."

#crime #stereotypes #reading
August 3, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Public service announcement: I have been riding multiple buses and subway trains across NYC nearly every single day since I moved here in 2009. Ignore the sensationalism and don't be afraid to be on public transit.

#NYC #subway #publictransit
March 15, 2024 at 10:29 PM
"This paper’s insights also encourage education researchers to look to ecological restoration and other fields that theorize disaster recovery to imagine new possibilities for educational restoration in the COVID-19 era."

#turnaround #schools #education

www.tandfonline.com/doi/figure/1...
January 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM
225th st
December 1, 2023 at 11:57 PM
This is indeed surprisingly "creamy and bright, not bitter, with a subtle, tingling fruity sweetness" -- as advertised.

#chocolate #cacao
November 28, 2023 at 2:04 AM
I wrote this years ago and thought of it when I was near my old store in Queens this week. I'm re-posting for nostalgia's sake--and because it's a reminder of the importance of happiness for adults and children in schools.

Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving!

languageandliteracy.blog/schools-shou...
November 23, 2023 at 12:47 PM
Because the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead were thin, or something, I awoke at 3am this morning and was so awake that I decided to go for a run. I somehow got through the day, if a bit grumpier than usual, and now it's time for a Samhain cerveza. Skoal.
October 31, 2023 at 10:16 PM
"Part of the general puzzle of how we get from the mind to the world. A hundred billion synaptic events clicking away in the dark like blind ladies at their knitting."

languageandliteracy.blog/thinking-ins...
October 29, 2023 at 1:48 PM
RIP Botero
September 16, 2023 at 10:46 PM
Just got this Bard newsletter, and the first thing inquiring minds want to know is: how much of this is written by or with Bard?

#AI #Bard #LLM
August 29, 2023 at 9:17 PM