Christine Dyer
@msdsmooth.bsky.social
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Christine Dyer
@msdsmooth.bsky.social
· May 7
My time in the classroom is coming to a close, and I’ve been inspired by @heymrsbond.com and @marcusluther.bsky.social
Here comes my Daily Gratitude Journal:
Entry 1:
Here comes my Daily Gratitude Journal:
Entry 1:
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On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
Fewer characters on TV had abortions this year — and more stories reinforced shame
Researchers at the University of California San Francisco track how abortion comes up on television. They say the trends from 2025 are concerning.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
www.npr.org/2025/12/13/n...?
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
On a similar methodological note, I suggested to a grad student just this week that they keep track of popular media storylines about trad wives loving fascist men
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If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours,
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
If you’ve never thought about whether you’d use your body in an attempt to protect children who aren’t yours,
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
now’s a good time to stop talking and listen.
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Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
December 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Racism isn’t a social class thing. That’s why it’s wrong to equate it with poverty & ignorance. One can be rich & highly educated and racist at the same time. One may not display overt racism but actively use their resources to strengthen structurally racist systems. We don’t talk about this enough.
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Always amazed at people who can make confident assessments/predictions about everything under the sun. I know nothing about most things and a lot about a miniscule number of things.
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Always amazed at people who can make confident assessments/predictions about everything under the sun. I know nothing about most things and a lot about a miniscule number of things.
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This is a sort of fuzzy thought crystalizing in my head (and maybe even a hot take), but …
Identifying resonant texts/materials + holding space for quality reading experiences with multiple entry points is more important than the quantity or prestige of books (canonical or other otherwise).
Identifying resonant texts/materials + holding space for quality reading experiences with multiple entry points is more important than the quantity or prestige of books (canonical or other otherwise).
December 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This is a sort of fuzzy thought crystalizing in my head (and maybe even a hot take), but …
Identifying resonant texts/materials + holding space for quality reading experiences with multiple entry points is more important than the quantity or prestige of books (canonical or other otherwise).
Identifying resonant texts/materials + holding space for quality reading experiences with multiple entry points is more important than the quantity or prestige of books (canonical or other otherwise).
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I had a cool day hanging out with @leevgaines.bsky.social , a freelance reporter for @npr.org! She shadowed me and spoke to many of my students about AI. The full story will come out in January, but please go watch Lee’s TikTok here! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yJ1WUu/
December 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I had a cool day hanging out with @leevgaines.bsky.social , a freelance reporter for @npr.org! She shadowed me and spoke to many of my students about AI. The full story will come out in January, but please go watch Lee’s TikTok here! www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yJ1WUu/
As an expat & recently retired hs eng teacher of 25 years, I lead intergenerational book clubs on US culture & how the history of teaching—and not teaching—texts like Gatsby, Mice, Eyes, Raisin in US public school systems lays out a road map for what we’re seeing now.
My specialty = The Crucible
My specialty = The Crucible
December 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
As an expat & recently retired hs eng teacher of 25 years, I lead intergenerational book clubs on US culture & how the history of teaching—and not teaching—texts like Gatsby, Mice, Eyes, Raisin in US public school systems lays out a road map for what we’re seeing now.
My specialty = The Crucible
My specialty = The Crucible
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Someone invite me to give a keynote and/or talk to your preservice teachers about how I cultivate moments of joy in my classroom in an effort to spite the fascists who want to silence teachers like me and students like mine.
December 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Someone invite me to give a keynote and/or talk to your preservice teachers about how I cultivate moments of joy in my classroom in an effort to spite the fascists who want to silence teachers like me and students like mine.
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Rise of the humanists, please.
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Rise of the humanists, please.
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Every time you’re visibly or vocally passionate about something and that voice in your head tells you off: ‘oops, that was a bit too much and over the top, tone it down girl’ .. just smile and remember that what makes you come alive is the reason you are here. What else could it be?
December 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Every time you’re visibly or vocally passionate about something and that voice in your head tells you off: ‘oops, that was a bit too much and over the top, tone it down girl’ .. just smile and remember that what makes you come alive is the reason you are here. What else could it be?
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December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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“HQIM” is the educator version of “6-7,” I’d argue
(Same hand motions, too)
(Same hand motions, too)
“HQIM” with full books—still standardized test prep
December 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“HQIM” is the educator version of “6-7,” I’d argue
(Same hand motions, too)
(Same hand motions, too)
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Lots of art by @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social currently for sale: www.badasscrossstitch.com/buyart
Buy Art — Badass Cross Stitch
www.badasscrossstitch.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lots of art by @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social currently for sale: www.badasscrossstitch.com/buyart
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The difference between just doing stuff that involves social skills or emotions and capital S Social Emotional Learning: reflection. You don't need a scripted curriculum. You just need moments to pause and let students think/talk/reflect about their social and emotional selves.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The difference between just doing stuff that involves social skills or emotions and capital S Social Emotional Learning: reflection. You don't need a scripted curriculum. You just need moments to pause and let students think/talk/reflect about their social and emotional selves.
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This statement is full of contradictions and incoherent in its best moments. For example, take the excerpt from the overview below: how does any of that support an argument for recentering books?
And it gets worse from here … so I’ll read this so you don’t have to… 🧵
And it gets worse from here … so I’ll read this so you don’t have to… 🧵
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This statement is full of contradictions and incoherent in its best moments. For example, take the excerpt from the overview below: how does any of that support an argument for recentering books?
And it gets worse from here … so I’ll read this so you don’t have to… 🧵
And it gets worse from here … so I’ll read this so you don’t have to… 🧵
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When I tell you this idea resonated…
Yesterday a former student commented during an IEP meeting I facilitated that what made me a supportive teacher is that I am “patient, but not actually that patient”… everyone laughed (because I think it’s true?).. but I immediately thought back to this:
Yesterday a former student commented during an IEP meeting I facilitated that what made me a supportive teacher is that I am “patient, but not actually that patient”… everyone laughed (because I think it’s true?).. but I immediately thought back to this:
The idea that stuck with me: balancing patience & urgency.
Just yesterday, my team of SpEd Ts was discussing the difficulty of holding a sense of urgency for our HS Ss while patiently waiting for that point when they can do so themselves.
No easy answers, but we all sit with that in varying ways.
Just yesterday, my team of SpEd Ts was discussing the difficulty of holding a sense of urgency for our HS Ss while patiently waiting for that point when they can do so themselves.
No easy answers, but we all sit with that in varying ways.
Full conversation on this and other "lessons" from this year with @mrneibauer.bsky.social here from earlier this week:
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/lessons-fr...
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
When I tell you this idea resonated…
Yesterday a former student commented during an IEP meeting I facilitated that what made me a supportive teacher is that I am “patient, but not actually that patient”… everyone laughed (because I think it’s true?).. but I immediately thought back to this:
Yesterday a former student commented during an IEP meeting I facilitated that what made me a supportive teacher is that I am “patient, but not actually that patient”… everyone laughed (because I think it’s true?).. but I immediately thought back to this:
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This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
www.aaup.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
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Standards you could easily hit on:
RL.6.1
RL.6.2
RL.6.5 (looking at the pieces together in an exhibit)
RL.6.9
L.6.4
RL.6.1
RL.6.2
RL.6.5 (looking at the pieces together in an exhibit)
RL.6.9
L.6.4
swear this is art history in the making!
really powerful really beautiful pieces
really powerful really beautiful pieces
December 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Standards you could easily hit on:
RL.6.1
RL.6.2
RL.6.5 (looking at the pieces together in an exhibit)
RL.6.9
L.6.4
RL.6.1
RL.6.2
RL.6.5 (looking at the pieces together in an exhibit)
RL.6.9
L.6.4
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A new book by Butler biographer Susana M. Morris explores the writer’s meticulous process, expansive imagination and the cautionary lessons she left behind.
Octavia Butler Saw This Coming
A conversation with "Positive Obsession" Octavia Butler biographer Susana M. Morris explores the writer’s process, imagination and lessons.
msmagazine.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A new book by Butler biographer Susana M. Morris explores the writer’s meticulous process, expansive imagination and the cautionary lessons she left behind.
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the reason to teach reading and writing in high school is not “college readiness”
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
the reason to teach reading and writing in high school is not “college readiness”
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year
Quilen Blackwell says he will use the $100,000 prize to expand his nonprofit Chicago Eco House, which grows flowers on previously vacant South and West side lots, and Southside Blooms, an Englewood fl...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"Quilen Blackwell, owner of a Chicago nonprofit that employs at-risk youth to turn vacant lots into flower farms, has won CNN’s Hero of the Year Award."
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/12...
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When I shared my concerns with the OpenAI product manager responsible for these guidelines, she said she could see my point and would take it back to the team, saying, “Hey, maybe we need to adjust the sentence.” It's part of a long history of people / institutions negotiating how objectivity works.
I thought at first that OpenAI was breaking its promise of objectivity. Then I realized it’s just redefining how objectivity functions — something that’s happened over and over. (Gift link!)
ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism
OpenAI’s new guidelines ask its chatbot to celebrate ‘innovation,’ contradicting its stated goal of objectivity—and raising questions about what objectivity even means.
www.theatlantic.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
When I shared my concerns with the OpenAI product manager responsible for these guidelines, she said she could see my point and would take it back to the team, saying, “Hey, maybe we need to adjust the sentence.” It's part of a long history of people / institutions negotiating how objectivity works.