EunJung Kim
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EunJung Kim
@newdirection2024.bsky.social
Former geography teacher in South Korea and AP Human geography teacher in the US.
Currently, a teacher educator at the University of Iowa
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June 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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“Lifetoon” Is Clearly One Of The Best Online Tools For Creating Comics That I’ve Seen – & It’s Free (For Now) larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/05/07/l...
“Lifetoon” Is Clearly One Of The Best Online Tools For Creating Comics That I’ve Seen – & It’s Free (For Now)
As most ELL teachers – and many others – do, I periodically have students create comics. They can be creative, fun, and excellent tools for language development. Sometimes I have…
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May 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Translanguaging: A Vital Tool for ELL Teachers www.middleweb.com/52042/transl... this is an excerpt from our latest book and is on @middleweb.bsky.social
Translanguaging: A Must-Have for Every ELL Teacher's Toolbox
Translanguaging lets students use their home language to make progress in English and learn academic content they're not yet able to access in the new language.
www.middleweb.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-...

-Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low
-55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress"
-Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats

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February 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Notice what’s missing? Protecting kids’ civil rights.

Real kids - kids who deserve more - will suffer because of Office of Civil Rights cuts.
March 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I taught this historical fact in my social studies methods course to inform more Asian American history, which most students never learned. However, now the case gets attention in the media due to Trump's executive order.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How a young Chinatown cook helped establish birthright citizenship in the US
Wong Kim Ark’s fight to be recognized as a US citizen 127 years ago led to an expansion of the 14th amendment
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Happy New Year! Our next theme for this winter is Teaching Media Literacy.

From AI to social media algorithms and fake news, we've got you covered with resources on how to promote media literacy with students!

Check out our first blog below! 🕵️
#PopEdTheme #PopEdMediaLiteracy

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PopEd’s Winter Theme: Teaching Media Literacy - Population Education
If you are an educator of virtually any grade, anywhere in the world, it is likely that you’ve thought about... Read more »
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January 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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For the evening crowd: I put words to my nagging concerns, which last semester became fully realized fears, about how students use generative AI - despite the very real harms that generative AI has caused and continues to cause.

We have a lot to think about as we write our syllabi.
The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
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January 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Israeli historian Ilan Pappe talks to Al Jazeera on ‘neo-Zionism’, Gaza ceasefire talks, the second coming of Donald Trump and ‘indoctrination’ in Israel.

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January 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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⬆️history is erased in most state standards, as documented in our report on Reconstruction education.

Right-wing lawmakers are making it illegal for teachers to fill the gaps.

Share report ⬇️

Advocate for more time & resources to #TeachReconstruction.
www.teachreconstructionreport.org
Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle
www.teachreconstructionreport.org
January 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"It was in 1868, in state after state, when Black men, many of them formerly enslaved, gathered with white men, many of them poor & disempowered until Reconstruction, to rewrite the constitutions of the South." -- Adam Sanchez ⬇️

w/ Lerone Bennett Jr. quotes
www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...
The Other ’68: Black Power During Reconstruction
By Adam Sanchez From the urban rebellions to the salute at the Olympics, commemorations of 1968 — a pivotal year of Black Power — are popular every year. Yet there is another anniversary of Black Powe...
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January 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching www.middleweb.com/46877/cultur... is an excerpt from a book @khullsyp.bsky.social and I wrote about teaching ELLs #ELsky
Teaching So We Are Both Culturally Responsive and Sustaining
A pedagogy that is both culturally responsive and culture-sustaining needs to underlie and guide all our classroom practices, write Ferlazzo and Sypnieski.
www.middleweb.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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#tdih 1811: 500+ Africans, from 50 nations and speaking dozens of languages, waged a strategic battle for their freedom and to end slavery & white supremacy.

Which side did U.S. troops and territorial militias take?

Read ⬇️ by Leon Waters. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lo...
Jan. 8, 1811: Louisiana’s Heroic Slave Revolt
The German Coast Uprising was a strategic military assault against white supremacy by hundreds of enslaved Africans.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Teach about ways that enslaved people constantly, creatively, strategically, & bravely resisted & challenged the brutal institution of slavery & white supremacy.

Free lesson ⬇️for gr 7+ from @rethinkingschools.bsky.social teaching guide to #TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/po...
Poetry of Defiance: How the Enslaved Resisted
Students learn how enslaved people resisted the brutal exploitation of slavery, highlighting the defiance of the enslaved.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Give @maanvisingh.bsky.social a follow for some great journalism!
Check out a new interview with me for The Guardian where I talk about becoming a MacArthur Fellow and my thoughts on the upcoming Administration. Many thanks to Maanvi Singh for interviewing me!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
January 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Update: Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall.
Plane crashes and bursts into flames at an airport in South Korea, killing at least 179
Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed the Jeju Air plane skidding across the airstrip, apparently with its landing gear still closed, and colliding head-on with a concrete wall.
www.npr.org
December 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech?

We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!
December 28, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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If you've watched "The Six Triple Eight," then you know why we thank historian @mattdelmont.bsky.social for securing donations for teachers to receive 14,000+ copies of "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting WWII at Home & Abroad." Read ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/14000-c...
Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII
Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont, the Zinn Education Project offered 14,000 copies of Delmont's book to public school teachers, school librarians, an...
www.zinnedproject.org
December 29, 2024 at 2:35 PM
so, X is fine not PBS and NPR? deeply concerning for this country.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
Trump’s threat to defund all US public media has NPR and PBS on the back foot
President-elect’s agenda and Project 2025 playbook align in stripping Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s license
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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🎄Happy holidays from Ernie, Bert & me. Bert is not pictured because she would not cooperate and I respect that.

I am nervous about what’s to come next year but I believe in the power of community and we will continue to protect and care for each other
December 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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South Korea’s main opposition is considering a move to impeach the country’s acting President Han Duck-soo.
South Korea opposition considering move to impeach acting president
Following impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol, Democratic Party to decide whether to submit a bill to impeach Han Duck-soo.
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December 24, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of Gaza’s last partially functioning hospitals, pleads for help before it’s ‘too late’ as Israeli forces have surrounded the medical facility.

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December 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM