Sid
@thatteachersid.bsky.social
Living my one wild and precious life.
I wear many hats, and being an educator is only one of them.
She/her.
I wear many hats, and being an educator is only one of them.
She/her.
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Our House introduces a new space where play meets community baltimorebeat.com/our-house-in...
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our House introduces a new space where play meets community baltimorebeat.com/our-house-in...
I’ll have to revisit since it’s been like 20 years. Back then I didn’t care for it.
Sooo, I just saw Waiting for Godot for the first time...
(I've read it before but reading plays is just not it.)
...and I gotta say, I think I'm glad it's been now and not before. I'm definitely at an age where it just hit something deeply buried.
(I've read it before but reading plays is just not it.)
...and I gotta say, I think I'm glad it's been now and not before. I'm definitely at an age where it just hit something deeply buried.
November 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I’ll have to revisit since it’s been like 20 years. Back then I didn’t care for it.
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UMBC exhibit puts focus on Black leisure during the Jim Crow era
UMBC exhibit puts focus on Black leisure during the Jim Crow era
An exhibit at UMBC, “Picturing Mobility,” runs through Dec. 19 and features two inventions that made leisure travel possible during segregation — the automobile and the camera.
buff.ly
November 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
UMBC exhibit puts focus on Black leisure during the Jim Crow era
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Your education cannot be social media. If you're not reading, you're not learning. Podcasts can be educational when they have scholars, authors, etc who actually have expertise on a topic. Reading is essential. When Kendrick said "turn the TV off" it was more than a metaphor.
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Your education cannot be social media. If you're not reading, you're not learning. Podcasts can be educational when they have scholars, authors, etc who actually have expertise on a topic. Reading is essential. When Kendrick said "turn the TV off" it was more than a metaphor.
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Wild they have to write a bill for this
A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labour. This is after a video circulated of a Black woman who was dismissed from a hospital, only to give birth in her truck minutes later on the side of the road.
A woman gave birth 8 minutes after a hospital turned her away. A bill aims to stop that from happening again.
The legislation seeks to stop Black women from suffering during and after childbirth and hold hospitals accountable, according to bill language obtained exclusively by NBC News.
nbcnews.to
November 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Wild they have to write a bill for this
Y’all, I’m gagged at the fact that “Jingle Bells” has origins in the blackface minstrel performance scene of the 1850s. I had not a clue until today.
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Y’all, I’m gagged at the fact that “Jingle Bells” has origins in the blackface minstrel performance scene of the 1850s. I had not a clue until today.
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it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
September 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
it’s Sunday on bluesky so I am urging everyone to take care of themselves. Take a walk, have a second cup of coffee or tea, read a book, spend some time looking at small poems
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One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
September 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM
One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.
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Self-aware people recognize that their feelings are valid but that their responses may not be.
July 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Self-aware people recognize that their feelings are valid but that their responses may not be.
It’s so unfortunate that Congress cut billions from public broadcasting.
PBS and other member programs are invaluable and informative for both kids and adults.
My mom watched them as a kid. I watched them as a kid. My kids currently watch them.
PBS and other member programs are invaluable and informative for both kids and adults.
My mom watched them as a kid. I watched them as a kid. My kids currently watch them.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
The Invention of “Sesame Street”
Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.
www.newyorker.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It’s so unfortunate that Congress cut billions from public broadcasting.
PBS and other member programs are invaluable and informative for both kids and adults.
My mom watched them as a kid. I watched them as a kid. My kids currently watch them.
PBS and other member programs are invaluable and informative for both kids and adults.
My mom watched them as a kid. I watched them as a kid. My kids currently watch them.
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Education is dangerous. That’s why they keep defunding it. They know that critical thinking grows like wildfire. Teach enough people to ask “why?” and empires will tremble.
July 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Education is dangerous. That’s why they keep defunding it. They know that critical thinking grows like wildfire. Teach enough people to ask “why?” and empires will tremble.
A whole $3 saved a month starting NEXT summer. How generous of BGE.
Yes, the temps have gotten excessive. Yes, electricity supply costs went up. BGE keeps blaming the increased home bill costs solely on those things.
BGE conveniently doesn’t mention electricity and water guzzling data centers.
Yes, the temps have gotten excessive. Yes, electricity supply costs went up. BGE keeps blaming the increased home bill costs solely on those things.
BGE conveniently doesn’t mention electricity and water guzzling data centers.
BGE customers will save $3 on their monthly bills — next summer
BGE customers will save $3 on their monthly bills — next summer
Next summer, BGE customers will see a $3 reduction on monthly bills, thanks to the outcome of a capacity market auction, the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel said Thursday.
buff.ly
July 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
A whole $3 saved a month starting NEXT summer. How generous of BGE.
Yes, the temps have gotten excessive. Yes, electricity supply costs went up. BGE keeps blaming the increased home bill costs solely on those things.
BGE conveniently doesn’t mention electricity and water guzzling data centers.
Yes, the temps have gotten excessive. Yes, electricity supply costs went up. BGE keeps blaming the increased home bill costs solely on those things.
BGE conveniently doesn’t mention electricity and water guzzling data centers.
“The world that we live in, the knowledge that we have access to, our societies, our cities, our families are shaped by those who came before us. What we do today is literally shaping the environment in which future generations will be allowed to develop to their full potential.”
The babies who were conceived during the famine and whose mothers were undernourished while their brains were being built—those brains were smaller. When those people were adults, their brains were wired in a different way.
How famine and starvation can affect Gazans for generations to come
Research on WWII's Dutch “Hunger Winter” has terrifying implications for the region's children—and for their children.
www.motherjones.com
July 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“The world that we live in, the knowledge that we have access to, our societies, our cities, our families are shaped by those who came before us. What we do today is literally shaping the environment in which future generations will be allowed to develop to their full potential.”
Hey, Maryland educators!
Popping in to share that MSDE has FREE Science of Reading Micro-Credential Courses from SUNY and AIM Institute (working on mine now).
You can earn 3 CPDs per course to go toward renewing your license. It’s NO COST and ONLINE!
marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Pag...
Popping in to share that MSDE has FREE Science of Reading Micro-Credential Courses from SUNY and AIM Institute (working on mine now).
You can earn 3 CPDs per course to go toward renewing your license. It’s NO COST and ONLINE!
marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Pag...
MSDE Offered Science of Reading Micro-Credential Courses
marylandpublicschools.org
July 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hey, Maryland educators!
Popping in to share that MSDE has FREE Science of Reading Micro-Credential Courses from SUNY and AIM Institute (working on mine now).
You can earn 3 CPDs per course to go toward renewing your license. It’s NO COST and ONLINE!
marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Pag...
Popping in to share that MSDE has FREE Science of Reading Micro-Credential Courses from SUNY and AIM Institute (working on mine now).
You can earn 3 CPDs per course to go toward renewing your license. It’s NO COST and ONLINE!
marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Pag...
Yes, and what’s up with little buddy in the back on the couch.
June 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Yes, and what’s up with little buddy in the back on the couch.
One question I’m really leaning heavy on right now for myself to hold myself accountable is: What can I do and get done from my seat, from my role, from my position, with my abilities and skills, or with my whatever else I have?
June 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
One question I’m really leaning heavy on right now for myself to hold myself accountable is: What can I do and get done from my seat, from my role, from my position, with my abilities and skills, or with my whatever else I have?
Yes, Chanea, I agree with you.
Honestly, I thought and taught similarly to Audry my first year or two. I was the problem, not the kids or their parents, because I had to learn how to competently teach and break things down so that I could do my job of helping kids really understand and learn.
Honestly, I thought and taught similarly to Audry my first year or two. I was the problem, not the kids or their parents, because I had to learn how to competently teach and break things down so that I could do my job of helping kids really understand and learn.
If you’re a veteran teacher I need you to do me a favor:
Go watch this TikTok (it’s just me yapping) and tell me what you think. Something’s up and I don’t think it’s the kids. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8M5kGBy/
Go watch this TikTok (it’s just me yapping) and tell me what you think. Something’s up and I don’t think it’s the kids. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8M5kGBy/
#stitch with @Audryyy🦋 I’m worried y’all. The teachers may have been left behind and what’re we doing to address it? #TeacherTok #FYP #teachersoftiktok
TikTok video by Chanea Bond
www.tiktok.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Yes, Chanea, I agree with you.
Honestly, I thought and taught similarly to Audry my first year or two. I was the problem, not the kids or their parents, because I had to learn how to competently teach and break things down so that I could do my job of helping kids really understand and learn.
Honestly, I thought and taught similarly to Audry my first year or two. I was the problem, not the kids or their parents, because I had to learn how to competently teach and break things down so that I could do my job of helping kids really understand and learn.
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More and more, you are going to find yourself tricked by misleading headlines like this one.
From the article itself: “Moore said he’s ready to engage in conversations about repairing the legacy of slavery now, and he doesn’t need to wait two years for the reparations commission to draft a study.”
From the article itself: “Moore said he’s ready to engage in conversations about repairing the legacy of slavery now, and he doesn’t need to wait two years for the reparations commission to draft a study.”
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed a reparations bill that would have required the state to define the economic harms to Black descendants of enslaved people and recommend remedies, dealing a blow to reparations supporters who counted on the only Black governor of a U.S. state to be an ally.
Wes Moore, the nation’s lone Black governor, vetoes bill to study reparations
Wes Moore, the country’s only sitting Black governor, vetoes reparations bill
www.washingtonpost.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
More and more, you are going to find yourself tricked by misleading headlines like this one.
From the article itself: “Moore said he’s ready to engage in conversations about repairing the legacy of slavery now, and he doesn’t need to wait two years for the reparations commission to draft a study.”
From the article itself: “Moore said he’s ready to engage in conversations about repairing the legacy of slavery now, and he doesn’t need to wait two years for the reparations commission to draft a study.”
I know it’ll probably differ by region, but what do y’all call these?
A student called them a “huggie” and a co-worker called them a “hug jug.” I would just say “red juice” or “blue juice.”
A student called them a “huggie” and a co-worker called them a “hug jug.” I would just say “red juice” or “blue juice.”
May 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I know it’ll probably differ by region, but what do y’all call these?
A student called them a “huggie” and a co-worker called them a “hug jug.” I would just say “red juice” or “blue juice.”
A student called them a “huggie” and a co-worker called them a “hug jug.” I would just say “red juice” or “blue juice.”
Motherhood, in my experience, is nuanced.
One thing for sure is that I deeply enjoy being a mother.
The older I get, the more I understand the choices and actions my momma, my granny, auntie, and other women in my family made as mothers.
Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! Enjoy!
One thing for sure is that I deeply enjoy being a mother.
The older I get, the more I understand the choices and actions my momma, my granny, auntie, and other women in my family made as mothers.
Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! Enjoy!
May 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Motherhood, in my experience, is nuanced.
One thing for sure is that I deeply enjoy being a mother.
The older I get, the more I understand the choices and actions my momma, my granny, auntie, and other women in my family made as mothers.
Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! Enjoy!
One thing for sure is that I deeply enjoy being a mother.
The older I get, the more I understand the choices and actions my momma, my granny, auntie, and other women in my family made as mothers.
Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers! Enjoy!
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It’s crazy to think they used to deliver a fat ass book of everybody phone numbers to your doorstep.
April 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It’s crazy to think they used to deliver a fat ass book of everybody phone numbers to your doorstep.
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Basically don’t let these people make you think you have to be dry and boring to be successful
I don’t know what journalist with a marginalized identity working in a mainstream newsroom needs to hear this but: keep a folder of the pitches that get rejected. A lot of newsroom leaders have limited imaginations. These are ideas you can potentially use in the future.
April 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Basically don’t let these people make you think you have to be dry and boring to be successful
Since I was a kid I didn’t think the movies chosen at the Oscars were the best of the year. It was all false hype. I never found their choices credible or truthful, so this explains a lot.
Even today, if a movie has won an Oscar, I’m more likely to straight up skip it.
Even today, if a movie has won an Oscar, I’m more likely to straight up skip it.
The Academy has announced that Oscar voters will actually have to watch all the movies in a category before making their final-round picks. It's on the honor system, but hey, it's a start.
By @lindaholmes.bsky.social
By @lindaholmes.bsky.social
This new rule won't fix the Oscars — but it's a step in the right direction
The Academy has announced that Oscar voters will actually have to watch all the movies in a category before making their final-round picks. It's on the honor system, but hey, it's a start.
www.npr.org
April 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Since I was a kid I didn’t think the movies chosen at the Oscars were the best of the year. It was all false hype. I never found their choices credible or truthful, so this explains a lot.
Even today, if a movie has won an Oscar, I’m more likely to straight up skip it.
Even today, if a movie has won an Oscar, I’m more likely to straight up skip it.
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Some folks don’t need to be worried about “being on the wrong side of history.”
You’re on the wrong side of TODAY, beloved.
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.
You’re on the wrong side of TODAY, beloved.
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.
April 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Some folks don’t need to be worried about “being on the wrong side of history.”
You’re on the wrong side of TODAY, beloved.
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.
You’re on the wrong side of TODAY, beloved.
In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you.
Depends on the vibe of the day.
7. Stevie or Luther?
April 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Depends on the vibe of the day.