Tim Monreal
@timmonreal.bsky.social
Former MS 👨🏻🏫 • profe @UBGSE • Posts about Latinx ED (teachers/SSE), beisbol, rocksteady, space • Dad de 3 • Type1 • Chicano • 559 raised • posts are my own, not my employer’s
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I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Looks like a dream gig! Apply!
Position Available: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Fresno State University
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies.
careers.fresnostate.edu/en-us/job/55...
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies.
careers.fresnostate.edu/en-us/job/55...
Fresno State - Details - Chicano and Latin American Studies Assistant Professor
careers.fresnostate.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Looks like a dream gig! Apply!
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Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal
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The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
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Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
Now Is the Time of Monsters
"AI slop is winning," writes The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel.
By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’v...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.
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#MusicSky #Music #ReggaeSky #Reggae
#PlayList_Week_2025_10_12
Al & The Vibrators - Cool Water
youtube.com/watch?v=Sil_...
#PlayList_Week_2025_10_12
Al & The Vibrators - Cool Water
youtube.com/watch?v=Sil_...
October 19, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#MusicSky #Music #ReggaeSky #Reggae
#PlayList_Week_2025_10_12
Al & The Vibrators - Cool Water
youtube.com/watch?v=Sil_...
#PlayList_Week_2025_10_12
Al & The Vibrators - Cool Water
youtube.com/watch?v=Sil_...
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literally me in every faculty meeting 😭
October 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
literally me in every faculty meeting 😭
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Geno got someone on the bench raptured with that grand slam
October 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Geno got someone on the bench raptured with that grand slam
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.
Always punching down
Just like Jesus taught...
Hegseth: "A few months ago I was at the White House when President Trump announced his liberation day for America's trade policy. It was a landmark day. Well, today is another liberation day. The liberation of America's warriors ... you kill people and break things for a living."
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Just like Jesus taught...
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Too often, tech creates logistical problems that disrupt learning.
My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.
My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.
Say it often, say it loud:
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."
Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education
Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...
nepc.colorado.edu
September 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Too often, tech creates logistical problems that disrupt learning.
My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.
My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.
The Best of the Texas Tornadoes
September 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The Best of the Texas Tornadoes
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
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The UN report makes plain what so many families in Gaza have been living through: the deliberate destruction of Palestinians.
We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.
We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.
BREAKING: UN inquiry finds Israel’s war on Gaza to be genocide aje.io/2h84g2
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The UN report makes plain what so many families in Gaza have been living through: the deliberate destruction of Palestinians.
We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.
We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.
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Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”
September 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”
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So we're like MASK OFF levels of mask off now, huh? lmao
September 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
So we're like MASK OFF levels of mask off now, huh? lmao