Will Rodick, PhD
@williamrodick.bsky.social
P-12 Practice Lead at EdTrust
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He/Him.
All views shared here are my own.
Mastadon: http://mastodon.sdf.org/@William_Rodick
Twitter: https://twitter.com/William_Rodick
If you believe voters should choose their leaders, then why would a representative in Washington state vote to overturn the will of voters in DC? Why do you, as a representative of voters on the entire other side of the country, think police should be able to use chokeholds against DC residents?
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you believe voters should choose their leaders, then why would a representative in Washington state vote to overturn the will of voters in DC? Why do you, as a representative of voters on the entire other side of the country, think police should be able to use chokeholds against DC residents?
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NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
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What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
November 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
What a privilege it is to be a younger disabled person in a community shaped by Alice Wong. Rest in peace, Alice.
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
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An audio flyer and a flyer-flyer for a teach-in this Sunday on the National Mall. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
October 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
An audio flyer and a flyer-flyer for a teach-in this Sunday on the National Mall. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...
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High-quality teachers drive student success, but barriers still limit access to strong prep programs.
Our new paper on teacher apprenticeships highlights 3 keys to candidate success: better recruitment, mentorship, & financial support.
Read more: https://edtru.st/47DPKXa
Our new paper on teacher apprenticeships highlights 3 keys to candidate success: better recruitment, mentorship, & financial support.
Read more: https://edtru.st/47DPKXa
Building Futures: Strengthening the Educator Workforce Through Teacher Apprenticeships
An excellent teacher is integral for student success, and most states have turned to registered teacher apprenticeship programs to widen their pool of educators
edtru.st
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
High-quality teachers drive student success, but barriers still limit access to strong prep programs.
Our new paper on teacher apprenticeships highlights 3 keys to candidate success: better recruitment, mentorship, & financial support.
Read more: https://edtru.st/47DPKXa
Our new paper on teacher apprenticeships highlights 3 keys to candidate success: better recruitment, mentorship, & financial support.
Read more: https://edtru.st/47DPKXa
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Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. n.pr/48stHUo
Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.
n.pr
October 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. n.pr/48stHUo
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Share widely. Contact your electeds. Get this legislation over the finish line.
October 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Share widely. Contact your electeds. Get this legislation over the finish line.
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If I can share some knowledge from my lived experience: it is time to be loud AF right now. As Audre said, “your silence will not protect you.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
If I can share some knowledge from my lived experience: it is time to be loud AF right now. As Audre said, “your silence will not protect you.”
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I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were
September 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this
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Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
September 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.
www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...
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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Assata Shakur
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Assata Shakur
September 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Assata Shakur
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
Assata Shakur
He is the first Black superintendent to lead the district, which is the largest in the state.
Ian Roberts, who grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and competed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 800 meters for Guyana, has been arrested by ICE.
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
Roberts is the *Des Moines (Ia.) Public Schools Superintendent.*
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
He is the first Black superintendent to lead the district, which is the largest in the state.
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From the Oxford English Dictionary:
goblin (noun): A source or cause of evil or harm; a malign or destructive influence.
goblin (noun): A source or cause of evil or harm; a malign or destructive influence.
Goblins AI math tutoring app clones your teacher's looks and voice. @jonapolitano.bsky.social reports
Goblins AI Math Tutoring App Clones Your Teacher’s Looks and Voice
“If a little avatar of [me] opens and sounds like me, that could be another way of connecting with students,” one Pennsylvania math teacher said.
www.the74million.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
goblin (noun): A source or cause of evil or harm; a malign or destructive influence.
goblin (noun): A source or cause of evil or harm; a malign or destructive influence.
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Congress is debating changes to the Department of Education’s budget that could impact how federal funds support #students. Urban's new #tool lets you explore how different funding scenarios might affect your K-12 school district.
Access the #data today.
Access the #data today.
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As district leaders face the uncertainty posed by these vastly different proposals and other downstream changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill, this data to…
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September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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New paper! Using data from NC, we estimate that getting attendance rates back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023-24 could have improved state math achievement by 0.017-0.025 SDs in this year, or 13-19% of what would be needed for a full academic recovery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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September 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
New paper! Using data from NC, we estimate that getting attendance rates back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023-24 could have improved state math achievement by 0.017-0.025 SDs in this year, or 13-19% of what would be needed for a full academic recovery. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has created a free guide to advocacy drawn from the experience of parents who had to fend off a coordinated attack on the right to read. Download it here: Turning the Page - Freedom to Read Project
Get the Guide: Turning the Page
Turning the Page: an Advocate's Guide to the Freedom to Read was made by public school parents who found themselves in the middle of an organized plan to undermine public education. This guide puts cr...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The @freedomreadproject.bsky.social has created a free guide to advocacy drawn from the experience of parents who had to fend off a coordinated attack on the right to read. Download it here: Turning the Page - Freedom to Read Project
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Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Friendly Nazis Next Door
Everyone says that this new crop of American Nazis is really mean, but I, a white journalist, went out to talk to them for this profile, and they w...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Hundreds of teachers in every state & territory (except ND, at least not yet) bravely* committed to #TeachTruth on #ConstitutionDay and all year long.
Here are some of their plans.
*Sadly it is risky in many places to teach truthfully about the U.S. Constitution
Teacher in Miami, Florida ⬇️
Here are some of their plans.
*Sadly it is risky in many places to teach truthfully about the U.S. Constitution
Teacher in Miami, Florida ⬇️
![map and text in bubble says: I make sure students see how marginalized communities have used the Constitution to demand justice, even when the system didn't protect them. [As a teacher of African American History,] my goal is to help students think critically, not just about now, but about how they can be part of shaping what “liberty and justice for all” actually looks like](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mg4ju45zawofbr7v3rlnpkpr/bafkreicbdy33expst5nmtblslzbwlwzo5s5h5zgk3rw4hnglburzm5mm5e@jpeg)
September 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Hundreds of teachers in every state & territory (except ND, at least not yet) bravely* committed to #TeachTruth on #ConstitutionDay and all year long.
Here are some of their plans.
*Sadly it is risky in many places to teach truthfully about the U.S. Constitution
Teacher in Miami, Florida ⬇️
Here are some of their plans.
*Sadly it is risky in many places to teach truthfully about the U.S. Constitution
Teacher in Miami, Florida ⬇️
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#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
Sept. 18, 1850: Fugitive Slave Act Passed
The U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
www.zinnedproject.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
#tdih 1850, U.S. Congress passed draconian Fugitive Slave Act which required that people who'd escaped from slavery to anywhere in U.S. be captured & returned. 💔 Punished those who did not comply.
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
Undoes claim of concern for "states rights."
Lessons + more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fu...
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The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 18, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.