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katebaker.bsky.social
Celebrate Earth Day with me by composing some ecopoems!
#EduSky #iTeachELA
bookwidgets.bsky.social BookWidgets @bookwidgets.bsky.social · Apr 22
🌎🌍🌏 Celebrate Earth Day with some EcoPoetry! 🌱

Check out this blog post with ready to use poetry lessons for composing poems about the world around us.

www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2024/09...

#poetry #edtech #EcoFriendly #EarthDay #EduSky
15+ Free Lesson Activities For Teaching Ecopoetry & Climate Change Education
www.bookwidgets.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
Whose brilliant fucking idea was it to give 82 juniors in AP English a practice test complete with 3 essays?

Oh. Mine. Fuck me.

Pictured: the collected works of my students, all approximately 500-ish pages, to be graded by Wednesday. (82 students.x 3 essays x average 2ish pages)

#iteachela 📖
Large stack of paper copies of student essays, about 200 pages The to-be-graded pile of essays. 8 oz glass of water for scale. The student work is about a 3-inch pile of about 250 pages A pile of work in progress with my trademark pink grading pen
March 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
mrbgilson.bsky.social
#liftingliteracy #iteachELA
triciaebarvia.bsky.social Tricia Ebarvia @triciaebarvia.bsky.social · Jan 9
ISO of quotes, essays, articles that speak to the importance of making art / creating / imagination during dark times. Let me know what you have and I'll share as well.

(also, still getting my footing around here and not sure with # s to use? #edusky #DisruptTexts #ELA ?)
January 10, 2025 at 3:25 AM
edutopia.org
From history class to ELA, teachers are harnessing ChatGPT to drive critical thinking and deeper analysis. Here’s a brief demo on some innovative, teacher-tested use cases, from Edutopia’s @dalorleon.bsky.social 🖥️💫

#EduSkyAI #EduAI #HistoryEducation #ITeachELA
AI Tool Demo: Creative Uses for ChatGPT in History and ELA
Assistant editor Daniel Leonard shares a few interesting applications of ChatGPT that teachers have adopted to drive critical thinking and deeper analysis.
www.edutopia.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
edutopia.org
Integrating SEL and Bloom’s taxonomy helped this ELA teacher bring her class conversations to life. 📖💬 Here’s how.

#SEL #ITeachELA #ITeachEnglish
Adding an Emotional Dimension to Literary Analysis
Aligning SEL prompts with different levels of Bloom’s taxonomy gives students the opportunity to ask deeper questions about literature.
edut.to
July 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
Some of the best, most interesting, most engaged writing in the AP Lang classroom is coming when I explicitly lower the stakes and encourage experimentation. The next step: how do we do all that cool shit even in more serious high stakes work? #iteachela #ela #aplang
Photo of prompt/feedback sheet for AP English assignment. The prompt asks students to either a) operate like Deborah Tannen, shifting in and out of narrative and commentary to make an argument, or b) write ironically and hyperbolically, like Jonathan Swift, and adopt a persona while still clearly developing their own effective argument A photo of a student’s last pragraph, driving home the satire. “Sure certain things were invented by accident, like penicillin, X-rays, and super glue…. But perfection matters the most, right? Someone was bound to come up with that sooner or later anyways. And that’s not what they were programmed to do in the first place. They couldn’t complete the task they were meaning to do and instead did something else. That’s too human. That’s too faulty.”
January 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
And fuck yeah, that’s an old-fashioned paper gradebook you see there. I have a whole rant on the always-on gradebook and surveillance pedagogy that I will save for another day #iteachela 📖
March 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
edutopia.org
This powerful project gets students flexing their creativity and analytical skills—as they make connections between their interests and course content. 💪

Teacher and Edutopia community facilitator @biblio-phile.bsky.social shares a guide.

#PBL #ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA
A Curation Project to End the School Year
Teachers can give students a creative opportunity to use their analytical skills and make meaningful connections to different forms of media.
edut.to
April 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
angelastockman.bsky.social
@mraleosays.bsky.social recently defended his dissertation, and I'm grateful that he now has a bit more time to engage in this particular kind of way. Highly recommended. #literacy #iteachELA #EduSky trevoraleo.substack.com/p/coming-soon
Welcome to Becoming Literary!
Reimagining how we teach language, literature, and literacies one stack at a time
trevoraleo.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
And i’ve worked hard to teach interesting and good writing. I’m seeing satures, narratives, thoughtful and nuanced takes, compressed into the timed test writing.

I try to NOT narrow this to test prep all the time.

At the same time, we want to simulate the test somewhat

#iteachela 📖
March 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
edutopia.org
Collaborating with your school librarian can be even more enriching when you design a literacy project around a shared interest! Find out how. 📕⬇️

#EduSky #ITeachELA #TLSky
The Benefits of Collaborating With Your School Librarian
Working with a peer to develop projects for your students can enrich your instruction and support student engagement.
edut.to
July 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
edutopia.org
Traditional book reports can stifle students’ passion for reading, ELA teachers tell us. 📖

Here are some of their favorite alternatives: edut.to/3DWOvGO

#literacy #ITeachELA #ITeachEnglish
6 Ways to Upgrade Old-School Book Reports These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.
April 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
edutopia.org
Adapting Shakespeare’s plays to make them resonate with students can be a fun, improvisational process that helps develop learners’ critical thinking skills! 🪶🎉

#ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA #EduSky
Modernizing Shakespeare With a Tech Twist
Students can have fun and learn a lot by making some 21st-century linguistic and thematic tweaks to the Bard’s plays.
edut.to
June 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
daringenglish.bsky.social
⭐️ 7 things only English teachers understand!

What else would you add to this list?

#teacher #teachers #secondaryELA #teachergram #ELAteacher #iteachELA
January 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
edutopia.org
Looking for a meaningful, memorable end-of-year project?

Here’s an idea from @biblio-phile.bsky.social—with some inspiration from @heymrsbond.com, @ncte.org, and @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social. 💡

#PBL #ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA
A Curation Project to End the School Year
Teachers can give students a creative opportunity to use their analytical skills and make meaningful connections to different forms of media.
edut.to
April 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
edutopia.org
When you need writing prompts, class activities, or evidence-based literacy strategies, our ELA resource collection has you covered. 📝

Explore articles and videos for all grade levels: edut.to/3EuwvDU

#ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA #ELATeacher #EnglishTeacher
English Language Arts resource collection from Edutopia. There's a screenshot of the webpage, which shows an article: “Responsive ELA Teaching Strategies.” A blue burst in the top right corner says “New content always added!”
June 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
Apropos of reading a big ol’ stack of midterm essays: how are we rewarding risk-taking, growth, and experiments in student writing, even if, or especially if, it doesn’t fully work ? #ela #iteachela 📖.
March 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
drewdaudelin.bsky.social
It’s like coaching a sport: you wanna run game situations so the team is ready. We have the ball, tied game, one minute left, how do we kill the clock? How can you simulate pressure so we’re comfortable in it? #iteachela 📖
March 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
gplastrik.bsky.social
Should I make the #ela #litteacher #iteachenglish feed? Or is one already going?

Is #iteachenglish or #iteachela better?

#ncte

@christienold.bsky.social @marcusluther.bsky.social @triciaebarvia.bsky.social @mombrava.bsky.social @slitrel.bsky.social
January 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM
edutopia.org
Tips for modernizing Macbeth and more: edut.to/4nm7dt2

#ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA #EduSky #EdTech
July 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
edutopia.org
In 2025, ditch the dull book reports and try these engaging assessment strategies that can improve comprehension and ignite a passion for reading. 🤩📚

@dalorleon.bsky.social gathered 6 ideas from the Edutopia community:

#literacy #ITeachELA #ITeachEnglish
6 Ways to Upgrade Old-School Book Reports
These creative alternatives to book reports can spark imaginations, boost comprehension, and reignite a love for reading.
edut.to
April 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
naemmanuele.bsky.social
After categorizing the children’s cards, students copied their own citations from articles into index cards and will sort them into categories. Those categories will become their persuasive essay paragraph topics.

#research #ITeachELA
A stack of index cards. The top line has a source number and the rest of the card has handwritten word-for-word citations.
May 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
edutopia.org
ELA teachers: You might want to *bookmark* our full *library* of ELA resources! 🔖 (They’re much higher quality than this joke.)

Check it out here: edut.to/3EuwvDU

#ITeachEnglish #ITeachELA #ELATeacher #EnglishTeacher
English Language Arts resource collection from Edutopia. There's a screenshot of the webpage, which shows an article: “Responsive ELA Teaching Strategies.” A blue burst in the top right corner says “New content always added!”
April 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
edutopia.org
Tired of class discussions of novels falling flat? Try rethinking your questioning—starting with SEL: edut.to/4nuJ6Zj

#SEL #ITeachELA #ITeachEnglish
“Helping students think critically about literature doesn’t begin with a perfect anchor chart or a polished lesson plan. It begins with the questions we ask and the way we respond to students as they search for answers.” —Erin O’Dwyer, Middle School English Teacher
July 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
edutopia.org
“Some of the best literacy learning can happen through collaboration among colleagues and peers,” @wordsimagesworlds.bsky.social says.

Here’s how he teamed up with his school’s media specialist to design a powerful student project pairing graphic novels and research. 📖

#EduSky #ITeachELA #TLSky
The Benefits of Collaborating With Your School Librarian
Working with a peer to develop projects for your students can enrich your instruction and support student engagement.
edut.to
July 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM