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Please write your own damn stuff. From me today in McSweeney's!
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As a teacher trying to figure out how to move forward, I would have liked more practical examples (or pointers to them) and less about conferences, Covid, etc. As usual, I feel out of step with culture that I'd far rather read than watch a video! I'll check out her website.
06.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'm so happy for you! It's amazing how much change we can make when it's about health instead of just responding to societal expectations. Be sure to tell your kids. It was partly my grandmother's middle-aged behavior that motivated me to change at age 53. (And she's still here at age 104!)
04.08.2025 23:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Same here on both of those. But there's also an increase in fidgety kids who need to leave class, and I'm assuming vaping has something to do with that.
04.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Same on both of those. But there's also an increase in fidgety kids who need to leave class, and I'm assuming vaping has something to do with that.
04.08.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0<sobs in math teacher>
Btw, he's made this claim MULTIPLE TIMES recently.
It's a one-digit number whose ending is even, but it's not even.
04.08.2025 00:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0PBS Passport and Hulu are the only ones I pay for, and honestly PBS Passport is a better deal, although I originally signed up just to be a good citizen. All Creatures Great and Small (current one), Miss Scarlet, and more have been great.
02.08.2025 21:26 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0what a read!
www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...
cc #iTeachMath ♾️ #MathSky 🧮
Buttigieg should be better on a moral level AND on a strategic level. He's supposed to be one of the best "communicators" in the party but he's getting duped by a Fox News-created nonissue that's ENTIRELY designed to create division and discord among Democrats? He's playing right into their hand.
30.07.2025 17:50 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Important to remember that this kind of discourse about “women’s safety” is not about women’s dignity or access to full participation in public life, but about enforcing white women’s status as a kind of collective racial property of white men.
30.07.2025 15:59 — 👍 408 🔁 101 💬 6 📌 0Ha! I saw your original post when I was delaying my exercise, and I thought, well , I'm on the west coast so there's still time - and I did a good workout and came back and saw this. We did it!!
30.07.2025 06:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I must admit that I'm surprised it was adult women.
26.07.2025 21:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Burnt and Hershey's on the Biscoff. Sounds delicious to me.
23.07.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Fantastic album, and what got me into the Mekons (and yes, I'm seeing them in Portland soon). So many things to love, but my favorite is the violin in Club Mekon.
23.07.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump: This is somebody nobody else can do. We will get the drug prices down… 1000% 600% 500% 1500%. Numbers that are not even thought to be achievable.
23.07.2025 01:26 — 👍 1703 🔁 358 💬 603 📌 523(above an image of Governor Tim Walz) "Shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus. ... That child deserves our support. Don't worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity."
20.07.2025 02:33 — 👍 3024 🔁 545 💬 28 📌 28Our neighbors are being snatched off the streets by masked federal agents w/o due process. That should terrify every one of us. I testified before the Rules Committee to demand basic accountability: ICE officers must identify themselves.
I am grateful for Sen Wyden leading this issue in the Senate.
This Franklin teacher on summer break will be there! Thanks for being so awesome. Your smarts and determination are impressive.
19.07.2025 06:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I basically agree, but want to add that from the distant past I recall that returning the cart when you've got a toddler or two with you is not quite as straightforward. (But I did it anyway, of course, because I'm civilized.)
15.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What!! How on earth would you get that one in 2?
13.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Well this is a GLORIOUS thread.
08.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0what...what exactly is the new third color, if you had to name it
06.07.2025 17:32 — 👍 1264 🔁 168 💬 351 📌 69Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
05.07.2025 16:54 — 👍 722 🔁 254 💬 45 📌 79(around an image of a chalkboard with chalk) SAFE SCHOOLS FOR EVERY STUDENT A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR ACTION
Every student, no matter their immigration status, deserves to feel safe at school. The Safe Schools for Every Student campaign is about making sure school boards adopt policies that keep schools safe for all students: indivisi.org/safe-schools
06.07.2025 02:05 — 👍 882 🔁 203 💬 9 📌 3And this part made me gasp out loud: “We might say we want staff who care but sometimes those who care the most are the ones least able to pretend everything’s fine. If we punish that honesty, we corrode not just the team, but the values we claim to uphold.”
02.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0US math teacher here. I really liked this article, especially the second half on the surplus model. Lack of autonomy is a huge cause of teacher dissatisfaction.
02.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0On building culture in schools open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...
26.06.2025 05:10 — 👍 13 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 4I’m not sure. What does AI say?
02.07.2025 18:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you from this constituent! You are doing an amazing job in horrible circumstances.
02.07.2025 17:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0