Adrian Neibauer

I don’t know what this says about me, but I strongly believe that Doo-wop is the best genre of music ever created.

"I want my son/daughter to be in your class" is the single best compliment I can receive. #TeacherSky #EduSky

I think the term "college and career readiness" is an incredibly well-intentioned shift in education that has left many, many high school students disengaged + disconnected from their learning.

They deserve to learn things that have value + enrich their lives in the present—not just the future.

Teaching has always been hard. Teaching through the pandemic was hard. Teaching this year feels harder than usual. A different type of hard. #TeacherSky

When multiple students say stuff like “You aren’t going to tell us how many paragraphs our paper has to have or how many pieces of evidence we have to have per paragraph? But that’s how we were trained!” it really shows how algorithms replaced writing well before chatbots.

It’s about pedagogy. 🤷‍♂️

On Empty Desks Podcast Episode · The Broken Copier · 10/29/2025 · 16m

One of the ongoing challenges as a teacher has been navigating "two classrooms" at once: one for students who are there regularly/moving forward confidently; the other for students who are frequently absent and very much disconnected from what we're doing.

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Teaching English Learners Is Complex. Here Are Some Tested Strategies (Opinion) Teachers can start by shifting how we think about language development.

Teaching English learners is complex. Educators share a few tested strategies. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

I don't care how long it takes me to write individual student comments on their report cards. Reflecting on each student as a human being, allows me to better help them with their academic goals because I know them. I'm not using AI to mine students' data into a report; I'm co-creating their story.

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"I have learned how to be a good teacher, and as with any relationship, I have learned how to give and take, even when I give more than I should."

Talk about a stretch of writing for teachers to read to begin the week... 🙏 @mrneibauer.bsky.social

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What do playing with toddlers and almost becoming a professional clown have to do with teaching? They remind me of why I fell in love with teaching. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky

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It looks like you’re reading some of my favorite theorists and writers! The biggest thing my doctoral degree gave me was the language (and power) to call out and name systemic problems in my school and district. I’m excited for you and this degree! It’s a ton of work, but so important.

I am sort of curious if at some point we distinguish between pre-AI literature and post-AI literature as a society?

A line between when authenticity was taken for granted and when every text was read with at least a wondering of skepticism?

What a nice surprise that this site exists! — Mesa, Arizona Another teacher shared some Zinn Ed Project resources with me and I would like to use more with my students. — Charlotte, North Carolina I’ve followed the Zinn Education Project on Instagram for a while and now that I am a middle school teacher I can finally incorporate the materials in my classes! — Plano, Texas I’ve been following the Zinn Education Project for a long time, and have attended many PD events, and I am excited to use their lessons in my classroom. — Minneapolis, Minnesota

Weekly report:

Last week 173 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Mesa, Arizona; Carlsbad, Oxnard, and San Jose, CA; Arlington, MA; Minneapolis, MN; Charlotte, NC; Gladstone, OR; Schwenksville, PA; Plano, TX; Pomeroy, WA; & many more cities.

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Talked with teachers in my building. Everyone is feeling more stressed this year. More meetings. More unreasonable expectations. More admin control. Less time. Less agency. Less autonomy. What started as a heaviness is now overwhelming fatigue and weariness. #TeacherSky

Reason # 1,759 why the high stakes standardized testing regime is even more detrimental to the very purpose of writing in the age of LLMs than it was in the before times. Too many students experiences with writing begin and end with exercises in mindless compliance and contrived performance.

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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“[Teaching] is about being present. About staying long enough to know what to ask. About saying: ‘I think I know what you mean,’ even if we’re wrong. Especially if we’re wrong.”

Thanks @heymrsbond.com for sharing this. It impacted me.

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I’ve thought about this article every day for 14 days. It so perfectly encapsulates why showing up in all of our humanity beats machines every single time. “What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn.”

Nope. That’s my job.

OMG! Why is this article making me cry? Our humanity is the only thing that matters. That’s it.

House Of A Thousand Guitars

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I can’t wait read this!

I keep returning to this conversation. #TeacherSky #EduSky

The three of us most definitely need to have a conversation! Just name the time and place and I’ll be there.

That’s not the public school I want for my own children or any students. We can’t encourage students to offload their thinking (or the necessary labor of learning) to AI before they’ve learned how to think (and learn) for themselves. #EduSky #TeacherSky

Never underestimate the power of repetition. If you want students to remember stuff, you need to say it, show it, repeat it over and over and over again. #TeacherSky #EduSky

Sunday Scaries I know of no other profession where there is such persistent and consistent dread for the start of each week.

Confession - I've never had the Sunday Scaries. I know. I'm nuts.

The reason I speak to educators is to share what renews and refreshes me. A big part of that is people like @mrneibauer.bsky.social Here he discusses "why" we get it and how to solve it:
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Sunday Scaries I know of no other profession where there is such persistent and consistent dread for the start of each week.

Another Monday means anticipating the stressors of the upcoming week. Interrupting this cycle and looking for more positives will help me keep my moral center intact. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky

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Anyone else suffering from the Sunday Scaries tonight? How do you cope? #TeacherSky

Anchor chart titled "Things We Should Say to People More Often" contains a long list of encouragements, affirmations and kind words.

Anchor chart titled "Things We Should Say to People More Often" contains a long list of encouragements, affirmations and kind words.

YouTube video by Teachers On Fire 4 Uplifting Moves Every Teacher Can Make in Their Classroom with MARCUS LUTHER

Also: hopping on @teachersonfire.bsky.social at 8am PST to talk about different uplifting moves you can use in the classroom (and I'm sure we'll end up talking about AI, too, because, well, we all know)

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