Andy Charrier.

In 1980, a Trans Woman Won America’s First Video Game Championship. The Industry Wrote Her Out of the Story. Rebecca Heineman co-founded the company behind Fallout. She died at 62, still being rediscovered.

In 1980, a Trans Woman Won America’s First Video Game Championship. The Industry Wrote Her Out of the Story.
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The Medical System Said Alice Wong Was Disposable. Her Archive Says Otherwise. The disability justice icon who just died at 51 spent her life proving that some bodies aren’t problems to solve—they’re stories to preserve.

When the medical system deems someone disposable, archiving becomes resistance. Alice Wong's story for educators thinking about whose voices matter—new at Prompts & Provocations.
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The Thanksgiving Story Is Wrong. Here's How to Teach What Actually Happened Share this with a teacher who’s ready to teach Thanksgiving differently.

📌 Hot take: Every elementary school teaches the Thanksgiving story. Zero mention that the Pilgrims weren't even part of it until 1880. New piece up on how to teach what actually happened—without ruining dinner 👇
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The Nazis Taught Germany to Fear Modern Art. Sound Familiar? When they banned Picasso and Chagall, they called it "protecting children." Sound like any school board meetings you've been to lately?

When they banned Picasso and Chagall, they called it "protecting children." Sound like any school board meetings you've been to lately?

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Your classroom = where students learn to question national myths before they become “common sense”
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Included in the CR:
$750K per senate office for security
$20M for upkeep and lawncare of the Capitol, House and Senate Office Buildings
500K on Vidalia onion breeding
#winning

It's time for some more power-to-the-teachers
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Quick Take: Schools Are Surveilling Students. It’s Not Working. Schools spend $3 billion annually on surveillance that disproportionately harms students of color. Here’s what teachers can do about it.

Quick Take: Schools Are Surveilling Students. It’s Not Working.
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The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor How a Thirteen-Year-Old Black Girl Disappeared from the Flag She Helped Create

7M people protested yesterday in order to preserve the value freedom, read here about one important yet hidden contributor to our flag history.
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Quick Take: 800 Million People Used ChatGPT Last Week—What Does That Mean for Your Classroom? When everyone uses the same tool to think, what happens to diversity of ideas?

Quick Take: 800 Million People Used ChatGPT Last Week—What Does That Mean for Your Classroom?
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Oh yeah, no question. It's a huge problem.

Thanks!

Classroom Ready: Teaching Data Visualization as Justice Work Help students decode scientific graphs that document environmental racism—and understand why data literacy is a justice skill

Classroom Ready: Teaching Data Visualization as Justice Work
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Case Study: The Rondo Neighborhood: When I-94 Erased Black St. Paul Infrastructure as racial violence—a Minnesota story

Case Study: The Rondo Neighborhood: When I-94 Erased Black St. Paul
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Quick Take: The ENIAC Six Get Their Names Back—80 Years Later Teaching students why credit matters, who gets erased from tech history, and how to spot the pattern

Quick Take: The ENIAC Six Get Their Names Back—80 Years Later
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Pumpkin Pie as Political Weapon: When Dessert Became a Culture War How Sarah Josepha Hale turned regional foodways into national tradition—and why Southern states resisted with sweet potato pie

Pumpkin Pie as Political Weapon: When Dessert Became a Culture War
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Hexagonal Thinking: Making Power Visible Through Connection A spatial method for critical analysis that reveals whose stories get connected—and whose get separated

Hexagonal Thinking: Making Power Visible Through Connection
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The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor How a Thirteen-Year-Old Black Girl Disappeared from the Flag She Helped Create

The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor
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Deep Dive: When Labor Art Meets Digital Justice How Civil Rights Murals Navigate the Digital Divide

Deep Dive: When Labor Art Meets Digital Justice
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I saw a stat that said 90% of viewership/readership is now owned by 6 people/corporations. If true, that’s alarming.

Schools and the Prison-Industrial complex have more in common than we should accept.

I am astonished at the popularity of it all. I don’t understand.

Minnesota MCA test. Never has it been more clear to me this standardized testing is setup for kids to struggle. Below part of what I texted to a friend.

This is what the mean by “fight” when soliciting donations.

I assume that’s the plan. Will any institution have strength and willingness to stop it?

Necropolitics.

Bots for tech support are terrible

MN state fair continues: BLM protests clog up traffic, bystanders start chanting “let’s go ICE.” I hate it here.

The Venn diagram of people at the Walz Lies booth and the Jesus is King- Royce White for Senate booth is a circle

I’ve actually been at a training for schools that has made that suggestion