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@teaching187days.bsky.social

High school social studies teacher. Ninja. Wizard. Jedi Master. Blogger of excellent classroom adventures at https://187days.tumblr.com/

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Day Forty-Six - 187days It’s Halloween! Originally posted by dattebayomemes School was full of costumed students and staff. The science teachers were mad scientists, Mrs. R was a witch, Mr. F was a dinosaur (he totall...

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31.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Forty-Five - 187days I don’t think I’ve actually written about this very much, but the difference between last year’s ninth grade class and this year’s ninth grade class is enormous. This year’s class arrived so much more...

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30.10.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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29.10.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every time I teach my APGOV students about an aspect of the government, they ask a bunch of hypotheticals to try to figure out whether it can be broken/exploited/corrupted. That's telling about their political socialization.

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Day Forty-Three - 187days This morning, I redid my Global Studies lesson by taking a reading assignment and turning it into a presentation on slides. It was about some of the customs and traditions in Christianity, particularl...

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28.10.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Forty-Two - 187days Today was so squirrely, and the fact that we had a fire drill with new evacuation procedures did not help. I mean, the new procedures do help- the whole process is more efficient- but students were so...

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28.10.2025 02:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Friend who saw me checking tickets at the last football game was not prepared for just how aggressively I can fake being an extrovert. But I basically do it daily as a teacher, so I’ve gotten lots of practice.

25.10.2025 23:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ew. Criminal on any day.

25.10.2025 02:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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25.10.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had parent-teacher conferences today until 5:30, have a packed teacher workshop day tomorrow. But! Our traditional potluck lunch is happening, so obviously I made pie.

24.10.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Forty - 187days Today was an early dismissal day for students, and a late afternoon for teachers because we had parent-teacher conference time. We had 15-minute conference slots parents could sign up for from 12:45-5...

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Day Thirty-Nine - 187days Today my Global Studies students shared out the research they’d done last class about important days in Judaism- various holidays, Shabbat, bar/bat mitzvahs- and identified some common customs, simila...

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Day Thirty-Eight - 187days I spent most of my prep time proofreading papers for my APGOV students, then writing the one remaining college rec I’d been asked to write (so far- I might get more requests). Then spent most of flex ...

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21.10.2025 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a test coming up in APGOV, and originally I planned to give it on November 4th and 5th (MCQs one day, FRQs the next). But I forgot there's an early dismissal on the 5th, so I have to move the test back... to November 6th and 7th. Those numbers are haunting me now.

21.10.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Thirty-Seven - 187days I usually arrive last-minute in the morning since I don’t have a class during Block 1, but today I got there fifteen minutes or so before the opening bell, which was good because Mr. O needed to talk ...

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21.10.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our football team got crushed tonight, but they raised thousands of dollars for cancer research- in honor of one of our recent graduates- and that's amazing. Proud of those boys.

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Day Thirty-Six - 187days One of our recent graduates- Mr. B’s son- is battling cancer (longtime readers of this blog will know this), and the football team’s been raising money for cancer research all season in his honor. Ton...

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Day Thirty-Five - 187days Today was one of those teaching days that made my throat sore, and not because I was yelling or anything like that. Nothing bad. I just did a lot of talking. It’s time for a new unit in Global Stud...

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Every administrator in my building was wicked busy today. Why? Unclear. Just one of those days in which everything happened at once, I guess. My little corner of the school was pretty chill, though, so that's a win for me.

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@187days Β· 187 Days of Teaching The classroom adventures of a high school social studies teacher. Always happy to chat about this extraordinary profession!

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10.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing: one of my sprinters coming to show me her recruiting letter this morning.

10.10.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Thirty-One - 187days Today was busy. I spent my prep time calendaring out my next APGOV unit, proofreading essay drafts for my Global Studies students, and helping the new teachers with a variety of little things. D...

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09.10.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of my students speaks Spanish as his first language, and ever since he found out that I can speak it passably well, too, we’ve been having a bilingual chat before the bell. It’s super fun when his classmates hear me switch languages because they look at me like I’m magic.

09.10.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Thirty - 187days My morning was interesting. There was a major traffic back-up on the road to the school because off construction, so I- and several of my colleagues- arrived later than we usually do. We were still on...

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Day Twenty-Nine - 187days I didn’t have much to do for my courses during my prep time today, so I took care of one of my responsibilities as a department head instead. I did walkthrough observations of Ms. K and Mr. O, wrote u...

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07.10.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Day Twenty-Eight - 187days One of my students’ current events write-ups was flagged as being AI-generated, so that meant an email home to parents and a conversation before class: showing the AI detector report, showing the edit...

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06.10.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My brother and I have joke around for years about whose job is wilder. It's a real toss-up these days.

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