Christine Esposito

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

The sun shining on a small gray round table with muffin, an iced tea, an open book, a closed notebook and sunglasses.

Today the weather is going to be beautiful. I’ve set up with a book, some iced tea, a blueberry muffin, a book on the Plantagenets and a brand new journal for note-taking. As I’m going to do a deliberate deep dive on medieval England.

And, to quote @heymrsbond.com this morning: What the fuck?

I always tell the teachers that I work with if I'm not working as hard as they are, I'm not doing my job. You want something made, you want to look at something differently, you need someone to make differentiated materials - I'm your person.

I'm late to this, but I'm going to say that there are people who leave the classroom who make a conscious effort not to forget what it's like in the classroom. No one is perfect, but if you go into w/the mindset that your job is to make a teacher's job easier, it helps.

Would love to start some nonfiction middle school book clubs and/or paired book clubs w/fiction & nonfiction on similar topics or themes.

The school has a small pot of money for this, so I'd love suggestions.

The Trump Administration Can’t Kill Black History Month We don’t need permission from the government to commemorate a complex past.

Last week, my mother took me and my kids to see the school where, 60 years ago, she was among the first wave of Black students to integrate a previously all-White school. We wanted to remind my kids that Black history is not just famous people in textbooks, it is often the people right next to you.

I am so excited for you!

We print a K-12 art & literary anthology every year. The deadline to submit for each school is Monday, naturally I'm still at work on Friday at 6 pm still working on it.

I want to ask permission to share one of the pieces here, but let me tell you something - the kids aren't here for the bullshit.

Yay! I’m glad. This is exactly what I save my Amazon points for.

You can't do the work you're doing without calculators! I'm happy to help.

A clear, upside down tub with white yarn going in four different directions. You can't see them, but there are goldfish crumbs under the box.

There's a song sparrow trapped in our office. We have high ceilings so the critter people couldn't catch it this morning.

Tell me you share an office with the science facilitator without telling me you share an office with the science facilitator.

Check out my list on Amazon

Hey y’all! My classroom could use a few items. Most importantly, I am short 5 calculators to make a class set.

If you are willing to help, here is the link: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Thank you!

According to Amazon, you should have a class set by sometime tomorrow!

Dear @libbyapp.com: I was just pitched by your PR firm to promote Libby as part of the "bookmaxxing" trend and I would like to strongly urge you to rethink associating your app with a trend with origins in white-supremacist/manosphere spaces. The idea that reading is something to optimize is gross.

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.”

Jessie Jackson
REST IN PEACE

I'm glad you have an answer & that it leads to a treatment plan has you feeling more yourself.

Also, don't shit talk abt an amazing human who is, at the end of the day, still only human. You are 1 of the least lazy ppl I know & though I know you only here, I know you are the best mom for your kids.

Most of those there are sent to Kulmhof — Chełmno — where they will be murdered in gas vans, and the rest are sent to Auschwitz, where they will be murdered with Zyklon B in modern gas chambers. And here we see the truth of what President Van der Bellen said: “Auschwitz didn’t suddenly fall from the sky.” Auschwitz crept up, tiptoed along with small steps, moved closer and closer, until the things that happened here began. My daughter, my granddaughter, peers of my daughter, peers of my granddaughter — perhaps you do not know the name of Primo Levi. Primo Levi was one of the most well-known prisoners of this camp. He once coined the phrase: “It happened, therefore it can happen again, it can happen everywhere.”

"Auschwitz crept up, tiptoed along with small steps, moved closer and closer, until the things that happened here began...Primo Levi was one of the most well-known prisoners of this camp. He once coined the phrase: 'It happened, therefore it can happen again, it can happen everywhere.'"

Writing is thinking.

Not a product, not content, not an inefficient task that impedes workflow.

Remove writing, remove thinking. Remove thinking, remove ...

Takes a special kinda special to be MAGA.

I'm working on it. In the meantime, I schedule send so that my work habits/issues don't become someone else's.

MT: Scooby? What does she look like?
Me: No. Scooby is a dog.
MT: He married a DOG?!
Me: ...

So. Here's me feeling really old AND I'm going to be cackling all day long.

Every Friday in February we do something fun.

Today in your mailbox, you get a picture of half of a famous couple and you have to find your partner to win a prize. My favorite new Gen Z math teacher gets Shaggy. She has no idea who Shaggy is and I have to tell her she's looking for Scooby....

Oh! I've read two of these. I LOVED The Marvellers and Legendborn.

I'll have to add the other two to my list. I'm always looking for books that aren't that HP trash to recommend to kids.

Today was a solid reminder why I have forbidden myself from making career decisions in February and March.

Tomorrow will be better.

I hope.

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned.

(Yes it’s good character detail.)

Bad Bunny’s beautiful and joyful portrayal of Puerto Rico stands on the shoulders of Kendrick Lamar’s love letter to Compton last year.

Watching the biggest performance in the world become a representation of real people in real, American places is beautiful. #SuperBowl

Dear white America,

Just a reminder that you can just keep your mouth shut if you don't understand a thing, especially when that thing is celebrating an America you often choose not to see.

What do the directions say?

I used to have to tell parents this all the time during conferences, usually in response to a gifted child who seemed fine during the day and melted into a ball of stress at home.

It's so hard.

Page one of CEA's response to CCS's board statement. Click link for the PDF version.

Page two of CEA's response to CCS's board statement. Click link for the PDF version.

CEA's response to CCS's Friday afternoon email.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Z4Ym...