Angela Stockman

I'm mad at Mark Cuban right now, but okay...I'll read because it was you who shared, Don.

AHHHHHH! Happy, happy new year sweet friends! Love it.

And I have so many female friends who are cognizant of this--what we do to each other in such climates. I have so many more who are not, and I'll be honest--navigating all of it was incredibly demoralizing. Tough culture.

I'm offended for you. I adjunct now but once was full time faculty in higher ed, a full time instructional designer, and even did a brief stint as a higher level administrator as well. No doctorate. This weaponized against me a few times--mostly by women. Scarcity does awful things to culture.

The Border is Invading America www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/o...

@angelastockman.bsky.social

Sure-- I'll write a short series of open posts over the next couple of weeks and share here. One big, quick 💡is it's not just about knowing your current self and identity well and Ts being responsive, but intentionally using learning experiences (even those we don't choose) to shape with intention.

I've been deliberately folding this sort of identity work into lesson, unit, and K-12 curriculum design. Not "share your identity" but "hmw use this experience to curate identity capital?" and then, "HMW use that capital to consider our strengths and needs and fit in other contexts?"

I need to try harder. Just blowing the dust off...

Also, hi Jenn! It's still pretty quiet here, eh?

Yeah, Zac was talking about this w/me last week. Reminded me: In their unpredictable industry, they have to constantly build identity capital w/intention. Said he had a few Ts who taught him how, explicitly.Made him more open-minded and creative. Able to learn in any context. Constraint=creativity.

Be/Amusing #PairedTexts in my inbox this morning.

This is absolutely correct AND teachers are bombarded with the message that if a parent's child does not like school or finds it boring, it's a problem for the teacher to fix.

It so often seems that the real challenge at hand is convincing parents their child is a child; nothing more, nothing less.

Been reading and learning much about identity capital in recent weeks, and it gave me great hope. We can learn how to build identity capital in every single context we find ourselves in--chosen or not. If we're self-aware, even things we find boring help us build this capital. Makes us scrappy.

My pedagogical practice in diagram. #TeacherSky #EduSky

I left this uncommon thought about how we might respond to book bans and other nefarious mandates on Insta this morning (limits here prevent a direct upload). www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...

Thanks! We use Otter.ai to capture the stories shared as these artifacts are hung other. It helps us code the qualitative data and recognize patterns. The book feels like a scrapbook. Our data work is story making. Performance is also improving. This will be our third year together....

So worth it. Especially now. I find that that dedicated practice is a sort of self care. Documenting dignifies our learning and work, especially when it's hard.

Documentation helps us capture and elevate those data. They truly matter. Looks like this in my small world.

I hear you. I've been pushing back a bit on common understandings of triangulation and multiple measures because I experience the same. I find that when we gather evidence of learning and mastery from tasks, talk, and behavioral tendencies and look for patterns across,we warm things up a bit better.

This. This. This.

Ohio friends! Are you here? I hope you'll join me and @mandyrobek.bsky.social in @frankisibberson.bsky.social 's beautiful new creative space this fall and again in the spring. This invitation is making my heart so happy!

One of my (semi) hot takes is that most AI hacking can be avoided by better learning design. The assessments & practices shared here aren’t reactionary countermeasures, they’re fantastic examples of teaching built on the 5Es of sensemaking (i.e. the principles that make human cognition unique).

When my daughter was little, we participated in BookCrossing adventures often. Love: www.bookcrossing.com

Tap tap tap...this thing still on?

I took the summer off from most social media, all.

Looking forward to being more present here as our new school year begins.

I hope everyone is hanging in there. xo

This invitation has me grinning, friends. I hope you'll join us!

How incredibly dumb and damaging.

a man in a suit and tie is playing drums . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is playing drums .

That's a beautiful ritual! Or should we call it a RICHual?

I facilitate a monthly community of practice for educators committed to pedagogical documentation. We're meeting on Zoom this evening at 7pm EST. If you'd like to join us, drop me a message. I'll make sure you have the information that you need. We're a friendly bunch. We'd love to see you! Free.

Human Restoration Project is proud to sponsor the Mental Health Summit 2025 Youth Panel in Banff, Alberta on Saturday, April 12th, moderated by HRP's own Cassie Nastase! Will we see you there?

www.mentalhealthinschoolsummit.com