Tim Monreal

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-28

César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College 2026-28, due 2/1. Had this fellowship in 2008, and so many good things came from it. lalacs.dartmouth.edu/our-fellowsh...

Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.

Coming to Buffalo tonight!!

“No me dejaran ir porque they needed me here”: spatializing corrective representatives by critiquing Latinx teacher role model discourse This article examines the formations and tensions of Latinx teacher role model subject positions in spaces with relatively few Latinx teachers. To address the under theorization of space and Latinx...

Monreal, T. (2025). “No me dejaran ir porque they needed me here”: Spatializing corrective representatives by critiquing Latinx teacher role model discourse. Race Ethnicity and Education, 28(1), 56–75.

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“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school

I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.

#abolishICE #abolishCBP #freeCharlotte

Looks like a dream gig! Apply!

A flyer describing the current study. It says: Interested in Belonging-Centered Instruction? We are looking for middle- and high-school math teachers to participate in a study examining the relationship between Belonging-Centered Instruction and mathematical thinking and learning. The study will take place in Spring / Fall 2025. What you will be asked to do: Meet with our research team to discuss our study goals and your interests; record 3 math lessons and share them with our research team; lead students through math survey and assessments (~30 minutes), all data and information will be kept confidential. Benefits of participating: Participating teachers will receive a $100 gift card as a thank you for participating; We will work with you to provide resources, information, and support regarding Belonging-Centered Instruction. It also provides information about the PIs: Elena Silla is a PhD candidate studying Education at the University of Delaware. She is also a former 4th grade teacher. Dr. Christina Areizaga Barbieri is an associate professor of education at the University of Delaware. Please contact Elena Silla (esilla@udel.edu) if interested!

Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Hundreds of millions of people use it. Trillions of dollars fuel it. In 2025, the conversation around AI turned from what it could be to what it is: Large language models are now everywhere, in our schools and our homes, on therapist couches and government computers. We feed it our data, and tell it our secrets. The world is collectively engaged in a live experiment, with few controls and almost no regulation; the best-case and the worst-case scenarios all seem to end with our planet being forever transformed.

Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.

Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.

"which typically do at least gesture towards building students' cognitive capabilities. "AI," to the contrary, serves to undermine these – undermine cognition, autonomy, and agency."

Now Is the Time of Monsters "AI slop is winning," writes The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel. By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’v...

"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."

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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.

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literally me in every faculty meeting 😭

Geno watches as God raptures a teammate after hitting a grand slam

Geno got someone on the bench raptured with that grand slam

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

The thing that bothers me so much is not the “we have to enforce our borders and laws.” We do.

It’s the giddy joy and celebration they have at the misery of people far less fortunate.

Always punching down

Just like Jesus taught...

Too often, tech creates logistical problems that disrupt learning.

My 6th grader's school, for ex, uses Chromebooks for everything. But the kids haven't learned typing, so work takes longer than by hand. And they often forget to charge the devices at home, so class gets wasted trying to plug in.

Go team euro

The Best of the Texas Tornadoes

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

The UN report makes plain what so many families in Gaza have been living through: the deliberate destruction of Palestinians.

We have a moral responsibility to stop enabling this genocide and hold Israel accountable.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”