Tom Marshall

#writeout with Write Out pencil-tree logo and text "Begins Today! writeout.nwp.org" on dark gray circle on green to blue gradient with waves as the background.

Write Out is a free two-week celebration that will run today through the 26th. The goal is to be inspired by the world around us and to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. You can do #writeout for an hour, a day, or all week long! Learn more at writeout.nwp.org #writeout

Mark this moment: another example of #history being erased before our very eyes. 😳 #HandsOff #Smithsonian #Edusky #sschat #teachable #Orwell #dystopia

I’m not missing that point, I’m just not making that point. I can hate the racism and also admire his resistance. It’s not an either/or, both things are true!

This is so powerful, worth sharing with students! It’s a powerful example of self-control in the service of a greater good. #Sschat #EduSky #teachable #nonviolence

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: 'You can smell it, touch it, see it' At New York City's Tenement Museum, high schoolers explore the American experience through the eyes of one 1860s-era Black family.

How can we make real #history
come alive in the #AI age? The answer — take kids out into the world to see and feel and imagine it for themselves — lies in this lovely #NPR story about the
#TenementMuseum in #NYC. Please pass it on! #EduSky #SSChat #teachable

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Exploring Barcelona's Architecture Through a Mathematical Lens (Gift Article) A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.

Oooooh, so #teachable!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Math #Barcelona #NYT

Thank you for sharing this! What a radical idea: “Peace is the most courageous, the most practical, the most necessary pursuit of all.” Please pass it on! #EduSky #Sschat #peace #education

Amen! Like a voice from the last century. Remember these things? 🙄

Either that or they were sorting out how to throw Zelenskyy *under* the limo…

My bet is that one of them kept his poker face on but was highly amused by the weird, circa 1986 banter that he heard in the backseat of that limo. He will share this moment with comrades over well-chilled vodka for years to come. 🙄

Join the movement. We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.

Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Lol, yes! I believe the poets in Washington, D.C., could use a bit of love, tea & biscuits, and a steady supply of pens at this point! 🫖 🍪 ✍️ ❤️

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR (Gift Article) The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

Looking for a useful way to #resist? Don’t just support your blue-state #PublicRadio station. Find one in a red state that’s struggling and shoot a few dollars their way. Helping these isolated voices of reason to survive could make all the difference! Please repost. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lessons in Mathematics by Amy Dougher-Solórzano - Rattle: Poetry My father taught me everything except geometry. (He’d never seen it.) Once we got beyond arithmetic, he couldn’t help with homework.

I love this poem: so many worlds in so few words.
"The calculus of poverty
is its own rigged lottery,
but his eyes would glisten
when he talked about the mess
at Long Binh:
the math of feeding all those mouths,
the giant bags of flour, the powdered eggs."

Full Moon on Suicide Watch by Salma Amrou - Rattle: Poetry I am trying to write a poem about fifteen Egyptian detainees who attempted suicide in the last two weeks alone.

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

Love this! It takes a tired #backtoschool trope and brings it back to life in a way that will crack up jaded teens and help them make connections. #SEL

YouTube video by Johnny Clegg - Topic Cruel Crazy Beautiful World

(And for those who recognize my “cruel crazy” reference to the great South African musician Johnny Clegg, enjoy :) youtu.be/lK6oR5NwHFM?...

Full Moon on Suicide Watch by Salma Amrou - Rattle: Poetry I am trying to write a poem about fifteen Egyptian detainees who attempted suicide in the last two weeks alone.

Damn. This is why I love @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. Where #poetry butts heads every day with this cruel, crazy, beautiful world we see in the #news on our phones. Finding beauty even in pure ugliness. rattle.com/full-moon-on... #Egypt #HumanRights

From Rebel to Statesman: Teaching About the Life of Nelson Mandela In this lesson students and teachers can follow the evolution of Nelson Mandela in archival articles from The New York Times, from his early years as a jailed dissident in apartheid South Africa to hi...

Thanks for sharing this valuable resource! Just to add to the riches, here is a package on Mandela’s life and times which I wrote for the NYT Learning Network shortly after his death. archive.nytimes.com/learning.blo...

Here's Colbert on July 14 making fun of Paramount for paying Trump $16 million. It's hard not to see CBS canceling his show through this lens.

"I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles. It's big fat bribe."

Butter knife, just 1/4 turn gently, Pop! and it’s open:)

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Inspiring story about one public library’s struggles to survive in a very overheated (at least Fahrenheit 451 degrees) political climate. #HandsOff #Writing #Edusky #writing #censorship

lithub.com/a-virginia-p...

Chit Chat by Alison Davis - Rattle: Poetry My daughter wants to know if she can touch the bones of the deer carcass on the shoulder of the busy road. Yes, I say, and we touch them together.

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

Chit Chat by Alison Davis - Rattle: Poetry My daughter wants to know if she can touch the bones of the deer carcass on the shoulder of the busy road. Yes, I say, and we touch them together.

Really love this Alison Davis #poem @rattlepoetry.bsky.social. It captures something lovely about being a parent, working with kids, and the importance of staying positive in these dark times. Please pass it on! rattle.com/chit-chat-by... #poetry #writing #edusky #k12

I believe we are quite literally in don’t-give-him-any-new-ideas territory here 🙄

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid