Carly Berwick

Just ~8 years out from Black Mirror, Metalhead episode

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

New paper on AI as carceral in schools: Tanksley and Cabral "consider how the proliferation of AI technologies into K-12 schools has worked to hide, speed up, and automate educational inequities for Black students, giving rise to a techno-educational carceral apparatus": www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/6/...

Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ Rather than promoting deeper literacy skills, the phonics-based approach 'may unintentionally encourage teachers to focus on surface-level goals.'

Report: In Some Urban Districts, Science of Reading Limits ‘Robust Comprehension’ www.the74million.org/article/repo...

**TONIGHT** - Join #literacies chat as we discuss Navigating the #literacies Job Market: Sustaining Practices for Academics

SOCIAL SCIENCES, EDUCATION & SOCIAL RESEARCH – DOCTORAL POSITIONS (SSH CALL 2026) at University of Vienna in Vienna, AUSTRIA Jan 19, 2026 | Job description:The University of Vienna is a community of almost 11,000 individuals, including approximately 7,700 academic staff members, who... | NEW JOB

Funded social science and education PhDs at University of Vienna, deadline 3/2/26. Great opportunity to get paid to do research in another country. #edusky #teaching www.researchgate.net/job/1034778_...

I like this a lot but feel my middle school students don’t have enough emotional awareness of when they might veer right instead of left. They might need to practice identifying affective response to work in class before as scaffolding. But I should try it with them before I speak for them :)

They get a choice of which articles to bring in but they have to be reported by newspapers or magazines that fact check. Some bring in culture pieces; some go right there. I try to just provide context if needed without commenting.

Yes they are in both history and ELA in my school

Less than 15% of NYC schools have a librarian. Is your child’s school one of them? Advocates say librarians are essential for students, but NYC schools don’t have enough librarians.

Librarians not only improve learning but also help students with media literacy—a critical skill today. In their absence, this skill falls to the English teacher already pressed to help kids read fluently and write across disciplines. www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

Maybe then Language & Literature (what IB calls it in HS)? ELA is def middle school—the arts part feels like a feint, when district focus (for us at least) is on testing and HS placement. But in the abstract ideal, language arts could also work.

This graphic reminds me of artist Marc Lombardi's mapping of Bush-era entanglements; Trump's grift has exponentially magnified what were once "webs of scandal": curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/...

I think English for no real reason than an aversion to the Orwellian tinge of ELA but wish there were a better alternative since it uses the name of a language for a set of practices. Maybe we could replace English/ELA entirely with literacies or liteature or language and culture.

Honored to be nominated for a Pushcart by @terrainorg.bsky.social for my story “Sea Minks” www.terrain.org/2025/fiction...

Ok thanks! I guess I thought the scholarly and self aware practice communities were already on board with literacies and multi literacies. It seems like this maybe is about addressing gaps in classroom practices?

I’m interested but don’t understand the fundamental distinction being made so don’t understand the call. Is that the point? Or is literacy being strictly construed as “learning how to read”? Or?

Did annual cocoa house reading with students—everyone reads an excerpt from their work while I make hot cocoa or tea. Students said it felt weird and disrespectful . . . to have the teacher serve them. So they took tea&cocoa orders and mixed the cocoa for their peers. (I manned boiling water fwiw.)

Someone I know who used to work at one of the many Ed-tech reading companies that rely on our current framework for “literacy” told me that the company’s “bread and butter” were Title 1 middle schools, and I think we should keep that front/center in the reading convo

There is a sampling bias in this article. They put out a survey and those who responded were more likely to be those who feel there are not enough full texts. Still most of the teachers interviewed say they do in fact assign full novels just as you do.

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.

OMG this again. Most of the teachers interviewed actually say they ARE reading novels with students. Prepackaged curricula are a problem. So don't use them, like teachers quoted here. Where is the "rarely" coming from (other than self-selecting survey responders)? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

As Museums Raise Ticketing Prices, MoMA PS1 Will Offer Free Admission for All MoMA PS1 will offer free admission for all for three years, thanks to a gift from collector Sonya Yu.

This is amazing. Love it: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Such is an amazing list of authors; shocking that they haven’t won one of the major prizes, but one will now.

It’s hard to go to? Wdym it’s hard to get to—just take the PATH to Newark Penn then transfer to NJ Transit then get on the air train. 🤷‍♀️

This U.S. Airport Was Just Ranked the Most Stressful in the World New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) ranked the world's most stressful airport, according to a study.

We’re #1! And honestly most people just can’t handle how we do things here. www.travelandleisure.com/most-stressf...

No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement The American Educational Research Association recently released a study finding that universal SEL programs (” delivered to all students in a specific classroom, grade, school, or scho…

No Shocker To Teachers, But New Study Finds SEL Helps Students’ Academic Achievement larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/12/04/n...

What do the colors represent?

All mail-ins so far though, no?

NYC used to send NJ its trash; now we get its garbage data and higher utility bills.

Wore what I thought was an Audrey Hepburn-esque black turtleneck today; an 8th grader called me Professor Snape. 🫶

I would like 1) not to grade/work/plan on weekends/vacations and miss important family and down time and 2) have health insurance for my family. Those desires are mutually incompatible. This is about universal health care.