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The CSUN Writing Project is hosting a virtual book club discussion of my forthcoming book, Helping Students Become Climate Stewards (out in 5 days)! Register for the Zoom link: csun.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Image of my dinner table during soup night. Butternut squash soup is the main dish.

Autumn means soup nights 🍁🧡

Image of the cover of my forthcoming book, Helping Students Become Climate Stewards.

My book, Helping Students Become Climate Stewards, is available for pre-ordering from @routledgebooks.bsky.social! How do we tackle barriers to participating in solutions? It begins with addressing underlying mindsets and interrogating narrative framing in the information landscape. #booksky

“A writing voice is crafted by where you live your reading life.” Katie Wood Ray ♥️♥️♥️ @theedcollab.bsky.social #thedcollabgathering.

Katie Wood Ray speaks powerfully about the role of sonic evaluation in revision. Love this Gathering! #TheEdCollab @theedcollab.bsky.social

Visit gathering.TheEdCollab.com to view the full schedule. This image has a shortened agenda listed.

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Image of the conference theme: For Students. Bold black text on a violet background with the date and time.

🎉TOMORROW! Saturday, Sept 20.

Our Fall 2025 Gathering kicks off at 10AM EST / 7AM PST

Register:
Gathering.TheEducatorCollaborative.com

“The Atlantic” Announces That Every U.S. High School Get Get Free Subscription For All Students & Staff The Atlantic sometimes publishes some weird articles, but most of what do is pretty good. They just announced that all high schools can get free digital subscriptions: Starting today, The At…

“The Atlantic” Announces That Every U.S. High School Get Get Free Subscription For All Students & Staff larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/09/16/t...

Join us Sat for the Fall 2025 #TheEdCollabGathering with the *wonder-full* Stella Villalba and Katie Wood Ray. All are welcome: theeducatorcollaborative.com/wp-content/u...
@jessicawalshedu.bsky.social @theedcollab.bsky.social

Image of a conference poster promoting the Fall 2025 Gathering, a K-12 Literacy Conference taking place virtually this Saturday, 9/20.

I'm giving a book talk THIS Saturday (9 am PST/12 pm EST). Looking forward to conference keynotes KATIE WOOD RAY and STELLA VILLALBA.

Join me at the 2025 Fall @TheEdCollab Gathering!
Sat, Sept 20. Free, online literacy conference.
Site: Gathering.TheEdCollab.com
@TheEdCollab #TheEdCollab

Comfy blanket ✔ hot coffee, tea or similar ✔ laptop ✔ Ready for the @theedcollab.bsky.social Fall Gathering 9/20/2025 ✔
@ichrislehman.bsky.social

Reminder that muting specific words on social media for a day, a week, a month, or even forever can be laudatory self-care.

I’m ambivalent on phone bans in schools, but it does irk me that much of the energy that could/should be spent addressing these foundational issues ⤵️ will now be spent arguing about phone policies & procedures.

So kids will still feel bored/alienated but now they can’t DM about it. Cool I guess?

This person is a charlatan. Why is there so much uncritical coverage of this obvious nonsense? Where is the actual journalism?

On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”

A Peregrine Falcon stands with its back turned but glances over its shoulder with a fierce, unimpressed stare - as if someone just wished it a “Happy Monday” and it’s not having it. Its feathers are fluffed and its expression says: absolutely not.

When you hear "Happy Monday!" but you haven't had your coffee.

#MondayMotivation

📷 Peter Christian

Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe Global Weirding: Climate, Politics, and Religion with Katharine Hayhoe is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other Wednesday at 10 am c...

And I have a YouTube series, Global Weirding, that explains how climate change affects extreme weather, what models can be used for, how CO2 is a pollutant, and more.

This is a great opportunity to use your voice to advocate for accurate info we need to plan for a safer, better future for us all.

Image of late stage Monarch chrysalis.

Witnessing transformation ✨️

#Monarchbutterfly #chrysalis #Nature #photography

Oh shit this is real

Thank you! 💛

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I’m thrilled to be a member of the Educator Collaborative 2025-2027 Associate Cohort! I’m looking forward to dialogue that seeks to honor the gifts and assets both educators and students bring to learning spaces.

#TheEdCollab @theedcollab.bsky.social

YouTube video by Broken Copier Talking About What Matters with Matt Kay

If you have 5 minutes this weekend, listen to this clip of @mattrkay.bsky.social walking through his guidance towards teachers who are hesitant about facilitating more-challenging discussions in their classroom.

(Also: this is why we need to listen to teachers.)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx8p...

Re:Building School 2.0 10 years ago, the book that Zac and I co-wrote – Building School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need – was released into the wild. In revisiting that book, Zac and I both find that while it was fun and challenging to essentially put everything we believed about education at the time into one book, with almost every chapter there is so much more to be said.

New Post: Re:Building School 2.0

10 years after we published our book, Zac and I are revisiting our ideas and talking more about how we can make our schools more authentic, healthier places for all of us.

Learn more and join us!

A picture of a gray cat on the bed, bright eyed and bushy tailed at 6 AM, wondering why he has not got all the pats he deserves for someone of such stunning cuteness.

Good news! Mr. Jekyll has finally decided on his dissertation topic in the field of Advanced Feline Evil:

“How to Keep an Entire House Up All Night Because I Want Attention.”

He’s also got a solid start on his appendix, “Bathroom destruction tactics during a 5AM time out.”

PhD pending.

#caturday

“It is a mockery on the part of Little League to keep us here in Bogotá with the hope that our children can fulfill their dreams of participating in a world championship,” the team's statement said. “What do we do with so much injustice, what do we do with the pain that was caused to our children?”

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

This 100% www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

This statement in particular, from Andrea Gibson…

Mini Moves for Every Writer Whether used in classrooms or across the district, this source will provide a path to successful writing instruction in content areas like mathematics, science, and history. Educators using this guide...

So excited to share my new book is out in the world! It's beautiful, but it's also SO practical -- including videos to show your students, workbook reproducibles to print. I can't wait for you to see it! Available from Solution Tree or on Amazon!

www.solutiontree.com/mini-moves-f...

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Running Orders" introduction post for #PoemADayJuly

Full text of "Running Orders" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

"They call us now, / before they drop the bombs."

We're beginning Week 2 of #PoemADayJuly with "Running Orders" by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha and, yes, this poem is so much and too much and, because of that so much and too much, very worthy of conversation.

@thevogelman.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com

Do I need a new prescription for my computer glasses or do I just need to clean them with a microfiber cloth

Test of Places with Terrible Wi-Fi by J. Estanislao Lopez

1/3 Oscillation and vacillation-- I think the personal lines contrast w/others showing his inability to grasp the experience as a whole. It's too much. His mind zooms in and out--past & future, old & new, abstract & concrete, memories & actions, short & long moments. Thus could #PoemADayJuly