Allison Rabenau

Exactly the right quote, every single time.

Does this work with yarns other than wool?

A shelf?

Perhaps an extra bonus of NYC's election results will be a boost for #Multilingualism ? Mamdani campaigned in English, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Yiddish, and Bengali, as well as featuring Mandarin and ASL in his materials. #ELLChat #translanguaging #MLLs #EduSky #ELLSA

Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave

I’ve been lucky enough to have more time for reading this autumn, and it has been wonderful. I never write a novel, but I will definitely try NaNoReMo!

Care for us? True indeed! They ne’er car’d for us yet. Suffer us to famish, and their store-houses cramm’d with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act establish’d against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor.

They should lose their license, be reported to social services, and go to jail for child endangerment.

One place you can still find such amazing craftspeople is the folks who make and maintain costumes for Broadway and touring companies. - Brought to mind since Wicked (designed by Susan Hilferty, wardrobe supervision by the legendary Alyce Gilbert) features umbrella-like wings on the flying monkeys.

[Exit King.]

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

I've been re-watching the first season, and it's so sad to remember how different it was just a few years ago - lines like 'when we had a dangerous head of state' seemed safely in the past.

So close - 99.5%! #scarletquince

An extremely interesting thread about the true cost of making clothing. Worth reading all of it!

Gola is not convinced that this whole hammock thing is a good idea. #Caturday

AAARRGGGH... *whole hammock thing

My current favourite black medicine water is #Chennai filter kaapi.

Many thanks to AISC for hosting! Can't wait to continue the discussion at the next meeting. #ELLSA

The Chennai chapter of ELLSA had our 1st meeting of the year - the first to include teachers from other schools in Chennai, which has long been a goal. We looked at student writing through the lens of language acquisition. It was great to make connections between our schools and share approaches!

#vinylandbrew @megvaidydesign

Art Attack + coffee = a lovely way to spend a Sunday.

EHppie-tome, HYperbowl, paraBOWLa, the Sooks and IROkwoyz tribes. I still am stumped by ‘hegemony’.

I do too - it’s so sad to see what has happened to a once great paper.

#scarletquince

First embroidery session since breaking my shoulder - very therapeutic!

So begins year 22 of teaching, year 19 overseas (11 years total in India) and year 5 at AISC! I’m excited to see how my new role works out and to explore more independent work as well.

Useful for fitting report card comments into short character counts as well! And as an extra bonus, it makes them easier to read for multilingual parents.

There is a beautiful graphic version as well.

Last day of the 24/25 school year - and my last day as a full-time teacher at AISC. I will be moving into a part time role, and I look forward to exploring a bit of independent work as well.

Yes, I read it WAY to young - the ending still traumatises me. Double plus ungood!