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Freshman English and I have a 6/7 period class that makes me want to jump off a bridge 🫠

I don’t care about Taylor cosplaying as an English teacher. It’s the best job in the world!

What I do care about is the silence of multi-millionaires & billionaires as actual teachers consider how to pay for groceries while praying we’re not gunned down at work or arrested for teaching books.

They both are!

I had to do a double take because I thought it was my cat Kirby haha

We Need to Talk About the Pink-Pill Pipeline You can't slap a tiara on a human rights crisis and call it the 'princess treatment'

They’re depoliticizing women’s subjugation.

Every “day in the life” video of a 20-year-old laying out her husband’s socks, and every magazine spread of a stay-at-home mom with five kids in matching beige outfits, take women’s subservience and make it…cutesy.

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Four! 🫠

The “for the entire lesson” part is the most frustrating to me. I have three preps. It would take my entire whiteboard up to have all of that posted! On the first slide should be good enough since we all know students never look at it.

I’m so excited to sit in a room full of adults and be talked at for days, absorbing content will be neither differentiated nor will the delivery be best practice, in hopes that it’ll inspire and prepare me to be the teacher my students need and deserve 🙃

A Storygraph screenshot of the books I read in July and their ratings. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (4 stars) Rouge by Mona Awad (3 stars) The Charm Offensice by Alison Cochran (4 stars) Colored Television by Danzy Senna (4 stars) True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Fake News by Cindy L. Otis (3 stars) Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez (5 stars)

July wrap up! We’ll see if I can finish any books with back to school season upon us. #booksky

I maintain that while high school is meant in part to help prepare kids for the world in general, we are not doing job training. It's my job to get kids to think critically, not teach some janky-ass computer program that requires no skillset.

This is awesome, thank you for sharing!!

Got caught crying (sobbing) in the club by my youngest while listening to Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez today 😅 Damn that was good

My black cat, Kirby, snuggled up on my lap with his arm over mine while I edit photos from this past weekend

Sleepy photo editing pal

🎉Announcing the 2025 Inkubator Writing Conference 🎉

#CleInk25 is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country and this year we have made it bigger and better than ever!

Events September 5-14. Registration opens August 1.
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What Would a Real Friendship With A.I. Look Like? Maybe Like Hers. (Gift Article) Chatbots can get scary if you suspend your disbelief. But MJ Cocking didn’t — and wound up in a relationship that was strangely, helpfully real.

You know where lonely kids used to find solace and comfort in order to learn about themselves and the world?

Books.

AI “friendships” are yet another symptom of an absence of books in our schools. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/m...

until everyone got hooked on chat gpt and the like i don’t think i understood what my teachers meant when they said ‘when you cheat, you’re only cheating yourself’

It’s all I will accept.

He better not say one word in that movie.

Captain Kirk surrounded by Tribbles in the iconic Star Trek: The Original Series.

I teach @lenakt.bsky.social’s “Running Orders” and it’s important to contextualize the poem: it wasn’t written in 2023; it was published in 2017, so the experience is deeply rooted in a LONG history of displacement and violence. It’s not new; students MUST know this.

#PoemADayJuly

Poems about ongoing, current, unimaginable pain like this are hard to talk about. What a stunning poem, running down the page in anger and grief, not fear. The word choices at the ends of lines work to convey the situation—“closed,” “worthless,” “sentence,” “narrow,” “house,” “place,” “nowhere.”

So today’s poem is absolutely devastating, huh? #poemadayJuly www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/143255...

A headline from the New Yorker: Has AI made learning to write pointless?

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Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

each year on this day i find company in this poem

“No Explosions”
by Naomi Shihab Nye

To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life

My kids have loved the Miss Muffet activity and analyzing the poem Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.