Shizuna ‧ Chanting

"I have problems with the fact that I feel like we have way more adults working in education and not working in schools than we ever have before. And we don't have the results to show for it"

Overqualified and underpaid, no wonder I don't feel excited about this new job.
It does spark interest when I drop the company name though, but it's really not on the inside 🥲

I swear I will try to find a job that doesn't take over an hour worth of commuting next time.
I'll try and do well in this new job for a year and see how it goes.. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🙏🙏🙏🍀🍀🍀

I should've asked about onboarding earlier hey, now I'm like doing resignation stuff here & onboarding stuff there at the same time, lmao 🥴

"New book presents, discusses and explores questions around teachers' conceptions of language and literacy practices as they seek to meet the educational needs of pupils from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds." buff.ly/19HHWJ7

Our latest episode is a conversation with Texas educator @heymrsbond.com about her changing attitudes on edtech in an "Age of AI" and reflecting on the challenges and rewards from a year of analog teaching:

www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #K12 #education #EduSky

Sighhh

"Now is the time for peace" after bombing another country is about as Orwellian as it gets.

Like, remember what it was like reading 1984 the first time? How it felt reading that, realizing what was happening, that feeling in your gut?

Yep. That. Right now.

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smoll bigg cats 🐱

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Starting a new job in July. Hope this is the start of good things and some stability 🥹🙏🍀

Thinking of deleting threads (the app that is) because I have no idea how it works lol.
(And I don't really want to see posts on teaching for a while or job hunting 😂🫠🙏🍀)

picture of "Artful AI in Writing Instruction" by Brett Vogelsinger

One more week of the school year left, but already have my first summer read queued up! 👀 @thevogelman.bsky.social

(Reminder to all, too: being skeptical about AI in education doesn't mean refusing to be curious/open-minded)

The hidden cost of every "yes" is often something valuable we already have.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

- Sleep and downtime
- Time with loved ones
- Other opportunities
- Quality over quantity in current work
- Personal well-being
- Mental clarity

What is the hidden cost?

#changestartshere
@shaneleaning.com

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Celebrating one year of being pneumonia-free 🙏🍀

Okay, it fixed itself but.... :/ Tempted to just stay here lol.

Feeling spicy today so going to say this: poems don’t have to rhyme and if you are still under the impression that all poems have to rhyme, your idea of poetry hasn’t left first grade yet.

3. Collaborate as communities on the values that are going to be in play when it comes to AI use and schooling. I would put transparency for all (students, admins, teachers) above all. If we can at least agree on the goal of the educational activities we can reorient the work somewhere better.

My former school treated AI as 5. and before I left I knew this would only make students use it "without telling", it makes the battle tougher, not easier.
(But hey, I had already resigned so... Not like they needed my input 🫠)

Hey, Rainy Novel Core · HERO · Song · 2024

Love that this song keeps coming on shuffle when it rains though 🌧️☔
open.spotify.com/track/1R9557...

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Twitter not showing profiles 😀
Site is broken as ffff

Deleted my teacher twitter. Will keep my fandom / main one because that's where all the news is.
If I ever teach again, I'll talk about it here I guess, lol. We are just one mess on one account I think that's enough, lmao.

All right fellow wotas, anywhere else I need to check in the Tokyo area other than the H!P Official Store, Mandarake, and Surugaya?

If anyone has any recent thrift store or secondhand store recommendations too, I would appreciate it! :)

(I'm willing to train outside Tokyo, fyi)

Lol relatable

Twitter is back up (kind of), apologies for the slight MIA!
(I love this YMB episode of them at USJ btw)

Sumire's IG Story

Sumire Post 250527 Glad to see you all again, I'm Tashiro Sumire. I've just opened an IG account. I hope to be able to share my updates with you all again, even if it's just a little bit. I know some of you are worried about my health condition, but I have been doing well recently. I've been reflecting on myself, and I once again felt that I wanted to keep you all updated, so I hope to be able to do it, little by little! I'm sure there will be a lot of different opinions, but I'd love it if you would kindly keep an eye on me ☺️ --- Thank you 🦢♡ Sumire Story 250527 Thank you for loving me all this time. I never forgot about you, and I will always love you ♡

Tashiro Sumire has opened a personal IG account (@/sumire__tashiro)❗️ Here's a translation of Suu's first post 💜

#田代すみれ

📸 www.instagram.com/p/DKJyBkQvkdu/
🔗 www.instagram.com/sumire__tash...

Twitter is down, help 😂😂

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Cutest
🥺✨🦁☀️🧸🧡

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Ah, so blue sky can't have multiple GIFs yet.
It's okay.
🥺✨🦁☀️🧸🧡

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Continuing what I used to do on Twitter:
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I can't log in to the app from my phone still, so slowly making my home here 😂