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shamlet.bsky.social
HS English teacher in Canada. Same handle as my deactivated twi(x)tter.
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I'm not saying I'm middle aged, I'm just saying that tonight's essay marking playlist includes some Wang Chung tracks that most people have forgotten about

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2025 is rough, like this season for baseball's Colorado Rockies rough

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My reading life in elementary school was filled with sports encyclopedias, histories, (auto)biographies. Players like this were mythological figures in my imagination --

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The greatest gift teaching has given me: I feel younger than I would feel at this point in my life if I had done something else

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The CFL makes me so happy, and nowadays I need all the happiness I can get LET'S GOOOOO 🇨🇦 🏈

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2025 thoughts: We will think wistfully of the days when bad things came only in threes

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Just as I was saying to myself that I haven't had a hard wipeout on my bike in a long, long time, I had a hard wipeout on my bike, and thinking something dumb and painful into existence just feels very 2025

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No Exit? Don't believe it, America. There's a shared pathway just off to the left at the end. You can't drive on it with your car, so you'll have to just leave it behind and ... do something different

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Kirk to Spock: Hey, I found those silicon nodules you were looking for

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Subbing is the toughest teaching gig out there, and yet it's often the entry point into the profession for many young teachers. Putting the least experienced people into the most challenging job doesn't exactly help retention and development.

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2025 is rough, like Tom Waits trying to become an opera singer rough

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Another day of English teaching = another day of fighting for something that more and more people see as basically unimportant

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I wanna buy a mouth guard and instead of wearing it, I'll just chew on it all day while I'm teaching like I'm a hockey player

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"Fear, habituation, stupidification": Peter Biro delivers an outstanding keynote here about the current and future state of democracy. One of the best listens / reads I've come across on this subject, and one with implications for teachers and education.

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Teacher life: That day when the handiest thing in your desk was the box of band-aids.

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Still a number of weeks left in this school year, but the summer reflection project is clear: build a comprehensive, thoughtful defence against AI and its impact on the classroom. Keeping it outside the gate as much as possible no longer seems sufficient.

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AI marking student writing? Fairness isn't the exclusive province of machines; writing isn't a mechanical product that deserves mechanical treatment; efficiency isn't paramount; assessment doesn't sit outside the teacher's professional knowledge of a student and the full context of their learning.

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And the Canadian Football League preseason is upon us, which means I am only weeks away from tapping into my greatest superpower: picking the quarterbacks, running backs, and receivers on my fantasy team that are going to have bad games

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In marking student writing, I always strive to ensure that high-end work doesn't fall into in the feedback desert of "Excellent", "Great job" and the like. Every kid needs and deserves specific commentary that describes their work and points to possibility.

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Sheryl Crow just came back from 1993 and told me to Run, Baby, Run, Baby, Run, Baby, Run, Baby, Run, and in 2025 it sounds like half-decent advice

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But, but, I've been taking such great pleasure in buying things I need, then pointing my finger at the person I just bought them from and saying "I SUBSIDIZE YOU"

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Bluesky was mostly poets and writers. Then UK educators flooded in, fleeing twixter. Then US educators did the same. Some have receded because the followings didn't completely follow: "it's just not the same." Now it's 97% "omg America is on fire." But through it all, the poets and writers --

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Incredible goal, great name, horrendous / glorious mullet

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