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HS English teacher in Canada. Same handle as my deactivated twi(x)tter.
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A teaching question: how often are we looking for a classroom management solution when we should be looking for an instructional practice solution?

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

Just add "Bluesky is dying" to the scrap heap of narratives that become momentary semi-truisms simply because they're repeated, not because they represent anything particularly valid or meaningful, but that repetition forces us to waste time qualifying, refuting them, god we live in stupid times

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So this is coming in the fall -- beyond NCTE resources (familiar with them), if there's anything people have found useful in helping libraries and English departments deal with / respond to this I'd really appreciate it

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

My goodness. Every teacher should read this. Every American. Every human.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It has not, because it cannot.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

My goodness. Every teacher should read this. Every American. Every human.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Some 69-odd hours after a wipeout so epic it caused me to search "bruise vs hematoma" (it's def a hematoma), it's time to hit the trail system and, it would seem, dodge hyped-up Oilers fans on scooters. Another epic wipeout would seem to be in the offing 🚲

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

English teacher life: declaring victory, and then moving on to the next class set

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

English teacher life: when the stack of papers gets to less than ten so you can see the finish line hear it smell it yes these are almost done victory is mine almost mine yes

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I'm not saying I'm middle aged, I'm just saying that coming back to great, great tunes you haven't heard in a while once a cherished artist passes away is a sadly regular thing

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

English teacher life: some stacks of essays flow smoothly, and some become strange albatrosses that can't seem to get done in a tidy, orderly fashion

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"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.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments