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suyang.bsky.social
Early language education, learner and teacher of language, languages are indivisible from the cultures of the communities who speak them.
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they took a detour to rescue a boat full of migrants yesterday. this right here should be more popular than the goddamn stuck shipping vessel thing, this should be everyone's page-refreshing major event right now

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I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing. They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

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Archaeologists: "We're amazed!" Indigenous people: "Well, yeah." www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

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Las lenguas representan, dan visibilidad, unen, hablan de sus hablantes, nos definen. Creo que no hace falta explicarlo cuando estás en el foco y representando a tu región en un foro. El fascismo lingüistico es... fascismo. Vivan todas nuestras lenguas. Todas.

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Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!!! I’m Katie Mazeika an author/illustrator represented by Sorche Fairbank @Fairbank Literary

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2025 paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Ooh I’d not heard before of the Leitner system for organising retrieval practice. Thank you.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

Oohhh do I love this book! Written in support of having language rights added to the UN Rights for children, it is an informative & celebratory look at how languages are identity, heritage, & perspective. #edusky #langchat #UNHumanRights

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

There’s more than one way to be bilingual. If you’ve ever understood your family’s language but struggled to speak it back—you’re not alone. This video challenges narrow definitions of fluency and makes space for the kind of bilingualism that often goes unrecognized. www.youtube.com/shorts/Qk8yV...

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Mask up NOW “A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.” www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

submitted 10 days ago • 32 comments

Join me this Sunday, June 1, from 10:00-12:00 at Second Star to the Right Books's Farmers Market booth! I'll be signing books and enjoying the gorgeous weather. Learn more here: events.humanitix.com/authors-at-t... #kidlit #picturebooks #author #teacher #librarian #libraries

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

nothing more concerning than work (with robust institutional support, no less) that focuses on the existence, proliferation and proficiency of a language while never... not once... centering the well-being of the *people* and *communities* who use the language.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Whether the teacher has a sub, the student is absent, someone calls in, we need to shift our mindset to the fact that we are PEOPLE, and life is for living. It’s messy, we need breaks, rest and healing. It’s fun, we need days of silly and joy. Education is important, and life is much more than that.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A Japanese study found paper-calendar users lit up memory-related brain regions and recalled details 25% faster than phone-calendar users. "notebook aided acquisition of rich encoding and/or spatial information, [was used] as retrieval clues, led to higher activations in specific brain regions."

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

I will die on the hill that children should know what the anatomical terms for their sexual organs are so they can properly tell a trusted adult when someone is doing something bad to them. A child can't tell their teacher that they're being molested if they don't know the name of their body parts!

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Hermana Pegajosa ( also in English- Sticky Hermana) is a Junior Library Guild selection. A book about a sticky, but also sweet hermana. Based on my experiences as the big sister. Coming in October. By me and Olivia de Castro @Charlesbridge Publishing #teachers #booktok #librarians #sel #books

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"World languages for Black Linguistic Reparations" Prof. Tasha Austin @profeaustin.bsky.social Prof. Uju Anya @ujuanya.bsky.social #WLT #WorldLanguageTeachers #Blacksdemics #OpenAccess #LangSky www.researchgate.net/publication/...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

#LanguageEd #TeacherEd #WorldLanguages #EdLinguistics #TeacherPreparation #BlackWorldLanguaging #Raciolinguistics #Genealogies Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to communing with the good folks at UW Madison!

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Teachers & librians, I’m booking author visits for grades K-12 for 2025-2026! From storytimes to writing workshops & gen assemblies, I share my path of becoming an author as a disabled Latina immigrant with students of all ages. For more info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 75 comments

Newspaper posted a summer reading list with fake books by real authors. alt-text: two images below show a person holding up the newspaper, and the article itself

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

It’s clear this beautiful debut picture book was inspired by the author’s childhood. WELCOME HOME, ESMERELDA by @writerdaniela.bsky.social and Maribel Lechuga feels like the biggest hug! This story is full of so much love! #kidlit #booksky

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Spanish course by Ana María Díaz-Collazos is designed to teach Spanish thru Caribbean culture and music. It's organized around cumbia, bullerengue, mapalé, reggaetón, bachata, merengue, guajira & salsa genres. Targets Beginners, Avanced, Native speakers pressbooks.fortlewis.edu/spanishandca...

submitted 143 days ago • 6 comments