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Please don't follow me for my Science of Reading skeets. Please. She/Her
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That face when Lucy Calkins' name is dropped disparagingly in a local school board meeting.

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You cannot be a dyslexia advocate and a MAGA supporter. If you feel you are those two things simultaneously, fix your heart right now. They are coming for Special Ed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just saw my first Trump 2028 sign. Seems bad.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Canceling flu shots is signing death warrants. Let's be real clear about that.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone thinking an executive order will make us stop calling something the same name it's had for 400+ years needs to show me Cape Kennedy on a map.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

"Musk will reinvent the US government in the way that the hyperloop reinvented trains, that the Boring company reinvented subways, that Juicero reinvented squeezing. Which is to say he will reinvent nothing at all, fix no problems, offer no solutions..."

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

submitted 34 days ago • 263 comments

An NIH grant I was on as a postdoc helped us understand why some children develop reading difficulties while others don't. Our current NIH grant examines whether Spanish-speaking bilingual learners in 🇺🇸 struggle with reading due to a reading disability or language differences btwn English&Spanish.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

A lot of kids just finished their FAFSAs and found out if they qualified for grants and loans. A lot of kids are going to be worried about their future come tomorrow. The cruelty of this is incredibly shocking.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think he's on here, but I need Jonathan Groff to know that Jesse St. James is making an appearance at my local Goodwill.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Not that this needs to be said, but you can not be a dyslexia advocate and a MAGA supporter.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

He's got two looks: Snow Edition

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

I need people to understand that the Bytedance ban is actually in effect right now. If you try to install tiktok on a phone that's never had it, the app store will not let you. They went dark as a political stunt, but they are following the law as written. Trump hasn't signed anything, yet.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Uh...tiktok is back?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

We have to ban TikTok! They're stealing your data! The data in question:

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The social media managers are becoming increasingly unhinged over on TikTok. Every American brand essentially posting "Do you hear the people sing?"

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

It's was a real trust the process situation.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Bets on who Shanahan is shading in this one? 10 bucks it's P.L. Thomas.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I thought Wicked looked a little washed out on the big screen, but it's green green on my TV.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

My husband: "Are you making an Irish quilt?" Me: "No, I'm not making an Irish Chain, and also how do you know what that is?" Him: "No. An 🇮🇪 quilt." I, uhhhh, guess so 🫡

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Resisting the urge to quote skeet because it's Christmas. Resisting the urge to quote skeet because it's Christmas. Resisting the urge to quote skeet because it's Christmas. Resisting the urge to quote skeet because it's Christmas. Resisting the urge to quote skeet because it's Christmas. Resisting

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

PL Thomas is on this app, and this is just a quick reminder that, by his own admission, it is likely I have taught more children (2) to read than he has.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The Diet Pepsi drinkers the day RFK Jr. tries to ban Diet Coke.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

states rights unless its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case its states rights unless the state is wrong in which case its federal rights unless the feds are democrats in which case its parents rights unless the parents are wrong in which case

submitted 92 days ago • 23 comments