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English classes about real life for real people - direct from Chicago.
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The third new logo. God, I love this one.

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I left behind my IT career in 2022; but, all that I learned remained with me. And a good thing! Launching the Chicago English Corner has been a one-person IT Project. I'll sit and think -- after working for hours -- about how much more difficult this would be without all that technology experience.

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The second of three logos.

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I asked why students of color didn’t work in our department. I learned that we had never recruited or reached out. Baffled, I made connections with the Black Student Union and relevant administrators. By the end of the year, the applications flowed in as did the job offers. #academicsky #highered

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

New logo! Well, first of three new logos. :)

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This is a useful metaphor. It explains the absurdity of the outcome: that Americans knew exactly who these people were and what they intended... and voted for them anyway. This was not some political legerdemain. It was open and direct.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

So... fess up,. Who from #writingcommunity slipped the word "cocky" past the Kellogg Marketing Department? Further: has this word been used previously on breakfast products?

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It's refreshing to hear other teachers describe the same struggles and successes as my own. Another teacher and I were talking shop earlier this morning. She's Mexican, working in Mexico yet our stories were similar. Especially the stories about writing. Students are gonna student! #academicsky

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I've been code-switching between English and Spanish all day. At one point, I had to ask one of my bilingual students to tell me the English word for "la traición." I honestly couldn't remember the damned word.

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Every Monday morning, I have a class with a teacher in Poland about Walt Whitman. She adores him. We have been reading through "Song of Myself" when, today, the conversation jumped to Alan Ginsburg's "Howl" which ineluctably led us to our current cultural moment. I get paid for this! I love it.

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As the orange menace widens his war against decency -- now against Colombia --, I encourage everyone to (re)read this seminal text about colonialism and imperialism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Ve... #academicsky, #writingsky

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