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Challenging myself to step away from some methodologies ingrained in grad school. I want to see if a different style (still communicative!) is a better fit to asynch/online. It's actually scary! But student scores and engagement are showing me it was time to rethink...an exhilarating teacher moment!

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In the midst of all the horrors, I did manage to escape a little bit into a really delightful book, A House With Good Bones, by T. Kingfisher. Highly recommend, especially if you’re from the South! I leave these three excellent quotes as offerings…

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Excited to be presenting at the 2025 #NNELLSummerSummit: Connecting to the Heart! 💬❤️ Join us July 21–22 for two powerful days of inspiration + learning for early language educators! Register: nnell.org/summer-summi... #NNELL2025 #langchat #earlylang

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“These [remote towns and rural areas] deserve a voice, and public broadcasting provides that voice, even when it can’t be done with conventional profitability.” www.seattletimes.com/opinion/rick...

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Graduation is my favorite day! So proud of my students and love celebrating with my colleagues! Great WL and ESOL teachers ready to take on the world!

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“As I have written, placing children at the centre, honouring their agency through play, is an act of democratic pedagogy. It’s not just about preparing children for life but respecting their lives as they are now.”

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Super cathartic baking for our EoY department party. It’s always amazing to celebrate w/ wonderful colleagues. Apple pie was totally from scratch…a lot of work, but WOW! Made these lavender dark chocolate marzipan cookies especially for our awesome department head! 🚫 pictured: 3-cheese broccoli puff

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This program addresses our national need 4 consistent K–12 language ed that grows proficiency in more than one language-a vital skill essential to meeting the demands of our national security & global economic competitiveness. Amanda Seewald, Ex. Dir., JNCL-NCLIS languagemagazine.com/2025/04/16/h...

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First attempt at lattice crust! Lavender blueberry pie 🥧 with lattice crust and blueberries and leaves as crust decorations

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Finally got the lavender chocolate scones right!

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From the loss of Hoopla, databases, and Wi-Fi hotspots to the closing of rural branches, librarians document the devastating effect of the end of IMLS funding.

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Did my first baking in the new house, oatmeal jam squares for my department head (she’s so awesome) and lavender cranberry scones for a colleague who lost a close family member. Scones weren’t pretty, but very yummy! Will need to play with addition of lavender to get the pretty texture back.

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“What makes the latest guidance from the department so pernicious is that it specifically targets Title I funding…illustrat[ing] its commitment to returning American education to a time before the Civil Rights Act, when the nation’s most vulnerable students were largely unprotected.”

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So many things wrong here. “…Conservative pundits hate the accreditor anyway. When I asked one of them why, given that SACSCOC doesn’t have a DEI standard, he assured me there were reasons, but he could not remember what they were” #edusky www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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@booker.senate.gov has been speaking on the Senate floor for more than 20 HOURS and counting. #RESPECT

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March reading wrap: Not as much time reading as I’d like + some really long books, but a great month overall! Wool (Hugh Howey), Mexican Gothic (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) and The Good House (Tananarive Due, @tananarivedue.bsky.social) were amazing!! #booksky #reading

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This was a great listen!

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It is VITAL we protect the languages students know, hear, understand, speak. These are leverages to acquiring other languages. Ignoring languages limits students’ participation & also endangers confidence & identity increasing language loss. Linguistic oppression has devastating consequences.

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Public education is under attack and apathy is not an option. Georgia receives $1.5 billion through Department of Education funding for Every Student Succeeds and Individuals with Disabilities Education.

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“IDEA is a law, so dismantling the department would not automatically overturn the legislation; however…states would be left to interpret and enforce IDEA…w/no guarantee of consistency or accountability…This could lead to significant disparities in services...” www.ednc.org/perspective-...

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Now that the dust has settled a little bit from our move, I got to join a couple of wonderful friends for Toby’s first walk on campus! He was an amazing boy and had such a good time! What a beautiful day in south Georgia!

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Each wk in my FLES methods course we start with a discussion to get connected. When we discussed this, it was literally visible how freeing it was for them to realize accents are not something to acquire/overcome, rather a part of everyone’s linguistic experience that is dynamic & unique. #langchat

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This! And what a privilege it is to be a part of this transformative learning when we work in #earlylang!! #langchat

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NEW BOOK!! And the timing couldn’t be better. 2025 is the year gear up not give up. Thank you Routledge Books for believing in Equitable Instruction for English Learners in the Content Areas. 🙏🏽 #ESL #ESOL #ELchat www.routledge.com/Equitable-In...

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from @john-seidlitz.bsky.social , who shared this on Twitter: "Just found out that OELA (Office of English Language Acquisition) at the Dept of Education was ended yesterday. All employees let go."

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We are seeing the effects of this already with event cancellations for WLs in my state. #langchat #edusky

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Toby wants to show off the dining room in his new house! Happy to be back home in Valdosta!

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@proferandolph.bsky.social is the absolute G.O.A.T.! Fired up after his discussion on working toward anticolonial WL curriculum. I always learn so much from him and it’s great to see others! #langchat #edusky

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Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/

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For those supporting this obscene violation of due process and expansion of governmental overreach to detain and deport legal residents without due process, please research authoritarian regimes. Today they'll use it against a group you don't like, but it will be turned on you tomorrow.

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