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Nobody wants this. Lived in Chicago when he was mayor and he never got my vote.

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This week my students spent two days taking the state math test and one day planting huckleberries and weaving cedar ropes and clearing land for a food forest, and I’ll let you guess which was actually a good learning experience and which was a total waste of time.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

This teacher NEVER goes out on a Friday, but I made an exception for the @djjohnrichards.bsky.social hosted tribute to Charles Cross last night, and it was totally worth it.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Can we please do to Amazon what we are doing to Target? You really can decide to stop giving your money to a man who uses his billions to send Katy Perry to space, kill independent journalism, and fund the end of civilization. You really can stop.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Today’s petty complaint: If you’re going to call it STAFF appreciation week, don’t schedule it during TEACHER appreciation week. You are not appreciating the labor of teachers if you’re lumping everyone together. And all those other groups deserve to be appreciated for their own work.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Same.

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Hey, this is your regular reminder that “capitalism” does not mean “people trying to make a buck to survive in this economy.” “Capitalism” means that the means of making a buck, and the decisions about who gets to do it, are all owned by conglomerates rather than the workers.

submitted 106 days ago • 8 comments

The way I IMMEDIATELY bought this book when I saw a review

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Gen Z cultural exchange: they all know Rick Astley, and now he's done a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club. (A banger, I might add) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...

submitted 117 days ago • 11 comments

He was always garbage

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

I have been trying to booktalk more consistently in class. I coincidentally read three books close together that dealt with themes of mental health and bullying and friendship, and it gave me space to talk with my students about some things they needed to hear without it being another lecture.

submitted 120 days ago • 1 comment

I read a small but mighty collection of books last month.

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#blackhistorymonth is winding down, but don't forget about the fantasy, the science fiction, the afro-futurism that you need to add to your bookshelf for the rest of the year. I've collected 250 books by Black authors featuring Black main characters #booksky #tlsky bookshop.org/wishlists/3a...

submitted 124 days ago • 3 comments

Feeling very justified in my longtime loathing of Emanuel

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

It's important to say that these Trump executive orders are unlawful and unconstitutional, but we also need to get beyond it. It would be better to lead with our values and build from there. For example: 🧵

submitted 151 days ago • 2 comments

So excited about this book!

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Me, a History major, at college paries to all my friends majoring in Econ: Yes but it’s never actually worked out that way in actual history!

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

Every time she comes up, I remind the world that Pamela Paul ordered a “too political” paragraph cut from a review I wrote of a trans positive middle grade book, then denied it in the press, said I was like Trump, then when confronted with proof she was wrong said “Let’s keep this to ourselves.”

submitted 164 days ago • 28 comments

Cancelled all my subscriptions today as I can’t stand Weiss

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

I have made it to school but I’m not feeling optimistic that the power stays on all day. It’s rough out there!

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, all of this.

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments

December is rough in schools, but it’s bringing me joy every day to see our readers stretching and growing. Last year’s student who WOULD NOT READ EVER spent ALL of yesterday reading. She thought she was getting away with something!

submitted 207 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread

submitted 207 days ago • 1 comment

I was reminded of this as I walked past the locked up socks at my local store. It didn’t make me shop more.

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Schools need winter hours.

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Seven hours of school when there are less than nine hours of daylight isn’t right. Schools should have winter hours.

submitted 210 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t recommend KEXP enough. Tory J is cirrently playing all-indigenous and it’s fire! www.kexp.org You can stream it from anywhere.

submitted 213 days ago • 1 comment

Me, yesterday: I think families make middle schoolers go to school on half days because they’re too annoying to stay home. My middle school students: Probably true.

submitted 215 days ago • 0 comments

Always jealous of schools that take this full week off.

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