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starrestelle.bsky.social
Teacher, ELA, SS, Girl Mom, Airedale Mom, Seattle Sports Fan, Someone who cares too much sometimes.
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Just finished The Residence. Loved it! Perfect gateway binge to kick off Spring Break.

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It's Friday. Here is my tired face.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Just going to say because I need to. If my flag team choreographer dressed us all like fat Elvis in white spandex for our Elvis themed show, I would happily light that costume on fire after WGI finals.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Go #Pacificaires ##WGI2025 #WGI

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Set up shop at Wenatchee HS judging GE. Make me smile kids.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I had no idea @angryblacklady.bsky.social and @hegemommy.bsky.social have a podcast 😭😭🙌🏾

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

I knew he would fire post office employees. I wonder which % are Black?

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

submitted 29 days ago • 2783 comments

Perfectionism, which is different from wanting to do well, both reflects and contributes to psychological difficulties. A recent series of studies shows that it's also counterproductive even on its own terms: Perfectionistic students end up with poorer grades: is.gd/IRqBnA

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Doing a Safesport training (in addition to the mandatory teacher training on the same topics, yes). Why choose curling as the sport for the bullying topic?

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Hey #PoetryPeople Let’s start a thread of love poems for this day. I love I Am Offering this Poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca “I love you.”

submitted 58 days ago • 15 comments

Buried in my own words. #DeathoftheAuthor #RustedRobots

submitted 58 days ago • 9 comments

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 58 days ago • 834 comments

Of course there’s cummings, right #PoetryPeople When I need my students to dig deeeeeeep, I tell them they’re searching for the “root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life.” 😂

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

The silliness of using AI to prevent students from cheating with AI (from tinyurl.com/3fr88n7z). And my own, longer (pre-AI) take on what really underlies academic cheating: www.alfiekohn.org/article/whos...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 58 days ago • 792 comments

Best thing that happened at work this week: An IA who has become a certificated teacher told me today, his last day as 'merely' an IA before leaving to teach a classroom of his own, that he used what I taught in my sophomore ELA classes on his certification test. He passed w flying colors.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

9.5 might be an understatement.

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WA state hospitals are overwhelmed by the #respiratoryvirus season sweeping across the nation. Scott Lindquist, affiliate professor at UW SPH share that the heightened hospitalizations come as vaccination rates are down across the country, especially for kids. #PublicHealth #Influenza #RSV

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