Meaghan Townsend

Why Native American Curriculum Should be Taught Throughout K-12 Education If students’ only in-depth exposure to Native Americans is a 3rd grade history unit, how can they be expected to understand Native people as adults?

building on this piece I was grateful to publish in @the74.bsky.social, with the support of @bostoncollegiate.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/why-...

What culture are we celebrating? Learning to replace colonial thinking with Indigenous wisdom

Thinking about Native teachings as a blueprint for the political moment. open.substack.com/pub/meaghant...

Why Native American Curriculum Should be Taught Throughout K-12 Education If students’ only in-depth exposure to Native Americans is a 3rd grade history unit, how can they be expected to understand Native people as adults?

www.the74million.org/article/why-...

Ghosts - Believer Magazine 7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious. S...

More of a poetic essay, but I think about this piece from 2021 www.thebeliever.net/ghosts/

Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...

General principles:
- all time has to serve the project (no "junk food" for the brain/spirit)
- 2+ walks a day
- books are talismans, keep them close
- pile of coffee cups drawn to scale...

Wrapped my first-ever self-made writing retreat! 3 days in New Haven watching rooftops + my brother's college basketball games

Makes sense. I ask because I share a lot of the other qualms you've expressed on here, but enough of my students (maybe 25%?) check the board for agenda/HW that I don't consider this too onerous a task

What percentage (if any) of your students do you think find it useful?

My pitch for 2026: art! Demon moons!! More at my first blog post: open.substack.com/pub/meaghant...

My pleasure!

Today I watched a video essay about AVATAR, read survey responses from my students, and was asked by @prisonjournalism.bsky.social why I was choosing to donate. The bottom line is this: whoever you want to serve, ask them what they need & act on their answer

Metacognition
Pacing
Rigor

(+1 to HQIMs!)