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Have fun and learn lots!!! 🎉

The centering breaks are ALWAYS for me as much as them, by the time they’re needed! Thoughts and prayers to you as you recover

That’s amazing!!!! Great job sticking with it and regaining your abilities and habits!!

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

I agree! Our school only offers the AP test, so we spend all year teaching AP test skills and the kids who don’t arrive at AP or don’t have the specific academic skills on that specified day to pass the test have no chance of getting the Seal.

Love this!! Thank you Stacy! My students’ silent reading time at the beginning of class benefits them and is a sanity-saving reset time for me 👏👏 sometimes I just need to sit quietly for a few minutes while they’re otherwise occupied and the room is silent! #langchat

Not a mantra, but a really useful tip I wished someone had taught me early in my teaching career: build some down time into every class so you can get your own shit done. Yes, I know, circling the room and being engaged with students 100% is best practice. And exhausting.

We are way too quick to ascribe students with a "lack of motivation." It takes much less vulnerability to say "I don't wanna" than it does to say "I don't actually understand this" or "I don't know how to do this" or "I am just trying to make it through the day."

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

This is so real! We had two snow days this week and I was so relieved - all I needed was several uninterrupted hours to catch up on grades and plans after feeling stressed and behind for two weeks. I got caught up yesterday and already know I’ll be more present and aware in classes next week.

A graphic in pink, blue, and green that illustrates how recent many Black History events are to the current day -- ranging from 1619 to 2024.

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own.

I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history.

1 square = 1 year.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

What I’m hearing in this conversation is that Southern people communicate like gnoles, which is delightful

I love that idea! Thanks!

(I of course wrote the positive referral and praised her for speaking up to thank her friend)

An injured student on crutches asked if I could write a positive referral for her friend who’s been helping her get to her classes “because she’s been so kind and helpful, and she’s so thoughtful about what I’ll need even when she’s going to a different class than me. I want her to be recognized.”❤️

What is on the circles?

Midwest US, English, fire truck

“A lot of people say to me: 'Aren't you afraid that they're going to get behind?' And my response is: 'I know that when my students leave my class that they know how to think and they know how to write.” - @heymrsbond.com

Inspiring. That’s the gig, folks, that’s what educating is for!!!

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interesting!! I figure more input is always good and maybe more explicit mentioning mid-input of patterns / rules like the PACE model’s P and A steps? I’ve had to do a lot of reteachint/review in 3 this year. Has this been an issue in previous classes of level 3 or just this year?

Did you teach them in levels 1-2? Is your 3 class substantially different in content / difficulty / themes than the earlier levels?

I see this in Spanish 3 all the time! For mine, I introduce past tense and a bunch of higher level thinking, and they regress in the “basic” skills from previously. I keep reviewing grammar/skills in short chunks but they’ll regain their previous skills as they get comfortable with new stuff!

Love it, thanks so much!! I teach AP and we have similar skills I think, so it’s helpful to picture how you structure the practice.

What is an example of a prompt/task you would have them do in partners? I like the option to use a page of notes OR a partner. #langchat

Hey home adults,

If there’s a teacher in your students’ life who is making a positive impact on their learning, please send them an email, class dojo message, Remind, etc

It’s REALLY hard to keep going right now and a little kindness can go a long way.

June 12-28 2026, an immersive experience for advanced Spanish speakers. Information at the link in this post. Program cost $3555 plus (optional) 3 credit tuition costs ($1060 in state Nebraska, $2104 out of state). Faculty leader warrenm2@unk.edu

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this is beautiful. So happy that Tâf got to see an old friend ❤️ also thank you for sharing your patreon - I read the Redwall article too and it made me very happy. I loved those books but didn’t know anyone outside my house who loved them too so seeing references in the wild always makes my day!

How Dark the Beginning BY MAGGIE SMITH All we ever talk of is light— let there be light, there was light then, good light—but what I consider dawn is darker than all that. So many hours between the day receding and what we recognize as morning, the sun cresting like a wave that wont break over us—as if light were protective, as if no hearts were flayed, no bodies broken on a day like today. In any film, the sunrise tells us everything will be all right. Danger wouldn't dare show up now, dragging its shadow across the screen. We talk so much of light, please let me speak on behalf of the good dark. Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is.

Happy new year!

I love sharing this poem by @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social.

I’m reminded this year of Audre Lorde: “These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through darkness.”

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel