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Andy Charrier.

@acharrier.bsky.social
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Author of www.TeenSuperpower.com K-12 technology, art, photography, lefty politics, and dad to Attax the Therapy Husky.

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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Access to a game, a league, a building, or a historical record is never just about talent. It’s about who decides who belongs. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Minnesota Told Women Hockey Would Scar Their Faces. They Played Anyway — and Built a Dynasty
The 125-year history your curriculum erased, and why your students need it now
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The flattening of Iran into “the enemy” is not accidental. It is a form of designed erasure—a deliberate reduction of a complex civilization into a manageable threat narrative.
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Your Students Have an Opinion About Iran. They Formed It Without Reading a Single Iranian Author
How 7,000 years of civilization got reduced to a foreign policy problem—and what justice-centered teachers can do about it.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This isn’t a technology problem. It’s a consent crisis hiding in STEM classes—because consent has never been explicitly taught as a foundational engineering principle. #stem #education
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STEM Class Teaches Innovation. It Doesn’t Teach Consent. That’s Not an Accident.
The curriculum gap turning smartphones into weapons—and whose bodies pay the price
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Day 2 of 10. Lessons for teachers who want to teach more about the power of protest and how to get things done. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Gandhi Wasn’t a Peace Guy. He Was a Strategic Genius.
The Salt March is a masterclass in how to challenge systems that seem unbeatable—and your students need this playbook
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
When students learn to interrogate photographs—who took them, why, what’s deliberately left out—they start asking harder questions about all media they encounter.
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Your Textbook Is Erasing Black Women. Here's How to Teach the Truth.
Five investigation methods that transform historical photos from wallpaper into evidence—and teach students to question whose stories survive.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This case study shows students how powerful groups manipulate historical narratives to justify oppression—and how the oppressed reclaim those same stories for liberation. #historyteacher
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The Racist Lie Hiding in Your Egypt Unit
Pro-slavery Americans didn’t just admire ancient Egypt—they rewrote its entire history to make slavery seem like God’s plan.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Power rarely recognizes peace walks as legitimate until after they’ve changed history. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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A Stray Dog Is Leading 19 Monks to D.C. Your Students Are Already Watching.
The viral Walk for Peace is a real-time lesson in nonviolent resistance—and a blueprint for your own school walk
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The discomfort white people are feeling right now—the horror at ICE raids, the sense of powerlessness before Trump’s consolidated power, the grief over what’s being lost—risks becoming exactly what both thinkers warned against. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Your Discomfort Isn’t Solidarity
What Hannah Arendt and Malcolm X understood about the limits of white empathy—and why it matters right now
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
When your student says “I have brain rot,” what they mean is “my attention has been hijacked and I can feel it happening but I can’t make it stop.” open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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“Brain Rot” Isn’t a Tech Problem. It’s a Justice Problem.
Billion-dollar companies design platforms to be addictive. We respond by telling teenagers to have more self-control. If that sounds backwards to you, your students already noticed.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Framing this as “kids these days can’t focus” lets Silicon Valley off the hook. Student attention is being extracted and sold. That’s not a discipline problem. That’s capitalism. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Your Students Aren't Distracted. They're Being Robbed.
New research proves teachers were right about phone bans. Now here's how to protect your classroom from a $1 trillion industry built on stealing student attention.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Here’s what most textbooks erase: Helen Keller didn’t just overcome disability. She analyzed it. And what she discovered led her to dedicate her life to dismantling the economic system she believed created most disabilities in the first place. #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Helen Keller Called Rockefeller a Monster. Teach That Tomorrow.
The socialist labor organizer your curriculum hid behind "miracle worker" sentimentality
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Your students are drowning in this pattern. Fake quotes from resistance leaders. Historical figures claimed by movements they’d have opposed. The language of justice inverted to defend injustice. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Sophie Scholl Died Fighting Nazis. Now the Far Right Claims Her Name.
Teaching students to recognize when resistance gets weaponized against itself
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
If “real artist” has historically required certain credentials, training, or abilities, who does that definition protect? open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Art World Took 41 Years to See a Disabled Artist. That’s the Story.
Nnena Kalu makes sculptures from VHS tapes and bubble wrap. She just won Britain’s biggest art prize. The art world is acting surprised.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This story intersects everything we teach about justice: whose labor gets recognized, how communities respond when institutions abandon them, and what solidarity costs. #education #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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When the Government Abandoned a Community, Lesbians Stepped In
The untold story of the Blood Sisters and how solidarity works when institutions fail
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The tools we’ve handed students to read are training their brains to skim. #teaching #reading #education open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Tech Companies Profit When Your Students Can't Focus
Inside the shallowing hypothesis—and how to fight back
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Your students think scientific discovery is a meritocracy? Show them Eunice Foote. #historyteacher #science open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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She Discovered Climate Change. History Erased Her Name.
In 1856, Eunice Foote proved CO2 heats the planet. A man got the credit—and a moon crater. Here's what your textbooks won't tell you.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Teach students to ask whose faces appear in religious art and you’re teaching them to question who decides what “normal” looks like. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Who Gets to Be Holy? How One Laundromat Changed What Sacred Looks Like
In 1967, Rose Waldon’s face became the Black Madonna—and reminded a congregation that divinity doesn’t require white skin.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The history of Black Girl Scout troops teaches something textbooks usually hide: when institutions refuse, creating your own version isn’t just resistance—it’s a declaration that legitimacy doesn’t require official permission. #HistoryTeacher #HistoryEducation open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Black Girl Scouts Who Made Their Own Uniforms
When institutions refuse to count you, you don't wait for permission—you create your own. A century of Black Girl Scouts building belonging.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
In 1947—seven years before Brown v. Board of Education—five Mexican American families in Orange County, California won a federal case declaring school segregation unconstitutional. Most students never learn this. Most teachers never teach it. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Mendez Family Won School Desegregation in 1947. California Is More Segregated Than Ever.
The civil rights case your curriculum erased—and what it reveals about how inequality actually works
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Derbyshire’s story offers teachers a powerful case study in how innovation gets remembered—and who gets erased from that memory. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Woman Who Made the Future Sound Like the Future
Teaching innovation, erasure, and resistance through the story of Delia Derbyshire and the birth of electronic music
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
What do you do when the rules are unfair—and everyone around you is following them? open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Your Textbook Teaches Korematsu Like It's History. The Court Didn't Overturn It Until 2018.
Fred Korematsu's "crime" was existing in California while Japanese American. The Supreme Court said that was constitutional—and they suppressed evidence to prove it.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Book banning isn’t a recent phenomenon driven by anxious parents. It’s a direct descendant of anti-literacy slave codes—laws that made it a crime to teach Black people to read. The system didn’t disappear after 1865. It adapted. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Book Bans Are Slave Codes. The Paper Trail Goes Back 285 Years.
How anti-literacy laws became school board votes—and why Jennie Proctor's pine torch still matters
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The Flattering Machine and AI's 'Yes-Man' Problem in Student Learning open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Flattering Machine and AI's 'Yes-Man' Problem in Student Learning
New research reveals why chatbots struggle to challenge students' thinking—and what that means for cognitive development in K-12 classrooms
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Walt Disney Tried to Run Over His Employees. They Won Anyway
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Walt Disney Tried to Run Over His Employees. They Won Anyway
How 700 artists you’ve never heard of created Mickey Mouse, fought for screen credits, and changed creative labor forever
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"My Culture Is Not a Costume": The Majorette Debate Your Students Need to Understand
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"My Culture Is Not a Costume": The Majorette Debate Your Students Need to Understand
When the Cardinal Divas went viral at USC, they reignited a conversation about Black traditions, underfunded HBCUs, and who owns the dance.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In 1980, a Trans Woman Won America’s First Video Game Championship. The Industry Wrote Her Out of the Story. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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In 1980, a Trans Woman Won America’s First Video Game Championship. The Industry Wrote Her Out of the Story.
Rebecca Heineman co-founded the company behind Fallout. She died at 62, still being rediscovered.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
When the medical system deems someone disposable, archiving becomes resistance. Alice Wong's story for educators thinking about whose voices matter—new at Prompts & Provocations. andycharrier.substack.com/p/the-medica...
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The Medical System Said Alice Wong Was Disposable. Her Archive Says Otherwise.
The disability justice icon who just died at 51 spent her life proving that some bodies aren’t problems to solve—they’re stories to preserve.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
📌 Hot take: Every elementary school teaches the Thanksgiving story. Zero mention that the Pilgrims weren't even part of it until 1880. New piece up on how to teach what actually happened—without ruining dinner 👇 open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Thanksgiving Story Is Wrong. Here's How to Teach What Actually Happened
Share this with a teacher who’s ready to teach Thanksgiving differently.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
When they banned Picasso and Chagall, they called it "protecting children." Sound like any school board meetings you've been to lately? open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Nazis Taught Germany to Fear Modern Art. Sound Familiar?
When they banned Picasso and Chagall, they called it "protecting children." Sound like any school board meetings you've been to lately?
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Your classroom = where students learn to question national myths before they become “common sense” andycharrier.substack.com/p/the-thanks...
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
It's time for some more power-to-the-teachers andycharrier.substack.com
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Quick Take: Schools Are Surveilling Students. It’s Not Working. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Quick Take: Schools Are Surveilling Students. It’s Not Working.
Schools spend $3 billion annually on surveillance that disproportionately harms students of color. Here’s what teachers can do about it.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
7M people protested yesterday in order to preserve the value freedom, read here about one important yet hidden contributor to our flag history. open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor
How a Thirteen-Year-Old Black Girl Disappeared from the Flag She Helped Create
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Quick Take: 800 Million People Used ChatGPT Last Week—What Does That Mean for Your Classroom? open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Quick Take: 800 Million People Used ChatGPT Last Week—What Does That Mean for Your Classroom?
When everyone uses the same tool to think, what happens to diversity of ideas?
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Classroom Ready: Teaching Data Visualization as Justice Work open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Classroom Ready: Teaching Data Visualization as Justice Work
Help students decode scientific graphs that document environmental racism—and understand why data literacy is a justice skill
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Case Study: The Rondo Neighborhood: When I-94 Erased Black St. Paul open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Case Study: The Rondo Neighborhood: When I-94 Erased Black St. Paul
Infrastructure as racial violence—a Minnesota story
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Quick Take: The ENIAC Six Get Their Names Back—80 Years Later open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Quick Take: The ENIAC Six Get Their Names Back—80 Years Later
Teaching students why credit matters, who gets erased from tech history, and how to spot the pattern
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pumpkin Pie as Political Weapon: When Dessert Became a Culture War open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Pumpkin Pie as Political Weapon: When Dessert Became a Culture War
How Sarah Josepha Hale turned regional foodways into national tradition—and why Southern states resisted with sweet potato pie
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hexagonal Thinking: Making Power Visible Through Connection open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Hexagonal Thinking: Making Power Visible Through Connection
A spatial method for critical analysis that reveals whose stories get connected—and whose get separated
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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The Threads That Bind: Grace Wisher and the Star-Spangled Banner’s Hidden Labor
How a Thirteen-Year-Old Black Girl Disappeared from the Flag She Helped Create
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Deep Dive: When Labor Art Meets Digital Justice open.substack.com/pub/andychar...
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Deep Dive: When Labor Art Meets Digital Justice
How Civil Rights Murals Navigate the Digital Divide
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Minnesota MCA test. Never has it been more clear to me this standardized testing is setup for kids to struggle. Below part of what I texted to a friend.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
MN state fair continues: BLM protests clog up traffic, bystanders start chanting “let’s go ICE.” I hate it here.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The Venn diagram of people at the Walz Lies booth and the Jesus is King- Royce White for Senate booth is a circle
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
US Senator seemingly unbothered by creeping facism
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Experimenting with vertical classroom display this year. Surprisingly much easier to fit content and display processes. Plus, students use vertical in their non-school lives.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I am speechless, disappointed at the degree to which the Democrats have rolled over, not even pretending to obstruct the Trump agenda. Let’s have some more softball games and hot dish contests.
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Andy Charrier. @acharrier.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Silence as a Superpower. A pop-up poster at station 37 1pm Tuesday. Improve attention spans and study skills. #iste25 #iste
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