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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 25/09/2026

The more I serve as the person responding to more impactful school behaviors, working w/ the students & families involved, the more I can’t overstate the transformative power & importance of partnering w/ care givers early & often, by voice & in person, to gain partnership. #edusky

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International Institute for Restorative Practices @iirpgradschool.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📣 Hear from Stephanie who recently completed Restorative Practices for Educators! 🏫 During this two-day introductory experience, you will learn the fundamental theory/practices for engaging with students, staff, and parents in your school setting: bit.ly/4ep40He

A graphic for the IIRP Graduate School features a testimonial from Facilitator and School Counselor Stephanie Ressler. The graphic includes a small photo of Stephanie and mentions her location: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Her quote reads: During a training with the IIRP our instructor suggested that perhaps restorative practices should really be called relationship practices because that’s what this work is really about. That resonated because it touches a question I’ve been returning to throughout my career: What creates the conditions for meaningful transformation? Whether I’m counseling a student, facilitating a circle, coaching an individual, or partnering with educators, I’m less interested in techniques than in the relational conditions that make change possible. I’m grateful to the IIRP for offering both a framework and a community that continues to deepen that practice.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This mans' imagination is next level

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Katie Budrow @katiebudrow.com · 19/09/2026

Anybody familiar with any research out there on teachers leading educational change? Not just leading a district agenda (though that’s fine too) but teacher-driven change from the ground up. I’m looking but might not be using the right terminology. Thanks! #edusky #edresearch

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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!? Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 07/04/2025

So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes. Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵

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Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes

Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes

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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This video, better than stills, illustrates just how many people marched in Boston yesterday. City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston. (From: Reddit)

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 06/04/2025

Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"This is a shallow vision of education as achievement without agency that we should question vigorously. Is achievement without agency truly the goal of a literate society? How can we harmonize this with education as a democratic practice?" www.humanrestorationproject.org/writing/who-...

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Unsettling The Science of Reading: Who is Being Sold A Story? | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington

Literacy doesn’t come in a box, we’ll never find our kids at the bottom of a curriculum package, and there can be no broad support for systemic change that excludes input from and support for teachers...

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

A Brief History of Students Today Aren’t Prepared for College 🧵

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 26/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #27,742!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #27,742, Michael ‪@aboutthe.work‬, joined on Apr 20, 2023"

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 10/06/2024

In elementary school other kids and I traded and shared Atari 2600 game cartridges.

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Christina Samuels @casamuels.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Considering how widespread chronic absenteeism is right now, why don't more school leaders identify it as a top problem? My colleague @jillbarshay.bsky.social explains why absenteeism can be genuinely hard to identify: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... #edusky

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 08/02/2024

Today is an important day A decisive legal victory for climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann in a defamation case that lasted a decade. Dr. Mann was awarded over $1,000,000 in damages. The truth mattered today.

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 01/12/2023

Why Duke University Libraries is Dropping Basecamp. blogs.library.duke.edu

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 05/11/2023

“You can’t get hurt skiing, unless you fall.” - Warren Miller

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 04/11/2023

Thinking a lot this weekend on how to engage some teachers in conversation and hopefully critical reflection around some ways I have heard them speaking to and about students. #EduSky

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Pfizer produces the Covid treatment Paxlovid for $13. They’re charging $1390 for it. Pfizer donated $5.7 million to members of Congress since Covid began to get government contracts and keep drug prices high. Price gouging is legal because our campaign finance laws are broken.

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'For Shame': Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13

"Pfizer treats Paxlovid like a Prada handbag; a luxury for the few rather than a treatment for the many," said one consumer advocate.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 20/10/2023

“I want to do something good every day of my life. I want to leave the Earth better than I found it.” - Chi Chi Rodriguez

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‎99% Invisible on Apple Podcasts

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Hat Full of Sky @hatfullofsky.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Proquestionation.

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Marcello Seri @mseri.me · 16/10/2023

Great start of the week with the release of the episode 1 of season 3 of Degrees of Freedom! Marco Carvalho guided @tsarampalis and me through a heartfelt exploration of Freire’s critical pedagogy and the role of education as a mean for liberation. Don’t miss it: soundcloud.com/degrees_of_f...

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S3E01 Critical Pedagogy and the Work of Paulo Freire

Welcome to Season 3 of the Degrees of Freedom Podcast! We open this new season with a conversation on Paulo Freire's seminal book Pedagogy of the Oppressed and his ideas on Critical Pedagogy. Our gue

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 12/10/2023

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible. niemanreports.org

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 10/10/2023

So many thoughts today after visiting a highly selective college with our daughter that we all believe is the place for her. I know she has the stuff to be a valuable member of that learning community. I know she has the stuff to get in. The question is, will she? So many thoughts. #EduSky

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 07/10/2023

Went to the laundromat this morning for blankets, left w/ powerful learning about the work needed. A woman working there also drives a school bus, doesn’t feel supported in addressing impactful student behavior. Driver shortage or not, we must support our staff, teach our students. #EduSky

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Milka Haanpää @milkamilka.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Looking for suggestions and best practices on how to activate students in mass lecture setting (~200 students) #EduSky

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 07/10/2023

Ended the week w/ a professionally nourishing post-observation follow-up w/ a teacher. Our district admin are in PD w/ a consultant to improve & calibrate feedback. I hosted a team of 7, incl our superintendent. Of all our commendations & recommendations, teacher found mine the best in a blind read.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 30/09/2023

A portion of our middle schoolers haven’t secured many social and emotional skills that my mind tells me they should already have. It feels more prevalent and impactful than in the past, but I wonder if that’s so, or if it’s the same as it ever was, but shifted in some way in its manifestation.

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Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show @vmspod.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

During the drive to the airport yesterday, I had to ponder both this license plate and how to take a picture of it while driving at 65mph in a downpour. But I had total and absolute belief in my own abilities, over and beyond anything the universe could throw at me, and here we are.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 27/09/2023

It’s all about the work. I love the work.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 29/07/2023

Nine weeks ago we took in two young brothers for emergency foster care — we weren’t looking to be foster parents. We loved on them, fell in love, while wanting nothing but their eventual return home. Last night we brought them home, to possibly never see them again. Experiencing big emotions.

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Won an award, which I’ve been 🙈 about - BUT encouraged to talk about teaching w/ #edusky - this sums up me and my renegade teaching. Let’s do big things!! academic.ubc.ca/academic-community/…

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Celeste got her groove back @drceleste.bsky.social · 25/07/2023

Good morning #edusky ! Is there a community of ungraders or alternative assessors here yet? Where are you? 👋 @firasm.bsky.social

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 24/07/2023

every new thing speedruns vibe shifts bc every new place is haunted before it even begins erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorr…

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

Wondering why Silence of the Lambs didn't create more fashion designers

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

Barbie owned her own dream house 12 years before women had the legal right to open their own bank accounts

Ben Shapiro tweeting: All you need to know about #BarbieTheMovie is that it unironically uses the word "patriarchy" more than 10 times.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 21/07/2023

I’ve long appreciated @kissane.bsky.social for the clear signal she shared amid much noise on how we can and should do right by one another on the internet. This recent post is a stark example, with care to the nuanced emotional and other stakeholder investments. Thank you, Erin. #EduSky

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The affordance loop - Erin Kissane's small internet website

The stiltwalking French shepherds in the marshes of the Landes are incredible, and I love this postcard—which you can buy from a nice person on

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 20/07/2023

Here's what we've been waiting for! DPLA has made a GPS-based app that tracks what books have been banned in your area and makes them available to you legally and for free. Readers get freedom, book banners get mad, authors get paid! Thebannedbookclub.info

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 20/07/2023

As I’ve learned more of who the Luddites actually were, of their valid reasons for rebellion, it bothers me to see it used in the pejorative—discrediting and dishonoring their struggle against not new tech, but rather the theft of their labor, ideas, dignity, & fair share by owners/bosses. #EduSky

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 19/07/2023

“We're currently in the midst of a decidedly unjust war – the war to continue roasting the planet, a war waged in the name of continuing enrichment of the world's already-obscenely-rich oligarchs.”

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Pluralistic: Denazification, truth and reconciliation, and the story of Germany’s story (19 July 2...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/07/2023

How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger & Chaos Across the Country In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.

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How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country

In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every partici...

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