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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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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 23/09/2026

My entire bookmark bar is icons, with only repeated icons getting one letter to distinguish between, say, this spreadsheet and that spreadsheet.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 23/09/2026

I worked at Brooks Camp the summer of 1999. What an amazing place!

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 22/09/2026

Been a while… as I hop back into this space I am grateful to see a broader, more active educator community has grown here. #edusky

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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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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 07/01/2024

The composition of this image powerfully captures the narrative and timely poignancy you share.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 06/12/2023

It’s a unique state among New England, but not like what such a headline would suggest. With one of the largest legislative bodies in the world, including 400 representatives, and a system where any one can put forth legislation, the radical fringe sometimes make headlines, but it will never happen

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 02/12/2023

Though it follows roasting, they’re a great part of a quinoa bowl mix.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 02/12/2023

I imagine this to be delicious!

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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 · 28/11/2023

Yours is a beaut as well. Properly groomed… now. We tend to let her go until we can’t stay ahead of the matting and then get her in. They’re such great dogs.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 24/11/2023

Hah! Was just doing this. So many I know I never directly signed up for, and many I did that are now clearly showing me it’s time to part ways.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 13/11/2023

This is brilliant! Well done!

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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 · 05/11/2023

Yes, thank you. I always try to start from a place of inquiry: “What were you feeling when you said this? What was your intent?” And then, “Here is what I (or if I have heard from the student - what they) heard and felt.” (Of course, this is a basic script - often more nuanced and specific.)

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

Yes, agreed on both points. The feedback must be shared, and it can definitely be done in a supportive way with a positive outcome. An element of this is that this particular team of teachers reinforce themselves in being this way with kids. So it is part of a larger work in progress.

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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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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 25/10/2023

Good stuff! My staple is the same, following James Morton’s recipe, from his Brilliant Bread book. We fell in love with him after seeing him on the British Bake Off.

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 23/10/2023

Teacher moves up grades with the same cohort of students, remaining their teacher for multiple years.

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

My copy should arrive within a week.

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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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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 16/10/2023

Thank you for sharing this! I just ordered and can’t wait to read this!

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Shawn Michael @asatree.site · 16/10/2023

Without words reading this, or, trying to, as I can only stomach so much at a time. Without words…

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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

In small, rural New England towns, there’s only so much school that the surrounding area/town can/should accommodate. I prefer to focus on the policy choices impacting our US state-level funding for public universities. Canada does it right to socialize higher ed much better than the US. #EduSky

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

She has plenty of unquestionable, high-educational-quality options before her. This particular school ticks all the boxes, but is in a small, rural town. #EduSky

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