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HS math teacher, Voice of SF columnist, SF Dems Everyday Hero 2024, Buddhist, ex-NeXT, Jew. #IHRA. Protecting clarity is the antidote to gaslighting.| SF, CA || she/her cheesemonkeysf.blogspot.com & thevoicesf.org/author/elizabeth-sta…

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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This seems likely.
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
All right, pick your marble and... Let's roll. 🎱 #marblerun #fun #race
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sending vibes.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The amount of seriously private information put at risk by this cyberattack is staggering. Think about medical or safety information/status that a student might need to disclose to a professor or teaching assistant. And who knows what else.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Anything that can be described as a "low-value task" should probably be eliminated -- not outsourced and shifted into supervision.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am so sorry to hear this. The same is happening right now in K-12 public education as well. The additional burdens being dumped onto teachers and normalized are nuts. I'm sorry to hear the same is happening in higher ed.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I am so sorry to hear this.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The contempt throughout our society for teachers' professional knowledge and skill is profound.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As soon as I saw the news of this breach, that was where my mind went. The scale of the student privacy disaster here is hard to imagine.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Will the @neatoday.bsky.social exec board finally vote to admit that the entire 3-million member teachers union officially embraces Jew-hate as union policy? k12trackers.substack.com/p/the-nation...
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The National Education Association Representative Assembly votes to cut ties with the ADL
Over 6000 public school teachers attend the NEA annual Representative Assembly - this year, they voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
We Jewish NEA members are terrified by news of the Jew-hate that's taken over the floor and leaked out to the public. Shame on leadership for allowing this.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The people have spoken. Voters in Wisconsin rejected Elon Musk and MAGA style extremism. Susan Crawford - an incredibly well qualified jurist was just elected!! Great news tonight!!
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Happening in five... four... three...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/03/2025
Now you can read the Signal group chat texts and decide for yourself whether this is information that should have been classified www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/03/2025
Castro: "The idea that this information, if it was presented to our committee, would not be classified, you all know is a lie. That's ridiculous."
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Chris Matthews Declares WH Attack Plan Leaks Moved From ‘Blunder’ to ‘Cover Up’ After Texts Drop: ‘There Is No Accident Here!’ twp.ai/1VHQju
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Chris Matthews Declares WH Attack Plan Leaks Moved From ‘Blunder’ to ‘Cover Up’ After Texts Drop: ‘There Is No Accident Here!’
Chris Matthews declared the White House attack plans leak chaos has moved from "blunder" to "cover up" following the full texts being released.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“Is Elmo now or has Elmo ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Rep Garcia treats the hearing with the level of concern it deserves, showing various muppets and asking about their hidden agendas.
The Red MuppetA poster or Bert and Ernie - are they repping the homosexual agenda?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The most disturbing thing to me about the national security group chat was that Tulsi Gabbard responded to Hegseth's war plans with "lol lmao."
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Probably best not to lie about things like this when you know a journalist documented the whole thing.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 26/03/2025
Today at 12:30 pm ET, @benjaminwittes.bsky.social will talk to @shaneharris.bsky.social about the decision to release the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared in the Signal group chat that included the Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. Watch their discussion here:
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Lawfare Live: Attack Plans Shared on Signal Released by the Atlantic
YouTube video by Lawfare
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 26/03/2025
This is really, really bad. @michaeldweiss.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the now released war plans texts and why it's such a big deal
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Worse Than We Thought! War Plans TEXTS RELEASED! Did Russia Get The Info? (w/ Michael Weiss)
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
DNI Gabbard testified she maintains her "First Amendment rights" to post comments through personal accounts regarding views that might be different from her official work positions. Yet law firms & lawyers (incl me) are being targeted by Administration for excercising their 1st Amendment rights. 🤦‍♂️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A fantastically important postscript to this piece: David Graham asks Jeffrey Goldberg about possible retaliation, and Goldberg gives a perfect answer — with perfect swipes. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
David: Are you concerned about retaliation from the Trump administration because of this story?

Jeffrey: It’s not my role to care about the possibility of threats or retaliation. We just have to come to work and do our jobs to the best of our ability. Unfortunately, in our society today—we see this across corporate journalism and law firms and other industries—there’s too much preemptive obeying for my taste. All we can do is just go do our jobs.
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AFT @aft.org · 24/03/2025
To the folks curious about their vaccination status: 💉If you're born before 1957, and you're not sure if you had measles: Get a booster or ask your doctor to screen you with bloodwork. 💉If you're born between 1957 & 1989, and you don't have documentation of 2 shots: Get a booster.
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Rachel Vindman @natsechobbyist.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
There’s always that one person in the group chat who communicates 50% in emoji. We made that person the National Security Adviser.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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Ohio Federation of Teachers @oftunion.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
OFT President Melissa Cropper on Governor DeWine's support for the Executive Order for the closure of the Dept of Education: “We strongly agree with Mike DeWine when he talks about the importance of improving student wellness, literacy and math skills, and career technical education in Ohio..." 🧵
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excellent statement from a number of Con Law scholars--including some notably conservative ones--on the government's funding cutoff at Columbia/ www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole
We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Early numeracy and mathematics development: A longitudinal meta-analysis on the predictive nature of early numeracy psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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APA PsycNet
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Christopher Danielson @triangleman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"Please take this short survey." [clicks] 10 screens of demographic questions later... [closes tab]
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
NEW at The Voice of San Francisco "SFUSD can learn from Boston’s track record of excellence in early childhood mathematics." thevoicesf.org/transitional...
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Transitional kindergarten is counting on us - The Voice of San Francisco
The 4-year-olds steady themselves in a raggedy circle around their veteran teacher, box braids and crew cuts and fluttering hands wiggling in anticipation of what comes next. All eyes are on the teach...
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My latest, in The Voice of San Francisco ♾️ #MTBoS #iteachmath thevoicesf.org/transitional...
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Transitional kindergarten is counting on us - The Voice of San Francisco
The 4-year-olds steady themselves in a raggedy circle around their veteran teacher, box braids and crew cuts and fluttering hands wiggling in anticipation of what comes next. All eyes are on the teach...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s not so fun to be a Jew in America right now.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
After a lifetime of work, employees, deserve to retire w/ dignity. Social Security is a bedrock foundation for working people's retirement security, but Musk is spreading blatant lies about waste & fraud to give tax breaks to billionaires. apnews.com/article/elon...
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Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
Elon Musk says Social Security and other federal benefit programs will be targeted in his hunt for fraudulent spending.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
These messages are rarely so clear!
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
It’s an illegal attack on millions of dedicated public service workers who placed their faith in PSLF’s bipartisan promise, only to see it ripped away. AFT won’t stop fighting, in court and in Congress, until every single public service worker gets the help the law affords them.
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Advocates Blast Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order to Weaponize Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Stifle Free Speech Across America
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Trump signaled his intent to sign an executive order to revoke eligibility for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from borrowers employed at non-profit organizati...
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
You want to see some "fraud," just wait until Republicans create their multi-billion-dollar federal school voucher program www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools
Donations to scholarship programs would be fully reimbursed through a new tax credit, creating the largest federal tax incentive for charitable giving.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I realized I had to do that because it's how I make sense of the math.
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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 06/03/2025
All of that and more. In the book that I co-wrote on teaching math, we devoted two chapters to teaching math as a language...because math is a language, and we should teach it like one.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
And not just the fine motor skills but also endurance!!! 10th graders have never kept track of their learning across 9 whole months. It's a HUGE mindset shift.
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Bobson Wong @bobsonwong.com · 06/03/2025
Both. There's a lot of research that indicates that students process more when they write by hand.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
So much more. Fine motor skills seem somehow connected to both thinking skills and retention.
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CheesemonkeySF @cheesemonkeysf.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It starts with teaching vocabulary. We have vocab quizzes. I was just noticing today how much better my students' conversations and written work are since I started this practice.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I would prefer the rule of law to survive by more than 5-4. But I'm getting used to disappointment.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos is angrily clicking “track shipment” to see what happened to his new editorial page.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
My God: they are selling off federal buildings and no longer planning on collecting revenues. Again, none of this is about efficiency. I know the IRS is not popular, but for every dollar invested it generates about $7 in returns. The goal is not to save money but to stop collecting it.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.
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