Reposted by Colleen KellyJohn Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you care about the development of the American mind, you need to pay attention to K-12 curriculum in a way that takes it seriously. Lots of people, many of them unqualified, are doing this and having a big influence in blue and red states. 062
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Perimenopausal rage hitting at just the right time to listen to rage against the machine with my 14 year old son 020
Reposted by Colleen KellyAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026oh for a time machine to go back to, oh, 2012 or so and talk to every English department trying to endure by hawking ”writing skills” to business and criminal justice majors… 081
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026A teacher who believes the psalms are necessary for an initial encounter with Whitman can introduce them. But there are other references and other contexts that are just as relevant and might be more compelling to other teachers or other students. 121
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I love this book so much! It is smart and funny and wise about art and people and parenting. Reading it is like having a conversation with Kathryn about stuff that really matters to her, and everyone should be lucky enough to get to do that (so buy the book!!!) 011
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026oh hey look! www.vulture.com/article/litt...vulture.comLittle House on the Stolen PrairieA new adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series punctures the fantasy. 718442
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 28/06/2026I know all the people involved in this story and being friends with them is even more fun than it sounds 180
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Banger of a closing line to this student essay: “The 19th century was not for the weak” 000
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 12/06/2026every day do something/ that won’t compute wendell berry “manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front” 000
Reposted by Colleen KellyMarcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Yep! And some of them value it more than ever. (And: we also need to acknowledge that 10-20 years ago it wasn't like there was this massive wave of voracious readers! There has been a shift, yes, but false nostalgia doesn't help.) 021
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 01/06/2026spent the last month profiling jimmy kimmel, and it's a weird time for that guy! trump and kimmel both want the same thing, which is for kimmel to not be doing this show anymore. how does he make that happen without it feeling like a concession? unclear www.vulture.com/article/jimm...vulture.comJimmy Kimmel Would Stop If He CouldTrump wants him out, late night is dying, and he’s tired. What does the end look like? 615719
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/05/2026not a lot of guides out there about how to talk to your kids about French sex workers but we do our best 3492
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Told a story in class this morning about using my opera glasses to bird watch because teacher brand consistency is important 030
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 05/04/2026It is my toxic trait as a teacher that I find this terribly charming 010
Reposted by Colleen KellyJenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I do NOT understand how everyone involved with making the Heated Rivalry TV show, most of them brand new to romance, put their entire whole pussies into it and gave it everything they had, and the professional romance publisher is standing around with its thumb up its ass TO THIS DAY 28410
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Okay, today’s student-led poetry selection was just trolling me 000
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Thinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have 020
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 17/03/2026thoughts on outlander, the most popular un-influential important minor tv show www.vulture.com/article/outl...vulture.comOutlander Was the Bridge Between TV WorldsThe series will end the way it began: caught between warring genres. The tension fed its greatest successes but also its most frustrating flaws. 46312
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry” 010
Reposted by Colleen KellyErin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026from the people who brought you "Destroying Public Education in Favor of Test-Based Accountability," we present "School 2: What We Previously Dismantled Was Actually Good It Turns Out" 2246
Reposted by Colleen Kellyangelina mazza @angejmazza.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I profiled Cat Sebastian aka your favorite romance author’s favorite romance author for @nytimes.com ❤️🔥🎬nytimes.comHow Isaac Asimov Inspired a Star Romance Writer’s Swoony New Novel 16918
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 10/03/2026as we approach the Oscars I need to state right up top that every time someone says “this is Timmy’s year” this is the Timmy I picture 29510
Reposted by Colleen KellySam Ulmschneider @samulmschneider.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I want to shake people and be like, teachers WANT to assign whole books. you don't need to make it a legislative mandate! just give us appropriate autonomy and an incentive/evaluation structure which won't punish use of complex, long readings and full works - most teachers will jump in w both feet. 0173
Reposted by Colleen KellyOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/03/2026Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785? 14595166
Reposted by Colleen KellyRusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 08/03/2026Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you. 219356
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 06/03/2026It’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me) 010
Reposted by Colleen KellyPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 05/03/2026That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao 151598244
Reposted by Colleen KellyJenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I believe the romance genre deserves the respect of robust, knowledgeable critical engagement, and you'll see me RTing amazing romance critics who do that! ....AND, I do not want my work to be used to bolster any "yeah! romance sucks!" arguments. romance doesn't suck. it's great. 1317
Reposted by Colleen KellyMarcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 05/03/2026anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back 0279
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed 020
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 02/03/2026This question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… ) 0141
Reposted by Colleen KellyKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/02/2026spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha www.vulture.com/article/brid...vulture.comBridgerton Needed HerYerin Ha brought the hit Regency romance series the perspective it’s been missing. 1397
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Drop whatever you’re doing and read the opener to this right now and then CRY that you can’t write this good (And then go back to making Hamlet Act III slides) 120
Reposted by Colleen Kellychristopher, post-rock dog dad @chrisabides.com · 21/02/2026the primary reason technology has broadly not helped education in the last 20 years is because the motivation behind putting technology in the classroom wasn't spurred by or thought of by teachers, but instead by people trying to profit off of schools buying shit 5760110
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I just taught “the second coming” to my least interested freshman and was feeling bad that i didn’t do enough scaffolding with poetry annotation last week to get them ready but then I told myself I’ll treat it as a formative benchmark rather than a summative and now I dont feel bad anymore 130
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 14/02/2026It’s Valentine’s Day. I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, you should be reading a romance today. And The Somerset Sins has 5 extremely messy siblings all finding their love stories in the same volume, so it should be this one! books2read.com/u/4jVOel 000
Reposted by Colleen KellyAlexandra Almond @alexandraalmond.bsky.social · 11/02/2026This is a terrific article about respecting the romance genre, particularly relevant at the moment given all those stupid valentine's day articles highlighting "best of" lists that are mostly not romances. 183
Reposted by Colleen KellyFated Mates @fatedmates.net · 11/02/2026Sarah made this helpful flowchart for people thinking about writing romance think pieces for Valentine's Day. It's not too late to turn back! 17322
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The first two weeks of February are the cruelest month for romance people 020
Reposted by Colleen KellyColleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!books2read.comAvailable now at your favorite digital store!The Duke's Somerset Sins by Anne Knight, Colleen Kelly, Kay K. Denner 111
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Five interconnected romance novellas coming out Friday. Duke daddy demands his kids find spouses by the Valentine’s Day Ball… or else. We’ve got “good boy” and sapphic pining and freaks turned on by rage-baiting each other about canals. Something for everyone!books2read.comAvailable now at your favorite digital store!The Duke's Somerset Sins by Anne Knight, Colleen Kelly, Kay K. Denner 111
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026It’s the 100th day of school this week, so you know what that means! (I’m counting out office supplies in quantities of 100 for my child to put inside an empty water bottle) 010
Colleen Kelly @colleenkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026As I prepare to move into my fourth temporary classroom in 18 months (classroom #5, we’ll be together soon!) I am giving thanks for my rampant, unmedicated adhd. It may take me 3 weeks to grade a single piece of homework but I also can freak a last minute lesson plan with no warning or supplies 110
Reposted by Colleen KellySarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 09/02/2026The assumption that romance is not worth protecting from scammers is also wildly insulting considering how romance practically props up the book industry with its sales numbers. 0298