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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎

@geojo22.bsky.social
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Retired middle school teacher. Reader, learner, runner, collaborator. Born when CO2 was 313 ppm.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 13h
Very few know that #Kansas was an epicenter of fiery American journalism. I'm a very proud graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism as is my buddy, @claywires.bsky.social Order his book! kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700643059/ #NewsieSky
A new book arrives! The cover shows a typical Main Street Newspaper office 
Book title: Opinionated: Kansas Journalists Who Proved Why Commentary Matters
By Clay Wirestone
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026
Microplastics are nearly impossible to avoid. Future coach Michael Coren shares simple ways to significantly reduce your daily exposure, from how you store and heat food to what you use in the kitchen. Read more: wapo.st/4rJKEkL
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PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW @pbsnews.org Classroom Daily News Lesson — Healthcare costs may be an under-the-radar driver in the midterm elections. Discuss why, and where voters might be looking for relief. #sschat #monitoringthemidterms loom.ly/Si8kXOY
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Education Week Opinion @edweekopinion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teachers share their best classroom moments. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
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What Brings Joy and Fulfillment to Teachers? It's All About the Students (Opinion)
Teachers share their best classroom moments.
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 28/09/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "today I'm just overwhelmed by bullshit"
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you remember?
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)Earth Wind and Fire singing and dancing to September.
Alt: Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Do You Remember)Earth Wind and Fire singing and dancing to September.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Kitty map! This is how cats migrated to Europe. Great little writeup in the post too: buff.ly/3ttaUWg
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
##sschat #iteachsocialstudies
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Mapped: Trade Dependence by State and Province in 2026
This map shows how Canadian provinces and territories are far more dependent on trade with the U.S. than American states are with Canada.
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#sschat #iteachsocialstudies
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Mapped: How Grocery Costs Compare by State in 2026
Grocery costs vary surprisingly little across most U.S. states in 2026, with Alaska and Hawaii standing out as major outliers.
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ggcoe.bsky.social @ggcoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
World History Teachers Blog: bit.ly/4yDn1MT #sschat #edusky
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OER Project: New Vdeo & Lesson on Scientific Revoution
In addition to this short 8-minute video, the OER Project also has an   interesting matching activity for Scientific Revolution.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Credit to PBS News. This is by far one of the most accurate descriptions of what trump did. None of the sanewashing we saw with so much of the news coverage.
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PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
News you may have missed over summer vacation! ☀️ PBS NewsHour Classroom Daily News Lesson — Dry winter leaves farmers along Colorado River facing greater water shortages Ask students: How do you think farmers in the U.S. can best prepare for the impacts of climate change? loom.ly/iK4vY80
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Dry winter leaves farmers along Colorado River facing greater water shortages
Farmers along the Colorado River have experienced water shortages following dry winters
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 07/09/2026
#HistoryEducation #HistoryTeacher what do you recommend?
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Michael Romero @mromero.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I don't participate in #HATM too often during the school year since I usually have to get up before the buttcrack of dawn, but this one looks like it's worth it...
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wins against GenAI are “win[s] for democracy - for all the teachers and parents and students who said to district leaders that moving fast with ‘AI’ was going to break things, break people; who asked that their needs be met, their voices be heard over the needs and voices of vendors” Audrey Watters
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Move Slow, Remake Things
In the prologue to their book Tinkering Toward Utopia, historians David Tyack and Larry Cuban highlight the tensions in how Americans think about schooling: we have, almost since the nation’s outset, ...
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I think we've moved beyond "the cruelty is the point" to "killing a lot of people without technically doing the killing is the point." Trump, Vance, Miller, Homan, Mullin, et. al might not be ordering literal executions, but they have a lot of blood on their hands and must be held accountable.
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is fascinating.
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Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
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PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Attention, teachers! Announcing our lesson series, "Presidential Leadership and Civic Virtue" Students read essays from In Pursuit on the leadership of presidents and first ladies, then reflect on how those virtues apply to their own lives. #sschat loom.ly/-0yct0o
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 24/08/2026
Congress funded the CDC's Alzheimer's work, the sickle cell and epilepsy data programs and a rape prevention unit, and Vought simply will not release the money. Grassley told him to his face he lacks the authority. The pocket rescission alone took 4.9 billion.
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Republicans furious as Trump’s budget director goes 'rogue'
The director of the Office of Management and Budget is infuriating Republican lawmakers by "going rogue" on what appropriations were approved by the House and Senate.
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
##sschat #iteachsocialstudies #edusky
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Wellman For MO @wellmanformo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@piperformissouri.bsky.social knows the stakes this November, and we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Send Fred Wellman to Congress to push back against illegal wars and fight to make life better for working people. #TeamWellman #Missouri
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not content to show that he knows fuckall about his own profession in medicine, Roger Marshall is challenging an actual minister on the details of religion. Good luck, Sen. Dipshit.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I find the discourse around "wokeness" to be dishonest and tedious, but this is what I wrote about it a couple of years ago and I think it remains correct: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
I could go on, but I think you get the point. These things are real; they happened. To believe that the disadvantages of race, class, and gender imposed lawfully over centuries never occurred or entirely disappeared in just a few decades is genuinely “radical” in a negative way; to believe that creating those disadvantages was wrong and that they should be rectified is not. The idea that no one ever succeeds based on advantages unrelated to their personal abilities is likewise radical, and also ludicrous. But you can, perhaps, understand why one of the richest men in the world would consider the opposing idea—that where many people end up in life is the result of unearned advantages—to be a “woke mind virus” that should be eradicated. That kind of thinking leads to higher marginal tax rates for people with private planes.

Some people so deeply resent the implication that they possess any unearned advantage that, in Republican-run states all over the country, the same folks who were recently shrieking about free speech and oversensitive snowflakes are busy using the power of the state to ban discussions about factual matters that might hurt their feelings, such as descriptions of racial segregation in the story of Rosa Parks. The irony here is that by framing everything they don’t like as a symptom of pervasive oppression against white people or Christians that must be rectified by the state, they have themselves adopted the inverse of the logic they decry as “wokeness.” They believe that America’s demographic majorities are the targets of broad institutional discrimination, which is unjust not because such discrimination is morally abhorrent but because it is targeted at the wrong people.
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, you're telling me Trump used journalists as human decoys during the NATO summit, then subpoenaed them for reporting on the security failures that led to the deception. There really is no low that man will not sink to.
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Seriously? #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #geographymatters
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#sschat #iteachsocialstudies
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What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Expert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters.
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Vic Pasquantonio @vicpasquantonio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Educators/parents: This is going to be very helpful! Join us Friday at 12pm ET for a special PBS @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social News Classroom Educator Voices Zoom! #sschat #DigCit #medialiteracy #EduSky
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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In March 1760, fire razed much of Boston. 220 families lost their homes. Many then submitted claims to the Selectmen for their lost possessions. Their inventories would make for a great study of Atlantic consumer culture. At least one African American, Nehamiah Sampson, was successfully reimbursed 🗃️
A list of possessions lost by Nehamiah Sampson in the great Boston fire of 1760. It includes, 4 check shirts, a jacket and breeches, stockings, twenty dollars, and a chest.
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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Please REPOST below. There are so many Americans that are not aware of these cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It’s so crucial to create as much awareness as possible.🙏
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I want to second everything Kevin said here. I had my first colonoscopy a couple weeks ago and there was nothing to it.
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
It’s That Time Again! Here Are Tons Of Tips For Starting The New School Year Right…. larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/08/04/i...
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It’s That Time Again! Here Are Tons Of Tips For Starting The New School Year Right….
As much as most teachers would like not to say it, summer vacation is drawing to a close (and, in some places, has probably already ended). You might find The Best Resources For Planning The…
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Retro Report @retroreport.org · 29/07/2026
FREE EDUCATION EVENT: Join Retro Report and The New York Historical for the premiere of a new 9/11 short film on 8/27, followed by a Q&A with guest speakers. Plus, learn about free, classroom-ready 9/11 resources. R.S.V.P. today: bit.ly/RR-events
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Retro Report @retroreport.org · 29/07/2026
🇺🇸 Are you looking for #America250 resources? Browse our page today to access short videos, lesson plans, and activities that explore the people, ideas, and events that shaped the nation’s founding. Learn more: retroreport.org/america-250-resourc…
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#iteachsocialstudies #sschat
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PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
PBS @pbsnews.org News Hour Classroom Daily News Lesson — 'Post-literate age': Why fewer Americans are reading for pleasure Ask students: Why do you think fewer Americans are reading for pleasure? LINK: loom.ly/SjNIHKs #ela #englishteacher #pbs #sschat
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'Post-literate age': Why fewer Americans are reading for pleasure
Discuss why reading habits have changed among students, with growing concerns that this notable decline may extend to the general population
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UnionGres @mattgresick.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Educator Free Speech Guide #edusky #sssky
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Marc Rosenblum, Trump admin DHS leader, has resigned. “I’m thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration. Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change.”
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"I'm thrilled to end my relationship with the current administration," this DHS official posted. "Between the war on immigrants, the war on feds, and the war on facts (not to mention the crazy war in Iran and the brazen corruption), I just need a change."
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Sentences Of The Week larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2026/07/27/s...
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Sentences Of The Week
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful.  A…
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so here’s 5 disability activists in U.S. history you should know. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tXbAe5/
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Let’s talk 5 #disability rights activists in U.S. #history you should know #ADA #504sitins #historian
TikTok video by PhDRachel
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PBS News Classroom @pbsnewsclassroom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
PBS NewsHour Classroom Daily News Lesson — Breakthroughs in Chinese AI models threaten U.S. lead in tech race Ask students: Do you think it would be better if the U.S. government invested in and shaped the future of AI? loom.ly/TGFaCFc
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Breakthroughs in Chinese AI models threaten U.S. lead in tech race
Chinese AI models are threatening to take over the American lead in the tech race
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
History colleagues: for those of you who still have jobs (😢) & are updating your teaching notes/syllabi for the Fall, a reminder that free, open-access materials on teaching the Black Death are already available. Your students are pandemic survivors. Give them the narratives they need. Links ⬇️.
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Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Catching up on conference blogging What Can Students Do? #TeachWorldHistory #Teaching ebeckman.org/2026/07/21/w...
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Vertical learning in history education
What should history teachers have students do?
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 22/07/2026
A painting of a bird beside the text "give your shit a day off"
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mattneil.bsky.social @mattneil.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Check this out #sschat
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