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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 14h

We were no technology for the first 5-6ish weeks of school. The first assignment I gave them on laptops last week was very AI-esque. It’s hard to confirm, but after beautiful, original work, all the classic tells of high school work suddenly vanished

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 16h

Not even on AP Lit…. It’s wild

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 22h

Have SNAP benefits cuts impacted you or your kids this school year? If you're an educator, have you been impacted--or are you doing things like keeping extra snacks in your classroom? I'd love to speak with you for a story I'm reporting: DMs open, rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Did anyone else sob when they finished reading East of Eden? No? Just me?

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I teach AP and it was the focus of my dissertation in 2023 and SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK 🗣️ 🗣️ 🗣️

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m in my 14th year teaching and this year I am teaching AP, running an advanced academics program, coaching three sports (2 head, 1 assistant coach), coordinating UIL grade checks for student athletes, and trying to enjoy my life.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

And that is why they are dismantling the structures for DEI in the US, particularly in education systems. Because kids were learning ideas that made it harder to turn them into genocidal drones who would look on or actively participate.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

I had a conversation with a DEI professional in another country last week, and y'all know I'm a critic of DEI as a framework, but she said something while discussing where the US is on the path to genocide: The goal of DEI work is to prevent genocidal ideas from taking root.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am wholly captivated by East of Eden. I wanted to slow-read it, but I legitimately cannot stop turning pages… this is the first “kept me up all night” book I’ve read in quite a long time.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve finished Hell Bent and Angel Down…starting East of Eden, but Water is more about me taking the lessons in slowly.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m overly irritated that every time I order an iced americano I have to clarify that I don’t want milk or flavor. It is a black drink by standard, so yes that’s how I want it. This is my pet peeve, ok?

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love this SMU-Florida State game with no technology. It shows who can work under adversity and who has really done the work to prepare for this game. Alignment and assignment mistakes will be glaring tonight.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These 4 books are a *must* to finish before September ends…I have 3 others that I want to get through, but they may get pushed to October

Screenshot of the covers of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo, Angel Down by Daniel Kraus, How to Read Water by Tristan Gooley, and Easy of Eden by John Steinbeck with a text overlay reading September Reading List

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just did a whole dissertation on bias in catalogues, and here’s the thing: the more you pretend a practice is completely neutral, not only is it more biased, but those biases are harder to spot. If you think machines don’t make this all worse, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not what i usually post, but I just need to say that being 36 and single and working over full time and paying for everything and doing every chore, task, and errand while getting a masters and doctorate and having surgery, and having a muscle tear is expensive and exhausting.

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

and yet AI adoption is rarely given as a cause of the drops in reading and literacy in the youth....

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Back for season two with the linebackers! Never in my life did I think I’d be coaching boys football…. (I say it like that cause I also am the head coach of our girls flag team)

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We’re low-tech this year, zero tolerance on AI usage. After 9 days of school we got on laptops once to write a professional email and immediately kids used AI. The only way to get students to do the work is to remove the computers. It would also help if the district didn’t have AI tools in every app

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

How can you sell something that’s wild? I mean … it tracks with the whole foundation of the USA, but my god it never stops.

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Jen Looper, PhD @jenlooper.com · 20/08/2026

This is absolutely true. We laid off Mrs. frizzle

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The corporatization (scope and sequence, scripting, data obsessing, book-length evaluation rubrics, etc.) of K-12 has greatly decreased the percent of eccentrics, however strange.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AP has lost the plot. They lost it long ago, but this is … something

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My goal this school year is to slow down. I don’t know what that looks like just yet, but I know it is a must.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Grim Reaper is letting the chopper spray.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I wonder how often teachers in non English contents read fiction…

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

K-12 schools too!

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I didn’t go to my doctoral graduation, so working graduation is as close as I get to graduation pictures. Three years post-doctorate and things are only going up! I’m so proud of the work I’ve done building our advanced academics program and the inaugural girls flag football team!

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It’s been on my list for awhile, but after stopping by Archer City a few weeks ago, I finally picked up Lonesome Dove and yeah, it’s worth the hype.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I loved learning with @asv.bsky.social last year! This year looks incredible as well!

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My plan for the summer is to be outside as much as possible

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I know I have an undiagnosed autoimmune disease. The way my body feels simply cannot be normal.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Good morning! Dogs do not need to be in all spaces. Have a great day!

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Not too proud to admit that I absolutely LOVE “Murder, She Wrote”

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/04/2026

Apps used to be exciting and now I hate every one of them

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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Jeffrey Austin @jaustinedu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Our political leaders want to Make Literacy Technical Again nationwide in order to totally control schools: mandated scripted curriculum from corporate vendors, endless standardized assessment, banned teaching methods, and restrictive book lists.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Being objectified and cat-called by fans in a stadium when I am at work doing my job as a coach is a new level of disgusting that I never imagined I’d experience. Can’t even work in peace.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Ok, I’ll be more open about this. I want to publish more! Peer-reviewed journals, commentaries, etc.! Topics of interest: Advanced Placement, Cultural Capital, Secondary English, Secondary Athletics and Coaching. Hoping to find some co-authors and collaborators! #edusky

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This goes directly against what we were told at the 2025 AP Reading (Lit and Seminar). No surprise they lied to us.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Oh hell yeah. This is wonderful information!!

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I’m watching Midnight Cowboy for the first time and I was caught off guard at how rural Texas looks exactly the same in the movie as it does today. Seriously thought they got a shot of my hometown from 10 years ago.

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dr kolbe ricks @kolbejack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My SBOE rep wants to present on a list of titles + context that should be added/replace what’s on the list. Can my fellow educators help me create some suggestions for 6-12 grade? #edusky

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Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

And this is a great example of messaging--especially if you've got a Republican board member who's not going to be moved by complaints about the list's lack of diversity. bsky.app/profile/ghos...

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