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Meaghan Townsend

@meaghantownsend.bsky.social
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Nonfiction writer and English teacher who writes about high schools from within them. Currently on a Fulbright in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪

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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You've said it before, and it's an apt banner: we need high resources AND high teacher autonomy. Too many administrators act as if those conditions are mutually exclusive. In truth, the combination of both is what builds and sustains career teachers.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am ABOUT the books I teach! I make book, PDF, & audiobook available for every kid, every text. I display big reading calendars in class & let students mark our progress. + I make posters with each author's photo & a juicy quote, & move each author's poster front & center when we start their book.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You've said it before, and it's an apt banner: we need high resources AND high teacher autonomy. Too many administrators act as if those conditions are mutually exclusive. In truth, the combination of both is what builds and sustains career teachers.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love this quiz! My 90% reflects my longtime obsession with its content (though "sleep spindles" was also new to me). In my experience, older students appreciate being shown these statements (with data). They can handle the truth!!
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I would also be curious to see a review of 'Hoppers' from a climate reporter. Entirely different audience, but a large one.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Highly teachable exhibit on journalism at📍 Nano Nagle Museum, Cork. Even if photos lie now more than ever!
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Visualizing the grind of moving 🚚 Most sales in a day: 9 Not pictured: sale of smart mattress (outlier)
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Again: this is why I love reading what other teachers are doing, especially when it's different from me! Gets the gears turning in the best of ways. 🙏 Full piece from @edutopia.org here by @meaghantownsend.bsky.social: www.edutopia.org/article/pbl-...
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How to Set Up a Project-Based Learning Unit Based on Whole Novels
High school ELA teachers can create an engaging novel unit that guides students to explore contemporary social issues.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Thanks so much, Marcus! Agreed re: complexity — "PBL" here refers more to the construction of milestones and the idea that good student writing can be read by a wider audience than just the teacher.
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
building on this piece I was grateful to publish in @the74.bsky.social, with the support of @bostoncollegiate.bsky.social www.the74million.org/article/why-...
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Why Native American Curriculum Should be Taught Throughout K-12 Education
If students’ only in-depth exposure to Native Americans is a 3rd grade history unit, how can they be expected to understand Native people as adults?
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Thinking about Native teachings as a blueprint for the political moment. open.substack.com/pub/meaghant...
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What culture are we celebrating?
Learning to replace colonial thinking with Indigenous wisdom
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.the74million.org/article/why-...
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Why Native American Curriculum Should be Taught Throughout K-12 Education
If students’ only in-depth exposure to Native Americans is a 3rd grade history unit, how can they be expected to understand Native people as adults?
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
More of a poetic essay, but I think about this piece from 2021 www.thebeliever.net/ghosts/
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Ghosts - Believer Magazine
7. My sister was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma when I was in my freshman year of high school and she was in her junior year. I didn’t understand then how serious a disease it was. But it was—serious. S...
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Dear #BookSky Minneapolis has an absolutely incredible literary culture. In fact, three of the most important small presses call the city home; Coffeehouse Press, Graywolf, and Milkweed. There are also a ton of great bookstores in the Twin Cities. So here's the assignment...
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
General principles: - all time has to serve the project (no "junk food" for the brain/spirit) - 2+ walks a day - books are talismans, keep them close - pile of coffee cups drawn to scale...
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Wrapped my first-ever self-made writing retreat! 3 days in New Haven watching rooftops + my brother's college basketball games
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Makes sense. I ask because I share a lot of the other qualms you've expressed on here, but enough of my students (maybe 25%?) check the board for agenda/HW that I don't consider this too onerous a task
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
What percentage (if any) of your students do you think find it useful?
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My pitch for 2026: art! Demon moons!! More at my first blog post: open.substack.com/pub/meaghant...
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My pleasure!
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Today I watched a video essay about AVATAR, read survey responses from my students, and was asked by @prisonjournalism.bsky.social why I was choosing to donate. The bottom line is this: whoever you want to serve, ask them what they need & act on their answer
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Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Metacognition Pacing Rigor (+1 to HQIMs!)
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