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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 10h

Me: Does anyone have any questions? Mr. Neibauer, why do we have to read these textbook articles? Why can’t we keep reading and annotating short stories like an octopus? Me: It’s complicated (but not really)… #TeacherSky #EduSky thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/a-tool-for...

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A Close-Reading Tool For The Classroom

and why I'm doubling-down on the value of curiosity this year

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This simple system works surprisingly well for my fifth graders. #TeacherSky

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 30/09/2026

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had an interesting moment today in class. I had to give my students a passage from a standardized basal textbook; probably written by AI. My students asked if they should close read and annotate the passage. I told him that they didn’t have to. #TeacherSky 1/3

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Making reading visible for students is the foundation of close reading, but it is the simplicity of this definition that makes it challenging. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/close-read...

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Close Reading

Making Reading Accessible and Visible

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the actual price of college these days is genuinely a befuddling number to look at. (Like: there are many many complicated things going on with college right now and no easy solutions but I still think we somehow don't talk enough about that price tag. It's ludicrous.)

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This weekend, do yourself a favor and carve out some time to read this piece by @marcusluther.bsky.social. Readjusting our focus is one of the best things teachers can do heading into a new week. #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Each year on my birthday, I open this book and read words of wisdom from the literary greats. This year, Virginia Woolf offers her advice.

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching students annotate a well-written short story is one of my favorite parts of being a teacher. #TeacherSky

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MathIsLife @damianmolinari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Such a great line.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also the right reminder I needed to begin my Week 3 mind map as a teacher 🪓🪵

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"I do not aim for the curriculum. I aim for the children in my classroom. And when I aim for my students, I teach all the way through to their hearts." Your Monday morning read from @mrneibauer.bsky.social and an analogy that very much resonates: adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/aim-for-th...

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Aim for the Heart

Teaching All the Way Through

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Jen @thereallilmayne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/aim-for-th... This is just beautiful, and hit me in the heart this morning. @mrneibauer.bsky.social

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Aim for the Heart

Teaching All the Way Through

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When teaching students, so much happens below the surface, invisible to the outside. That’s why I focus on what’s most Important. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/aim-for-th...

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Aim for the Heart

Teaching All the Way Through

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Nicholas A. Emmanuele, PhD (he/him/his) @naemmanuele.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I adore @mrneibauer.bsky.social’s post on class discussion protocols, talking sticks, and awareness indicator signs. Do yourself a favor and give it a read! #ITeachEnglish

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MathIsLife @damianmolinari.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This article captures a lot of what I believe math education should be, even though I'm not sure the gym analogy is the best one. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The great challenge of teaching is not to transmit information—machines do that cheaply now—but to engineer those moments of genuine understanding reliably enough that students come to crave them. The intellectual equivalent of the body’s feedback is real and, when it arrives, more powerful than any endorphin. It is the “Aha!” of a hard problem suddenly solved, a proof that clicks into place, the moment when an argument you’ve been wrestling with finally holds its own weight. I have seen it on students’ faces, and there’s nothing quite like it.

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m intentionally teaching my students how to speak and listen to each other using visual awareness cues. So far, it’s going well! Students love their speaking awareness sticks and the Talking Moves sentence stems help my students have better academic discussions. #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I met up with a former student and parent who wanted to donate their used books to our Tolle Lege classroom library. Not only did they donate a box of books, but they also created Blind Book prizes for my students. I am overwhelmed with gratitude! This is the coolest thing! #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My pedagogical practice in 3 words: Books. Ideas. Dialogue. #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I’m so grateful for the @arapahoelibraries.bsky.social librarians who visited my class today. They brought excellent books and hyped my students up about reading! #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"One of the first lessons I teach my students is how to listen to each other." This post had me at the very first sentence, and it made me think/appreciate a lot about how the more-difficult, student-centered way of building discussion culture is still the more worthwhile path. Great Monday read!

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Teaching my students how to pay attention to each other can be a challenge. This year, I’m trying something different: visual cues. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/attentive-...

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Attentive Listening

Listening and Speaking Cues for Student Discussions

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 13/09/2026

Word problems can feel like a lot for young learners. That’s where CUBES comes in: a step-by-step scaffold to help get them started. 🧱 Remember: It’s just one tool in their toolkit, not the whole toolbox. Keep pushing them to reason through the actual math, but starting with CUBES can help.

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 09/09/2026

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Melinda Kolk, Editor, Creative Educator @thecreativeeducator.com · 07/09/2026

Love the Reading Conferences!!! #EduSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I take my students outside as often as I can, but I love how Chad Huffman creates an entire project around being attentive outdoors. I’m stealing this! #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The beginning of the school year is an important time to set up rituals and routines for your students. Here are my favorites. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/adrians-to...

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Adrian's Top Five

My Top Five Classroom Rituals and Routines

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Continue to love this! We do something similar, using a strategy Tom Rademacher shared on @cultofpedagogy.bsky.social last summer. Always believe in a classroom design where students get to see themselves authentically and hopefully. www.cultofpedagogy.com/classroom-de...

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Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here’s a Better Idea | Cult of Pedagogy

These two back-to-school activities will help you get to know your students and make your classroom a space that belongs to everyone.

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Teaching my fifth-graders how to close read using TQE and Depth and Complexity icons is my favorite way to start the school year. I love sharing my favorite short, short, short stories, like Gianni Rodari’s Telephone Tales. They are fantastical bedtime stories! #EduSky #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At the start of the school year, I have students write themselves a letter to open at the end of the year. I decided to write one, too. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/note-to-se...

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Note to Self

A Letter to my Future Self

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Students had their first mathematical thinking task today! Based on @peterliljedahl.bsky.social ’s research on mathematical thinking, students collaboratively grappled with a puzzle, then synthesizing their thinking into their notebooks. They had a blast learning a card trick! #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wall space may be limited, but I could not do without our classroom community one-word wall. It made sense to use our Whitman closet as the backdrop to this great community building project. We are large; we contain multitudes. #TeacherSky www.cultofpedagogy.com/classroom-de...

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Week 2 of school is finished and I still haven’t regained my back-to-school teaching stamina yet. I’m exhausted! #TeacherSky

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Another year, another new?-better?-stronger? set of goals! 1️⃣ New: reflection around learning with a process emphasis 2️⃣ Better: modeling skills/strategies more intentionally 3️⃣ Stronger: feedback that helps students build confidence

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today, I introduced students to mathematical dispositions and practices from @joboaler.bsky.social We focused on visualizing, tinkering, being curious, describing, reasoning, questioning, and conjecturing. Students had a good time growing their brains today! #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I have no doubt this is going to be an amazing conversation! #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Talk about a Monday morning read! From the study of an end-of-world cult to a response to a parent requesting their child not be in a classroom, of course Adrian turns this into a lesson we all can take note of. Continues to be my favorite way to begin Monday mornings. ☕

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it).

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My pedagogical approach may not work for everyone, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/a-classroo...

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A Classroom of Contradictions

What if my pedagogy is not the best for every student?

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I worry that at some point we went from teaching digital literacy as a skill separate from content (ex: computer science class) to teaching all our content through the lens of digital literacy... And that's a big problem.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Do not forget: this vision of education—students with headphones on staring at screens—is VERY unpopular, especially right now. The vast majority of students don't want it. The vast majority of teachers don't want it. The vast majority of families don't want it. That's the story.

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I’ve lived throgh decades of this technology propaganda. I’ve sat through countless PD sessions, from Minecraft to Hour of Code. We were an Apple-endorsed school district, then Google, and now we all use Microsoft devices and platforms. The next AI wave is coming. #TeacherSky #EduSky

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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I appreciate the efforts to bring new teachers into the profession. But we also need to talk about how to keep our veteran teachers. My district trusting me to be my authentic self in the classroom is so powerful. Passion is contagious. www.pbs.org/newshour/edu...

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Column: How bringing comics into the classroom made me love teaching again

During Teacher Appreciation Week, this teacher shares why he remains passionate about his work -- he brings his passion for comics into the classroom, and it's paid off.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

One of the last things I did at the end of the school year: have students come up with advice for this new group of AP Literature students One of the first things I'm doing to prepare for this year? Typing up all that advice to share with this new group of AP Literature students

pile of handwritten advice from last year's students

syllabus tab for "advice from last year" with different suggestions

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My wall space is limited this year, but I’m getting serious about having visible classroom values and using them to build a strong community. Thanks @marcusluther.bsky.social for the inspiration! #TeacherSky www.cultofpedagogy.com/peer-affirma...

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The first day with students and the highlight of the day was introducing them to cootie catchers. They were fascinated by this strange fortune telling device from the late 80s and early 90s (I was sure to update it for their generation). #TeacherSky

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Last month, I felt I’ve been remodeling a home instead of setting up a classroom. Welcome to my new mobile classroom! #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky adrianneibauer.substack.com/p/thaumaturg...

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Thaumaturgy

Transforming a storage room into a classroom

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

No better time to be wrestling with the how, what, where, and when of reading than right now.

"If theory thus addresses the how, what, and where and when of our practices of reading, utopia, understood as the fundamental human principle of hope, offers an effective answer to the why: beyond any liberal individualist notions of pleasure or self-cultivation, we read in order to immerse ourselves in the shared story of the past and to hope for the future-and, in hoping, begin to move toward realizing more fulfilling and just ways of collective being and doing in the world" (18).
from Phillip E. Wegner's
"Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times"

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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you see this, post a knight ⚔️ #art Don Quixote by Ilya Bogdesko

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