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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Tuesday morning we are diving into this slow-read: one poem a day throughout July! #PoemADayJuly List of the poems for the first week here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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July 2025 Poetry Slow-Read with Marcus, Chanea and Brett
Throughout the month of July we will be looking at a single poem each day on Bluesky, a “slow read” of sorts through a variety of poems that spark us in some way. Anyone is welcome to join in at any p...
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Human Restoration Project @humanrestorationproject.org · 23/06/2025
ICYMI: Our most recent episode, Reclaiming Teaching & Learning in an Age of AI with @heymrsbond.com, is already on track to be our most-listened to of 2025! Search & subscribe to 'Human Restoration Project' on any podcast app or listen at: www.humanrestorationproject.org/podcasts/rec... #EduSky
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Absolutely
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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Help feed protesters!
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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Portland and Salem, too
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 09/06/2025
The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE
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Ana Braga🦋💙 🌊 @theanabraga.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Right? 👇🏽🤢
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Between this and the wave of integration already happening in independent/private schools, no child and no educator is safe from the AI edtech grift. Gen Z and Gen Alpha are cooked.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 16/04/2025
Research says: To preserve your focus, hide your phone! 🧠📱 #EduSky
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Keep it up. It all helps. ❤️👊
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/04/2025
Read Harvard’s response to the Trump Administration.
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Read Harvard’s Response to the Trump Administration
Harvard University’s lawyers responded on Monday to the Trump Administration’s letter demanding a series of policy changes, saying the demands were unlawful and that Harvard would not comply.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
MIT following Harvard's lead here
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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info
A “BirdCast” map of the USA reads:

Night of April 13, 2025
129 million birds predicted
Generated 13 Apr 2025 at 06:00 UTC (13 Apr at 02:00 ET)
Bird migration forecast

The map colors show the highest intensity in the southern US, spreading northward and gradually fading in intensity in that direction. Gif of radar map. A 24-hour national mosaic animation of radar imagery featuring large numbers of birds taking flight. Circular blue and green features represent bird migration; precipitation appears as irregular bands. (Base reflectivity radar imagery from October 16th-17th, 2017, 12pm-12pm EST.)
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Had a really good experience with this last week, so I wanted to detail each step of the lesson (spoiler: we spent nearly an hour doing "stuff" before students got their actual feedback!) thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/before-you...
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Before You Return Feedback To Students
What we did as a class together (key word: together!) before students received their individual essay feedback
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A student who missed a lot of school and was hospitalized came back to school. Doctors found out what was going on. He’s on the mend and able to travel with his class on the spring trip
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Journalists: you cannot deport U.S. citizens out of their own country. Do not simply regurgitate the words of the administration if those words are inaccurate. To do so is spreading disinformation. Deportation, according to the govt itself, is for people with no legal right to be here.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This is what the so-called war on “woke” was always about it, convincing people that what happens to the marginalized can’t happen to them. It can, it will. First, challenge citizenship by birth. Then, unconstitutionally expel citizens from their own country. “Deport” is the incorrect word, btw.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sigh. Fine, I will put my braids back in.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Speaking up matters.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
What a nightmare for parents and children. www.nydailynews.com/2025/04/05/n...
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NYC’s regional Head Start office shuttered as part of Trump admin’s health cuts
Child care providers learned last week that half of Head Start regional offices were closed effective immediately.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If you can't protest tomorrow, you can do other things: - call your reps - donate to orgs like the ACLU, Indivisible, etc - be protest support (be the one people call if they're arrested, offer water/first aid, etc) - write an op-ed for your local paper ...and so much more. We can all contribute!
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The most important thing you must share today. Trump is destroying your life savings and ability to make a living for 1 reason: he wants to make us all beggars who bow to him, his donors and his family. Not sure why @chrismurphyct.bsky.social hasn’t posted this here but can’t be posted enough.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.
The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor
). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."
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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 05/04/2025
"First they came for the museums..." @katyevansbush.bsky.social #DEI #Trump
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"First they came for the museums..."
Poetry, books, culture, politics, history, etc. I've been economically displaced from my longtime home & am rebuilding, now with long Covid. My new book, 'Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle', is o...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 31/03/2025
We sat down with influential psychologist David Yeager to talk about the recent science shaping our understanding of the adolescent brain and why kids resist feedback. 🧠 #EdResearch #EduSky
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The Science of Student Motivation
Noted author and psychologist David Yeager on the common mistakes we make when giving feedback to students, and how to tap into purpose and belonging to make classroom work more meaningful.
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Thank you for hosting! Have a great week!
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Agreed. That messiness can help them clarify and strengthen their voice
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
And also attempting to write alongside those models on my own and with students #buildHOPEedu
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A3: Showing models of writing that show people delighting in everyday beauty and awe like Ada Limon, Clint Smith, Maggie Smith alongside their heavier topics about injustice, inequality, abuse of power, violence #buildHOPEedu
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A2: storytelling has the power to change people’s hearts and minds if people stay in practice of speaking and listening to stories. I think of Just Mercy and the collection of children’s poetry in I Never Saw Another Butterfly #BuildHOPEedu
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Super useful guide for how to focus efforts (donation, time, keeping informed, etc.) to resist this administration
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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025
Universities in France and elsewhere in Europe have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
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As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat
European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.
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Peter Greene @palan57.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The saga continues. The district leaders fail to rise to the occasion www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/c...
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West Ada parents, students chalked welcoming messages at schools. Some are being erased
“The school district can erase our welcoming messages but it cannot erase our voices,” a Renaissance High School student said.
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
GOP stands for genital-obsessed party. These two GOPers in Florida are trying to ban inclusive displays at their respective public libraries because, well, they can't stop thinking about what's in someone's pants. www.axios.com/local/tampa-...
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GOP officials target LGBTQ+ displays in Largo, Palm Harbor library
The libraries are the latest institutions to face GOP pushback over their support for LGBTQ+ children and teenagers.
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I spoke against this bill at my local school board meeting to let them know this was coming. How are they going to protect their teachers? A solution isn't a new process or policy, but about loud, consistent internal and external messaging that they trust their teachers to teach students well.
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Agreed. Important because we all can’t keep our going all the time. Inevitably, there will be times we get tired or discouraged and can lean on those who are stronger and when we regain that strength, we can take over and allow others to rest, to take a break, to heal #BuildHOPEedu
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I wish I could remember where I learned this: knowing that hope is not wishful thinking but is instead the DOING of things that bring goodness and joy and justice into being. Hope is possible when it can be seen and experienced #BuildHOPEedu
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msgunter.bsky.social @msgunter.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A2: I teach literature and try to choose essays and poems where writers representing a variety of experiences are wrestling with thoughts and feelings about uncertainty #BuildHOPEedu
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