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Sarah F. Pedonti

@sarahpedonti.bsky.social
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Asst. prof in early childhood education, special education, early literacy, STEM & language development. Developmental thinker and doer. Rstats enthusiast, outdoor learning. Teacher. Mom.

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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 1h
Family/ECE literacy researchers have a chance to document something here (rather than lean in to all-AI all the time)
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ah, yes, the sweet smell of...*checks notes*...word-smithing a presentation to satisfy federal ctrl+f no-no word requirements. (FYI, in this context at least 1 instance of the word "diversity" is referring to number of different words we use with children, or diversity of vocabulary).
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Kids Count on Us @kcoumn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Head Start families! And childcare providers who serve Head Start families please urge your families to sign onto a joint comment about the Trump administration's proposed rules to gut Head Start! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe…
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Head Start Families: Urge the Administration to Protect the Future of Heart Start / Familias de Head Start: Hagan un llamado urgente a la Administración para proteger el futuro de...
OVERVIEW: Together for Head Start invites all family members of children currently enrolled in a Head Start program to sign onto a joint comment urging the Administration to withdraw their recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would undermine quality of and access to Head Start services. This letter will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a comment and will be shared with members of Congress, members of the press, and on social media to advocate for Head Start and its program standards. Please feel free to share this form with current Head Start families in your network. To learn more and get additional resources about the notice of proposed rulemaking, see the following Linktree: https://linktr.ee/headstartnprm. COMMENT DRAFT & BACKGROUND: Instructions + Who is this Letter For? Current Head Start family members including parents, grandparents and other caregivers are invited to raise their voices in...
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
do this! it's not hard! Deaf/HH people thank you!
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Sarah Quinn @sarahquinnphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
this OSERS/HHS briefing started out with an intro from the author of Project 2025's education sections, chat is turned off, q&a is turned off...
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Even further- use the close captioning technology that comes with nearly every presentation software now. Automatic speech recognition has gotten very good, and it helps D/HH folks greatly.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wow. Seeing it like this really drives it home.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Is it even worth it to put work on new proposals at this point?
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Finance/legal/ed nerd friends: I did not take a cancer deferment of student loans during tx of my lymphoma 5 years ago because cancer coincided with COVID-19 forbearance. However, unknown to me, if I worked less than 30 hours/week, it wouldn't count towards my PSLF. I worked 20. Because cancer.
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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ICE just kidnapped a Columbia student from their dorm. ICE off campus now.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
An Epstein Barr vaccine would've likely prevented my lymphoma.
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!! Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law. That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget. Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We're hiring! Clinical AP in Birth-Kindergarten. Great fit for someone with plenty of ECE training and teaching experience and willingness to work closely with interns! We're a great department, and WNC is a lovely place to live! Reach out with questions. jobs.wcu.edu/postings/31977
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Instructor or Assistant Professor of Practice in Birth - Kindergarten - #002414
The primary location of this position is on the main Cullowhee, NC campus.Western Carolina University’s (WCU) Department of Human Services invites applications for a 9-month, fixed-term position at th...
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In the midst of discourse denigrating the humanities & esteeming "pure" STEM disciplines, I've been struggling to articulate how STEM & SEL interact- This paper presenting a model for storybook STEM from @amandahaber17.bsky.social + Sona Kumar is my new go-to : www.mdpi.com/3541088
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE HERE! All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse. Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/09/2025
ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Anybody else on here read the new ACF email yet? Can we get a support group going?
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This was also true at the Society for Research in Child Development in May.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Super cool paper for anyone who’s ever worked with non-normal data or run am interaction model and struggled to describe the effect!
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Are all faculty everywhere still PDFing every acceptance letter and email, or has someone invented a better way to do this tenure dossier thing yet? thinking being able to forward emails to PDF@mydossier.com and get a nicely zipped set of folders +attachments sounds like a great biz idea.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thank a farmworker! ¡Gracias, campesinos! 🍅
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Here's what AI has to say about what $200 million could buy taxpayers besides a golden freaking ballrooom.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Check out my open access work!
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Jim Robinson @jim-robinson.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
@tll6601.bsky.social @pirkkoelf.bsky.social @stanzucker.bsky.social @sarahpedonti.bsky.social @alexandrashelton.bsky.social @drdpaweston.bsky.social #EduSky 🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Excited to share new work! www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu... Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.
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Frontiers | Testing Rural Early Educators Attitudes toward Children's Outdoor Recreation in Nature and Science: a new framework for exploring early educators' situated science teaching
IntroductionEarly childhood educators' dispositions toward science learning in outdoor environments play a critical role in fostering young children's engage...
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
There’s no time like the first week of summer vacation for a dedicated fourth grader to learn to whistle.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My brothers and sisters in Christ: this is why we need academics (or just people with basic statistical training) more than ever.
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Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Federal research funding cut? Don’t stop now. Two quick-response grants can help: Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D #SRCD #ChildDevelopment
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
wonderful time with great colleagues (new and old) at #SRCD2025. Thankful for everyone practicing joy as resistance and speaking truth to power right now.
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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 25/04/2025
Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
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ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 14/04/2025
A #criticalThinking exercise reduced Dems' #fakeNews sharing intent, but not Reps' (N > 1k). CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively. 🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...
Fig. 3 The interaction effect of cognitive style and political identity on intention to share fake news. Note. The score indicators on the Y-axis, representing intention to share levels, were truncated in 0.1 increments
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
They are hooking all this info up to AI. They don’t have the manpower to go through this themselves. Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points. Be academics.
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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Part of the reason I blasted AEI at AEFP. Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.
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WWR @wwr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Kevin, I would like to suggest that future finance historians call this stock market collapse “The Orange Crush.” Thank you in advance.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com
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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!
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The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
devour feculence, indeed.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Just found out my six year old thought the words sung at the end of the birthday song were “and mini-marrrrrt” instead of “and many more”. Mini-mart kind of slaps, actually
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
As someone who relies on a lot of federal systems (data, grants) this has been a stressful/unpleasant time to move. But as of this week it’s all wrapped up despite the chaos. And look at this view!
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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What the Department of Education actually does
America’s least understood and most efficient agency, explained
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
suggestions for things to watch while packing to make me feel like less like I am dying inside?
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PSLF Defense @pslfdefense.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Repayment plans are changing fast and it's not yet clear which plans are safest for maintaining PSLF counts. Join the discord for up to date discussion. The invite link has been updated. discord.gg/w9K5GM3D #PSLF #StudentLoans #publicserviceloanforgiveness
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Join the PSLF Defense Discord Server!
Planning the defense of Public Service Loan Forgiveness | 149 members
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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Alright, you want your congressmen/women to "DO SOMETHING" - this is doing something. Petterson gave birth 3 weeks ago. Mullin is hospitalized with complications from knee surgery.
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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Feels like we shouldn't need to say this, but here we are: Federal workers exist. The idea that many "don't even exist" is a lie.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Quantitative scholars everywhere banging our heads against a wall. This is what happens when you demonize higher education and doctorate holders.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Just a phonetics contrarian, begging journalists to start pronouncing them as “dodgy” instead of “dohj”.
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Sarah F. Pedonti @sarahpedonti.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Please get out there today. For my kid. And yours.
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