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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

With the NOAA layoffs, every neighborhood in Southeast Texas is going to have to appoint a retiree to this position this hurricane season.

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Jes The Activist Teach @jessycamathews.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Had an awesome experience with my local ABC network discussing the Super Bowl performance from the perspective of an AP AAS teacher ✊🏾🤎 youtu.be/HDx5QQ9WUGg?...

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Local teacher of AP African American Studies shares opinion this year's halftime show

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 12/02/2025

I don’t share this for sympathy or advice. I’m an exceptional teacher with a decade of experience. I’m doing phenomenal work in my classroom and in my school. My students are thriving. And I cannot enjoy any of it because I’m running on empty all the time.

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Jes The Activist Teach @jessycamathews.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

If anyone needs a lesson tomorrow, I made this real quick on Kendrick’s halftime performance. It’s going to be my Black Fact of the Day, because Black History isn’t just the past, it’s the present as well 🤎✊🏾 gamma.app/docs/Analyzi...

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Analyzing Imagery in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Show

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Anyway. There is a glass jar in the corner of our collective house right now. Keep adding your change to it when you can. It's going to add up.

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And it was always a shock to see that the coins that, separately, felt worth almost nothing actually added up to what seemed to be a huge, earth-shattering amount. That was real money in there! Real money that was made out of just...change. 🧵

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

And then, one day, the jar would be opened. Maybe when it grew too heavy to lift, maybe when an expense came up, maybe just before a vacation. 🧵

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Not enough to miss. Not enough to notice. Just a few cents here and there: a tiny, insignificant donation. Just what could be spared. An offering. 🧵

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Remember those giant glass jugs that used to sit in living room corners of some people's houses? People would empty their pants pockets at the end of the day and toss the loose coins in--a nickel here, a quarter there. 🧵

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Most of us are not in a position to do anything huge or earth-shattering to combat the creeping fascism, and so things feel really hopeless. It feels impossible that something huge enough to save us will come along. It feels like there is nothing we can do to make it happen. But. 🧵

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The existence of the song "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" in the animated Grinch movie starring Benedict Cumberbatch implies the existence of a Who Jesus. So I asked AI what that might look like. You're welcome. God bless us, every one.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 10/12/2024

Thank you @npr.org This is how you write a headline about THE Nikki Giovanni’s passing.

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CULTURE

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

DECEMBER 9, 2024 · 10:02 PM ET

Andrew Limbong

American poet Yolanda Cornelia 'Nikki' Giovanni leans on her desk beside a typewriter, in front of a wall decorated with photos, 1973. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am obsessed! Such amazing choices by actors and director while still remaining true to the original. So great.

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just got back from Wicked and I regret to inform everyone that I will be entering every room henceforth with "IT'S MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If you are interested in the fight against book bans, I'd love to invite you to listen to this episode, where we had a chance to deep dive into the philosophy of fighting for our kids' freedom to read. Kelly is one of the nation's foremost experts on bans, and it was a pleasure to chat with her!

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This looks more like HISD's current libraries.

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Literarity Book Shop @literarity.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

First, they came for librarians. Now, the #Texas State Legislature is coming for booksellers with Senate Bill SB 88. So, if a 17-year-old wanders into our art section and looks at a book containing a nude photograph/painting, we could be prosecuted. #bannedbooks #bookstore #bookstores #censorship

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hear what our co-founder @laneyhawes.bsky.social has to say about the recent move by the SBOE to prioritize turning itself into a state censor of Texas school library books. State Board of Education looks to expand control on school library books cbsaustin.com/news/local/s...

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State Board of Education looks to expand control on school library books

During a meeting Thursday, the State Board of Education approved a move to give it more control over library books in schools and whether what's on the shelves

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I like this. AND. It makes me very uncomfortable.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

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Books We Love

Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

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Aliza Werner @alizawerner.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hey #EduSky #NCTE24 folks - share some titles you picked up in the exhibit hall that you’re EXCITED about to help build our TBRs! A few of my fave 2025 titles from Renée Watson, @barbaradee.bsky.social, Padma Venkatraman & @marthabee.bsky.social…

Hey #EduSky folks who attended #NCTE24 - share some titles you picked up in the exhibit hall that you’re EXCITED about!

A few fave 2025 titles from Renée Watson, @barbaradee.bsky.social, Padma Venkatraman & @marthabee.bsky.social…

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Freedom Trail audio tour app: Now, look to your left! Do you see a Chipotle? 😄 Me: 😒

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 24/11/2024

"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Maybe we can make that true of life as well." Ada Limon's #NCTE24 keynote was everything my heart needed.

Poet Ada Limon standing at a blue podium with a rainbow-colored heart on it.

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

As your time at #NCTE24 comes to a close, consider taking five minutes to write about your journey here. Then: Find your local NCTE affiliate. Find your local National Writing Project site. Thank you, NCTE affiliate and NWP site leaders. We are transformed in and through the work, together.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 24/11/2024

I loved what Ada Limon had to say about writer's block in her talk at #NCTE24 today: "It is not so much that you don't have anything to say; it's that you have so much to say." We have to take time to sort through the overwhelmingness of it all, time to let one good idea at a time shine through.

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We actually use this expression very frequently in my class, to the point that it's pretty much a call and response at this point. The 9th graders are so tired of me. 😂

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Dashka Slater @dashkaslater.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Heading home after a heady, exhilarating, & exhausting few days at NCTE confirmed in my conviction that it’s community, connection, and conversation that will get us through everything yet to come.

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Ale Checka @plainy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“The world isn’t going to be saved by technology, but by our own creative imaginations to rethink the possibilities of existence” Ada Limón speaking at NCTE 2024

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 24/11/2024

Hi #NCTE24 If you’re a beautiful young teacher I spoke to last night and you told me ‘names matter,’ I need to find you and follow you and tell you that you made my entire life. Thank you! Please be here!

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Alas alas, my hope that I can hear one single person speak at this conference without tearing up will go unfulfilled.

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Jenn Hayhurst @hayhurst3.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

#ncte24 #edusky You’re not alone. In fact you are the light that may guide others.

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Loving the closing message at #NCTE24: "You are not alone."

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It may. My district no longer allows us to be trained by outside parties. 🙃

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yup. Not only did I have to fund my own way entirely, but I had to use my personal days. Paid for it twice.

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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.

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Nicholas A. Emmanuele, PhD (he/him/his) @naemmanuele.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This morning at #NCTE24, @gmfunk.bsky.social, Mary Luckritz, & I presented on theatre in the classroom: physical/vocal warmups, consent work & stage combat, adapting prose to plays, and oral interpretation! Let’s see some more theatre sessions next year at #NCTE25: submit something fun!

Nick, Mary, and Glenda outside their presentation room.

Mary raises her arms while talking about adapting a text into a radio play.

Nick raising his arm as he discusses transforming prose to a play.

Glenda discussing elements of an oral interpretation presentation.

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Jamie Michalak @jamiemichalak.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

“The books that break our hearts grow our hearts.” I hope one day everyone gets a chance to read or hear @joknowles.bsky.social moving speech about fighting censorship. #NCTE24

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La Doctora @literarychica.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

1972!!!

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

This was such a wonderful session, thank you!

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Sarah A Honore @sasshonore.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I couldn't, I was frozen to my seat after they said it!

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