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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Enriching and moving day at the Vassar Institute for the Liberal Arts — “Transgressing Borders: Reimagining Education and the Role of Learning in Community”. Really too much to put into words, but this is the networking we must be doing to support kids, families, communities. @vassar.bsky.social

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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

We do not need to cede him any more power than he will have tomorrow. He won the popular vote by 1.5%. He did not crack 50% of the overall vote. His win does not mark a sea change in public opinion. He, his policies, and his cronies will be unpopular. Rest up. Take care of yourself. Then...

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

‘What a life filled with love’ — grateful for those who choose to apply their brilliance to cultivating patience, presence, care, and humor in a world that can be so hard. that is love, lighting the way, this is Nikki Giovanni #poetry

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Curious to know the songs, or genre at least . . . extended family pets still go bonkers for Christmas music

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/11/2024

These are your words of the week fascism conclave drought kakistocracy Uranus poltophagy www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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The Words of the Week - Nov.15

Dictionary lookups from politics, cinema, and Uranus

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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The freedom to read is guaranteed by the Constitution. This is an excellent starter pack if you’re looking for follows involved in the fight to preserve our right to book access and the fight for our freedom to read. Thanks to @maggietokudahall.bsky.social for creating this. go.bsky.app/L59xSVt

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Consider adding NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award winner Cody Miller!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Loving reading Brautigan again, and Clint Smith, and all the poems in the replies in this thread. #poetry #science

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

more this morning about fathers and sons I sometimes start to reach / for his hand #edusky #poetry

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Spending this weekend with family and books. My best friend from deep childhood recommended @blacktopkid.bsky.social to me, and I opened up to this epigraph. A lot a lot a lot coming through about fatherhood and masculinity these days. Grateful today for authors, artists, and thinkers. #edusky

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he was meant to be.
FRANK A. CLARK

BLACKTOP WASTELAND
A NOVEL
S. A. COSBY
"SENSATIONALLY GOOD."
—LEE CHILD

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Aut2Ask 🦦 @aut2ask.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Who? Autistic folk, caregivers, educators, specialists, community helpers, allies, etc. Why? Add your voice-collectively or individually. Anonymous or not. Why? To Let policy makers know how and where we need more support, in the autism community. Over 2,500 responses! How? bit.ly/Aut2ask

AUT2ASK
AN AUTISTIC COMMUNITY
HEAR FROM US
NOT ABOUT

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

bell hooks has long been a guide for me — as both an educator and meditator. (Link below) & sometimes she stops my mind: “They believe that men who are not dominators will not protect them” // “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. . . . To choose life over death.” #edusky

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving." This is the book I'll be reading in my living room across the holiday season. Winter szn meditation to thaw and warm the heart. #edusky #iteachenglish #NCTE24

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

father of sons here, saying thanks for this reminder — good reading for this brief recess post NCTE

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Oh #literacies -- I need to go, it is kiddo bedtime! I really enjoyed this opportunity to connect. Thank you so much for hosting and being in conversation!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A3: I tend to give my older students theoretical frameworks; my younger ones tools like "emotion wheels" to name character and personal emotions while reading. But I stopped offering opportunities to practice arts-inspired writing since the election. This realization makes me sad. #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A3: Whew: there is a gap between what I am drawing on to nourish me -- lots of roots music, new Americana, Kendrick Lamar's new album; the work of teacher-artist-researchers (e.g. "Teaching with Arts Infused Pedagogies"; Dr. Kelly Wissman); painting (!!) -- and what I offer my students. #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wow -- this is a perspective I need in the feed.

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How are you organizing, structuring, thinking about setting the conditions for, or experiencing the role of environments in community building? (Good to meet you!)

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is such a helpful reminder. Thank you for this!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In particularly, we did a close reading of the Lumber 84 Superbowl Ad from 2017, and studied it in context. Then we dreamt together about telling stories our journeys. How do we frame our story of being on a path? How do others frame theirs? And who is telling whose stories? #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Everything from NY Times Image of the week (which has students entering into discourse in chat with peers around the world, as you likely know!), to movie trailers, TV commercials form the days before and after the 2016 election. This time capsule has been helpful to HS seniors. #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I really appreciate this reminder of ways of being. In my classroom, my own conception of literacies can narrow to the ways of communicating we've (co-teachers, students) taken up. This is reminding me to slow down and remember to dream with students . . .

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Need to know more about the wealth you're transferring!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanks for asking. Some exhaustion here as well, but the wood stove and a couple of days off help. I feel really well supported in educator communities post-NCTE. Many affiliates and NWP sites seem vibrant right now. Is the uncertainty reverberating in your school of ed?

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A2: In my context teaching HS, civic discourse looks like supporting students in noticing their inner & outer enviro. These days I'm working a lot with rhetorical reading of images -- noticing what's there, but curious also about what isn't the frame, and where and when it was made. #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I do wonder about this as well -- strategies and purpose. I teach courses in tenth grade English, public speaking, research, and a couple dual-enrollment college comp courses. They each require different approaches, and my students are in very different places when it comes to civic discourse.

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A1: Fresh from NCTE's conference myself, I am also feeling both heaviness and hope. Folx in my school and community seem to feel uncertainty about so many things, no matter how they voted. #literacies

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Good to see you too! Thanks for opening this convo. First chat on bluesky!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Excited to see this topic so soon after #NCTE24!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi #literacies -- joining from upstate NY. Classroom teacher, researcher. Also: five kids in the house rn, on school break. So, distracted but [kinda] present!

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AERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Tomorrow’s #literacies chat with @nicole-mirra.bsky.social on “The Work Continues: Critical Civic Literacies Within and Beyond Election Season” will take place at 5pm/8pm. Join us!

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Chris puts into words what I could not: authors, thank you, shine on, you are already that light. I heard this again and again from teachers at #NCTE24: Authors are doing the work. Artists are doing the work. As a result, educators have the tools we need. Teachers: stay connected, shine on.

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

"It is equally important for us to have poems we keep for ourselves, to heal ourselves." Ada Limon And from Instructions on Not Giving Up: "Fine then, I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all." #NCTE24 poets.org/poem/instruc...

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Instructions on Not Giving Up

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out

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

"Inside a poem, anything is possible. Perhaps we can make this true of life as well." Thank you, Ada Limón, for your plenary and reading -- which encourages me to dream my way back to my classroom, home, and community. #NCTE24

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

Good day. Good night. Freedom Dreaming. How are you going to show up for others? Just sayin’, folks. #NCTE24

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"Sustainable Hope" gave me not only hope, but both inspiration and a path forward for teaching climate fiction and ecocriticism. Vital. 🪴 Get in touch with these teachers. Profoundly powerful and important work. Thanks for leading the way! #NCTE24

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

NCTE Affiliates Matter. Please consider attending our session on leadership development and organizational change in #NCTE's New York State affiliate. 11am, Room 258a. #NCTE24

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Chelsea v Leicester on the big screen. Thanks, Westin lobby staff for making my morning! #NCTE24

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yes — and there really is something to the slowdown. Just letting the eyes rest, momentarily on something vibrantly green and slow going in the midst of this information stream, can revive.

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Christopher Mazura @thewakingdad.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Good morning, #NCTE24, enjoy the rain! Try it? Or, try this feed dedicated to moss — if you’re like me, have a tougher time with convention centers, and are missing the broader biosphere this week. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Carrie Mattern @thoughtsthatcarrie.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hope you all will join us at the state affiliate gathering tomorrow! We would love to see you, member or not. ALL state affiliates invited! #ncte24 #mcte

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Kristen Hawley Turner @teachkht.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

“Are we going to be ruined by our greed or saved by our ingenuity?” Kate McKinnon #ncte24

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