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Trista Lanette Pollard

@tristalanpollard.bsky.social
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Elementary Teacher 32yrs (2nd-5th Classroom & Intervention Teacher) NBCT (2003-2023) 👩🏾‍🏫 Web Design 💻 Traveler 🌎, Knitter 🧶, Reader 📚 💻 GitHub: github.com/tlanettepollard 🛜 chalkspotteacherstore.net 🛜 www.rebelcowwebdesign.com

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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#engineering #robot #stem #ai #3DPrinted NoireSTEMinist.com
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026
Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”
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Jen Cyborg @jenpemby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The core concept of Burn Down Master’s House as a work of historical fiction based on slave stories of violent rebellion was good. I felt the execution lacking when compared to other works in this genre (Everett or Whitehead). It was so very gruesome. The comeuppance was satisfying. 3.5 ⭐️s #booksky
Book cover for Burn Down Master’s House by Clay Cane
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Landmark Outreach @landmarkoutreach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Organization starts in early elementary! Teaching primary students clear routines for organizing their desks and materials builds essential executive function skills. Read the full blog post here: ow.ly/4MsA50ZHY2i #EduSky #EarlyEd #ExecutiveFunction
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Organization of Materials: Study Skills in Early Elementary School
Second-grade teacher shares strategies for organization of materials. Explicitly teach study skills to students with LBLD through structured organizational systems.
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Alice Keeler @alicekeeler.com · 28/09/2026
Gemini Notebook I added science standards and other resources. prompted for an implementation guide. Notebook offers ideas to adapt a lab activity. Lesson planning with Gemini Notebook as my "partner" has become essential.
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Bethany Baptiste @storysorcery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's too late. Folks have been unable to buy book due to out of stock statuses and backorders. This is why. I wrote THE POISONS WE DRINK because I believe in Black liberation, Black rage, and Black-led revolutions. I wrote it in response during the first Trump admin. #booksky #blacksky
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them www.npr.org/2026/09/28/n...
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
“The most effective book in every classroom.” #BlackSky #EduSky
The Graphic History of Hip Hop
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The Worthy Educator @theworthyeducator.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Check out our first-ever showcase issue of the journal, featuring Alphadine Dennis on "Bringing Science to Life: Using STEAM as a Pedagogical Tool in Science"! TY, Alphadine! doi.org/10.67428/202... #EduSky @eduskyteam.bsky.social
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Ethan Baxter @ethanrockstory.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
⚒️🍎🧪🦖 Meet Cameron Muskelly @cambriancam.bsky.social, a paleontologist from Georgia who has been exploring ancient life since he was a child. Hear his inspiring story of how he got his start! Want to hear more from Cam? Watch the full episode with your kids: youtu.be/P0QJXHwHkCM
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Lee Ann Jung @leeannjung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🏆 The success of inclusion depends more on what classroom teachers do than on what special education teachers do. #LeadInclusion #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders #EduSky
Poster on a dark blue textured background with large text reading INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS SUCCEED when every classroom teacher LEADS INCLUSION. A colorful globe with a heart in the center is surrounded by six stylized people holding hands, and the top right shows the Lee Ann Jung logo and leadinclusion.org.
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Lee Ann Jung @leeannjung.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
⚖️ To meet the needs of ALL students, we must meet the needs of EACH student. Equity in education begins with recognizing variability and designing for it. #LeadInclusion #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders #EduSky
Poster on a dark blue textured background reads, “EQUITY begins with RECOGNIZING and DESIGNING and for student VARIABILITY.” On the right, colorful paper people stand on stacked books labeled “DIFFERENT LEARNERS,” “BRIGHTER PERSPECTIVES,” and “STRONGER TOGETHER,” with “Lee Ann Jung” and “leadinclusion.org” at the bottom.
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Alice Keeler @alicekeeler.com · 07/09/2026
Bookmark the Google Slides link, the math facts auto shuffle each day and rotate. Good for a quick warm up or transition . alicekeeler.com/2026/08/19/m... #TeacherTech #EduSky
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freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The 2017 paper “Attention Is All You Need” changed the direction of modern AI. In this video, Ania explains how the Transformer replaced sequential processing with attention, enabling faster training and much greater scale...and why it's the foundation of LLMs. www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-pap...
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HawksMathaMagic @phonisha.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
I'm 44. Last year my momma gave me an envelope that had seen better days that contained my original birth certificate, shot records, a loc of my baby hair, a note she wrote to me in 1982, and social security card. I will uphold this black tradition with my 3 children. 23y, 20y, 14y. 😂💜
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
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Hanna Blue 🏴‍☠️🏴🏁🗽⚜️❤️‍🔥🎃🎭🍁 @blueberrypoison.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The horse-riding librarians of the Pack Horse Library Project in Hindman, Kentucky, around 1940. This was a genuine New Deal initiative established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression.
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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
One of my teachers pointed this out to me last year. LIFE-CHANGING.
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 27/07/2026
So much learning is built on vocabulary. To bring it to life, go beyond memorization! Here’s how. 🔡 ⬇️ #literacy #EduSky
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Bringing Vocabulary to Life in High School
To go beyond memorization, make new words visible in your classroom and give students reasons to say them out loud.
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freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Modern distributed systems need fast, reliable ways for services to communicate. In this handbook, Seyi explains how RPC, Protocol Buffers, & gRPC work together. You’ll explore gRPC’s communication patterns, build a complete system with Dart and Flutter, & more. www.freecodecamp.org/news/remote-...
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Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Graduation rates at America’s tribal schools have climbed from half to four-fifths. Across the 183 Bureau of Indian Education schools, on-time graduation rose from just over 50% in 2015 to a record 79% in 2025. apnews.com/article/nati...
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Innovation, data fixes fuel Native American graduation gains at federally funded schools
The U.S. agency that oversees dozens of schools serving Native Americans is reporting more on-time high school graduations than ever.
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
See my books and bots at Indiana Black Expo 7/17, 7/18, 7/19 Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist professor, engineer, author, roboticist, speaker @inblackexpoinc @Indianablackexpoinc @IndianaBlackExpo,Inc. #IBE #IndianaBlackExpo #IBESUMMERCELEBRATION #BlackWomenInSTEM #KidLit #ChildrensBooks
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#IBE #IBESummerCelebration #robot #stem #microbit #teacherSky #eduSky #blackEduSky #academicChatter #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic Cardboard Robots and selling books NoireSTEMinist.com
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Principal Project @principalproject.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Teachers are professionals. They should be given autonomy and trust unless they prove otherwise." - Erika Niles, Principal of Green Trails Elementary School in Missouri www.edutopia.org/article/lead...
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Leaders Must Address Teacher Well-Being With Action, Not Just Self-Care Talk
By listening to educators and building supports that reflect their genuine needs and concerns, these leaders are shifting school cultures in ways that go beyond lip service.
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Disability Scoop @disabilityscoop.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Over half of states are not living up to their obligations under federal #SpecialEducation law, with many receiving a failing grade from the U.S. Department of Education multiple years in a row. #disabilities
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Most States Fail To Meet IDEA Requirements, Feds Say
Over half of states are not living up to their obligations under federal special education law, with many receiving a failing grade from the U.S. Department of Education multiple years in a row.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
MEDIA LITERACY: 6-year-olds spot disinformation, can we? "By teaching its citizens how to critically engage with media content to debunk hoaxes, mis- and disinformation, as well as to produce content of their own, Finland wants to promote media literacy as a civic skill.” fortune.com/2025/01/29/f...
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Finland teaches 6-year-olds how to spot disinformation—and they might be better at it than you | Fortune
"Media literacy is essential to building societal resilience, and Finland realized this quite early on."
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TechLearning @techlearning.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
We've curated the top sites for blended learning- many of which are fully free. #education #edtech #EduSky www.techlearning.com/learning/cla...
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Best Sites for Blended Learning
Blended learning websites help teachers combine traditional instruction with online learning.
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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · 17/06/2026
This Week In React 286 ⚛️ - React Compiler in Rust - StyleX - TSRX - TanStack - Hydrogen - WordPress - Remotion 📱 - RN 0.86 - Enriched HTML - Gesture Handler - Compressor - Morph View - Hermes 🍿 Read/subscribe: thisweekinreact.com/newsletter/286 ✍️ @jwr.ski & I
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Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈 @lcas.dev · 17/06/2026
What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/...
<time datetime="2026-06-17T08:13:41.099Z" format="datetime">
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Rayna Swan 🦢📚 @raynaxswan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
youtu.be/W83YsH3XYlI?... #booksky #blackbooksky
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Get Ready With Me For The Black Romance Book Festival 📚 🖤
YouTube video by Rayna Swan 📚
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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Author @justinkey.bsky.social is coming to the Bay, and I'm joining him on "The Monsters We Know: Black Horror As Resistance" panel, with the brilliant Ayize Jama Everett moderating. Join us 7/11 in SF. Eventbrite link in comments. @sistahscifi.bsky.social @auntlute.bsky.social #HorrorSky #BookSky
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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
25 years ago, I was a #PGCE student buying my own copy of this legendary #ITT set text. If you had told me then that I would one day be invited to write a chapter for the 10th edition, I would never have believed you. Incredibly honoured. #Mentoring #TeacherEducation #UKTeaching #UKEd #EduSky
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.
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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Under the agreements, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services will move to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, while some investigation and enforcement activities will move from the Office for Civil Rights to the U.S. Justice Department. "
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Education Department transfers key special ed, civil rights functions
The departments of Health and Human Services and Justice will receive core special education and civil rights responsibilities under the agreements.
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Dr. Merri 🐸 @merri24.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Education is the largest threat to fascism. Eliminating civic education, ineffectual standardized testing, making higher education only available to the “haves“ & keeping public educators in poverty has decimated US educational systems
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Robert Raymond @robertr369.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When Elaine Weiss was working on her new book, "Spell Freedom," she thought she was writing history. But so many themes from this book are back in today's headlines.
The cover of Spell Freedom by Elaine Weiss
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NoireSTEMinist.com #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #TeacherSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic #EducatorSky #EduSky #BlackEduSky #STEMSky #STEMForKids #BooksforKids
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NoireSTEMinist.com #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #TeacherSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic #EducatorSky #EduSky #BlackEduSky #STEMSky
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
NoireSTEMinist.com #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #TeacherSky #AcademicSky #BlackAdemic #EducatorSky #EduSky #BlackEduSky #STEMSky #STEMForKids #BooksforKids
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Adrian Neibauer @mrneibauer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Wonderful teacher moment today. Short 🧵 We are reading the short story “Charles” by Shirley Jackson aloud as a class. As we are reading through the story, learning about all the horrible things Charles is doing in school, my students are riveted. #TeacherSky
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Discover the joys of STEM and let it inspire you! #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #STEMForKids #Robot #ParentSky #TeacherSky #EduSky #EducatorSky #BlackEduSky What's the matter with Orbit? NoireSTEMinist.com/shop
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HawksMathaMagic @phonisha.blacksky.app · 18/04/2026
What bad PD taught me as a teacher and what I make sure I get right every time I have the privilege to stand before them now. #BlackEduSky #EduSky #iteachmath
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Put the Phones Away: I Have 50 Slides I Want to Read to You
The norm said no phones. The PD design said otherwise.Educators walk into PD with stories. They are not blank slates. Their lived experiences shape how they show up for students every day. And if we a...
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#BlackSky #STEMSky #BlackWomenInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #BlackAdemia #AcademicSky #ProfessorSky #EduSky #BlackEduSky “Markov Localization lets a robot estimate where it is by tracking probabilities across all possible locations.” NoireSTEMinist.com
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Dr. Carlotta A. Berry #NoireSTEMinist 🤖 @drcaberry.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
What's the Matter With Orbit? When you were a kid did you take things about and put them back together? Did you figure out how to fix things? #TeacherSky #EducatorSky #LibrarySky #ParentSky #BlackEduSky #BlackWomenInSTEM #STEMSky #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #KidsBooks NoireSTEMinist.com/childrensbooks
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 22/05/2026
By leading with compassion, administrators can better support their teachers while still holding high expectations. Learn what compassionate leadership can look like in your own school, from school leader Katy Myers Allis. 🏫 #SchoolLeaders #EduSky
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What It Takes to Retain Teachers in High-Needs Schools
By leading with compassion, school administrators can help make teachers’ work feel more sustainable.
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Book Creator by Kami @bookcreator.com · 23/05/2026
Students can lose up to two months of reading achievement over summer break. The fix doesn't have to be complicated. Find our summer reading resources here: hubs.la/Q048Y98j0 Every resource is free, editable, and ready to assign.
Summer Reading Resources
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freeCodeCamp.org @freecodecamp.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Many devs are using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve their LLM's capabilities. And in this course, you'll learn RAG fundamentals, along with key model context protocol concepts. The course uses the Python SDK and covers all the key concepts. www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-r...
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