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Tom Drummond

@wtdrummond.bsky.social
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Retired college prof of Early Chilhood Education tomdrummond.com Heritage of John Dewey. Designed my courses to co-construct understanding, skills, and authenticity in facilitating learning in others. Agricultural: soil, sun, water for their growth. AFT

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Kris Samsel @kris1957.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When DOJ is harassing states for voter names and registration, the State(s), should turn around and file complaints with the Bar Association and the name of the person, that is signed the Department of Justice Order. Every lawyer knows the States Constitutional Rights.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
You do art with children? Painting, clay, wire, dance? Here is a link on facilitation: talking to children about their art, right away, on completion, when they still remember their decisions. A reference you can share with your community. #EduSky #Art tomdrummond.com/leading-and-...
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
When we want to say something to a young child about their painting, most advice says to ask them about it, which misses the mark. In that brief moment we have to regard the work with its maker we can, instead, appreciate it. #EduSky #Teaching #ece tomdrummond.com/leading-and-...
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Talking to Children About Their Art - Tom Drummond
Talking to Children About Their Art When we want to say something to a young child about their painting, most advice says to ask them about it, which misses the mark. In that brief moment we have to r...
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Usually, guides for teachers, such as writing a lesson plan or presenting material in a certain way, fail to regard the current flow of learners we face tomorrow. How do any of us conceive of the framework in which we servant leaders operate? 🧵#EduSky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
They simply **** children… substack.com/@endofnews/n...
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0 views from 163,000 followers. This video’s reach was restricted—to put it mildly—on both instagram and YouTube. Yesterday I posted another video on which followers couldn’t play on TikTok. Like many...
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Mike Lowe @mike-lowe.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Tony Pentimalli @tonywriteshere.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Maine just fired the first real shot at a system built to let billionaires buy our elections. Their $5K cap on super PAC donations forces the very ruling that created unlimited money onto the path of the Supreme Court One state just cracked the foundation. Read more: www.facebook.com/share/p/1G2e...
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Unto The Breach (single) - Single by Nick Drummond Band on Apple Music
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
-Calling for a mid-decade census that excludes at least 11 million immigrants -Demanding Texas gerrymander their Congressional maps to add 5 Republican seats -Firing at least 130 workers in Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, which oversees election integrity
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@raskin.house.gov 💯🎯
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Anyone know if ICE goons have Qualified Immunity?
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We needed education for all to build a democracy. Now it’s obviously too late. Values We Share its guide for evaluating choices and making corrections to stay on course. tomdrummond.com/thinking-pol... Ignorance allowed coercion to step us on this slippery slope. #EduSky #democracy #values
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The Learning Frame - Tom Drummond
Learning Frame CCzero The Learning Frame A one page chart represents the fundamental relationship between the interests of a learning group and the provisions for learning. Displayed are passages of g...
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Current events in the US proves we needed education for a democracy, which I worked on all my life. How that common aspiration would have looked is on my website: The Learning Frame is its most concentrated expression; tomdrummond.com/looking-clos... #EduSky #democracy #capitalism #politics
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The Learning Frame - Tom Drummond
Learning Frame CCzero The Learning Frame A one page chart represents the fundamental relationship between the interests of a learning group and the provisions for learning. Displayed are passages of g...
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The US wont be trusted again as an economic partner if the Electoral College remains. #trade #economics
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
SECDRUNK might want to review this one:
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#EduSky If we ever get through this crisis caused by authoritarian fascism, we could use clean-up time for children to expect to take initiative to care for themselves, the other, and the community and not simply obey. We can print and post examples of what we say to students about clean-up.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
All this warning about the end of law and the Democrats don’t appear to have a plan. All this warning about the end of law and the military does not appear to have a plan. All those fine Obama words and Defense of Democracy don’t even hint of a plan. Disease and climate change will continue.
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Jackie Gardner 🏳️‍🌈 @jgardner.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Getting ready for the rally at city hall tomorrow. #NotMyPresident #ProtectTransKids #EduSky
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Kristoffer Pasion @indiohistorian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#TodayinHistory in 1872, priests Mariano Gomes, José Burgos, & Jacinto Zamora—collectively known as #Gomburza— were executed by the Spanish colonial admin in the Philippines. Their deaths ignited a national awakening, leading to revolution & independence. www.facebook.com/share/p/12EH... #Edusky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The brain innately organizes and adapts. The brain builds knowledge, skills, and dispositions upon current dendrite connections established in experiences in varied environments. As obvious as it sounds, people are who they have been. Each person is unique in the world. Staff mtg intro? #EduSky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
It is possible to compose instruction around what learners naturally do when at their best—energetically inquire, investigate and represent in a united effort to understand, apply, and practice as they learn. Why has education been starved of investment? Climate heat & death result. # EduSky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Pedagogy studies the relationship between the interests of a learning group and the provisions for learning. The advancement group learning (the view from the inside) couples to opportunities and activities (the view from the outside) — for the design of optimal learning conditions. True? #EduSky
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Dr. Bryan Pearlman @maslowbeforebloom.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How many struggling students don’t have the bottom two blocks in place yet? Maslow before Bloom! #edusky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#EduSky Something profound is amiss in descriptions of teaching. On the one hand we have learning that we see in ourselves and slow changes we see in others. On the other hand, when we try to project how to teach, it’s unclear what to do or say. The manner of teaching is missing. Buy something.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
To all tech and AI people: I understand there were unspecified concerns about TikTok. Isn’t true that China is supreme and we get stupid?
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Authoritarianism is not democratic. It does not listen or learn. It imposes. The planet will continue to heat when its controlled by authoritarians. # fascism #authoritarianism
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Propofol Free-for-all @drpete3.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Fantastic post. If you haven’t read @juliusgoat.bsky.social before, this is a great place to start.
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Matt Renwick @readbyexample.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Student engagement increases when we provide voice and choice, options for what to read, what to write about, what to study. This means giving up some authority in our classrooms and schools. What are you willing to let go of to empower your students?
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
#EduSky #assessment This group has many folks who teach about ed assessment. I want to share this: Four Big Questions 1. Who cares about the results? 2. What can we see? 3. What does that information mean? 4. What can we do about it? Need all four addressed in any plan. People know this.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#EduSky
At the heart of worthwhile teaching and a proper understanding of learning is the power of teachers to think, not just about pedagogical issues, but as moral beings.
The power to make moral judgements about what is good and worthwhile is added to the power of teachers to act in classroom practice... to bring about the ideal they are striving for. 
By Mary Jane Drummond, Early Childhood Educator,
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
#EduSky A teacher I know wrote this to parents: “I like best to work in a setting that allows children to act on their environment. My favorite times are when children come up with an idea and the materials and the environment lend themselves to following through on that idea.” Wondering thoughts
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
#music #poetry #song #rhythm #hammondB3 #songwriter #rock www.threads.net/@nickdrummon...
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NICK DRUMMOND BAND (@nickdrummondmusic) on Threads
WE’RE DOING IT! Because you all keep asking so nicely, and because we should be doing it anyway, we’re playing Sea Monster next Tuesday 1/21. Come be there. Seattle Threads
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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The Contrarian Press Release
January 13, 2025
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Mon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”
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Dr. G @drlauraguertin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Creative syllabi formats can look great - just be sure to make them accessible for all students (use alt tags on images, use headings, etc.) #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
#EduSky Broad expertise here. A question about tutorial questions—those where the asker knows the answer: A subcategory could be questions that have verifiable perceptual data or short-term memory data where answers don’t require inferences—‘verifiable questions’. Anybody looked into this?
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
#EduSky I have always thought this was fascinating. It raises questions in my mind about dispositions to engage in many academic areas, e.g., reading and math, most especially. If some PhD student needed a project…. tomdrummond.com/levels-of-ab...
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Levels of Abstraction - Tom Drummond
Levels of Abstraction Levels I, II, III, and IV describe stages in the acquisition of abstract language in young children and second language learners. As the child grows so do the opportunities for c...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 10/01/2025
Opinion | President Carter: Champion of HBCUs The 39th president played a critical role in saving and modernizing Black colleges, Cheryl E. Mango writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3C6dPsS
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President Carter helped save and modernize HBCUs (opinion)
The 39th president played a critical role in saving and modernizing Black colleges, Cheryl E. Mango writes.
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
These are pretty good questions for a bunch of 5 year olds right? #EduSky
A child playing skittles.

1. Will a bigger ball be better at knocking the skittles down?
2. How does the ball make the skittle fall down?
3. Do you need to be strong to make the skittles go down?
4. Why do sometimes all the balls go down and sometimes just some?
5. If it is a heavier ball will more go down?
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
#EduSky I taught college classes in education, but I could never teach content that I had not come apply well in my life. I couldn’t design experiences for others to learn if I had not evolved my ability first. The class always took that and improved it more. Others have done that, too, right?
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Dr. Lucia Kay Jacobs @majesticeducator.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Looking for a curriculum to use with my 6th - 8th grade and 9th and 10th grade students in a summer program. I want to focus on study skills, social emotional learning, mindfulness and come content area remediation ...Any ideas? #Blackedusky #edusky #educoach
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
When I asked two of my little learners to tell me about their model I was not expecting this. “It’s the internet. That’s the line where it goes to take the information to the houses.” Children are marvellous aren’t they? #EYFS #EduSkyPrimary #EduSky #PlayIsTheWay
A block play model. A long bridge like structure.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We’ve got to get the word out. Please repost.
Image of Zukerberg, who prohibits fact-checking, died at Facebook headquarters in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now
Democrats need to take a stand against Electoral College votes for a person disqualified by the Constitution.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#EduSky Many here might agree, reflecting upon those teachers who changed your life, that 2 vital dimensions are 1. Being authentic—being real, telling the truth, and being present 2. Building personal relationships with each person. PD could invest $ by offering stipends for this work.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#EduSky #teachereducation #EduCommons Many, perhaps almost everyone who thinks about it, recognize that Fascism succeeds through intimidation and sowing confusion. The antidote is education, listening, and taking decisive action quickly against othering others and nibbling away personal agency.
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Tom Drummond @wtdrummond.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#EduSky #coaching I do not understand what ‘coaching’ means. The word seems to mean something to educators here as if a set of people know others know what the word refers to. I know it’s probably complex, but I have taken on defining and then learning complex abilities. This one has me stumped.
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