#DisruptTexts with post election poetry. This is an amazing list.

Thanks to #DisruptTexts for this necessary, brilliant resource. The guides provide great lesson ideas, journal prompts and questions that are rigorous in their invitation to think and feel AND offer clear definitions of the terms our kids need to talk about self and world.

A great reminder that teaching about social justice is not the same as being just. How do our classrooms create the space to facilitate necessary change, not just discuss it? Teaching Racial Justice Isn’t Racial Justice nytimes.com/2020/11/18/opi…

The incredibly gifted drama team Nanjing International School opened MSND tonight. It was smashing. So great to see our amazing young actors live with a real audience. Check out Bottom’s head: Kiesho and I made it. Grateful for art, theatre.

trying to shift a problematic grade 8 text into one that problematizes ableism, sexism and racism, we explore how we use context to translate a “classic” into a tool for change. Here is what my students want to understand through their research into context: #nis #GoodTrouble

Sitting with this.

Representation matters, in part because it allows us to know our Ss in different ways. Today a S wrote this in response to an extract from Ocean Vuong: "Like me, Vuong struggles when wearing English like a mask. Code-switching can be an act of power and shame. A mask hides both."

How has your school acted on promises made after a summer of protests against racism? Are you still committed to anti-racist education work? Here are key considerations for making those promises—and this vital mission—stick. tolerance.org/magazine/antir…

This tweet by Amanda Lenk is the featured (re)Tweet in the #WIDAGlobal newsletter this month! Read, retweet and follow global colleagues. wida.wisc.edu/memberships/is… #WIDA

Awesome

dear trans kids, you are loved and magical and beautiful and handsome and brilliant and so damn worthy of the best things in this world. don’t let them make you think otherwise.

This is my amazing son. #TDOV 🏳️‍⚧️Being his mother fills me with pride.

My Son rufus roswell wrote this piece about the trans characters that aren’t pictured in familiar fictional worlds. I know I am biased, but this is a remarkable piece of writing. Added bonus: dinosaurs.

Grateful to DeFine Nneka Johnson, Ph.D. @TweetAlanPhan seoulofavegan for their journeys, challenges, approaches to necessary, just change. Today I sit with the words of Alysa Perreras: “Diversity without inclusion is violence.” I feel it. EARCOS

I had the opportunity to share my thinking about trauma, divination and growth at the ⁦Nanjing International School⁩ TEDx event. Here it is- if you like Zoltar or were ever comforted by Taylor Swift, this one’s for you. #tedx #magicalthinking youtu.be/bLqrIl_eSLs

watching Amanda Lenk’s talk “What It Means To Be Us In These Bodies” from learning2 Asia 2019 in today’s #Learning2 “injection” has blown me away 🥺: “The incredible diversity of experience and potential that is embodied in our students is a resource that must be protected.”

My son, Ben, wrote this essay. It is brilliant. As a parent, it can be terrifying to confront a child's pain, but Ben's honesty makes me a better person, even when that honesty shows me my own mistakes. Please read.