I’m excited to start promoting options outside the traditional four-year universities on college and career Wednesdays at Warren Township H.S.. Tell me about the other paths to successful and fulfilling futures that I can promote! ☺️💙💻 (I’m starting with Ada Dev Academy)

Tonight, ((( Blake Thomas ))) needed help with a creative task that I happen to be really good at. While this is certainly an effective way to show a neurotypical what ADHD hyperfixation is like, I think I might have broken him in the process. 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

I am now exactly where I didn’t want to be: with my fifth grader who has an “independent reading” project due in a week. Telling him that I don’t think he should read the AdventureTime comic book, because he needs to finish the “mystery genre book at an 1100+ Lexile” for school.

Me: Want me to put on the audiobook so you can empty the dishwasher or help papa make chili? 5thGrader: No, my teacher says that doesn’t count as reading.

Trying to soothe my travel nerves with a family moment inspired by Kyle Lukoff. We’re deciding on our collective nouns. a worry of Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas es a resolution of ((( Blake Thomas ))) s an insistence of Max es I still feel anxious, but it was a nice moment.

Cannot wait to get my hands on ALL of the picture books Carolyn M. Santo-Thomas recommended for secondary classrooms! Thanks for the awesome stack! #NCTE22 Cobb ELA Jen Shiers, Ed.S.

I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure. And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.

🧵Feedback is an area that often unnecessarily burdens teachers and steals too much time. Feedback doesn't need to require a teacher to sit for hours and write comments on pages. In fact, that's often one of the least effective methods. Ideas to try instead. 1/

Max is playing Roblox and the chat is all Spanish. He was so excited that is was no big deal for him. He was giddy because he finally figured out the power of language. It's like, the whole point of WoodlandDualLanguage finally clicked for him. 💚🤍 Woodland Int. Dual

The people who argue that graphic novels aren’t literature and reading them isn’t reading obviously just don’t have the range to do it. I’m reading a graphic novel and the skills I need for basic comprehension are intense!

Mother’s Day has the apostrophe before the ‘s.’ So celebrate as many mothers as you’d like, but do so one at a time to make each extra special.

Just saw this thread by Find Nome on Bluesky posted on tiktok and CAN A NEUROTYPICAL PERSON CONFIRM BC WHAT?!? You mean you do things w/o actively making a new choice to do it every time you do it and you dont have to exert the same energy to make yourself do it every time?

Because Max loves all things Andy Weir …he’s turning 11 on Mars this year. (I regret failing to take a picture of the outstanding potato bar we had for lunch…) 🚀🥔👨‍🚀🧁

The Angie Thomas Writers scholarship is a full ride scholarship at my alma mater Belhaven University for an aspiring young writer. Educators, please pass this along.

Friend? You mean that thing that killed Julius Caesar…. Just kidding. But I want to know who to thank!

We are absolutely on pins and needles trying to figure out who did it! Thank you, Priscilla Cummings! I think it’s Marcellus. 📚⭐️🚣🏻‍♂️ #redkayak

Had to return to this platform because, I think, the only one who can appreciate my surprise arriving at my brother’s house to find we dressed as Odyssey Book 9 (EW translation) is the goddess herself, @emilyrcwilson

In awe of the student who, after asking for a letter of rec, sent me a Google doc of advice for letter writers, links to the essays he'd written in my classes, copies of my comments on his writing, *and* a list of his memories & takeaways from each class 💫

While I agree that we must keep reading, I am disappointed by Horowitch’s reporting. Speaking as the “one public-high-school teacher in Illinois quoted in the article,” I’ve filled in the considerable gaps here: open.substack.com/pub/cmsthomas/…