Y’all hate DEI but using AAVE… interesting 🤔

This is one of my favorite experiences. Please join me at UC Santa Barbara this summer! #langchat

One of my biggest joys in this life is being a teacher. Read this statement from one my students' final assignments and see why I'm so THRILLLLLLLLLLED to do this work!🎓🥰🎓🥰📚📚📚

Join us for an international online conference about #anti-#racist #language #teacher #education on June 12 & 13, 2025 with wonderful keynotes by Ryuko Kubota and L. J. Randolph Jr. (LJ Randolph Jr). Participation is free, pre-registration via email: anglistik.uni-wuppertal.de/de/bereiche-de…

Black history

The closure of world language programs is a wake-up call for our field. Join Benjamin Rifkin on May 19 at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on the crises in US higher ed and what faculty can do to protect language and lit programs. Register Now: bit.ly/3EamnQD

Epic fail after a promising start 😔 Wordle 1,426 X/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

If you’re an ACTFL member, and a member of the African-American students SIG, JOIN US for this FREE WEBINAR! 🗓️ Tuesday, June 10th ⏰ 6pm ET! Check your email and register! Looking forward to seeing you!

Sure thing: Rural hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid payments, because most people in rural areas do not have much money, so the uninsured population is higher; also, the population densities are lower, so fewer people to support the hospital. But thanks to Medicaid expansion

Para mí, preparar una hora de clase me toma de 4 a 6 horas de trabajo. Una sesión de 3 horas implica 12-16 horas de preparación. Un curso de 15 horas como mínimo tiene 60-90 horas de trabajo detrás.

The Amistad Research Center, one of the largest repositories of Black history, cut half its staff after the Trump administration ended four federal grants washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/07…

Today at the ABLE Institute: ACTFL's Immediate Past President, LJ Randolph, joined students, DCPS world language educators, DC’s WL Supervisor, and Gregory Jones, retired WL Supervisor from Fairfax County, for a powerful day of language learning in action! Language Connects Foundation

I miss late-night coffee shops. They used to be so abundant (especially in college towns). Now you might find one or two that are still hanging on.

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil. —Did

Policies like this are so unnecessary and only serve to promote broader ideologies rooted in discrimination, racism, colonialism, and xenophobia. Friends, please continue to support multilingualism and stand up against all forms of linguistic oppression in your words & actions🖤

They once tried to ban bachata for being ‘too Black, too poor’ in the Dominican Republic, until a whitepassing musician made it popular in the 1980s. Now it fills stadiums worldwide 🌎🎶 Iamottob

Classroom core beliefs, each paired with an analogy to use to introduce + reaffirm it throughout the course! (New to the collection: the oak trees interconnected by horizontal roots in the bottom right!)

I don’t want to scare yall, but this is basically every US college right now. Across the board. Even the so called liberal states. We are expendable. And that’s the story.

Required reading. My god.

Using marginalized people to recruit other marginalized people & discarding them because they expect diversity, equity, & inclusion to be a real focus in an organization is a form of academic exploitation. Marginalized people are more than optics, checklists, & convenience.