TUNE IN: The July 2025 meeting of the California Community Colleges Board of Governors is Tuesday, July 22, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with a Closed Session from 9:05 a.m. to 9:35 a.m., in-person in Sacramento and viewable via Zoom. AGENDA & VIDEO LINK: bit.ly/3IqeAjn.

I need a political candidate to step up and address the alarming rate of inflation on breakfast burritos, ASAP!!

New article published in Review of Educational Research! You can now read my article, "Language Ideologies of Administrators, Teachers, and Parents in Dual Language Programs" here: doi.org/10.3102/003465…

In my Mixed Methods courses, I assign Fetters and Freshwater's article to help my students write their MMs papers. It's a refreshingly solid and straightforward guide. "Publishing a Methodological Mixed Methods Research Article" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thinking about and designing an easy framework for my students to improve their academic writing (specifically how to write more analytically) moving through Description, Analysis and Interpretation.

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Tragic news continues to arrive in these days from the Middle East, especially from Gaza. I express my profound sadness regarding last Thursday’s attack by the Israeli army on the Catholic Parish of the Holy Family in Gaza City, which as you know killed three Christians and

Sadly, this act adds to the continuous military attacks against the civilian population and places of worship in Gaza. I again call for an immediate halt to the barbarism of the war and for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. I renew my appeal to the international community to

Although I only manage to eat one unhealthy meal every 24 hours, I still consider myself lucky. That meal barely keeps me alive. It leaves me exhausted & unable to focus. Yet I carry on, cuz I’m a doctor & my people need me. But ultimately, I’m a human being And I am STARVING.

Video: A boy and his family rejoice after he returns with a bag of flour from the “death trap” GHF sites in Gaza. Israel gunned down and killed 92 aid seekers in Gaza today. More than 200 were wounded.

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

It was clear from the start and all the way: a reminder of some Israel statements of intent 🧵 1. "Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything." Yoav Gallant, 10 October 2023.

7. "Gaza will be entirely destroyed... We are conquering, cleansing, and remaining in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed." Smotrich, May 2025.

A guiding framework to help learners write more analytically by focusing on the Description, Analysis and Interpretation stages of the research process (GReDAI) raulpacheco.org/2025/07/a-guid… This post is aimed at those of you who have been told "you need to write more analytically"

A step-by-step guide to writing a research paper, from idea to full manuscript buff.ly/I4UVtuN

Annual post. Always enjoy a couple days at Disneyland before the start of the academic year. Appreciate the Monsters University faculty for making me a summer research affiliate again.