If any educators would like a free PDF of the special feature from our 2018-19 plan book on 15 Everyday Ways To Affirm Trans and Gender Nonconforming Students, DM us with your email address. Credit to the guest editors: Jae Berlin, Sage Forbes-Gray, Kit Golan & Kelinda Schuster

Anyone who thinks romance novels have unrealistic plots should know that I met someone a month before graduating college and it turned out we both had accepted jobs in the same city- married 22 years 😍

I'm just learning that there are multiple school districts around the country that do four-day weeks. Trainings & meetings on Friday. Probably virtual tutoring when it's needed. Someone explain to me why we all aren't doing this? As a teacher & a parent I love it.

“This is a celebration of the fact that you took a risk,” McGee told the four dozen in attendance. “You went for something that you weren’t sure would even work out and in some cases it did not. But you know what? You’re all going to college somewhere.” latimes.com/california/sto…

In 1959, Eugene Ionesco wrote the absurdist play Rhinoceros in which one by one, an entire town of people suddenly transform into rhinos. At first, people are horrified but as the contagion spreads, (almost) everyone comes to accept that turning into a rhinoceros is fine. 1/

Thousands of infectious diseases doctors who have spent 2 years battling Covid. First major conference in person since Covid. Every single person wearing a mask. Every Single One Think about that. @escmid #ECCMID2022

We don’t have to live like this. Children should never be traumatized like this. The midterm elections are less than 200 days away. Use your voice and vote on the issue of gun violence prevention. Text READY to 644-33.

My daughter sent this pic. Tomorrow is the first day of finals so the cafeteria at UNC turned their salad bar into a candy bar for the day.

Imagine looking at this map and believing that the pandemic is over

This is one of the greatest traditions at our school! It is powerful to see parents and teachers celebrating their children as writers and creators outside of the school setting.

Here is the full video of Steve Kerr’s comments before the game.

This article describes everything I have seen in my school this year. There is a related article with a link that has suggestions for action steps to help- I hope these changes can be put in place as our students need it so badly.

With teacher morale seemingly at an all-time low, school districts are looking for ways to keep educators from burning out and quitting. One idea: Give them an extra day off. Nadia aka relatable data journalist 📊 EdSurge edsurge.com/news/2022-06-2…

“Engaging” is not a synonym for “Fun”. When kids are engaged they are Curious, they Participate, and they Persevere despite the difficulty of the task. #EducatorsATLAS #edchat #ThursdayThoughts

Kids, School, and Suicide =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- People are asking about the stats I presented about school days being associated with child suicide. There are many ways to look at it. Simply, using July as a reference month, you can easily see "school peaks." It's very striking. /1

I lived here for 6 years when my kids were little. It is one of the more diverse suburbs and one of the biggest traditions in the city. We went every year we lived there. My heart is breaking.

Bill Ferriter I like Dylan Wiliam's line: we need to stop thinking about motivation as an input and start thinking about it as outcome.

Thank you for sharing! This is a great article!

I’m running to replace the co-sponsor of the “Teach Both Sides of the Holocaust” bill. Can you retweet and follow to help me get to 15k followers and flip this seat?

VERY helpful #MediaLit / connected learning / digital learning vocabulary: "Anytime" vs "Real Time" learning. I'm SO glad to be participating in the hybrid #digiURI Summer Institute in Digital Literacy again this year! /3