I live in the flight path of an air force base. It’s not lost on me, the dramatic increase of jets flying above our desert sky.
#NoWarInIran
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I live in the flight path of an air force base. It’s not lost on me, the dramatic increase of jets flying above our desert sky.
#NoWarInIran
ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Some critics of the Trump regime's unprovoked attack on another country are focusing only on the risks to American soldiers - i.e., those carrying out this illegal act of aggression. At such times it's worth reiterating a foundational moral axiom: A human life there is worth no less than a human […]
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
Endless war. But never enough for schools.
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This morning I returned to @intlschoolsservices where I started my international school career!
I had the pleasure of facilitating a #ISSedu workshop where we explored the belonging and language.
I saw a funny video of a Spanish TV judge saying a person who speaks two languages is bilingual, a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and a person who speaks one language is an Americano
#MLL #badbunny 🍎
I have no hot takes. Lots of amazing people have talked about the layers and layers of imagery, resistance, and joy from Benito Bowl. Just wanted to let it be known, I fucking loved it.
AI, TPT, corporate intervention programs, kitchen-sink-scripted curriculums, and state-approved reading lists are trying to "teacher-proof" education to protect an ugly status quo.
Designing learning with love, intention, strategy and equity is one of our most powerful forms of resistance.
ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.
This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.
They hate the helpers.
Which is why must keep helping.
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Another #MLLEcosystemProject testimonial rolls in.
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Tan Huyhn and I are excited to share our third @Edutopia article featuring strategies for supporting experienced Multilinguals with writing.
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I will always remember five years ago today teaching a distance leaning US History class to English Language Learner Newcomers. We were studying the Civil War and neither they or I could understand how the Confederate flag was being waved in the US Capitol
alway always always money for perpetual war. never enough for education and healthcare.
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BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.”
In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
LULLABY FOR THE GRIEVING at the Sipsey River make small steps. in this wild place there are signs of life everywhere. sharp spaces, too: the slip of a rain-glazed rock against my searching feet. small steps, like prayers-each one a hope exhaled into the trees. please, let me enter. please, let me leave whole. there are, too, the tiny sounds of faraway birds. the safety in their promise of song. the puddle forming, finally, after summer rain. the golden butterfly against the cave-dark. maybe there are angels here, too what else can i call the crown of light atop the leaves? what else can i call my footsteps forward, small, small, sure? By Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones Ashley M. Jones is the Poet Laureate of Alabama. She is the author of three award-winning poetry collections, including most recently Reparations Now! She is the co-editor of What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People. Her work has been featured by CNN, BBC, Good Morning America, ABC News, and the New York Times. She is the associate director of the University Honors Program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and she teaches in the low-residency MFA Program at Converse University.
I love @jess5th.bsky.social’s tradition of starting and ending the year with a poem. Ashley M. Jones’s “Lullaby for the Grieving” is perfect.
maybe there are angels here, too—
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Through consulting, coaching, and the #MLLEcosystemProject I tried to walk in my values and help others walk in theirs.
Thank you to the educators across the 🌎 who trusted me to be apart of their learning journey.
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January is the perfect time to be in community with other equity minded educators.
Whether you are an educational leader designing systems aligned with your values, or an educator strengthening your instructional toolbox, we are stronger when we learn and grow in community together.
