A high school teacher for 23 years to ELL & English-proficient students, community organizer for previous 19 years, author or editor of 13 books on education, Ed Week teacher advice columnist, committed - though mediocre - basketball and Pickleball player.
This is the story of how a group of perfectly ordinary neighbors took on one of the worst landlords in New York. And won. Introducing, the Union of Pinnacle Tenants: the short film. Watch the full film: youtu.be/h5dvGKI26ZA
The DHS statement quoted in this article is ghoulish stuff
H.D. GreggICE detains University of Maryland "teacher of the year" at Dallas airport www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
“Core parts of my practice have changed,” writes a literacy consultant and curriculum writer. Educators share how the science of reading movement has impacted their teaching. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
‘A Blessing and a Challenge’: What Teachers Think of the Science of Reading (Opinion)In these classrooms, the recent push for foundational literacy skills has been transformational.www.edweek.org“Will math education in 2036 look wildly different from what it did in 2016? If we want students to thrive beyond our classrooms, it must,” writes an educator. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
Math Instruction Needs to Change. Here's How (Opinion)A lot has changed in math education in the last decade. Here’s what the next 10 years may hold.www.edweek.orgHere's how teachers can embrace each learning experience rather than making students feel ignorant. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
What's So Wrong About a Student's 'Wrong' Answer? Nothing (Opinion)Here's how teachers can embrace each learning experience rather than making students feel ignorant.www.edweek.org
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Gillian BranstetterAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
no agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...
Matthew GertzYou’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
These teacher-tested strategies can help make literacy lessons stick in your classroom. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
Teacher-Tested Strategies for Improving Reading Instruction (Opinion)How educators are making literacy lessons stick in their classrooms.www.edweek.orgThe immigrant union troops who defended their adopted country from slaver traitors are in fact, proof of concept of American higher ideals having nothing to do with “blood” or “heritage” or whatever cowardly euphemism is in vogue among these pathetic losers
It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...
Alexander ClarksonAnother datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right
Just passed a big group of white anti-abortion protestors using the language of abolition and posters, slogans and images of enslaved people and from slave abolition to compare abortion to slavery and although they have being doing this forever I will never get over how proudly racist it is.
Education leaders take note: This is what teachers say they need. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social
This Is What Teachers Want From Their Leaders (Opinion)School and district administrators should take note of this feedback from educators.www.edweek.orgWe’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp CrisisA looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.www.theatlantic.comSo CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the MidtermsOnce united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.www.nytimes.comamazing. no notes www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...www.reuters.com