Tom Marshall

Sorry, but if you’re covering the current state of the world with any integrity, it will *not* go well with a scone. 🙄

This is so good 😍

Hell yeah 😍

2/2 …This means it’s not about the average, and an outlier performance (e.g., a bad day) can be discounted if it’s contradicted by other evidence.

Bottom line: best-practices grading requires teachers to rely on all evidence and make a professional judgment they can defend. Imagine that! #IB

100%! Let me offer a perspective from the International Baccalaureate. In IB world, best practices dictate that teachers take into account all evidence and make a “best-fit” judgement on the cumulative grade. We are guided by the question of what the evidence shows a student *can* do….1/2

Fans race to learn Spanish before Bad Bunny's Super Bowl half-time show The Puerto Rican singer’s highly anticipated Super Bowl half-time show has inspired non-Spanish speakers to study Puerto Rican dialect and slang

Glad to hear! Anything that gets folks speaking a new language is a good thing! 😍 #BadBunny #Superbowl #HandsOff

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Important reporting on #workersrights and true #labor conditions in #SoutheastAsia, please repost!

The Tale of Two Schools (Published 2014) Fieldston and University Heights are in the same borough but are worlds apart. How much understanding between their students can a well-told story bring?

Hi Chanea!

This NYT piece is really compelling… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Students will also find it fascinating to see how someone else crafted a different audio narrative from the same topic: www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-mi...

I would love to hear you tell this story in detail, such a valuable example of youth bravery in a moment of truth! Our kids need such stories right now.

10 Techniques to Teach Whole Class Novels Cheryl Mizerny's 6th graders explore 3 whole novels as a class, reading as writers and absorbing the life lessons that carefully selected fiction has to offer.

Hi! I just came across this and loved it so much I had to stalk/track you down ;) It’s super valuable, hope you will repost it on Bsky by popular demand! 😍 www.middleweb.com/30409/10-tec...

10 Techniques to Teach Whole Class Novels Cheryl Mizerny's 6th graders explore 3 whole novels as a class, reading as writers and absorbing the life lessons that carefully selected fiction has to offer.

Just came across this lovely post, have you seen it? www.middleweb.com/30409/10-tec...

Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018

There can’t be a more horrific insight into the sickness of the US’s gun crime epidemic than the fact two survivors of Brown University had already survived school shootings. One was shot in the abdomen in 2016, while her best friend died. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It would be interesting to see the Pentagon/DOJ try to prosecute a principled, outspoken US Senator and Navy veteran who is also a declared candidate for President in 2028, should it come to that…

Ahhh, love this one. Thanks for sharing @groomb.bsky.social! 😎

It’s super inspiring, think you’ll love it! 🙏

Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives. Lit Up: One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.

Here’s a nice look at how a few good teachers have done it: www.amazon.com/Lit-Up-Repor...

My quick take is to focus on everything *but* plot, on the assumption that not everyone will have read the whole text. Start with setting & characterization in the opening chapters. How did the writer do that? Do we like their choices? What else might they have done? What’s coming next?

#writeout with Write Out pencil-tree logo and text "Begins Today! writeout.nwp.org" on dark gray circle on green to blue gradient with waves as the background.

Write Out is a free two-week celebration that will run today through the 26th. The goal is to be inspired by the world around us and to connect and learn through place-based writing and sharing. You can do #writeout for an hour, a day, or all week long! Learn more at writeout.nwp.org #writeout

Mark this moment: another example of #history being erased before our very eyes. 😳 #HandsOff #Smithsonian #Edusky #sschat #teachable #Orwell #dystopia

I’m not missing that point, I’m just not making that point. I can hate the racism and also admire his resistance. It’s not an either/or, both things are true!

This is so powerful, worth sharing with students! It’s a powerful example of self-control in the service of a greater good. #Sschat #EduSky #teachable #nonviolence

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: 'You can smell it, touch it, see it' At New York City's Tenement Museum, high schoolers explore the American experience through the eyes of one 1860s-era Black family.

How can we make real #history
come alive in the #AI age? The answer — take kids out into the world to see and feel and imagine it for themselves — lies in this lovely #NPR story about the
#TenementMuseum in #NYC. Please pass it on! #EduSky #SSChat #teachable

www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...

Exploring Barcelona's Architecture Through a Mathematical Lens (Gift Article) A virtual tour of the architecture in a city where mathematics and exploration meet.

Oooooh, so #teachable!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

#Math #Barcelona #NYT

Thank you for sharing this! What a radical idea: “Peace is the most courageous, the most practical, the most necessary pursuit of all.” Please pass it on! #EduSky #Sschat #peace #education

Either that or they were sorting out how to throw Zelenskyy *under* the limo…

My bet is that one of them kept his poker face on but was highly amused by the weird, circa 1986 banter that he heard in the backseat of that limo. He will share this moment with comrades over well-chilled vodka for years to come. 🙄

Join the movement. We should trust individuals to make their own decisions. Raise your voice for everyone's freedom to read. #UniteAgainstBookBans

If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.

Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/

Lol, yes! I believe the poets in Washington, D.C., could use a bit of love, tea & biscuits, and a steady supply of pens at this point! 🫖 🍪 ✍️ ❤️