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Some more background on Ish & the bs he is dealing with. Please sign & share in support a great leader in social studies ed.

The 2026 CUFA Program Chairs are excited to share the call for proposals with members & the broader #socialstudies community: Continuities, Countercurrents, & Change in Social Studies.

Proposals will be due April 13, 2026, 11:59pm Hawaii Standard Time. Submissions go live March 6!

CUFA 2026 - Proposal Tracks YouTube video by CUFA Executive Board

And here's a video discussing the conference themes.

Proposal submissions open March 6-April 13!

Conference in Chicago December 2-4!

CUFA 2026 - Call for Proposals YouTube video by CUFA Executive Board

The call is available in both text & video with support from 720 films. Check it out & share with widely!

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The 2026 CUFA Program Chairs are excited to share the call for proposals with members & the broader #socialstudies community: Continuities, Countercurrents, & Change in Social Studies.

Proposals will be due April 13, 2026, 11:59pm Hawaii Standard Time. Submissions go live March 6!

Defend Ismael Jimenez! Defend Teaching the Truth! We are concerned that the School District of Philadelphia has capitulated to the racist, rightwing, and pro-Israel forces that have been attacking Ismael Jimenez. Please sign this petition to let SDP ...

Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share.

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Ish has come under attack from outside pressure groups for criticizing Israel & supporting Palestine. The higher ups in Philly Public Schools are capitulating & pushing him out, to the detriment of every youth & family in the city.

Defend Ismael Jimenez! Defend Teaching the Truth! We are concerned that the School District of Philadelphia has capitulated to the racist, rightwing, and pro-Israel forces that have been attacking Ismael Jimenez. Please sign this petition to let SDP ...

Ish is one of the finest social studies educators in the country. The Black history curriculum he leads is a model of deep local engagement contextualized into national & international movements. He needs our support. Please sign & share.

actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Defend Ismael Jimenez! Defend Teaching the Truth! Ismael Jimenez has been the Director of Social Studies for the School District of Philadelphia for the past 4 years. But what happened to him? Is the school district silencing another leading Black an...

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The Garfield Park office

WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state.

Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

There’s two panels hanging in the CPS Loop office, 1 in the CPS West Side SpEd center (can’t recall the name, old school), & 1 at Juarez.

100%. When they built Northside College Prep, Daley said the quiet part out loud - CPS will cater to white, middle class+ Northside families to keep them in the city, equity be damned. And the district has never seriously tried to change course.

It would help to force the unions to be less racist & sexist.

Portland OR does this - school keeps first $10k & then sends out 66% of additional dollars to a common fund.

From the WTTW Archive | Off the Wall with Keith and the Kids Keith Haring paints a mural with Chicago schoolchildren in Grant Park, a special from 1989

I try to find reasons to show this in class every semester. I wish CPS would find inspiration in these kind of large, participatory projects.

www.pbs.org/video/off-th...

Now coding work - the job of the future! - has been swept up by AIs & real human expression is ever more rare & valuable.

Thank you, as alway, for this public service.

Losing the only conservatory model school in the city is bad & the failure at Senn makes strong arts program even more precarious in CPS. Remember how quickly Rahm got coding classes into every HS?

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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That’s rad

Nixon & Kissinger yuk’ing it up in hell, hopefully.

Pre-Watergate worldview = Nixon’s personal preferences

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies

If only there were some broad field of study that helped us analyze & interpret rhetoric, symbolism, & cultural expression so we could grasp the meaning beneath the surface of things like a political campaign. Ah well…

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

Going to use this map in class. #EveryMapOfChicagoIsTheSameMapOfChicago

Good luck fishing a political consultant to recommend that to a paying candidate.

a CPS sign that reads Board of Education City of Chicago School and playground areas closed 9:30pm to 6:00am Municipal code of Chicago, section 37-9.3 Violators Subject to arrest

a picture of the basketball court with Farragut High School in the background — the brick building and the more contemporary architectural addition

schools are also a place to see how the city and chicago public schools enact anti-Black policy through policing of leisure spaces

the curfew signs are extremely common at CPS high schools but often posted on the walls closest to the basketball courts

Here's how Epstein broke the internet His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

One of the most trenchant things I’ve read about Epstein & the bigger protect he was wrapped up in.

I wish I had saved the image, but some Chicago demographer drew an Illinois map that was 100% Dem seats by creating a pinwheel that fanned out from Chicago. Was aesthetically pleasing, too.