Online, Sat, May 2

Opening Keynote, Dr. Sawsan Jaber! @sjeducate.bsky.social

She is a multi-award-winning educator, best selling author, community activist, and consultant. Her tireless fight for freedom of speech, civil rights, and equity for all serves as an invaluable example.

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🎶 Differentiation and UDL aren’t the same—but they make beautiful music together! UDL designs for all learners, while differentiation fine-tunes the experience. Together, they create harmony in learning! #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #EdChat

What the Artemis II reminds us of is the power of wonder, awe, and story.

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s main teachers union have asked a federal judge to block a Trump administration change in policy that gave immigration authorities a freer hand to conduct...

Minnesota districts ask judge to restore limits on immigration enforcement near schools
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Loving our deep dive 🌊 on #multilingualecosytems and #translanguaging at Deeper Learning at High Tech High. Love this conference!

Yes, this is real.

From Mexican Schools to ELD Classrooms How Segregation Was Reframed as Support

Mendez v. Westminster ended the segregation of Mexican children justified by “language deficiencies.”

Today, many U.S. Latinx students are still kept in separate ELD tracks for years because of their "language deficiencies."

When did segregation become support?
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Blue fabric with a Velcro strip, featuring the text "A student who has been velcroed to a paraprofessional has not been included." Logo in the corner.

👥 A #student who is velcroed to a paraprofessional all day has not been included. Exclusion can happen even when sharing the same room. LRE is a low bar. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #InclusiveEd #EdLeaders

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#DL26 is just a few days away and I couldn't be more excited. If you are traveling to San Diego join us as we deep dive into #MultilingualEcosystems

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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 Dylan Lopez Contreras, a senior at Ellis Prep academy, was taken by ICE in May. The Guardian invited him and five of his classmates to share their lives and dreams

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 🍎

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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.

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

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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A Scaffolding Strategy to Help Experienced ELLs Express Complex Ideas This technique gives multilingual students explicit instruction on how to effectively develop their ideas for each part of a paragraph and to link one idea to the next.

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

Cultivating Multilingual Ecosystems by Embracing Systematic Change | The International Educator (TIE Online) What if "every teacher is a language teacher" wasn’t a slogan but a schoolwide commitment to multilingual learners’ success...

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