Is it a boycott if you weren’t really spending your money there before?

“Nothing from nothing leaves nothing…” 🎶 🎵

Reading matters

Why does fiction matter?

Because stories can sharpen the way we understand other people.

A meta-analysis found that reading fiction has a small but positive effect on social cognition. Including our ability to interpret emotions, motives, and inner lives.

⏰📚💙📚🎧 #books #reading #fiction

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Flourescent orange cover, black text centered, on word per line

Illustration of abstracted hand reaching uo from the bottom holding a flower in thumb and index finger. The title and editor info is contained in the silhouette. The had issurrounded by silimar style flowers and a single bird in combinations of green red and ochre.

#PairedTexts
1) Resistance, Rebellion, Life: 50 Poems Now

2) How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope

New Jersey Science Educators

Sharing an upcoming learning opportunity from NJSTA

As AI continues to shape our classrooms, the question is no longer if we use it—but how we use it intentionally, equitably, and in ways that center student learning.

Iran War Live Updates: Israel Agrees to Talks With Lebanon but Keeps Striking Hezbollah

The NYT bends over backwards to pretend that Israel is “Striking Hezbollah” rather than “Keeps Slaughtering Innocent Civilians Including Dozens of Children.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Going back to my A1 answer, this mathematics is essential when the story matters - when they are making sense of something where the quantities and relationships might be significant as compared to other ways to engage in the scenario (scientifically, linguistically, spiritually, and so on).

A6 2/2
How could the food in the picture be used to raise money? This picture is for the 3rd graders.
[then show another picture]
This photo shows the 4th grade table. How much money could they raise?

How would you compare their money? How much money would they make together?
#ElemMathChat

A6 - In this problem, I don’t see it helping unless it’s specifically used to contextualize the fundraising. It could also add complexity if I’m wondering about the exact costs of the displyed items instead of the amounts each grade raised. Re: modification, if the problem was…
1/2 #ElemMathChat

A5 - I notice a whole lot of potential sugar in a form I don’t often eat; most of which is arranged in groups of same construction (body, toppings, rectangle cuts) and some brown paper bags. #ElemMathChat

A4 - to this I might add, two grades had some money. What ways could you compare their different amounts? #ElemMathChat

A3 - recognizing that the 4th graders’ fundraising is described in relation to the 3rd grade rather than as a specific amount. Then, one has to know to add the amounts to have a total instead of stopping with calculating the 4th grade amount. #ElemMathChat

#ElemMathChat Not really. I don’t believe anything happens in isolation. And connections are signified without needing math necessarily. I’m just saying it is a iseful, elegant, and delightful way to make sense of one’s reality.

A2 - thinking if one grade didn’t raise less than they would have raised the same amount, I would double the greater amount. Then, I’d subtract the $68.

A1 - as a way to observe, describe, and play with objects, phenomena, ideas, and other interactions/systems.

A notebook on a wooden tray with the cover text: "HOPE DOESN'T FIND US. WE MAKE HOPE THROUGH ACTION & STRUGGLE.

@blackbirdletterpress.com and I have partnered again on a notebook. 50% of proceeds will go to the Chicago Freedom School. I think that the notebook turned out beautifully. Limited number of copies available. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit...

A pic of Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple

Big congrats to @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

Read this book!

Say tgat part again, Jean Luc!

We heard it barking at what is presumably the black cat living in the shes

Fox standing beside an old white shed covered with vines.

Didn’t get my camera in time but the fox is back! (This is an old photo so probably another generation)

It’s too easy to worry about letting certain people go even when they haven’t been holding you for a long rime

Proof that Vance is a human prototype of AI…though the ‘I’ myst stand for something else

Clap claps 👏🏽

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Love those two editors. Can hardly wait to check these joints.

Less ICE, more water…
Looks good to me

So what’s the call on Israel being anti-Black?

a man in a yellow jacket screaming into the void Alt: a man in a yellow jacket screaming into the void

The void is filling up with our screams

Deleted?! Npw we’ll never know.