James Harvey III, Tuskegee airman, leader of the team that won the US military's first aerial gunnery competition for combat aviators. AKA, Top Gun. James Harvey is a handsome Black man in WW2 uniform with an indomitableble look of calm confidence.

Tom Cruise in an aviation suit and Rayban aviator sunglasses from Top Gun.

Hey, while we're talking about erasing history:

In 1949 the US military held its first Aeriel Gunnery Competition, later known as "Top Gun."

The best of the best competed in dogfighting and other skills. The team that won, was the 332nd: The Tuskegee airmen.

So they refused to announce a winner🤡

The USAF removed Tuskegee Airmen & Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII from basic training curriculum. For 30 years I promised these women I would not let them ever be forgotten again. We worked for decades to have them remembered. The Airmen too. Knowledge is power. 🗃️ www.msn.com/en-us/societ...

I know a lot of you are asking us or talking about the 12 IGs (Inspector Generals) being fired. They aren't stepping down until it's done correctly. This is how you #Resist

This second Trump administration is more emboldened than the first in pursuing a racist, white supremacist & nativist agenda.

This isn’t surprising. What’s disheartening is the sheer cowardice & complacency of so many institutions & elites in the face of this blatant attempt to turn back the clock.

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Heartless. Cruel.

The Outlier Story: How Education Journalism (Almost) Always Gets It Wrong [Header Photo by Will Myers on Unsplash] The first two decades of my career as a literacy educator were spent as a high school English teacher in rural Upstate South Carolina, the high school I had…

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Any Black person who performs at Trump’s inauguration dishonors:

• The Black families he refused to rent to,

• The Black kids he targeted in the Central Park case,

• The Black president he lied about,

• The Black election workers he targeted, and

• The Black Haitian immigrants he lied about.

The stupid butterfly method for comparing two fractions

An image of the stupid butterfly method for adding two fractions

An image of the stupid butterfly method for solving a proportion

This is the only butterfly I wish would go extinct.

Without a deep understanding of the actual mathematics going on, these varieties of the “butterfly method” reduce math to a bunch of stupid rules to memorize.

Let’s continue the effort to teach real mathematics. ♾️

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Thank you libraries & library workers… for everything ✨💚

This image shows four unique triangles created using 21st Century Pattern Blocks. The top left displays a right triangle, constructed with a teal kite and a pink triangle. The top right features an equilateral triangle, formed using three gray darts and three blue rhombuses. The bottom left shows an isosceles triangle, made from two pink triangles. Finally, the bottom right shows a right triangle, constructed with two pink triangles and four green triangles.

Which one doesn’t belong? Join the fun and share your ideas! #WODB #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath

Tulsa Massacre Was a ‘Coordinated, Military-Style Attack,’ Federal Report Says (Gift Article) The Justice Department’s conclusion follows an investigation of the 1921 atrocity in Oklahoma in which up to 300 Black residents were killed.

“The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, in which a prosperous Black neighborhood in Oklahoma was destroyed and up to 300 people were killed, was not committed by an uncontrolled mob but was the result of “a coordinated, military-style attack” by white citizens…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

eight hundreds, five tens and six ones represented as circles with area proportional to their value. two of the hundreds are 3/4 shaded in, one is one half shaded and one of a fourth shaded. Four of the tens are three fourths shaded and two of the ones are half shaded. The objective is to find the total. Hint: it is not 856.

These puzzles are so much fun.

#edusky #math #edtech #iteachmath #mathsky

Fig. 1. Example of multiplication iceberg. Download scientific diagram | Example of multiplication iceberg. from publication: Implementing Realistic Mathematics Education for Elementary Schools in Indonesia | Mathematics Education, Indonesia a...

I love Math Iceberg Learning trajectories. You can find them on Researchgate. Here is an example of the multiplicaton one: www.researchgate.net/figure/Examp...
They make it so clear what it takes to get to the top of the iceberg. Look at all that's underneath!

Book cover RACE TO THE TRUTH: COLONIZATION AND THE WAMPANOAG STORY shows a Wampanoag woman with long braids paddling a canoe

Book cover HISTORY SMASHERS THE MAYFLOWER shows a pile of Pilgrims dressed in black and white crowded on a ship with a speech bubble that says "It totally didn't happen this way."

Please don't tell kids that old "First Thanksgiving" myth and pass it off as actual history. Share books like these this week instead.

2025 Mock Caldecott List: mrschureads.blogspot.com/2024/11/2025...

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Happy Picture Book Month! (Day 24)

Our colleagues at Storytelling Math just won NSTA's best math fiction picture book published in 2024! Check out Yumbo Gumbo by @keilavdawson.bsky.social and Katie Crumpton.
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We Are Water Protectors lead us into a weeks long inquiry where we learned to ask questions and seek additional information to help answer those questions through multiple perspectives. Today, we returned to the picture book to ask critical questions of the text. It was SUCH a beautiful discussion.

Kindergarten #MathPlay 🧮 with Maddie👨‍👧 - We created our own concept circles ⭕️🔢

#ITeachMath #MTBoS #STEM #ElemMathChat #MathIsFun #EduSky #MathChat

Wow!!