Student note saying, Lock-in Please to help our classroom and Mr. Neibauer. Lock-in. Lock-in.

Student note saying, Lock-in Please to help our classroom and Mr. Neibauer. Lock-in. Lock-in.

After a challenging day, we discussed changes that needed to happen. Students shared thoughts, many acknowledging how their behaviors disrupt our classroom community. They made signs! When students own the plan, I’m confident we will end this school year positively! #TeacherSky

Time to Lock-in!

I’m a liberatory educator. My pedagogy and praxis are built on the premise that the children are our future.

And, when Whitney’s version of “The Greatest Love of All” came on my morning rotation, I wondered if she also meant the children in my 4th period. 😩🤣

Yes. Yes it does. #TeacherSky

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"Teaching, especially during this time of year, is trying to navigate such incongruities."

There is something soul-emptying about this, too, as a teacher. It takes a toll—a considerable one.

Scutwork The Schoolish Weeks of Standardized Testing

There is so much schoolishness during standardized testing. The system expects teachers to dictate where students sit, the scratch paper they use, how long they test, how much noise they make; we even control what students to do after testing. #TeacherSky #EduSky

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4K views · 73 reactions | 📝CMAS isn’t scary when you’ve got this much school spirit! 📣 Force Elementary School kicked off state testing with an epic parade and pep rally to remind students that it’s their time to shine and share their knowledge. We are so proud of the growth and grit from our scholars all over the district! YOU DID IT!🎉🙌 #Denver #StateTesting #CMAS | Denver Public Schools 📝CMAS isn’t scary when you’ve got this much school spirit! 📣 Force Elementary School kicked off state testing with an epic parade and pep rally to remind students that it’s their time to shine and...

You mean like having a school-wide State Testing Parade?

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This evolving conversation is great! I feel like I’m participating in a Bleak House chat room. Come join the fun!

This conversation has awakened a new teacher life goal. I want to teach literary studies with my fifth-graders! #TeacherSky

This is such an important conversation! The decline of the English major begins with our youngest learners. How children see and do literacy is how adolescents and teens see and do English in high school, which is why fewer decide to pursue a literacy life post-high school. #EduSky #TeacherSky

I love that the analogy of regenerative farming, directly addresses the toxicity of industrial agriculture, which so aptly applies to public education. Public education, as a complicated system, has standardized and industrialized so many aspects of schooling, that the soil is almost fully depleted.

Graphic that says "Make yourself at home!" Below the text is the Edutopia logomark (an orange circle with "edu" inside), a handshake emoji, and two more circle logomarks clustered together: Principal Project and Teacher2Teacher.

Big News! @teacher2teacher.bsky.social and @principalproject.bsky.social have joined the Edutopia family, adding new ways for our community of educators to get just-in-time advice, share high-quality resources, and connect with peers. Stay tuned for more updates!

Taking care of teachers ➡️ taking care of students

(Cannot wait to share this conversation tomorrow AM!)

I love that quote so much I printed it out to tape to my planner! I think what all teachers grapple with is really the art of pedagogy. No matter the academic subject, how we present it to students makes a huge difference between engagement and compliance. #TeacherSky

"This is where having a both/and mindset is helpful. Where does the responsibility lie in appreciating art?"

Many "why Shakespeare?" pieces end up sounding the same but (unsurprisingly) @mrneibauer.bsky.social pivots multiple times here, towards something that I did not anticipate:

(In a good way)

It's Not That Deep, Bruh! Teaching Students to Hate Shakespeare

A recent conversation with my daughter has me thinking about why many students hate Shakespeare. We should give them flashlights to explore instead of a worksheet to complete. #TeacherSky #EduSky #SubstackSky

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We start Bleak House today, with close to 30 readers from four different continents so far. Join us -- it's not too late! Message me today to start getting the emails and connected to our reading group.

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This tracks with my own experiences and those of my students. #TeacherSky

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛

Bringing my vinyl collection to my classroom and hooking up my speakers was the best decision! #TeacherSky

Dr. Alexander Manshel Talks High School English & the Making of American Readers In this episode of Conceptually Speaking, I sit down with Dr.

Very excited to share my most recent episode of Conceptually Speaking! No matter where you’re situated in the English Studies penumbra, @manshel.bsky.social’s research on the history of English education is must-read scholarship. #literacies #edusky #academicsky

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Rhetological Fallacies – A list of Logical Fallacies & Rhetorical Devices with examples — Information is Beautiful An interactive list of logical fallacies & rhetorical devices with examples. In nine languages. Never be duped again!

My favorite tool to use (for any data visualization) is Information is Beautiful. They have a pretty good digital one-pager online. #TeacherSky

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I've used this in the past, but it is a bit busy. #TeacherSky

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It is definitely one of my favorites, too!

Adrian's Top Five Five poems I want my students to read before the end of the school year

One week into National Poetry Month and I’m thinking about the poems I want my students to read before they head off to middle school. #EduSky #TeacherSky #SubstackSky

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Do you or @marcusluther.bsky.social have a preferred edition of Bleak House?

I picked up my copy at the library yesterday. I’m ready to slow read!

March 2026 Jam Session: Teaching Writing in the Age of AI Welcome! 👋 Drop your questions—or share how you are navigating teaching writing in the age of AI—in the thread below!Join our hosts for a thoughtful conversation about how to approach writing instruct...

Good morning! It's your last chance to jump in on what has been an excellent conversation over on @edutopia.org this week!

Share questions, musings, resources, with educators from around the country!

#EduSky #AIinEducation #NCTE

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Bleak House Slow-Read a slow-read of Bleak House by Charles Dickens “I find the nights long, for I sleep but little, and think much.” I think for many of us, there are those books that you’ve long heard of and considered...

📖 Next weekend we'll start our slow-read of Bleak House by Charles Dickens (one "installment" of chapters a week, all the way through August)

For those interested, feel free to message @thevogelman.bsky.social or me and we'll send you more details!

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"one good thing each day" calendar for April

One of the simplest practices that has become one of the best practices for me: writing down one win each day before I leave the classroom:

(You see what you look for, right?)