A teacher joyfully guides a smiling student at a computer. Text reads, "Feedback is the priority, not a grade." Logo: "Lead Inclusion."
🔍 Gone are the days when the purpose of #assessment was to #grade and rank #students. Assessment is part of the instructional process--#feedback is the priority, not a grade. #LeadInclusion #EduSky #UDL #EdLeaders #Teachers #SBLchat #TG2Chat
““Get through the hard stuff … You don’t ban it, you have conversations with why you feel so uncomfortable about the reading of the text.”
As we follow the NASA Artemis II Moon Mission, our readers are curious about the Moon, space, astronauts, and the history of space travel. 🌑
In this choice board, I brought together a special @follettcontent.bsky.social Titlewave book list. 🚀
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#tlchat #TLSky #futurereadylibs
So we spent a week in the classroom talking about AI without actually using AI at al—or even opening up a computer.
What we turned to instead? 2 short Sci-Fi stories and a whole-class seminar.
And it was really cool. (And really important?)
thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/when-we-us...
Ask students to summarize a book in four panels. The power of comics and visual literacy. Deep thinking. Analysis. Close reading. Making meaning.
Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre: Sci-fi: Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary. Horror: An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned. Romance : Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner. Crime: Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon. Fantasy: A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
It's March, so it feels appropriate to promote my anthology HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. This young adult collection of 37 essays, lists, comics, and art explores the angles and nuances of feminism.
Grab a copy from your favorite retailer: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kelly...
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
Yesterday, I posted profiles of Canadian soldiers who died in Afghanistan.
I hope you will have the time to read each of them. However short and fragmentary, each bears witness to the families, from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, or Alberta, whose sons and daughters deployed to Kandahar.
Definitely going to take the time to sit down and actually read this over the weekend
www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...
In 2025, I published several articles about AI and how to navigate our new circumstances as writing teachers.
I recently reorganized the page that hosts links to all of them, and you may find this page useful to read and share.
Reach out to talk any time ☺️
brettvogelsinger.com/artificial-i...
For several of my students, this is the first time they’ve been in an alternatively-graded course. The graphic syllabus signals up front that things are going to be different. @gregpask.bsky.social www.growbeyondgrades.org/blog/graphic...
What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us?
New at PB: Our 2025 Public Picks are here! Browse our editors’ favorite titles:
New BBC Video: “Why vowels are the most important letters” larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2025/11/29/n...
The skills that sustain interfaith marriages require the same virtues that sustain a pluralistic society.
I think we should still teach students writing, not AI-assisted document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
“I’m still surprised so many others chose to stay silent instead of speaking the truth back in 2016. Trump’s racism and sexual predation were no secret. His lies, malfeasance and prolific incompetence in business were already in public view - if you were even mildly aware of his history in NYC.” ope
Last push folks. Let’s keep Alberta Canadian!
Interesting @gregolear.bsky.social on Shelley's 'England in 1819' inter alia:
"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know..."
open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...
Coach by Jason Reynolds. Meet Coach as a boy striving to come into his own as a track star while facing upheaval at home - Daily new children's book #kidlit #BookOfTheDay #ad - Daily new children's book #kidlit #ad
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“…no gov’t should issue an ID card millions need & use every day so it can distinguish our friends & neighbours on the basis of private info that tends to overlap w/ personal characteristics [like] ethnicity.
Smith’s plan will only stigmatize & hurt [them]”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #abpoli
Highly recommend this episode of Jeff Young's Learning Curve podcast where he talks in-depth with that students who protested her professor's use of AI and got attention in the New York Times. Strong insights from @marcwatkins.bsky.social too. learningcurve.fm/episodes/is-...
This Is Fascism
From one-on-one help to manageable class sizes, public education needs real investments — not more delays. Teachers are pushing for change. #KidsCantWaitAB #StopTheExcuses
My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
Mapping Book Banning Resistance: Visualizing Acts of Activism to Preserve Students' Right to Read - Griffith - 2025 - Reading Research Quarterly - Wiley Online Library ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Talked to the organizer of Forever-Canadian, the petition campaign to put a referendum question to keep Alberta as a part of Canada. Here's a FAQ if you're inclined to sign the petition. #yeg
I just did that with our new neighbour. It's always a lovely gesture!
